[MPICH2-dev] New version of MPICH2 (1.0.2)

[Rajeev Thakur]

A new version of MPICH2, 1.0.2, has been released. You can download it from
www.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich2. We recommend you upgrade to this version if you
are running an older version of MPICH2 or MPICH-1. New features in this
release include: 

* better portability (particularly for Mac OS/X and AIX)
* fixes to shared library builds with gcc
* fixes to problems with Fortran 90 compilers
* performance improvements with subarray and darray datatypes in MPI-IO
* MPI-2 RMA optimizations for the sshm channel
* Improvements to the MPD process manager
* Various updates and improvements to ROMIO
* Improvements to MPE toolkit
* Miscellaneous bug fixes

Further details are in the CHANGES file in the distribution.

For those interested in details of the code changes, the CVS log summaries
are available at http://www.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich2/mpich2_1_0_2changes.htm

Regards,
The MPICH2 Team