Apache Airavata 0.13 发布，Airavata是目前用来建立科学网关的软件工具包，但具有更广泛的潜在用途。它提供的功能组成，管理，执行和监测小范围从本地集群，以国家电网和云计算的计算资源进行大规模的应用和工作流程。小工具接口，Airavata后端服务可以部署在开放社会的容器，如Apache Rave 和修改，以满足他们的需求。 airavata构建面向服务的计算，分布式消息，和工作流程的组成和业务流程的一般概念。
改进记录包括：
Whats new in this release:
* A key addition in this release is addition of App catalog. The app catalog incorporates registering applications,
computational resources and flexible use of job management and data movement protocols.
More Details:
* [AIRAVATA-1125] - Application Catalog
* [AIRAVATA-1067] - Allow file transfer from the gateway to the resource through Airavata
* [AIRAVATA-1015] - Craft data models for application catalog
* [AIRAVATA-1236] - Database design for Application Catalog
* [AIRAVATA-1302] - Implement App catalog open-jpa layer and resource layer
* [AIRAVATA-1303] - Start app-catalog database with app catalog thrift service starts
* [AIRAVATA-1305] - Adding test cases to test app-catalog cpi
API Changes:
* AppCatalog API was added as described above.
* No changes were made to previously release API methods.
Improvement made in this release:
* This release bundles a stable iteration of using Apache thrift as a framework to implement Airavata API.
More Details:
* [AIRAVATA-481] - GFac Sample
* [AIRAVATA-958] - Integrate airavata credential store with GSISSH library in order to retrieve credentials
* [AIRAVATA-989] - Clone a created experiment in Orchestrator to launch on different host
* [AIRAVATA-1070] - Integrate the SSH file transfer between the gateway and resources to the Gfac
* [AIRAVATA-1126] - Application Catalog Design
* [AIRAVATA-1235] - No error type defined for a missing Project
Issues fixed in this release:
* Testing and bug fixing resulted in the following fixes.
* [AIRAVATA-437] - Stdout and stderr files are read as string and will be problem if the file are big
* [AIRAVATA-743] - Cleanup database sql scripts
* [AIRAVATA-950] - Host parameters not saved in the database
* [AIRAVATA-951] - Misleading error message in airavata server console when submitting a job to BR2
* [AIRAVATA-975] - Wrong exception given when certificate path is configured incorrectly
* [AIRAVATA-1026] - GFacAPI logic to load input/output handlers is not working property
* [AIRAVATA-1058] - Airavata 0.11 Source Build: Dependency Problems
* [AIRAVATA-1085] - Update the Experiment Status
* [AIRAVATA-1119] - JPARegistry tests are failing
* [AIRAVATA-1310] - When entered gateway username and password user gets redirected to XSEDE user portal
* [AIRAVATA-1338] - Cannot create Experiments using PHP Gateway
* [AIRAVATA-1345] - Refresh button for Experiment Status page
* [AIRAVATA-1347] - Cannot edit or view summery of experiments created with WRF application and its input files attached
* [AIRAVATA-1348] - Cannot Save and Launch WRF experiment at the same time. It fails.
Client Packages:
* A key client side focus of this releases is to validate Airavata functionality with PHP clients.
a PHP Reference Gateway is developed to exercise API functionality.
* PHP command line samples also have been developed and tested against the API.
* An initial version of the C++ SDK was also contributed but is not yet fully tested.
More Details:
* [AIRAVATA-1064] - Create php Samples using Airavata Thrift API Client SDKs
* [AIRAVATA-1352] - In PGA gateway, include creation time in Experiment Summary
Upgrade Instructions:
* Airavata 0.13 should work with the previous 0.12 release.
* Older releases will need to be manually updated. Beyond 1.0, Airavata will maintain backward compatibility within
major releases.
Known Issues:
* Airavata 0.13 continous to be a stepping stone towards a stable 1.0 release. A known limitation is lack of a UI
to register applications (using the app-catalog API).
* XBaya and the workflow capabilities are being integrated into the new architecture and do not yet work with this
release. A subsequent release (0.14) will bring back workflows into a functioning.
Documentation:
* This release was used as a tutorial to outreach apache airavata to science gateway developers.
* Tutorial documentation - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AIRAVATA/XSEDE+2014+Tutorial
* [AIRAVATA-858] - Error data retrieval from the Airavata API
* [AIRAVATA-1329] - Document Hands on tutorial material on PHP reference gateway
* [AIRAVATA-583] - Improve content coordination across website and wiki
软件详情：http://airavata.apache.org/
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