0.21

[0.21] - 2022-03-01

Performance improvements, new dryrun keyword and preparations for deploying
ACME on other clusters

NEW

• Re-designed cluster startup code: added new function slurm_cluster_setup that
  includes SLURM-specific (but ESI-agnostic) code for spinning up a SLURMCluster
• Included new dryrun keyword in ParallelMap to test-drive ACME's automatically
  generated argument lists simulating a single (randomly picked) worker call prior
  to the actual concurrent computation (addresses #39)
• Added helper function is_esi_node to determine if ACME is running on the ESI
  HPC cluster

CHANGED

• Do not parse scalars using numbers.Number, use numpy.number instead to
  catch Boolean values
• Included conda clean in CD pipeline to avoid disk fillup by unused conda
  packages/cache

DEPRECATED

• Retired conda2pip in favor of the modern setup.cfg dependency management
  system. ACME's dependencies are now listed in setup.cfg which is used to
  populate the conda environment file acme.yml at setup time.
• Retired travis CI tests since free test runs are exhausted. Migrated to GitHub
  actions (and re-included codecov)

FIXED

• On the ESI HPC cluster set the job CPU count depending on the chosen partition
  if not explicitly provided by the user (one core per 8GB of RAM, e.g., jobs in
  a 32GB RAM partition now use 4 cores instead of just one)