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In crew.cluster: Crew Launcher Plugins for Traditional High-Performance Computing Clusters

crew.cluster 0.3.7

• Add n_tasks to crew_options_slurm()

crew.cluster 0.3.6

• Fix links.

crew.cluster 0.3.5

• Add a new serialization argument to all controllers.

crew.cluster 0.3.4

• Deprecate retryable options because crew 1.0.0 moved away from them.

crew.cluster 0.3.3

• Add slurm_memory_gigabytes_required to set --mem in SLURM (#44, @multimeric).
• Add r_arguments to accept R command line arguments for workers.
• Support options_metrics.
• Organize arguments into options lists.
• Use crashes_error from crew.
• Implement retryable options for memory, cores, GPUs, wall time, and SLURM partition (#48, @stemangiola).
• Set default seconds_idle to 300.

crew.cluster 0.3.2

• Add retry_tasks argument.

crew.cluster 0.3.1

• Add a SLURM monitor (#32, @brendanf).

crew.cluster 0.3.0

• Create an abstract monitor class for cluster-specific monitor classes to inherit from (#32).
• Require crew >= 0.8.0.
• Raise seconds_timeout to 60 across controllers.

crew.cluster 0.2.0

• Re-enable unit tests.
• Require crew >= 0.7.0.
• Add a "monitor" class for SGE clusters to conveniently list and terminate jobs.
• Deprecate command_delete in favor of command_terminate.

crew.cluster 0.1.4

• Refactor methods for development crew.
• Encapsulate non-function R6 members inside the private list.
• Encapsulate functions for launch/termination commands inside the R6 private list.

crew.cluster 0.1.3

• Deprecate seconds_exit (https://github.com/wlandau/crew/issues/125, @shikokuchuo).
• Deprecate seconds_interval (https://github.com/wlandau/crew/issues/131).
• Add a new slurm_partition argument the SLURM controller and launcher (#24, @kkmann).
• Turn on automatic TLS encryption by default.

crew.cluster 0.1.2

• Require crew >= 0.5.0.
• Add a new slurm_time_minutes for SLURM wall time (#1, @cfljam).
• Enable TLS.
• Use MB format for memory in SLURM launcher (#22, @kendonB).
• Use launch_max and crew_tls() from crew 0.5.0.

crew.cluster 0.1.1

• Align with breaking changes in crew 0.3.0.
• Increase seconds_launch to 86400 (1 day).

crew.cluster 0.1.0

• Submit workers asynchronously (#2).
• Use system2() instead of processx to submit workers (#2).
• Add a verbose argument to the SGE launcher to optionally print system2() stdout and stderr.
• Implement SLURM and PBS/TORQUE launchers (#1, #5, #6).
• Create an abstract cluster launcher class to combine common elements of cluster launchers.
• Add a script_directory argument to customize the location of job scripts (#3, @mglev1n).
• Implement an LSF launcher (#4, @mglev1n).

crew.cluster 0.0.2

• Fix author spelling in the DESCRIPTION file.

crew.cluster 0.0.1

• First version.

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