[HTCondor-users] HTCondor 8.2.0 Released

[Tim Theisen <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor version 
8.2.0.

This new version contains: configuration is more powerful with new
syntax and features, and the default configuration policy does not
preempt jobs, monitoring is enhanced and now integrates with Ganglia,
automated detection and management of GPUs, numerous scalability
enhancements improve performance, an improved Python API including
support for Python 3, new native packaging and ports are available for
the latest Linux distributions including Red Hat 7 Beta and Debian 7,
cloud computing improvements including support for EC2 spot instances,
OpenStack, and condor_ssh_to_job directly into EC2 jobs, grid universe
jobs can now target Google Compute Engine and BOINC servers,
partitionable slots now are compatible with condor_startd RANK
expressions, and consumption policies permit partitionable slots to be
split into dynamic slots at negotiation time, improved data management
including dynamic adjustment of the level of file transfer concurrency
based on disk load, experimental support to allow the execution of a job
to be overlaid with the transfer of output files from the previous
different job, and the new condor_sos tool helps administrators manage
overloaded daemons.

A complete list of bugs fixed can be found in the version history.

Version History:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/manual/v8.2.0/10_3Stable_Release.html

Downloads Page:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/downloads/

Thank you for your interest in HTCondor!

- The HTCondor Team

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Tim Theisen
Release Manager
HTCondor & Open Science Grid
Center for High Throughput Computing
Department of Computer Sciences
University of Wisconsin - Madison
4261 Computer Sciences and Statistics
1210 W Dayton St
Madison, WI 53706-1685
+1 608 265 5736