[gfarm-announce:00007] Gfarm Version 1.0b5 Available

[Osamu Tatebe <o.tatebe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

The Grid Datafarm team is pleased to announce the release of Gfarm
Data Grid middleware, version 1.0b5.  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 regarding directory
manipulations.

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 1.0b5
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[2003.10.1]

Updated Features

 * Parallel I/O Library

   - [New feature] Added new functions, gfs_glob, gfs_chdir, and
     gfs_realpath.
   - [Fault tolerance] When the parent directory in a spool directory
     is missing, it is tried to be created.

 * Bug fix

   (gfmkdir, gfrmdir)

   - Added the -h option for usage. (Bug 3 in Gfarm bugzilla-jp)

   (gfrun)

   - The current working directory is inherited to each parallel
     process.

   (gfls)

   - Fixed a multi-column display format bug with the -F option.
     (Bug 5 in Gfarm bugzilla-ja)

   (libgfarm.a)

   - Fixed a bug such that process's umask unexpectedly modifies the
     access permission in a spool directory.
   - Fixed a memory leak.
   - Fixed a bug for resolving a Gfarm path name.

   (debian package)

   - Added missing commands for manipulating directories.

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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/