[gfarm-announce:00009] Gfarm Version 1.0.1 release Available

[Osamu Tatebe <o.tatebe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

We are pleased to announce the release of Gfarm Data Grid middleware,
version 1.0.1.  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 release includes performance improvement, fault tolerance
improvement, and bug fixes by extensive testing.  We strongly
encourage all to upgrade to this version.

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 1.0.1
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[2003.12.8]

Updated Features

 * Performance Improvement

   (gfrun) Parallel program execution overhead is extremely reduced.

 * Fault Tolerance Improvement

   Inconsistency between a metadata and the corresponding physical
   file in a local spool is automatically fixed during on-demand
   replication.

 * Servers (gfsd and gfmd)

   Added the -P option to specify a 'pid' file.

 * Bug fix

   (gfreg) Fixed a broken gfrep command included in version 1.0.

   (gfexec) Closed all connections before execution of a program.

   (gfrep) Fixed a bug such that the replication often fails with
	   permission denied, introduced in 1.0b5.

   (libgfarm.a)

   - Fixed a race condition during on-demand replication.

   - Fixed a bug such that a file with one-letter file name such as
     'gfarm:a' cannot be created.

   - Added an error check of existence of the current working
     directory.

 * Documentation

   (INSTALL) Updated the description.

   (Gfarm-FAQ) Added limitations and frequent errors in Gfarm file
	       system.

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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/