The Cooperative Computing Tools (cctools) is a software package for enabling large scale distributed computing on clusters, clouds, and grids. It is used primarily for attacking large scale problems in science and engineering.
You can read more about this software at ReadTheDocs It is developed by members of the Cooperative Computing Lab at the University of Notre Dame, led by Prof. Douglas Thain. The file CREDITS lists the many people that have contributed to the software over the years.
The easiest way to install the binaries is via Miniconda
conda install -y -c conda-forge ndcctools
To build from source and install in your home directory:
git clone git://github.com/cooperative-computing-lab/cctools.git cctools-src
cd cctools-src
unset PYTHONPATH
conda env create -y -f environment.yml
./configure --with-base-dir $CONDA_PREFIX --prefix $CONDA_PREFIX
make
make install
Then run the executables out of your home directory like this:
export PATH=$HOME/cctools-src/bin:$PATH
makeflow -v
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This software package is
Copyright (c) 2003-2004 Douglas Thain
Copyright (c) 2005-2022 The University of Notre Dame
This software is distributed under the GNU General Public License.
See the file COPYING for details.
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This product includes software developed by and/or derived
from the Globus Project (http://www.globus.org/)
to which the U.S. Government retains certain rights.
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This product includes code derived from the RSA Data
Security, Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm.
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This product includes public domain code for the
SHA1 algorithm written by Peter Gutmann, David Ireland,
and A. M. Kutchman.
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This product includes the source code for the MT19937-64
Mersenne Twister pseudorandom number generator, written by
Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura.