[mpich-discuss] Announcing the availability of MPICH2-1.0.7rc2

[Pavan Balaji]

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/mpich2-1.0.7rc2.tar.gz. 
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/mpich2-1.0.7rc2-win32-ia32.msi 
and 
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpich2/downloads/tarballs/mpich2-1.0.7rc2-win64-x86-64.msi)

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