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| <title>Apache Distributed UIMA Cluster Computing (DUCC) 2.2.0 Release Notes</title> |
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| <h1>Apache UIMA-DUCC (Unstructured Information Management Architecture - Distributed UIMA Cluster Computing ) v.2.2.0 Release Notes</h1> |
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| <h2>Contents</h2> |
| <p> |
| <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/> |
| <a href="#migration">3. Migration from a Prior Release</a><br/> |
| <a href="#migration">4. Limitations</a><br/></p> |
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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. |
| </p> |
| |
| <h2><a name="major.changes">2. Major Changes in this Release</a></h2> |
| <p> |
| Apache UIMA DUCC 2.2.0 is a major release containing new features and bug fixes. What's new:<br> |
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| <ul> |
| |
| <li>Ships with the latest UIMA-AS v2.9.0 and UIMA SDK 2.9.0</li> |
| <li>Ships with ActiveMQ v5.14.0 </li> |
| <li>Added support for static failover and capability to move the head node</li> |
| <li>Fixed DUCC OR "warm" restart issues</li> |
| <li>Fixed DUCC startup script to fail if the DB doesn't start</li> |
| <li>Fixed DUCC shutdown sequence bug which prevented agents from stopping if Broker was shutdown first</li> |
| <li>Fixed Rogue process detector to detect and cleanup orphan services</li> |
| <li>Deprecated ducc.agent.node.metrics.sys.gid.max and replaced with ducc.agent.rogue.process.sys.uid.max</li> |
| <li>Enhanced DUCC Job Driver (JD) to provide individual work item performance breakdowns</li> |
| <li>Modified DUCC to restrict broker use to ducc user only</li> |
| <li>On process launch failure, agent supplies a reason for failure for display in ducc mon</li> |
| <li>Added duplicate daemon detector to prevent starting duplicate DUCC daemon</li> |
| <li>Many DUCC Database improvements </li> |
| <li>Many DUCC webpage improvements </li> |
| |
| </ul> |
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| <br><br> |
| |
| 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%222.2.0-Ducc%22%20">https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20UIMA%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%20%222.2.0-Ducc%22%20</a> |
| </p> |
| |
| <h2><a name="migration">3. Migration from a Prior Release</a></h2> |
| An existing DUCC installation can be updated in place by using the <strong>ducc_update</strong> |
| script which can be copied from the |
| <a href="http://uima.apache.org/downloads.cgi#Latest Official Releases">UIMA Downloads page</a> |
| or extracted from the binary distribution. |
| Additional steps are required to convert existing history and state files for database access. |
| Details are in the INSTALL document and the DuccBook. |
| <p> |
| </p> |
| <h2><a name="limitations">4. Limitations</a></h2> |
| On some systems cgroups swap accounting is not enabled and duccmon will show N/A for swap. To |
| confirm, please check memory.stat file in <cgroups base dir>/ducc/ folder. If swap accounting is |
| enabled there should be "swap" property defined. If it's missing, you need to add a kernel parameter |
| swapaccount=1. Details of how to do this can be found <a href="http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/147158/how-to-enable-swap-accounting-for-memory-cgroup-in-archlinux">here</a>. |
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