[mpich-discuss] Announcing the availability of mpich2-1.4

[Pavan Balaji]

Thanks Eric. The MPICH2 license is BSD style: 
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpich2/downloads/license.txt

  -- Pavan

On 06/17/2011 04:34 PM, Eric A. Borisch wrote:
> Pavan,
>
> Nice to see this come out. I'll get the MacPorts version updated soon.
>
> There's a quest in MacPorts to have a license type included in each
> port description. (This is a step along the way to enabling some
> binary distributions within MacPorts) .. what license do you think is
> the best description for MPICH2?  MIT? BSD?
>
> Thanks,
>   Eric
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Pavan Balaji<balaji at mcs.anl.gov>  wrote:
>>
>> A new major release of MPICH2 (1.4) is available for download from
>> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpich2/downloads/index.php?s=downloads
>>
>> MPICH2-1.4 adds several new features including improved support for fault
>> tolerance, support for the ARMCI API, and non-collective group creation
>> functionality. This release also fixes many bugs in the Hydra process
>> manager and various other parts of the MPICH2 code. 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 will soon be available from the downloads page.
>>
>> Regards,
>> The MPICH2 Team
>>
>> ===============================================================================
>>                                 Changes in 1.4
>> ===============================================================================
>>
>>   # OVERALL: Improvements to fault tolerance for collective
>>    operations. Thanks to Rui Wang @ ICT for reporting several of these
>>    issues.
>>
>>   # OVERALL: Improvements to the universe size detection. Thanks to
>>    Yauheni Zelenko for reporting this issue.
>>
>>   # OVERALL: Bug fixes for Fortran attributes on some systems. Thanks
>>    to Nicolai Stange for reporting this issue.
>>
>>   # OVERALL: Added new ARMCI API implementation (experimental).
>>
>>   # OVERALL: Added new MPIX_Group_comm_create function to allow
>>    non-collective creation of sub-communicators.
>>
>>   # FORTRAN: Bug fixes in the MPI_DIST_GRAPH_ Fortran bindings.
>>
>>   # PM/PMI: Support for a manual "none" launcher in Hydra to allow for
>>    higher-level tools to be built on top of Hydra. Thanks to Justin
>>    Wozniak for reporting this issue, for providing several patches for
>>    the fix, and testing it.
>>
>>   # PM/PMI: Bug fixes in Hydra to handle non-uniform layouts of hosts
>>    better. Thanks to the MVAPICH group at OSU for reporting this issue
>>    and testing it.
>>
>>   # PM/PMI: Bug fixes in Hydra to handle cases where only a subset of
>>    the available launchers or resource managers are compiled
>>    in. Thanks to Satish Balay @ Argonne for reporting this issue.
>>
>>   # PM/PMI: Support for a different username to be provided for each
>>    host; this only works for launchers that support this (such as
>>    SSH).
>>
>>   # PM/PMI: Bug fixes for using Hydra on AIX machines. Thanks to
>>    Kitrick Sheets @ NCSA for reporting this issue and providing the
>>    first draft of the patch.
>>
>>   # PM/PMI: Bug fixes in memory allocation/management for environment
>>    variables that was showing up on older platforms. Thanks to Steven
>>    Sutphen for reporting the issue and providing detailed analysis to
>>    track down the bug.
>>
>>   # PM/PMI: Added support for providing a configuration file to pick
>>    the default options for Hydra. Thanks to Saurabh T. for reporting
>>    the issues with the current implementation and working with us to
>>    improve this option.
>>
>>   # PM/PMI: Improvements to the error code returned by Hydra.
>>
>>   # PM/PMI: Bug fixes for handling "=" in environment variable values in
>>    hydra.
>>
>>   # PM/PMI: Upgrade the hwloc version to 1.1.2.
>>
>>   # COLLECTIVES: Performance and memory usage improvements for MPI_Bcast
>>    in certain cases.
>>
>>   # VALGRIND: Fix incorrect Valgrind client request usage when MPICH2 is
>>    built for memory debugging.
>>
>>   # BUILD SYSTEM: "--enable-fast" and "--disable-error-checking" are once
>>    again valid simultaneous options to configure.
>>
>>   # TEST SUITE: Several new tests for MPI RMA operations.
>>
>>   # Several other minor bug fixes, memory leak fixes, and code cleanup.
>>    A full list of changes is available using:
>>
>>      svn log -r7838:HEAD
>> https://svn.mcs.anl.gov/repos/mpi/mpich2/tags/release/mpich2-1.4rc2
>>
>>      ... or at the following link:
>>
>>
>>   https://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/mpich2/log/mpich2/tags/release/mpich2-1.4rc2?action=follow_copy&rev=HEAD&stop_rev=7838&mode=follow_copy
>>
>> --
>> Pavan Balaji
>> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~balaji
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Pavan Balaji
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