[MPICH2-dev] New release of MPICH2

Rusty Lusk lusk at mcs.anl.gov
Wed Nov 23 14:38:02 CST 2005


[Special note to those on the mpich2-dev list: Nightly CVS snapshots can
be obtained by anonymous ftp from ftp.mcs.anl.gov in the directory
pub/mpi/misc/mpich2snap. These are not fully tested.  They have names like
mpich2-snap-200511222016.tar.gz ]

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A new version of MPICH2, 1.0.3, 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 problems with Fortran 90 compilers
* Improvements to the dynamic process management features 
* Improvements to the MPD and SMPD process managers
* 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_3changes.htm 

Special thanks to David Ashton for the Windows version.

Regards,
The MPICH2 Team




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