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

[Pavan Balaji]

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

MPICH2-1.3.2 is primarily a bug-fix release. A few small features have 
also been added as listed below. All users using older releases of 
MPICH2 are encouraged to upgrade to this version. Please try it out and 
let us know if you encounter any problems at mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov.

Windows binaries are also available from the downloads page.

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/mpich2-1.3.2

       ... or at the following link:

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

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