Radical.pilot

- hotfix for a stampede configuration change


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- More support for URLs in StagingDirectives (489).
- Create parent directories of staged files.
- Only process entries for Output FTW, fixes 490.
- SuperMUC config change.
- switch from bson to json for session dumps
- fixes 451
- update resources.rst
- remove superfluous \n`{=tex}``
- fix 438
- add documentation on resource config changes, closes 421
- .ssh/authorized_keys2 is deprecated since 2011
- improved intra-node SSH FAQ item


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- fix 455


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- several state races fixed
- fix to tools for session cleanup and purging
- partial fix for pilot cancelation
- improved shutdown behavior
- improved hopper support
- adapt plotting to changed slothistory format
- make instructions clearer on data staging examples
- addresses issue 216
- be more resilient on pilot shutdown
- take care of cancelling of active pilots
- fix logic error on state check for pilot cancellation
- fix blacklight config (360)
- attempt to cancel pilots timely...
- as fallback, use PPN information provided by SAGA
- hopper usues torque (thanks Mark!)
- Re-fix blacklight config. Addresses 359 (again).
- allow to pass application data to callbacks
- threads should not be daemons...
- workaround on failing bson encoding...
- report pilot id on cu inspection
- ignore caching errors
- also use staging flags on input staging
- stampede environment fix
- Added missing stampede alias
- adds timestamps to task and pilot logentries
- fix state tags for plots
- fix plot style for waitq
- introduce UNSCHEDULED state as per 233
- selectable terminal type for plot
- document pilot log env
- add faq about VE problems on setuptools upgrade
- allow to specify session cache files
- added configuration for BlueBiou (Thanks Jordane)
- better support for json/bson/timestamp handling; cache mongodb data
for stats, plots etc
- localize numpy dependency
- retire input_data and output_data
- remove obsolete staging examples
- address 410
- fix another subtle state race


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- Documentation of MPI support
- Documentation of data staging operations
- correct handling of data transfer exceptions
- fix handling of non-ascii data in task stdio
- simplify switching of access schemas on pilot submission
- disable pilot virtualenv for task execution
- MPI support for DaVinci
- performance optimizations on file transfers, task sandbox setup
- fix ibrun tmp file problem on stampede


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- The Milestone 8 release (MS.8)
- [Closed Tickets](https://github.com/radical-cybertools/radical.pilot/issues?q=is%3Aclosed+milestone%3AMS-8+)


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