Bug#618774: ITP: cctools -- cooperative computing tools

[Michael Hanke <mih@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Michael Hanke <mih@debian.org>

* Package name    : cctools
  Version         : 3.3.0
  Upstream Author : Douglas Thain
* URL             : http://nd.edu/~ccl/software/
* License         : GPL-2
  Programming Lang: C, Python
  Description     : cooperative computing tools
 This is a collection of software that help users to share resources in a
 complex, heterogeneous, and unreliable computing environment. This includes:
 .
  Chirp - A personal filesystem and I/O protocol that allows unprivileged users
          to share space securely, efficiently, and conveniently. When combined
          with Parrot, Chirp allows users to create custom wide-area distributed
          filesystems.
  Parrot - A transparent user-level virtual filesystem that allows any ordinary
          program to be attached to a remote storage device such as an FTP
          server or a Chirp server.
  Makeflow - A workflow system for parallel and distributed computing that uses
          a language very similar to Make.
  Work Queue - A system and API for building master-worker style programs that
          scale up to thousands of processors.
  All Pairs - A computational abstraction for running very large Cartesian
          products.
  Wavefront - A computational asbtraction for running very large dynamic
          programming problems.
  The Fault Tolerant Shell - A high-level programming language that allows
          users to combine the ease of shell scripting, the power of distributed
          programming, and the precision of compiled languages. Basically,
          parallel programming and exception handling for scripts.