Hi all,
The second release candidate for the next release of MPICH2 (1.0.7) is
available from
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpich2/downloads/tarballs/mpich2-1….
Please try it out and let us know if you encounter any problems. The
major changes since 1.0.6p1 are highlighted below.
(Windows binaries are available from
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpich2/downloads/tarballs/mpich2-1…
and
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpich2/downloads/tarballs/mpich2-1…)
Regards,
The MPICH2 Team
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Main changes in 1.0.7
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# OVERALL: Initial ROMIO device for BlueGene/P (the ADI device is also
added but is not configurable at this time).
# OVERALL: Major clean up for the propagation of user-defined and
other MPICH2 flags throughout the code.
# OVERALL: Support for STI Cell Broadband Engine.
# OVERALL: Added datatype free hooks to be used by devices independently.
# OVERALL: Added device-specific timer support.
# OVERALL: make uninstall works cleanly now.
# ROMIO: Support to take hints from a config file
# ROMIO: more tests and bug fixes for nonblocking I/O
# PM/PMI: Added support to use PMI Clique functionality for process
managers that support it.
# PM/PMI: Added SLURM support to configure to make it transparent to
users.
# PM/PMI: SMPD Singleton Init support.
# WINDOWS: Fortran 90 support added.
# SCTP: Added MPICH_SCTP_NAGLE_ON support.
# MPE: Updated MPE logging API so that it is thread-safe (through
global mutex).
# MPE: Added infrastructure to piggyback argument data to MPI states.
# DOCS: Documentation creation now works correctly for VPATH builds.
# Many other bug fixes, memory leak fixes and code cleanup. A full
list of changes is available using:
svn log -r100:HEAD
https://svn.mcs.anl.gov/repos/mpi/mpich2/branches/release/MPICH2_1_0_7
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Pavan Balaji
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~balaji
