<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div> GPU support, so we should eventually try this out.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Barry</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"Raffenetti, Kenneth J. via announce" <<a href="mailto:announce@mpich.org" class="">announce@mpich.org</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">[mpich-announce] Announcing the availability of MPICH 3.4b1</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">October 5, 2020 at 10:11:43 PM CDT<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"<a href="mailto:announce@mpich.org" class="">announce@mpich.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:announce@mpich.org" class="">announce@mpich.org</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"Raffenetti, Kenneth J." <<a href="mailto:raffenet@mcs.anl.gov" class="">raffenet@mcs.anl.gov</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:announce@mpich.org" class="">announce@mpich.org</a><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Message-Id: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><<a href="mailto:07A43C48-2FCE-41A6-8030-2E33743A4B9F@mcs.anl.gov" class="">07A43C48-2FCE-41A6-8030-2E33743A4B9F@mcs.anl.gov</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div class="">A new preview release of MPICH, 3.4b1, is now available for download. This release previews the 3.4 major series. In the 3.4 series, ch4 replaces ch3 as the default device configuration. New features include GPU support, multi-VCI communication (experimental), XPMEM support, DAOS support in ROMIO (thanks to Intel contribution), business card exchange enhancements, and support for Arm/NVIDIA HPC compilers.<br class=""><br class="">Also in this release are several bug fixes and improvements in ch3, hydra, and common MPICH code. You can find the release on our downloads <br class="">page (<a href="https://www.mpich.org/downloads/" class="">https://www.mpich.org/downloads/</a>).<br class=""><br class="">Regards,<br class="">The MPICH team<br class=""><br class="">===============================================================================<br class=""> Changes in 3.4<br class="">===============================================================================<br class=""><br class=""># ch4 replaces ch3 as the default device configuration. Users must<br class=""> select a netmod in order to build ch4, else configure will prompt<br class=""> the user to choose.<br class=""><br class=""># Add support for Yaksa datatype engine (default in ch4).<br class=""><br class=""># Add support for GPU buffers (CUDA, Level Zero) in pt2pt,<br class=""> collectives, and one-sided communication.<br class=""><br class=""># Add support for XPMEM.<br class=""><br class=""># Add support for multiple virtual communication interfaces for more<br class=""> efficient MPI_THREAD_MULTIPLE (experimental).<br class=""><br class=""># Add DAOS ADIO driver to ROMIO (contributed by Intel).<br class=""><br class=""># Add Quobyte ADIO driver to ROMIO (contributed by Quobyte).<br class=""><br class=""># Add support for Arm compiler toolchain<br class=""><br class=""># Add support for NVIDIA HPC compilers<br class=""><br class=""># Add support for flang/f18 Fortran compiler<br class=""><br class=""># Add support for AddressSanitizer and UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer to<br class=""> debug configuration<br class=""><br class=""># Remove mxm, llc, and portals4 netmods from ch3.<br class=""><br class=""># Remove support for logical reduction operations on floating point<br class=""> types.<br class=""><br class=""># Remove MPIX_Mutex interfaces.<br class=""><br class=""># Further improvements to ch4 business card exchange: extra<br class=""> long address support and fixes for PMIx integration.<br class=""><br class=""># Un-inline non-critical ch4 code for improved build times.<br class=""><br class=""># Fix several test program bugs.<br class=""><br class=""># Fix several static analysis and compiler warnings.<br class=""><br class=""># Change the signature of MPID_Init to include requested and provided<br class=""> thread levels.<br class=""><br class=""> A full list of changes is available at the following link:<br class=""><br class=""> <a href="https://github.com/pmodels/mpich/compare/v3.3...v3.4b1" class="">https://github.com/pmodels/mpich/compare/v3.3...v3.4b1</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">announce mailing list <a href="mailto:announce@mpich.org" class="">announce@mpich.org</a><br class="">To manage subscription options or unsubscribe:<br class=""><a href="https://lists.mpich.org/mailman/listinfo/announce" class="">https://lists.mpich.org/mailman/listinfo/announce</a><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>