DCS, 20040407
First demonstration of a working prototype, called a "Distributed Computing System".Beta version 1, 2004-06-02
First release of Peach for beta testing.
- Refinement of activity on user's desktop computers.
Beta version 2, 2004-08-09
Used for testing system parameters for the paper.
- Refinement of performance
- Establishing performance properties and limits
Version 0.05, 2004-11-05
First versioned release of Peach.
- Job daemons now re-register existing jobs on startup
- Users can now delete the completed job list
- pserv with options:
- -fresh to start without reading the state files
- -nocheck to skip the security check
- -verbose to send administrator emails when job daemons go down
- -fresh to start without reading the state files
Version 0.66, 2005-04-12
Release of Peach accompanying the paper.
- Upgrading job daemons will update system information and check for code security
- Ranges of jobs can be killed through pview
- Jobs are assigned to fastest computers first
- Jobs from multiple users are distributed fairly
- psubmit now handles specification of multiple OS's
- pview with new j and p toggles
Version 0.77, 2006-04-06
Final version at Caltech.
Version 0.80, 2006-03-03
Enhancements done at LSBR.
- Support for multiple networks
- Improved platform detection (Different versions of Linux and Darwin)
- Improved processor and user activity detection
Version 0.81, 2008-09-22
Web site and maintenance moved to LSBR.
Version 0.82, 2009-06-15
Release with minor fixes.
- Number selection for new job daemons
- ppwed: Administrators program to add users to passwd file for Mac OSX 10.5+
Version 0.86, 2012-01-06
Release with minor fixes.
- Scheduling of jobs improved to allow faster job assignement to job daemons
- In-code documentation improved