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<title>Apache Distributed UIMA Cluster Computing (DUCC) 2.1.0 Release Notes</title>
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<h1>Apache UIMA-DUCC (Unstructured Information Management Architecture - Distributed UIMA Cluster Computing ) v.2.1.0 Release Notes</h1>
<h2>Contents</h2>
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<a href="#what.is.uima-ducc">1. What is UIMA-DUCC?</a><br/>
<a href="#major.changes">2. Major Changes in this Release</a><br/>
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<h2><a name="what.is.uima-ducc">1. What is UIMA-DUCC?</a></h2>
<p>
DUCC stands for Distributed UIMA Cluster Computing. DUCC is a cluster management system providing tooling,
management, and scheduling facilities to automate the scale-out of applications written to the UIMA framework.
Core UIMA provides a generalized framework for applications that process unstructured information such as human
language, but does not provide a scale-out mechanism. UIMA-AS provides a scale-out mechanism to distribute UIMA
pipelines over a cluster of computing resources, but does not provide job or cluster management of the resources.
DUCC defines a formal job model that closely maps to a standard UIMA pipeline. Around this job model DUCC
provides cluster management services to automate the scale-out of UIMA pipelines over computing clusters.
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<h2><a name="major.changes">2. Major Changes in this Release</a></h2>
<p>
Apache UIMA DUCC 2.1.0 is a major release containing new features and bug fixes. What's new:<br>
<ul>
<li>DUCC framework now runs on Java 7 or Java 8 and supports applications using either JRE.
Note that some job and other history data are saved as Java serialized objects and not
portable between Java 7 and Java 8.</li>
<li>Ubuntu and RHEL 7 support </li>
<li>cgroup enhancements </li>
<ul>
<li>uses standard cgroups organization</li>
<li>supports cgroup swappiness setting, restricting any swapping if desired</li>
</ul>
<li>DUCC state and history storage moved from flat files to Cassandra DB, reducing storage size 5x </li>
<li>Ships with the latest UIMA-AS v2.8.1 </li>
<li>Ships with recent ActiveMQ v5.13.2 </li>
<li>DUCC's UIMA-AS services support failover and ssl connectors </li>
<li>Many DUCC webpage improvements </li>
<li>Clear user display of DUCC classes and relation to machines </li>
<li>Robust handling of dynamic changes to DUCC class and nodepool definitions </li>
<li>Full support of nodepools with different quantum </li>
<li>DUCC broker access restricted to user ducc </li>
<li>Eliminate need for user home directories located on a shared filesystem </li>
<li>Built-in Job error handler programmable per job </li>
<li>Migration utility for DUCC updates </li>
<li>Change to vary-off behavior to facilitate cluster management </li>
<li>Horizontal stacking of services instance allocations </li>
<li>java-viaducc improvements including separation of stdout from stderr respoonses </li>
<li>An alert banner is displayed on ducc-mon pages if daemons are down </li>
<li>Promoted DUCC from sandbox to the regular Apache project in the SVN </li>
</ul>
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For a complete list of issues fixed and up-to-date information on UIMA-DUCC issues, see our issue tracker:
<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20UIMA%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%20%222.1.0-Ducc%22%20">https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20UIMA%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%20%222.1.0-Ducc%22%20</a>
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