JPPF 6.2 alpha preview release

JPPF makes it easy to parallelize computationally intensive tasks and execute them on a Grid

JPPF 6.2 alpha new features highlights

Tasks dependencies

• tasks within the same job can now depend on each other
• JPPF guarantees that all dependencies of a task are executed before it can start
• traversal of the tasks graph can be performed on either server or client side
• built-in detection and handling of dependency cycles

JPPF in Docker containers and Kubernetes

• the JPPF drivers, nodes and web administration console are now available as Docker images, publicly available on Docker Hub
• JPPF grids can be deployed on Kubernetes clusters using the JPPF Helm chart
• JPPF grids can also be deployed on Docker swarm clusters as Docker service stacks

Performance improvement

A new client-side cache of class definitions was implemented, to improve the overall dynamic class loading performance.

All implemented issues

Features

• JPPF-583 Tasks dependencies within a job
• JPPF-589 Docker images for JPPF components

Enhancements

• JPPF-586 Cache of class/resource definitions in the client

Tasks

• JPPF-584 Refactor the distributed class loader into the asynchronous Nio communication model
• JPPF-591 Come up with a lightweight test suite for day-to-day development purposes
• JPPF-595 Remove Android and .Net sections of the documentation

Links

JPPF Links: Web Site - Downloads - Documentation - User forums - Issue tracker