[mpich-discuss] Announcing the availability of mpich2-1.3.2rc1

[Pavan Balaji]

A release candidate for the new version of MPICH2 (1.3.2rc1) is
available from 
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpich2/downloads/index.php?s=downloads

MPICH2-1.3.2rc1 is primarily a bug-fix release. A few small features
have also been added as listed below. This release candidate is meant
for early trials of this release. Please try it out and let us know if
you encounter any problems at mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov.

Windows binaries will available from the downloads page soon.

Regards,
The MPICH2 Team

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                                Changes in 1.3.2
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  # OVERALL: MPICH2 now recognizes the OSX mach_absolute_time as a
    native timer type.

  # OVERALL: Performance improvements to MPI_Comm_split on large
    systems.

  # OVERALL: Several improvements to error returns capabilities in the
    presence of faults.

  # PM/PMI: Several fixes and improvements to Hydra's process binding
    capability.

  # PM/PMI: Upgrade the hwloc version to 1.1.1.

  # PM/PMI: Allow users to sort node lists allocated by resource
    managers in Hydra.

  # PM/PMI: Improvements to signal handling. Now Hydra respects Ctrl-Z
    signals and passes on the signal to the application.

  # PM/PMI: Improvements to STDOUT/STDERR handling including improved
    support for rank prepending on output. Improvements to STDIN
    handling for applications being run in the background.

  # PM/PMI: Split the bootstrap servers into "launchers" and "resource
    managers", allowing the user to pick a different resource manager
    from the launcher. For example, the user can now pick the "SLURM"
    resource manager and "SSH" as the launcher.

  # PM/PMI: The MPD process manager is deprecated.

  # WINDOWS: Adding support for gfortran and 64-bit gcc libs.

  # Several other minor bug fixes, memory leak fixes, and code cleanup.
    A full list of changes is available using:

      svn log -r7457:HEAD 
https://svn.mcs.anl.gov/repos/mpi/mpich2/tags/release/mpich2-1.3.2rc1

      ... or at the following link:

 
https://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/mpich2/log/mpich2/tags/release/mpich2-1.3.2rc1?action=follow_copy&rev=HEAD&stop_rev=7457&mode=follow_copy


-- 
Pavan Balaji
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~balaji