[gfarm-announce:00005] Gfarm Version 1.0b4 Available

[Osamu Tatebe <o.tatebe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

The Grid Datafarm team is pleased to announce the release of Gfarm
Data Grid middleware, version 1.0b4.  Gfarm is a reference
implementation of the Grid Datafarm architecture designed for
Petascale Data-intensive computing.  It provides a global file system
using local disks of cluster nodes, and supports data-parallel
execution via file-affinity scheduling.

This version is a mostly bug-fixed version of the beta 3.

The software can be downloaded from: http://datafarm.apgrid.org/

Bug tracking system is available at http://datafarm.apgrid.org/bugzilla/

Release note for Gfarm 1.0b4
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[2003.9.5]

Updated Features

 * Client commands

   * New command

   - gfregister --- administration command to register standard Gfarm
                    parallel commands to a Gfarm filesystem.

   * New feature

   (gfmpirun_p4)

   - The executed process can be suspended or executed in the
     background.

 * Bug fix

   (libgfarm.a)

   - Fixed a bug not to create a directory or a file at the top
     level. (Bug 1 in Gfarm bugzilla-ja)
   - Fixed a bug not to delegate the user credential in the gsi_auth
     authentication mode. (Bug 2 in Gfarm bugzilla)

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Osamu Tatebe, Ph.D.   Tel: +81-29-861-5844  FAX: +81-29-861-5301
Grid Technology Research Center,
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
AIST Tsukuba Central 2, 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3058568 JAPAN
E-mail: o.tatebe@xxxxxxxxxx     http://www.hpcc.jp/people/tatebe/