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

[Dave Goodell]

MIT or Simplified (2-clause) BSD are both acceptable approximations of the MPICH2 license.  I tend to describe it as "MIT" in order to avoid ambiguity with the various forms of the BSD license, and because we have no "views and conclusions" disclaimer.

-Dave

On Jun 18, 2011, at 8:47 PM CDT, Pavan Balaji wrote:

> 
> 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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