<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">could potentially be relevant to BG/P work ...<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Barton Miller <<a href="mailto:bart@cs.wisc.edu">bart@cs.wisc.edu</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">July 14, 2008 11:35:50 AM CDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:foster@mcs.anl.gov">foster@mcs.anl.gov</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Release MRNET 2.0</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div>*********************************************************************<br>* Release 2.0 of the MRNet Multicast/Reduction Network *<br>*********************************************************************<br><br>The new 2.0 release of MRNet is now available. This release of MRNet <br>includes a source distribution for Unix/Linux and Windows platforms,<br>plus pre-built binaries for Windows. The release also includes<br>associated manuals.<br><br>Improvements made to MRNet since version 1.2 have been incorporated into<br>version 2.0.<br><br>MRNet is a customizable, high-performance software infrastructure for<br>building scalable tools and applications. It supports efficient <br>multicast and data aggregation functionality using a tree of processes <br>between the tool's front-end and back-ends. MRNet-based tools may use <br>these internal processes to distribute many important tool activities, <br>for example to reduce data analysis time and keep tool front-end loads <br>manageable.<br><br>More information about MRNet, including downloads for binary and<br>source, can be found at: <br> <a href="http://www.paradyn.org/mrnet">http://www.paradyn.org/mrnet</a><br><br>Technical papers about MRNet can be found in the 'Middleware' section at:<br> <a href="http://www.paradyn.org/html/publications-by-category.html">http://www.paradyn.org/html/publications-by-category.html</a><br><br>The new features and fixes include:<br><br> * Fault tolerance and recovery for internal MRNet node failures<br> * Improved API for examining MRNet topology<br> * New filter capabilities such as dynamic configuration<br> * Improved memory management<br> * Improved support for multi-threaded front-ends and back-ends<br> * Updated examples, including a sample Makefile<br> * Numerous bug fixes and enhancements<br><br>MRNet is designed to be a highly-portable system. The source code has<br>been compiled using both GNU GCC and native platform compilers. We <br>have successfully tested MRNet components on the following platforms:<br> - Linux: x86, x86_64, ia64, powerpc64<br> - Solaris: sparc32, sparc64 <br> - AIX 5.2: rs6000<br> - Windows: x86<br><br>Please send questions or comments to <a href="mailto:paradyn@cs.wisc.edu">paradyn@cs.wisc.edu</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>