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3 SimGrid (3.27.1) NOT RELEASED YET (v3.28 expected June 21. 2021, 03:32 UTC)
6 - New plugin: Producer-Consumer with monitor. Just requires to include the
7 include/simgrid/plugins/ProducerConsumer.hpp header to be used. See the
8 associated example (examples/cpp/plugin-prodcons).
11 - Fixed a bug where Activity::wait_for() killed the activity on timeout.
12 Explicitly cancel the activity to get back to previous behavior.
15 - The default SMPI compiler flags are no more taken from the environment.
16 They can be explicitly set through cmake parameters SMPI_C_FLAGS,
17 SMPI_CXX_FLAGS, or SMPI_Fortran_FLAGS.
19 --cfg=smpi/finalization-barrier: which can be used to add
20 a barrier inside MPI_Finalize. This can help for some codes which cleanup
21 data attached to a process, but still used in other SMPI processes.
22 --cfg=smpi/errors-are-fatal: True by default, behaves like if MPI_ERRORS_RETURN
23 is active when set to false, to keep going after a small error
24 --cfg=smpi/pedantic: True by default. Do not report some harmless MPI errors
25 which may or may not be problematic in the end.
27 - Lua platform files are deprecated. Their support will be dropped after v3.31.
30 - Legacy functions deprecated in this release: SIMIX_get_clock(), SIMIX_run().
33 - Changed internal implementation of bandwidth factors in network models.
34 Models affected: CM02, LV08 (default), SMPI, IB.
35 Configuration affected: "network/bandwidth-factors" and "smpi/bw-factors".
36 Bandwidth factors are applied to communications to describe that users
37 cannot use 100% of the available bandwidth. For example, the default network model,
38 LV08, applies a factor of 0.97 to the bandwidth. In older versions, this
39 behavior was implemented by limiting the bandwidth available in the LMM
40 system for this flow. This may give the false impression that there is
41 bandwidth available for other flows due to its underutilization, especially
42 for the dynamic bandwidth factors used in SMPI models.
43 To avoid this, we have modified the implementation so that each flow uses the
44 maximum physical bandwidth according to the LMM system.
45 However, the actual throughput of the flow seen by the user is defined by
46 the physical bandwidth multiplied by the bandwidth factor.
47 This change impacts on the simulation results for all network models on
48 which we have bandwidth factors configured.
49 *****************************************
50 *DO NOT MIX 3.28 RESULTS WITH OLDER ONES*
51 *****************************************
52 This change may impact on the timing of your simulation results.
53 Take care when comparing simulations from different SimGrid's
54 versions. Sorry for the inconvenience.
57 - xbt_assert is not disabled anymore, even when built with enable_debug=off.
60 - New tutorial: Model-checking and formal assessment
62 Fixed bugs (FG#.. -> FramaGit bugs; FG!.. -> FG merge requests)
63 (FG: issues on Framagit; GF: issues on GForge; GH: issues on GitHub)
64 - FG#47: Complete and fix tests from teshuite/s4u/activity-lifecycle
65 - FG#64: Configuring smpi/IB-penalty-factors
66 - FG#67: Running computation concurrently with MPI_Iallreduce
67 - FG#69: Tutorial misleading users of pre-v3.26 versions of SimGrid
68 - FG#71: Segmentation fault on invalid gw_src/gw_dst
69 - GH#322: Issue when an actor kills his host vm
71 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
73 SimGrid (3.27) March 29. 2021
75 The Ragnar Release (anniversary of the siege of Paris by Vikings in 845)
77 Main user-visible changes:
78 - All functions marked as deprecated for one year were removed.
79 - Removed all that was related to the "Storage" type in all APIs and bindings.
80 "Disks" have been introduced more than a year ago to replace them for the better.
81 It's time to finish this replacement.
82 - SMPI ABI breaks from previous version: MPI global handles (predefined datatypes,
83 ops, COMM_WORLD) are now defined differently, and can be used in initializers,
84 avoiding "initializer element is not constant" errors with some codes. Please be
85 careful to recompile your MPI codes if switching to this new SimGrid version.
86 - Network model ns-3 now requires version ns-3.28 or higher.
87 - Removed some option aliases that were deprecated since v3.23 (June 2019)
88 - 'verbose-exit' is now 'debug/verbose-exit'
89 - 'simix/breakpoint' is now 'debug/breakpoint'
90 - 'clean-atexit' is now 'debug/clean-atexit'
93 - New functions: Comm::sendto_{init,async} to initiate a communication
94 on between two (possibly remote) hosts.
95 - Define new template functions Mailbox::get_unique(), returning a std::unique_ptr.
96 - Functions Mailbox::get() and Mailbox::get_async() are now templated with the
97 type of the pointee. Untyped functions are deprecated. Use Mailbox::get<void>()
98 or Mailbox::get_async<void>() if you really want to play with void*.
99 - Unify the interface of Activity::on_{start/activity}
100 - New function: Comm::get_dst_data()
101 - New function: Comm::set_payload_size() to set the amount of bytes to simulate.
104 - ptask should now work better with multicore hosts (FG#37).
105 - Internal cleanups and refactoring around activities, to prepare for SimDAG++.
106 - Internal cleanups and refactoring around models, to prepare for programmatic
108 - Modernize our tests of the performance models
112 - New section: Configuring the logs from the command line.
113 - New section: Programming API of logs.
114 - New section: Getting realistic results
115 - New section: Examples of SMPI Usage
116 - New part: SimGrid's Internals, with a section on Design goals
117 - Move back to the classical Breathe tool chain, and fix many small glitches.
120 - Handle leak checking: SMPI will now display a message if MPI handles are still
121 present at the end of a simulation. Option smpi/list-leaks:n will display the n
122 first leaked pointers and their types.
123 - smpi/display-allocs option : Display Memory allocations analysis, with hints
124 about the largest allocations. This only works for allocations with malloc/calloc
125 and not compiled with SMPI_NO_OVERRIDE_MALLOC
126 - "-analyze" option in smpirun will activate smpi/display-allocs and smpi/display-timing
127 - New implemented MPI calls: MPI_File_set_size, MPI_Aint_add, MPI_Aint_diff,
128 MPI_Type_get_extent_x, MPI_Type_get_true_extent_x, MPI_Status_set_elements_x
129 - Support for MPI C++ datatypes (MPI_CXX_BOOL, MPI_CXX_FLOAT_COMPLEX,
130 MPI_CXX_DOUBLE_COMPLEX, MPI_CXX_LONG_DOUBLE_COMPLEX)
131 - Replay now opens and parses the trace file only once for all ranks when possible.
133 - better handling of MPI_PROC_NULL
134 - MPI_Group_incl was broken in some cases
135 - PAPI tracing now fixed
136 - MPI_Errhandlers are properly handled for MPI_COMM_WORLD
137 - SMPI will now fail properly when receive size < sent size, instead of
138 just setting MPI_ERR_TRUNCATE and keep going.
139 - Proxy Apps ( https://framagit.org/simgrid/SMPI-proxy-apps ):
140 - Remove useless build patches and split build/run patches on the page
141 - Build in parallel when possible
142 - Test on yum-based systems
143 - New nightly tested Proxy-apps:
144 - OpenMPI mpi-test-suite
145 - Coral MCB, LSMS, Qbox, CLOMP
146 - ECP/Mantevo Cloverleaf3D, Ember
147 - Codevault bhtree_mpi
150 - Only initialize the Dwarf parser when needed, saving 10 seconds in most cases.
151 - Start to overhaul the implementation to modernize it (still ongoing).
154 - Drop simgrid::xbt::demangle(). Please use boost::core::demangle() instead.
155 - Drop xbt_dynar_cursor_rm(), xbt_dynar_search_or_negative(),
156 xbt_str_split_quoted(), xbt_str_split_quoted_in_place().
157 - Deprecate xbt_dynar_to_array().
158 - When an exception occurs in kernel mode, display both the actor and kernel stacks.
160 C binding and interface:
161 - Rename (lowercase) functions sg_actor_get_PID, sg_actor_get_PPID, sg_actor_by_PID.
162 - Constness requirement has been lowered for parameter argv of sg_actor_start()
163 and sg_actor_create() It's now (char* const*). The previous version is still
164 available as sg_actor_start_() and sg_actor_create_().
166 Fixed bugs (FG#.. -> FramaGit bugs; FG!.. -> FG merge requests)
167 (FG: issues on Framagit; GF: issues on GForge; GH: issues on GitHub)
168 - FG#37: Parallel tasks are limited to 1 core per host
169 - FG#62: Running "smpirun -replay" on large networks
170 - FG!46: Fix a few potential memory leaks in SMPI colls
171 - GH#343: Wrong consumed energy when an exec timeouts
173 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
175 SimGrid (3.26) December 15. 2020
177 The Release release (the French lockdown was eased today).
179 Important user-visible changes:
180 - SimGrid now requires a compiler with C++14 support.
181 Sibling projects should upgrade their FindSimgrid.cmake
182 - Surf precision default value is now 1e-9, instead of 1e-5. This was changed as
183 several users had difficulties to understand issues when using high bandwidth or
184 small latency events. The new value was already the default for SMPI and
185 should not cause too much performance hit. It can change some simulation
186 timings if simulation was skipping a lot of small events (which was actually
187 an issue per see). The old value can be restored with --cfg=surf/precision:1e-5.
188 - On some network models (L07, CM02, LV08), an implicit loopback link is created
189 for local communication. Default bandwidth was 500MBps and latency was 15µs,
190 which was rather bad. Default values have been changed to 10GBps and 0 latency.
191 Options network/loopback-lat and network/loopback-bw have been added to adapt
192 these values if needed. Network and routing models already providing separate
193 loopbacks (clusters and such) are not impacted by this change.
194 - SMPI now adds 16 bytes of header to each message sent, in order to simulate
195 metadata that are added to each MPI message by MPI libraries (tag,
196 src/dest, and communicator information). This may change simulation times
197 for very small message sizes, but should be more realistic.
200 - New routing 'WiFi' that makes it easier to specify a wifi network zone.
201 - New plugins: wifi_energy and link_load. See the associated examples.
202 - New examples: wifi networks, and communication suspend.
205 - LTO is now enabled for Intel/clang compilers.
206 - LTO behavior on GCC can be parameterized using LTO_EXTRA_FLAG in cmake.
207 Setting it to "auto" will use all available cores, while setting it to n will
208 use n cores to speedup link step (usage: cmake -DLTO_EXTRA_FLAG=4).
209 - Remove obsolete runtime option 'contexts/parallel-threshold'.
210 - Runtime option 'tracing/msg/process' renamed to 'tracing/actor'. The old name
211 has been kept for compatibility.
212 - Finally remove obsolete snake_case() aliases for runtime options.
213 - Further improve the documentation.
216 - the on_exit() of each actor is also executed when the simulation deadlocks.
217 - New functions: s4u::Activity:: suspend(), resume() and is_suspended()
218 An example is provided for s4u::Comm but it should work with Exec and Io.
221 - Update proxy apps coverage of new ECP apps: 60+ apps now tested nightly on
222 https://framagit.org/simgrid/SMPI-proxy-apps
223 - MPI/IO: supports names starting with "./"
224 - Fortran: many MPI/IO bindings, support for MPI_UB/LB, C MPI_INT/FLOAT/DOUBLE
226 - smpicc/cxx/ff/f90 now will actually perform definition checks at link time. When
227 building shared libraries, this may cause issues, so environment variable
228 SMPI_NO_UNDEFINED_CHECK can be added to disable this.
229 - most temporary files should now be created in /tmp dir (or equivalent).
230 If this one does not allow execution of code (noexec flag), this may cause issues.
231 Please use another tmp directory (using TMPDIR or equivalent system variable)
235 - A large refactoring is ongoing, but this should be transparent for users so far.
238 - Drop xbt_str_split().
240 C binding and interface:
241 - The return type of the sg_actor_on_exit() callbacks is now 'void'
242 (int value was previously ignored)
243 - Many C functions were renamed to follow a common naming style
244 (sg_object_get_something and sg_object_set_something). As usual, the deprecated
245 names are kept until version 3.30.
246 - Many MSG tests were converted to the new S4U's interface in C, that
247 was extended for that.
249 Fixed bugs (FG#.. -> FramaGit bugs; FG!.. -> FG merge requests)
250 (FG: issues on Framagit; GF: issues on GForge; GH: issues on GitHub)
251 - FG#41: Add sg_actor_create C interface
252 - FG#43: xbt::random needs some care
253 - FG#48: The Impossible Did Happen (yet again)
254 - FG#50: Suspending an actor executed at the current timestamp fails
255 - FG#52: Zero-seconds timeout : "That's in the past already"
256 - FG#53: Crash while using ns-3 network model
257 - FG#54: How to suspend a comm?
258 - FG!22: Stochastic Profiles
259 - FG!24: Documentation and fix for xbt/random
260 - FG!35: Add a modeling hint for parallel links in doc
261 - FG!36: [xbt/random] Read/Write the state of the RNG
262 - FG!42: Link cumulated load plugin
263 - FG!44: Test condition variable wait_until+notify_all
264 - GF#18137: Allow different stack sizes?
265 - GH#128: Parallelization of simulation with --cfg=contexts/nthreads
266 - GH#139: Allow pthread creation in SMPI
267 - GH#336: Packet-level simulation using SMPI?
268 - GH#345: Error in the LMM while migrating a VM
269 - GH#346: [SMPI] error while loading shared libraries: libsimgrid.so
270 - GH#352: pip install / python setup.py install fail to find pybind11
271 - GH!337: Fix link_energy plugin for wifi platforms
272 - GH!339: Add Mailbox set_receiver method to python binding
273 - GH!344: Cast hugepages macros parameters to int64
275 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
277 SimGrid (3.25) February 2. 2020 (aka 02 02 2020)
279 The Palindrom Day Release.
281 Important user-visible changes:
282 - Improve the Python usability (stability and documentation).
283 - A nasty synchronization bug was ironed out, see also below.
284 - Python's doc was organized as a separate tree, now integrated with C++.
285 - C bindings of S4U were not part of the doc.
286 - The C++ doc was also improved as methods are now split by theme.
287 - Further deprecate MSG: you now have to pass -Denable_msg=ON to cmake.
288 - This is mandatory to use the Java bindings.
289 - OFF by default; The plan is to completely remove MSG by 2020Q4 or 2021Q1.
290 - SimDAG++: Automatic dependencies on S4U activities (experimental)
291 - Some features are already implemented but not all of them
292 - Cannot block an activity until it's scheduled on a resource
293 - No heterogeneous wait_any() that would mix Exec/Comm/Io activities.
294 - See examples/s4u/{io,exec,comm}-dependent for what's already there.
297 - Upgrade documented Java dependency to Java 8 (earlier versions don't work).
298 - Drop support for Viva/Triva (old visualization tools), hence removed
299 TRACE_get_node_types() and TRACE_get_edge_types() functions.
302 - Require pybind11 version 2.4.
303 - Greatly improve locking during context switches with Python.
304 - Declaring Python callbacks to this_actor::on_exit is now working.
305 - No more tests are failing currently, even on win32.
308 - Actor: Merge signals on_migration_start/end into on_host_change
309 - Actor: Rename migrate() into set_host()
310 - Disk: Allow users to get the read and write nominal bandwidth values
311 - Exec: Implement wait_for(timeout)
312 - Io: Implement wait_for(timeout)
315 - Parse errors now raise a simgrid::ParseError that you may want to catch.
318 - In simgrid::kernel::resource::Model, the methods next_occuring_event*() have
319 been renamed to fix a spelling error. As usual, the previous definitions are
320 kept with a deprecation warning. However, to avoid runtime errors, it is now
321 forbidden to override these deprecated methods in a derived class. Please use
322 the new names immediately if you need to override them.
325 - Remove unused parameter 'free_ctn' for xbt_dict_set() and xbt_dict_set_ext().
326 - Drop unused functions for dicts and dynars: xbt_dict_cursor_get_elm,
327 xbt_dict_get, xbt_dict_get_elm, xbt_dict_get_ext, xbt_dict_get_key,
328 xbt_dict_remove, xbt_dict_reset, xbt_dynar_compare, xbt_dynar_dump,
329 xbt_dynar_foreach_ptr, xbt_dynar_free_data, xbt_dynar_free_voidp,
330 xbt_dynar_init, xbt_dynar_insert_at_as, xbt_dynar_merge,
331 xbt_dynar_remove_n_at, xbt_dynar_replace, xbt_dynar_search, xbt_dynar_set.
332 - New module: random, providing classical random numbers generators.
335 - New option : "smpi/auto-shared-malloc-thresh" which sets a value for
336 allocations' size above which they are considered "shared" by default (as if
337 they were performed through SMPI_SHARED_MALLOC macros).
338 Default = 0 = disabled feature.
339 Note : malloc, calloc and free are now overridden by smpicc/cxx by default.
340 This can cause some troubles if codes are already overriding these. If this
341 is the case, defining SMPI_NO_OVERRIDE_MALLOC in the compilation flags can
342 help, but will make this feature unusable.
343 - Input check is now performed much more consistently and outputs precise
344 warnings for each error found
345 - New supported calls : MPI_File_set_view, MPI_File_get_view
346 - MPI I/O now only supports disks, as storage is discontinued.
347 - MPI I/O allows opening files without specifying absolute path
348 - Note : SMPI configuration options are now initialized by smpi_init_options()
349 call, which should be called if SMPI is not being used through smpirun.
351 Fixed bugs (FG#.. -> framagit bugs; FG!.. -> framagit merge requests):
352 - FG#9: Python bindings crashing
353 - FG#39: Missing s4u::Comm::wait_any_for example
354 - FG#42: Add support for ThreadSanitizer (TSan)
355 - FG!19: Removing RngStream
356 - FG!20: A module for RNG calls
357 - FG!21: Choice between ad-hoc and standard distributions implementations
359 - FG!25: Fix link in Mutex doc
360 - FG!26: Fix links in SMPI interface doc
361 - GH#31: [MC] please provide an option to make MPI_Send asynchronous
362 - GH#305: Unscheduled tasks are still excuted
363 - GH#313: smpirun: manual outdated w.r.t. --help
364 - GH#321: [S4U] Get task remaining work ratio
365 - GH#323: Crash when an actor turn off his physical host
366 - GH#335: Missing links on dragonfly example svg
367 - https://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/simgrid-user/2019-November/004653.html:
368 MPI_Cart_sub was not working properly. Kudos to Jonathan Borne for the report.
370 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
372 SimGrid (3.24) October 9. 2019
374 The Clean Disk Release.
377 - Introduce a s4u::Disk interface to manage the newly introduced <disk>
378 tag. s4u::Disk is called to supplant s4u::Storage in a near future. It
379 thus becomes the default resource to execute I/O operations. Examples
380 and the file system plugin have been modified to use disks instead of
381 storage elements. Storage can still be used but is doomed to disappear.
382 Users are thus adviced to update their simulators accordingly.
383 - Barrier::wait returns SG_BARRIER_SERIAL_THREAD for (only) one actor
384 for consistency with pthread_barrier_wait()
385 - Host::get_englobing_zone() returns the englobing netzone
386 - Actor::on_destruction is now called in the destructor
387 Actor::on_termination new signal called when the actor terminates
389 - Global signals are now part of the Engine:
390 - on_platform_creation: after config settings, before the XML parsing
391 - on_platform_created: right after the XML parsing
392 - on_time_advance: each time the clock advances
393 - on_simulation_end: after simulation, before cleanups
394 - on_deadlock: as the name implies.
396 - sg_{actor,host,link}_{data,data_set}() now all exist.
397 Use them to attach user data to the object and retrieve it.
400 - Introduce an experimental Wifi model. It sounds reasonable
401 according to the state of the art, but it still has to be properly
402 validated, at least against ns-3 if not against reality.
403 - Improved the usability of ns-3. Several bugs were ironed out.
404 - host_energy: Wattage was expressed as 'idle:oneCore:allCores'.
405 It is now expressed as 'idle:epsilon:allCores' to properly model the
406 consumption of non-whole tasks on mono-core hosts. More info in the doc.
409 - convert a new set of functions to the S4U C interface and move the old MSG
410 versions to legacy (MSG_process_self*, MSG_process_{un}ref, ...)
413 - Fortran bindings for DVFS have been removed.
414 - Add support for MPI_Irsend, MPI_Rsend, MPI_Rsend_init, MPI_Bsend,
415 MPI_Ibsend, MPI_Bsend_init, MPI_Buffer_attach, MPI_Buffer_detach
416 - SMPI can now be selected by cmake's find_module(MPI) with
417 MPI_C_COMPILER, MPI_CXX_COMPILER, MPI_Fortran_COMPILER variables.
418 - Add support for MPI Errhandlers in Comm, File or Win. Default errhandler is now
419 MPI_ERRORS_ARE_FATAL, so codes which were sending warnings may start failing.
420 - trace-call-location can be used with TI traces, and replayed, and is compatible
421 with smpi/comp-adjustment-file.
422 - sleep events are now correctly traced/replayed.
423 - Default for trace-call-location is now to use file names and not full paths.
424 To revert to previous behavior (in case of collision of filenames), option
425 "smpi/trace-call-use-absolute-path" can be set to yes.
428 - Use the included xxHash as an hash implem when C++14 is usable.
429 - Option model-checker/hash was removed. This is always activated now.
430 - New option smpi/buffering controls the MPI buffering in MC mode.
431 - MPI calls now MC_assert() that no MPI_ERR_* code is returned.
432 This is useful to check for MPI compliance.
435 - New section on plugins: how to define a new one, and existing ones.
438 - xbt_mutex_t and xbt_cond_t are now marked as deprecated, a new C interface
439 on S4U is already available to replace them by sg_mutex_t and sg_cond_t.
442 - Introduce the <disk> tag as a replacement of the <storage>, <storage_type>,
443 and <mount> tags. The rationale is finish to decouple what should be handle
444 by SimGrid kernel (i.e., resources and activities) from plugins built in
445 user space (e.g., the file system plugin). This new tag currently accepts
446 only three attributes (id, read_bw, and write_bw). All the other information
447 that was declared with the storage related tags now has to be expressed as
448 properties. An example of platform using this new tag is available at
449 examples/platforms/hosts_with_disks.xml
452 - 'expect signal' can now accept more than one potential signal.
454 Fixed bugs (FG#.. -> framagit bugs; FG!.. -> framagit merge requests):
455 - FG#28: add sg_actor_self (and other wrappers on this_actor methods)
456 - FG#29 and FG#33: provide a new C API to mutexes and condition variables
457 - FG#30: convert MSG_process_{un}ref to sg_actor_{un}ref
458 - FG#31: per-actor data
459 - FG#34: SG_BARRIER_SERIAL_THREAD?
460 - FG#35: model-checker does not like buster-produced binaries
461 - FG!13: MC: complete workaround in the error msg seen on modern systems
462 - FG!15: execute_flops now logs compute
463 - FG!16: Fix the ns-3 bindings when several flows are simultaneously finishing
464 - FG!17: ns-3: unblock the right number of communications + others issues
465 - FG!18: Improving the performance of the ns-3 bindings
466 - GH#189: Energy consumption of parallel tasks
467 - GH#219: Error in the throughput of TCP transfer
468 - GH!330: Minor polishing of English: Configuring_Simgrid
469 - GH!331: Fix a doc error about actors (Tutorial_algorithms)
470 - GH!332: Add '-O0' flag for: cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug
471 - GH!334: Rework energy plugin, again
473 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
475 SimGrid (3.23.2) July 8. 2019
478 - Nicer introduction page.
479 - Migrate the "Deploy your application" page to the new doc.
480 - Move Java as a subtree of MSG.
483 - Rename simgrid::TimeoutError to simgrid::TimeoutException.
486 - Drop xbt_dynar_sort_strings().
489 - Really fix FG#26: Turning off a link should raise NetworkFailureException
490 - FG#27: Wrong exception thrown to wait_any when link is turned off
491 - GH#328: Java: Canceling multiple tasks in a single vm/host
493 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
495 SimGrid (3.23) June 25. 2019
497 The Exotic Solstice Release.
500 - SunOS and Haiku OS support. Because exotic platforms are fun.
501 - Stop setting random seed with srand48() at initialization.
502 - Use addr2line as a fallback for stacktraces when backtrace is not available.
503 - Build option -Denable_documentation is now OFF by default.
504 - Network model 'NS3' was renamed into 'ns-3'.
507 - Simgrid can now hopefully be installed with pip.
510 - wait_any can now be used for asynchronous executions too.
513 - New log appenders: stdout and stderr. Use stdout for xbt_help.
514 - Drop xbt_dict_dump.
517 - SMPI now reports support of MPI3.1. This does not mean SMPI supports all MPI 3 calls, but it was already the case with 2.2
518 - MPI/IO is now supported over the Storage API (no files are written or read, storage is simulated). Supported calls are all synchronous ones.
519 - MPI interface is now const correct for input parameters
520 - MPI_Ireduce, MPI_Iallreduce, MPI_Iscan, MPI_Iexscan, MPI_Ireduce_scatter, MPI_Ireduce_scatter_block support
521 - Fortran bindings for async collectives.
522 - MPI_Comm_get_name, MPI_Comm_set_name, MPI_Count support.
525 - Remove option 'model-check/record': Paths are recorded in any cases now.
526 - Remove option 'model-check/sparse-checkpoint': Checkpoints are now
527 always sparse. That's an immense gain in memory, and can even be
528 faster because of cache effects. So there is no need to clutter the
529 code to allow the user to go for the unefficient mode.
532 - Remove the lagrange-based models (Reno/Reno2/Vegas). The regular
533 models proved to be more accurate than these old experiments.
535 Fixed bugs (FG=FramaGit; GH=GitHub -- Please prefer framagit for new bugs)
536 - FG#1: Broken link in error messages
537 - FG#2: missing installation documentation
538 - FG#3: missing documentation in smpirun
539 - FG#6: Python bindings not available on PyPI
540 - FG#7: simple cmake call requires doxygen
541 - FG#8: make python bindings an optional dependency
542 - FG#10: Can not use MSG_process_set_data from SMPI any more
543 - FG#11: Auto-restart actors forget their on_exit behavior
544 - FG#12: -Denable_lto=OFF doesn't disable LTO
545 - FG#13: Installs unstripped file 'bin/graphicator'
546 - FG#14: Installs the empty directory 'doc/simgrid/html'
547 - FG#15: Setting -Denable_python=OFF doesn't disable the search for pybind11
548 - FG#17: Dead link in doc (pls_ns3)
549 - FG#20: 'tesh --help' should return 0
550 - FG#21: Documentation link on http://simgrid.org/ broken
551 - FG#22: Debian installation instruction are broken
552 - FG#26: Turning off a link should raise NetworkFailureException exceptions
553 - GH#133: Java: a process can run on a VM even if its host is off
554 - GH#320: Stacktrace: Avoid the backtrace variant of Boost.Stacktrace?
555 - GH#326: Valgrind-detected error for join() when energy plugin is activated
557 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
559 SimGrid (3.22) April 1. 2019
561 The Easter Christmas Release (this one is somewhat late).
564 - We are excited to introduce the SimGrid/S4U interface to your neighborhood
565 - Not complete yet: asynchronous activities (amongst others) are still missing
566 - Still ongoing: the interface may change in the future. We need more
567 testers! Please report any glitches.
568 - No new project using Java should start now. Please switch to Python.
571 - Some of the internal cleanups may lead to speed improvements:
572 - The hard limitation on the amount of simulated actors with
573 Java+Mac was removed. Now, the available memory is the only limit.
574 - Our refcounting was tidyied, leading to 10% speedups in some cases.
575 - We are still working on making our code robust to the actor kills
576 and hosts' churn. Things are improving, but it's not perfect yet.
577 - Replaced our own code to display a backtrace (that was forking addr2line)
578 with the Boost.Stacktrace library.
579 You won't see your backtraces without this optional dependency.
580 - Bump cmake dependency to 3.5 (provided by Ubuntu 16.04).
581 - Stop setting random seed with srand() at initialization.
584 - In <host> and <peer>, 'availability_file' is now 'speed_file'.
585 XML file version remains 4.2 since old files are still compatible.
588 - Process termination which was broken at version 3.21 has been repaired.
589 - Expose host load plugin: loadInit, getCurrentLoad, getComputedFlops, getAvgLoad
590 - Hide the examples into examples/deprecated. New users should use Python.
593 - Drop MSG_process_create_from_stdfunc() from the API.
594 This C++ function was a pimple in the C API, made necessary at some
595 point by the Java bindings. This is fixed now.
596 - Hide the examples into examples/deprecated. New users should use S4U.
597 - MSG_process_create and MSG_process_attach now crash if the host used
598 to run this process is off.
599 - Fix the protype of MSG_process_on_exit()
600 Now use (int,void*) callbacks instead of (void*,void*) ones.
601 The implementation was ways too messy to actually work, I guess.
604 - Change the way SMPI_SAMPLE_* macros work to avoid invalidating cache
605 too often and provide more accurate timings.
606 - Add -gdb, -lldb, and -vgdb shortcuts to help debug MPI codes with smpirun
607 - MPI_Alltoallw support
608 - Partial MPI nonblocking collectives implementation: MPI_Ibcast, MPI_Ibarrier,
609 MPI_Iallgather, MPI_Iallgatherv, MPI_Ialltoall, MPI_Ialltoallv, MPI_Igather,
610 MPI_Igatherv, MPI_Iscatter, MPI_Iscatterv, MPI_Ialltoallw.
611 - MPI_Request_get_status, MPI_Status_set_cancelled, MPI_Status_set_elements
613 - Basic implementation of generalized requests (SMPI doesn't
614 allow MPI_THREAD_MULTIPLE) : MPI_Grequest_complete, MPI_Grequest_start
617 - Drop sg_cmdline. Please use xbt_cmdline instead.
618 - Drop the C xbt_os_mutex_t; Use the C++11 std::mutex.
619 - Drop the C xbt_os_sem_t; Use the C++ xbt::OsSemaphore.
620 OsSemaphore is implemented in a portable way with C++11 threads.
621 This should allow much more threads to be created at the same time,
622 allowing Mac and Java users to simulate many more actors.
623 - Implement the 'thread' factory with std::thread instead of xbt ones.
624 It is not possible to set the stack size with threads anymore, but
625 -fsplit-stack is the way to go nowadays when using threads.
626 - Drop the xbt_os_thread_t module (now unused)
627 - Drop xbt_ex_display(), use simgrid::xbt::log_exception() instead.
628 - Drop xbt_str_join_array().
629 - Drop cunit, use Catch2 instead.
632 - Many cleanups in the kernel::activity namespace. This was long
633 overdue, and shall open the path to many future endeavors.
636 - #132: Java: a process can not shut down its own host
637 - #220: S4U: detached send causes exception if sender terminates soon after sending
638 - #261: Document the parameters of parallel execution's constructor
639 - #300: [s4u] BarrierPtr is missing
640 - #314: SMPI args internal cleanup
641 - #316: Fix a bug related to the CPU utilization of multi-core VM
642 - #318: Invalid trace file when using option --cfg=tracing/smpi/display-sizes:yes
643 - #324: S4U: Attempting to create an actor on turned off host segfaults instead of throwing
644 - #325: Turning off a host has different behavior on sleeping actors and computing actors
646 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
648 SimGrid (3.21) October 3. 2018
650 The Restarting Documentation (TRD) Release.
653 - Convert the user manual to Sphinx for improved usability.
654 Unstable version now hosted on https://simgrid.frama.io/simgrid
655 Many glitches remain; stay tuned.
656 - Restrict the Doxygen reference API to the installed header files.
657 (documenting all internals this way is overkill + doxygen scales badly)
658 - New tutorial on S4U (highly inspired from the old MSG one, but with
659 a git repository to fork as a starting point, and a docker image)
660 - Started but not finished an SMPI tutorial inspired from the JLPC'14 one.
661 - The Developper manual is still to be converted (not compiled until then)
662 - Some parts are still missing in this conversion (such as the
663 platform and deployment sections) while others were blindly converted
664 and would need more love (such as the configuration flags).
665 Things will certainly further improve in the future releases.
668 - Fully reimplement auto_restart mechanism that was utterly broken
669 (fix #22, #131 and #281 that were all very related)
670 - Implement semaphores (fix #303 and #291)
671 - When creating an actor from a function and its parameters,
672 move-only parameters are not allowed anymore, as it would prevent
673 the actor to be restartable if its parameters are consumed on run.
674 - s4u::Io: IOs go asynchronous as activities. New methods in s4u::Storage:
675 - io_init(sg_size_t, s4u::Io::OpType) to create a READ or WRITE asynchronous
676 IO operations that can be started, waited for, or canceled as a regular
678 - read_async(sg_size_t) and write_async(sg_size_t) which are wrappers on
682 - Rename 'power' and 'power_used' variables into 'speed' and 'speed_used'
683 - New host variable: 'core_count'
686 - Remove xbt_os_thread_specific features
687 - Remove portability wrapper to condition variables
688 - Remove xbt_os_thread_yield()
691 - MPICH collective selector now mimics MPICH 3.3b
692 - OpenMPI collective selector now mimics OpenMPI 3.1.2 (default "tuned" setting)
693 - MPI_Init(NULL,NULL) is now allowed
694 - smpi/wtime option now injects time in gettimeofday or clock_gettime calls
695 - Command-line arguments should now be handled properly in Fortran simulations
696 - MPI Attributes and related callbacks should work in Fortran
697 - Apps using C + Fortran should now work
698 - MPI_* calls now check for non MPI_SUCCESS return values and emit warnings
699 - Support MPI_Error_String
702 - Due to an internal bug, Msg.run() must now be your last line.
703 We hope to fix it in a future release, and we are sorry for the inconvenience.
706 - #22: Process autorestart seem to only work with CAS01 cpus
707 - #56: Feature request: dynamic SMPI replay
708 - #93: simgrid should not eat --help
709 - #111: How to change the loopback link characteristics?
710 - #116: Platform cluster radical
711 - #117: Platform cluster/host order
712 - #129: Replay_multiple on steroid
713 - #131: Java : autostart does not work
714 - #143: Setting a breakpoint at a given time
715 - #235: Network energy models should be integrated
716 - #264: Add ptask L07 resource tracing
717 - #271: Dynamic and manual replay of SMPI traces
718 - #279: Breakpoints option uses time deltas instead of absolute time
719 - #281: Daemonized actor no longer daemonized after an auto-restart
720 - #282: TIT convertor erase traces when using absolute path in the trace list file
721 - #285: segfault when a s4u actor kills itself with msg process tracing activated
722 - #286: Pajé traces are not exposing the number of cores
723 - #287: Command-line parsing should stop when encountering '--'
724 - #288: MPI_Init(NULL, NULL)
725 - #289: Improve documentation of Actor::on_destruction and this_actor::on_exit()
726 - #290: Method to check if a mailbox has a message ready to be consumed
727 - #291: [s4u] semaphores do not seem available yet
728 - #294: Alltoall collective implementation of mpich
729 - #295: Starting a Host as OFF is not supported
730 - #296: DTD too permissive
731 - #299: Add a s4u barrier example
733 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
735 SimGrid (3.20) Released June 24. 2018
737 The proxy snake_case() release.
740 - The whole API is now using snake_case() instead of mixing it with camelCase.
741 Compatibility wrappers in place for one year.
742 - We took the opportunity to increase the consistency of the API.
743 Please report any remaining glitches.
744 - New function simgrid::s4u::Host::get_actor_count:
745 Returns the number of actors running on a specific host.
748 - SMPI is now tested with ~45 proxy apps from various sources, with none or
749 only minor patching needed: check https://github.com/simgrid/SMPI-proxy-apps
750 - Replay: The replay file has been re-written in C++.
751 - Replay: Tags used for messages sent via MPI_Send / MPI_Recv are now
752 supported. They are stored in the trace and used when replayed.
753 - Basic support of MPI_Cancel. Robustness not guaranteed.
754 - Support of MPI_Win_allocate_shared, MPI_Win_shared_query, MPI_Comm_split_type
755 (only for MPI_COMM_TYPE_SHARED).
756 - New option: smpi/privatize-libs, to add external shared libs to be privatized
757 by SMPI. They will be copied locally and loaded separately by each process.
758 Example --cfg=smpi/privatize-libs:"libgfortran.so.3;libscalapack.so".
759 - Tracing: add tracing for MPI_Start, Startall, Testall, Testany
760 - Interception of getopt, getopt_long and getopt_long_only calls to avoid issues
761 with internal index optind with multiple processes. Only works if MPI_Init has
763 - Fortran: SMPI builds a mpi.mod file which should allow use of "use mpi"
764 syntax without preprocessing tricks.
767 - Change --cfg=tracing/msg/vm to --cfg=tracing/vm as virtual machine
768 behavior tracing is no longer limited to MSG
769 - TIT (Time Independent Traces): We finally support tags. Unfortunately,
770 this means that traces now need to be updated or re-obtained; both Irecv
771 and Isend lines in your traces have now in total 5 mandatory fields:
772 <rankid> <command> <to/from rankid> <tag> <size>
773 To update your traces, it suffices to add a 0 for the tag here.
774 - TIT now also supports waiting for a distinct request via MPI_Wait.
775 Wait/Test now wait for a specific request, not just the last one that was
776 issued. This unfortunately means another update, because we need to
777 identify which request you want to wait for. We do this via the
778 triplet (sender, receiver, tag), which needs to be added:
779 <rankid> <command> <sender> <receiver> <tag>
780 - Actions are now in lower case (e.g., "allReduce" becomes "allreduce").
781 New script simgrid_convert_TI_traces.py: upgrade your TI traces.
784 - The deprecation of MSG is ongoing (but this should not impact you).
785 Many MSG functions are now simple wrappers on the C API of S4U. If
786 you wish to convert your code to S4U, find the S4U counterparts of
787 your MSG calls in src/msg/msg_legacy.cpp.
788 - MSG can still be used, but won't evolve anymore.
791 - Allow to run the Link energy plugin from the command line with
792 --cfg=plugin:link_energy
793 - Rename Energy plugin into host_energy
794 - Rename Load plugin into host_load
797 - Add parameter --cfg=simix/breakpoint to raise a SIGTRAP at given time.
798 - kill simix::onDeadlock() that was somewhat dupplicating s4u::on_deadlock()
799 - Improve performance when handling timeouts of simix synchros.
802 - Config: the C API is now deprecated (will be removed in 3.23), and
803 the C++ API has been slightly improved.
806 - Fix several build issues on OSX.
807 - Move simgrid_config.h to simgrid/config.h (old header still working)
810 - #143: Setting a breakpoint at a given time
811 - #150: Inconsistent event names in SMPI replay
812 - #258: daemonized actors hang after all non-daemonized actors have completed
813 - #267: Linker error on unit_tmgr
814 - #269: SMPI: tracing of MPI_Wait/all/any broken
815 - SMPI: Fix various crashes with combined use of MPI_PROC_NULL and MPI_IGNORE_STATUS
817 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
819 SimGrid (3.19.1) Released March 22 2018
821 The Fixed ABI Release.
823 As you may know, we are currently refactoring SimGrid in deep.
824 Upcoming SimGrid4 will be really different from SimGrid3: modular,
825 standard and extensible vs. layered, homegrown and rigid. C++ vs. C.
827 Our goal is to smooth this transition, with backward compatibility
828 and automatic update paths, while still progressing toward SimGrid4.
830 SimGrid remains open during works: The last pure SimGrid3 release was
831 v3.12 while all subsequent versions are usable alpha versions of
832 SimGrid4: Existing interfaces remain unchanged, but the new S4U
833 interface is budding and the internals are deeply reorganized.
835 Since 2015, we work hard to reduce the changes to public APIs. When
836 we need to rename a public library symbol in S4U, we let your
837 compiler issue an explicative warning when you use the deprecated
838 function. These messages remain for four releases, i.e. for one full
839 year, before turning into an error. Starting with v3.15, your can
840 also adapt to API changes with the SIMGRID_VERSION macro, that is
841 defined to 31500 for v3.15, to 31901 for v3.19.1 and so on.
843 Starting with this v3.19.1, our commitment to reduce the changes to
844 the public interfaces is extended from the API to the ABI: a program
845 using only MSG or SimDag and compiled against a given version of
846 simgrid can probably be used with a later version of SimGrid without
847 recompilation. We will do our best... but don't expect too much of
848 it, that's a really difficult goal during such profund refactoring.
850 The difference between v3.19 and v3.19.1 is that the former was
851 accidentally breaking the ABI of MSG, while the later is restoring
854 S4U and kernel APIs will still evolve until SimGrid4, with one-year
855 deprecation warnings as currently. In fact, cleaning up these
856 interfaces and converting them to snake_case() is one release goal of
857 v3.20. But don't worry, we are working to smooth this upgrade path.
859 In summary, new projects should start with S4U to benefit of the
860 future, but old MSG projects should still be usable with no change.
862 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
864 SimGrid (3.19) Released March 20 2018
866 The Moscovitly-cold Spring release.
868 SMPI user-visible improvements:
869 - Support of MPI_Type_create_subarray
870 - Unimplemented MPI calls now abort (instead of issuing a warning)
871 Some harmless calls around errhandlers still only issue a warning.
872 - MPI_Sendrecv was behaving badly when MPI_PROC_NULL was sender or receiver.
873 - Starting MPI ranks (or even MSG/S4U actors) once the simulation started
874 is now possible (mmap privatization was refactored to this end).
875 Adding new SMPI instances should also be technically doable now.
877 SMPI internal cleanups:
878 - Removed index notion from SMPI -- no more "getPid() - 1"!
879 In tracing files, actors are called rank-<PROCESS-ID> but these are
880 NOT the real ranks (tracing several communicators is not supported yet).
881 - Deprecate smpi_process_index() (will be removed in 3.22)
882 - Better testing on classical proxy apps, through an external project:
883 https://github.com/simgrid/SMPI-proxy-apps/
886 - Use a graphical TOC to make it easier to find the documentation you need
887 - Revamp the MSG tutorial
890 - Fix MSG_task_get_remaining_work_ratio(): return 1.0 for unstarted tasks.
891 - Remove parameter of MSG_process_killall().
892 Resetting the PID was bogus anyway (several actors could have the same PID).
895 - Execution->setHost() can be called after start(), to migrate it.
896 - Comm::test_any() is now implemented.
897 - s4u::Actor now has onCreation() and onDestruction() signals.
898 - Install some kernel header files for the users' plugins and more.
899 Warning, their API is really not stable yet.
900 include/simgrid/kernel/resource/{Action,Resource,Model}.hpp
901 include/simgrid/kernel/routing/*Zone.hpp
904 - SD_task_dependency_add(): remove unused parameters 'name' and 'data'.
906 Build System and other cleanups:
907 - Remove unused run-time parameter "tracing/onelink-only".
908 - SimGrid now works with intel compilers (MC still buggy)
909 - Remove XBT_LOG_CONNECT, it should be useless nowadays.
910 - tesh kills subprocesses on timeout (but not on windows)
913 - Rename FULLDUPLEX into SPLITDUPLEX (old name still accepted)
916 - #194: Feature request: simgrid::s4u::Comm::test_any()
917 - #245: migrating an actor does not migrate its execution
918 - #253: Feature Request: expose clusters as objects
919 - #254: Something seems wrong with s4u::Actor::kill(aid_t)
920 - #255: Tesh broken on Windows
921 - #256: Modernize FindSimGrid.cmake
922 - #257: Fix (ab)use of CMake install
924 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
926 SimGrid (3.18) Released December 24 2017
928 The "Ho Ho Ho! SimGrid 4 beta is coming to town" release.
930 MSG IS NOW DEPRECATED. Please use S4U for new projects.
931 - Support for MSG should not be removed from SimGrid before 2020,
932 but future evolutions will be limited to the integration of
933 user-provided patches.
936 - s4u::onDeadlock() signal, run before stopping the simulation.
937 - s4u::Exec: asynchronous executions (abstraction of background
939 - s4u::Host->getLoad() returns the achieved speed in flops/s
942 - Link::name() is deprecated and will be removed in v3.21, use
943 Link::getCname() instead.
944 - Mailbox::getName() changed to return a std::string, use
945 Mailbox::getCname() instead to get a char*.
946 - Storage::getName() changed to return a std::string, use
947 Storage::getCname() instead to get a char*.
948 - s4u::allStorages() becomes s4u::getStorageList(whereTo)
949 to have both allocation and deallocation of the map in user space.
952 - Forbid the use of MSG_task_get_flops_amount() on parallel tasks:
953 The amount of flops remaining to do is a vector, not a scalar.
954 - Introduce MSG_task_get_remaining_work_ratio(), which does what its
955 name implies on both sequential and parallel tasks.
956 - Both changes fix GitHub's #223 using PR #237 as a basis.
957 Thanks Michael Mercier.
958 - Most examples were converted to S4U and hidden elsewhere at tests.
959 Rationale: we still want MSG to work; we want newcomers to use S4U.
962 - LMM stuff moved to its own namespace: simgrid::kernel::lmm.
963 - Renamed LMM classes (e.g. s_lmm_system_t -> System).
966 - Switch to the faster dlopen privatization mechanism by default
967 - Documentation improvments
970 - Live migration is getting moved to a plugin. Dirty page tracking is
971 the first part of this plugin. This imply that VM migration is now
972 only possible if one this function is called:
973 - C/MSG: MSG_vm_live_migration_plugin_init()
974 - C/C++: sg_vm_live_migration_plugin_init()
975 - Java: Msg.liveMigrationInit()
976 For C and C++, "simgrid/plugins/live_migration.h" also has to be
980 - Define class simgrid::xbt::Path to manage file names.
981 - Removed unused functions:
982 - xbt/file.h: xbt_basename(), xbt_dirname(), xbt_getline()
983 - xbt/graph.h: xbt_graph_edge_get_length(), xbt_graph_edge_set_length,
984 xbt_graph_export_graphviz()
985 - xbt/str.h: xbt_str_join()
986 - Remove unused datatypes:
987 - xbt/heap.h: use std::priority_queue or boost::heap instead
988 - xbt/swag.h: use boost::intrusive::list instead
991 - New link_energy plugin for the consumption of the links.
992 - All of the operations on files and storage contents have been
993 packaged into a plugin (src/plugins/file_system). The current
994 public interface can be found in
995 include/simgrid/plugins/file_system.h
996 To use these functions you now have to initialize the plugin by
997 calling MSG_storage_file_system_init() just after calling
998 MSG_init() or sg_storage_file_system_init() just after creating
1002 - Remove the undocumented/untested tag <include>
1005 - Remove viva specific tracing as the tool is no longer maintained
1008 - #248: Kill of finished processes leads to segfault
1009 - #240: xbt_cond_wait_timeout should gracefully return for C apps
1010 - #239: please implement signal s4u::onDeadlock()
1011 - #230: segfaults when exit() without run()
1012 - #225: s4u::Actor::kill() doesn not really kill victims in a join()
1013 - #223: MSG_task_get_flops_amount() not working with parallel tasks
1014 - #222: Actor::kill() doesn't really kill and segfaults
1015 - #221: odd LMM warning when killing an actor
1016 - #120: Memory leak when the processes are forcefully killed
1018 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1020 SimGrid (3.17) Released October 8 2017
1022 The Drained Leaks release: (almost) no known leaks despite the tests.
1024 Even very long simulations will preserve your memory: our testsuite
1025 stresses SimGrid for over 45mn on fast machines for a coverage of
1026 over 80%, and there is only one single known leak, of about 4kb.
1030 - Comm.detach(): start and forget about asynchronous emission. A cleanup
1031 handler may be given to free resources if the comm cannot be completed.
1032 - this_actor::send(mailbox) is now mailbox->put()
1033 - New: simgrid::s4u::Comm::wait_all()
1034 - New: Host.execute() for remote executions.
1037 - Unused option network/sender-gap is removed.
1040 - Deprecate MSG_task_isend_with_matching(): This unused feature
1041 really complicates our internals. Will be removed in v3.20.
1044 - Improved context termination. It is now possible to free resources, even
1045 when a process is forcibly killed.
1046 - ContextBoost: add support for Boost versions above 1.61.
1049 - Bring back run-time option --cfg=exception/cutpath to remove exception
1051 - Removed unused functions:
1052 - xbt/str.h: xbt_str_split_str(), xbt_str_subst(), xbt_str_ltrim(),
1053 xbt_str_rtrim(), xbt_str_trim().
1054 - xbt/xbt_os_thread.h: xbt_os_thread_cancel(), xbt_os_thread_detach().
1057 - Removed header files obsolete since SimGrid 3.12:
1058 msg/datatypes.h, msg/msg.h, simdag/datatypes.h, simdag/simdag.h.
1060 - #3: SD_exit should be made optional
1061 - #120: Memory leak when the processes are forcefully killed
1062 - #159: Threading test regression in Actor refcounting
1063 - #170: simgrid::s4u::Comm::wait_any() returns too many comms
1064 - #185: simgrid::s4u::Engine::instance()->shutdown() segfaults
1065 - #186: Actor::killAll() segfaults if some process is blocked on wait()
1066 - #191: VM migration and pstate
1067 - #192: Updating the energy consumptions of all hosts crashes with VMs
1068 - #195: All actors have PID=0 in the logs
1069 - #204: Sometimes segfault with thread contexts and mmap privatization
1070 - #222: Actor::kill() doesn't really kill and segfaults
1071 - #225: Actor::kill() doesn't really kill when victims are doing a join()
1073 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1075 SimGrid (3.16) Released June 22. 2017.
1077 The Blooming Spring Release: developments are budding.
1080 - FreeBSD: Disable SMPI mmap privatization, switch automatically to dlopen.
1081 - Mac, BSD: dlopen+thread broken, switch automatically to raw contexts.
1082 - Java JAR file should be finally fully working on Mac OSX too.
1084 XML platforms: Switch to platform v4.1 format.
1085 * This is (mainly) a backward compatible change: v4 are valid v4.1 files
1086 - <zone> can be used as a synonym for the now deprecated <as>
1087 - <zoneRoute> can be used as a synonym for the now deprecated <asroute>
1088 - <bypassZoneRoute> can be used as a synonym for the now deprecated <bypassAsRoute>
1089 - <actor> can be used as a synonym for the now deprecated <process>
1090 - state_file and avail_file periodicity is now easier to express
1091 (check the documentation) the old behavior should still work.
1092 * Storage: not backward compatible, but it seems that nobody ever used it
1093 - Remove attribute 'content_type' of <storage_type>: was never used
1094 - Make attribute 'model' of <storage_type> optional: for future usage
1095 - Remove Bconnection model property: was never (in)validated. Replaced by
1096 the maximum of the read and write bandwidth as a resource constraint.
1099 - New and Backwards Compatibility break:
1100 SD_simulate_with_update (double how_long, xbt_dynar_t changed_tasks_dynar)
1101 When one wants to get the list of tasks whose states have changed during a
1102 simulation round, s/he has to allocate and free a dynar and use it as
1103 argument to this function. The former SD_simulate (double how_long)
1107 - Allow multicore VMs, with the correct sharing (unless you overcommit)
1108 BUG: vCPU overcommitting still leads to buggy sharing, though. WIP.
1111 - New function to update the consumption of all hosts at once.
1112 - Fix the model for multi-core hosts, linear in the amount of busy
1113 cores with an abnormality for pIdle (see paper).
1114 BUG: Still not satisfactory for ptask on mono-cores.
1117 - The netzone are now available from the MSG API.
1118 The old names still work, but are now deprecated.
1121 - New algorithm to privatize globals: dlopen, with dynamic loading tricks
1122 - New option: smpi/keep-temps to not cleanup temp files
1123 - New option: smpi/shared-malloc-blocksize . Relevant only when global shared
1124 mallocs mode is used, allows to change the size of the fake file used
1125 (default 1MB), to potentially limit the number of mappings for large runs.
1126 - Support for sparse privatized malloc with SMPI_PARTIAL_SHARED_MALLOC()
1127 - Fortran ifort and flang compilers support
1128 - New RMA calls supported (experimental):
1129 - MPI_Win_allocate, MPI_Win_create_dynamic, MPI_Win_attach
1130 - MPI_Win_detach, MPI_Win_set_info, MPI_Win_get_info
1131 - MPI_Win_lock_all, MPI_Win_unlock_all, MPI_Win_flush
1132 - MPI_Win_flush_local, MPI_Win_flush_all, MPI_Win_flush_local_all
1133 - MPI_Op_commutative, MPI_Fetch_and_Op, MPI_Compare_and_swap
1134 - MPI_Rput, MPI_Rget, MPI_Raccumulate, MPI_Rget_accumulate
1137 - New: this_actor::isMaestro() returns whether we are in kernel mode.
1138 - Behind the scene, ActivityImpl are now automatically refcounted.
1139 Removing this nasty bottleneck will greatly simplify our internals.
1142 - Replay: New function xbt_replay_action_get():
1143 Retrieve the function previously associated to an event type.
1144 - DROPPED FUNCTION: xbt_str_varsubst()
1145 - DROPPED MODULE: strbuff. We don't need it anymore.
1146 - DROPPED MODULE: matrix. We don't need it anymore.
1147 - DROPPED MODULE: lib. We don't need it anymore.
1149 -- Thu Jun 22 22:48:12 CEST 2017 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1151 SimGrid (3.15) Released March 22. 2017
1153 The Spring Release: continuous integration servers become green
1154 We fixed even the transient bugs on all target architectures:
1155 Linux (CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora), Mac OSX (Mavericks, El Capitan)
1156 Windows, FreeBSD, NetBSD.
1158 - Rename NetCards to NetPoints.
1159 This was intended to help NS3 users, but that's not a netcard.
1160 That's a point in the routing algorithm, let's avoid wrong simplifications.
1163 - New: MSG_process_yield(). Stop and yield to other processes.
1164 - New: MSG_process_daemon(). Daemon processes are automatically killed
1165 when the last non-daemon process terminates
1166 - New: MSG_process_ref/unref(). Fiddle with the process refcounting.
1167 - Renamed MSG_energy_plugin_init() -> MSG_host_energy_plugin_init()
1168 to make room for the upcoming network energy plugin.
1169 - Drop MSG_host_get_current_power_peak: duplicates MSG_host_get_speed
1172 - Ensure that an actor can kill itself with Process::exit()
1173 - Kill the obscure NativeException. Nobody want to survive the issues
1174 it denotes, so use JniException that is a RuntimeException (not to
1175 be caught explicitly).
1176 - Partial bug fix in initialization. SimGrid flags on command line were
1177 consumed at C level but stayed in the original Java String[] args.
1178 This could mess users' args[i] if SG flags were not put at the end of
1180 The SimGrid flags are now removed from the Java arguments. However,
1181 the number of arguments REMAINS UNCHANGED. It is then UNSAFE to test
1182 if args.length is greater than the number of YOUR OWN ARGUMENTS.
1183 It might be if you have --log or --cfg flags in the command line.
1184 - Fix numerous memleaks all around the place. In particular, around VMs.
1188 - s4u::onPlatformCreated: right before the simulation starts
1189 - s4u::onSimulationEnd: right after the main simulation loop
1190 - s4u::onTimeAdvance: right after a clock change (time is discrete)
1191 - s4u::Host::onSpeedChange: when the pstate is changed, or when an
1192 event from the availability_file changes the avail speed.
1193 - Links are now usable from s4u
1194 - New: Engine::hostList() and Engine::hostCount(). Still clumsy.
1195 - New: Actor::suspend(), Actor::resume(), and Actor::migrate(new_host)
1196 - New examples: The conversion of MSG examples to S4U has begun
1197 - Actors: create, kill, migration, and suspend
1198 - Applications: master-worker and token-ring
1199 - Action replay: communications and storage
1200 - Drop Host::getPstateSpeedCurrent() which duplicates Host::speed()
1203 - Backwards Compatibility breaks
1204 - The SD_route_get_list and SD_route_get_size functions have been removed.
1205 They are replaced by the unique
1206 void sg_host_route(sg_host_t src, sg_host_t dst, xbt_dynar_t links)
1207 The route from src to dst is built in the links dynar whose size can
1208 be obtained with xbt_dynar_length.
1209 - The SD_route_bandwidth and SD_route_latency functions have been replaced by
1210 sg_host_route_bandwidth and sg_host_route_latency.
1211 Macros ensure the backwards compatibility, but you should fix your code
1214 - Major C++ rewrite ongoing (SMPI used to be C compiled in C++).
1215 This can break codes using SMPI internals (from private.h instead of the public smpi.h).
1216 - Bump our claim of support from MPI 1.1 to MPI 2.2.
1217 We don't support 100% of it, but it should be enough. Contact us if not.
1218 - MPI_Win_lock/unlock, MPI_Get_accumulate support added (as for all RMA, implementation is
1219 naive and probably inaccurate)
1220 - New algorithm for SMPI_SHARED_MALLOC: global, where all blocks are
1221 mapped onto a unique small file using some system magic.
1222 - Bugfix: smpirun was sometimes misusing hostfile when wrongly terminated
1223 - Fortran: cleanups, fixes, support of user-added operations
1224 - RMA: MPI_Accumulate are applied in correct order.
1225 - RMA: MPI_Win_{complete/post} shouldn't miss messages anymore.
1226 - Better support for MPI_IN_PLACE
1227 - Support for MPI_Win attrs and keyvals.
1228 - Support MPI_Comm_group_create, MPI_Type_size_x
1229 - MPI ops should be properly applied to all allowed types
1230 - Replace implementation of MPI_Bcast "scatter followed by rdb allgather"
1231 algorithm by a non failing one from mpich.
1234 - Kill the fifo data container: we don't use it anymore.
1237 - A <cluster> can now be created with different speed values to represent pstates.
1238 see examples/platforms/energy_cluster.xml for an example.
1240 SimGrid (3.14.159) Released December 28. 2016
1242 The previous release was only a crude approximation of a Pi release;
1243 this one should be a bit better.
1245 - Revert a last minute change that broke on Mac OSX.
1246 - Fix the changelog and NEWS files.
1247 - Improve the documentation, in particular of the routing module.
1248 - Integrate some patches flying around in Debian.
1250 SimGrid (3.14) Released December 24. 2016
1253 * The whole documentation was reworked and reorganized. There is
1254 still much room for improvement here, but we're on it.
1257 * We now need python3 for our testing infrastructure.
1258 * Model checking needs libevent
1261 * Now works on FreeBSD
1264 * Privatization now works on FreeBSD
1266 * Privatization is now activated by default in smpirun
1267 You can turn it off with -no-privatize if something goes wrong.
1269 * Call-location tracing for SMPI.
1270 You can add the exact location (filename / linenumber) of an MPI call to
1271 your trace files and slow down or speed up the simulation between two
1272 consecutive calls by using an adjustment file (see the documentation).
1274 * Fixed computation of timings for MPI_Send, MPI_Recv & possibly also others
1275 We've found a bug that prevented SMPI to account for MPI_Send, MPI_Recv
1276 and others (in some cases) in a correct way. That is, the smpi/os, smpi/or
1277 values were ignored in some cases. The timings of these functions can now
1278 be significantly different.
1280 * smpi/cpu-threshold:-1 should become smpi/simulate-computation:no
1281 smpi/running-power is renamed to smpi/host-speed
1283 * smpi/grow-injected-times option to enable or disable multiplication of the
1284 timings injected in MPI_Iprobe, or MPI_Test. Enabled by default, which can
1285 make simulation less precise (but also much faster).
1287 * smpirun script should be (much) faster for large deployments.
1289 * SMPI tracing: fixed issue with poor matching of send/receives.
1291 * Replay: Fix broken waitall
1293 New functions and features
1294 * MSG_parallel_task_execute_with_timeout, to timeout computations.
1296 Dropped / renamed functions and features
1297 * msg_mailbox_t and associated functions. Use s4u::Mailbox instead.
1298 - MSG_mailbox_is_empty() -> Mailbox::empty()
1299 - MSG_mailbox_front() -> Mailbox::front()
1300 - MSG_mailbox_get_by_alias() -> simgrid::s4u::Mailbox::byName(name)
1301 - MSG_mailbox_get_task_ext() -> MSG_task_receive_ext()
1302 - MSG_mailbox_get_task_ext_bounded -> MSG_task_receive_ext_bounded
1303 - MSG_host_(get/set)_params -> MSG_vm_(get/set)_params
1304 * Don't pass the free_f parameter to property related functions:
1305 - MSG_host_set_property_value()
1306 - MSG_as_router_set_property_value()
1307 - MSG_storage_set_property_value()
1308 * VM properties. Since msg_vm_t are msg_host_t, just use
1309 MSG_host_get_property_value() and friends
1310 * VM I/O related things:
1311 - Ignored parameter of vm_create: core_nb, disk_path and disk_size.
1312 - Unimplemented save/restore methods
1313 * MSG_as_router_get_property_value() was redundant with
1314 MSG_environment_as_get_property_value().
1315 - Removed MSG_as_router_*propert*() functions
1316 - Added MSG_environment_as_set_property_value() for consistency
1317 * xbt heterogeneous dictionaries (created with xbt_dict_new()).
1318 Well, they are still there for now, but deprecated with a warning.
1319 Please switch to xbt_dict_new_homogeneous() before this is removed
1321 * Task affinity. Its intended behavior (that was very badly tested
1322 and probably not really working) was deceiving what most users
1323 would have hoped here.
1324 * xbt_os_sem_get_value: unused internally, deprecated on OS X El Capitan
1325 * Option network/coordinates is now useless and should be dropped.
1328 * Added option storage/max_file_descriptors to allow more than 1024 files opened
1331 * Added option maxmin/concurrency_limit to allow more than 100 processes per host
1332 * Added Dragonfly topology support
1335 * Add Exa- and Peta- units such as EiB, EB, Eib, Eb for size, and
1336 EiBps, EBps, Eibps, Ebps for bandwidth.
1337 They may become useful to some lucky ones.
1340 * New functions: msg.Comm.waitAll() and msg.Comm.waitAny()
1341 * ex/app_tokenring: new example, very similar to the MSG Token Ring
1342 * ex/async_waitAll: new example, on asynchronous communications
1345 * Memory usage should be decreased for simulations with a large number
1346 of processes. This also helps for SMPI.
1348 SimGrid (3.13) stable; urgency=low
1350 The Half Release, a.k.a. the Zealous Easter Trim.
1352 - We removed half of the lines, that were mostly experimental cruft.
1353 v3.12 lasted 286000 lines of code, v3.13 is only 142000 lines
1354 (not counting blanks and comments -- according to openhub.net)
1355 - The internals are now compiled in C++ (and will soon be clean C++)
1356 - We removed 75 klines of XML, 12 klines of Java, 5 klines of cmake,
1357 59 klines of C, etc. We added only 29 klines of C++ in replacement.
1359 * Backwards Compatibility breaks
1360 - Removed Lua simulation bindings (switch to C or Java for that).
1361 Lua can still be used to describe platforms
1362 - Removed Java kernel plug-ins.
1363 Will be reintroduced after the ongoing major internals reorg.
1365 - the following functions were removed.
1366 They were too specific and should be reimplemented in a generic
1367 way, with filter function.
1368 - MSG_task_listen_from_host
1369 - MSG_mailbox_get_count_host_waiting_tasks
1370 - MSG_mailbox_put_with_timeout was removed.
1371 Please use MSG_task_send_with_timeout instead.
1373 - the SD_application_reinit function was removed. It has been a noop for a while.
1374 - The ACCESS_MODE of SD_workstation has been removed. This feature was not really usable and should soon be
1375 replaced by a more flexible mechanism.
1376 - The following functions thus do not exist anymore
1377 - SD_workstation_get_access_mode
1378 - SD_workstation_set_access_mode
1379 - SD_workstation_get_current_task
1380 - Basic estimation functions have been removed but can easily be replaced
1381 - SD_route_get_communication_time => SG_route_get_latency() + amount / SD_route_get_bandwidth()
1382 - SD_workstation_get_computation_time => amount / sg_host_speed()
1384 - VM.setBound(int load) is now VM.setBound(double bound) to meet the MSG semantics.
1385 Use VM.getSpeed()*load/100 for the legacy behavior.
1387 - option enable_tracing was removed. It was not doing anything for a while.
1388 - In the ModelChecker:
1389 - the model-checker now ptraces the model-checked process which means
1390 you cannot use a debugger on the latter anymore (we might make this
1391 optional in the feature);
1392 - removed soft-dirty page tracking;
1393 - remove model-checked side snapshot management,
1394 MC_snapshot() and MC_compare_snapshot();
1395 - keep the MC_cut() function as a stub (it was not really working
1396 in the previous release).
1399 * All options are consistently in kebab-case. Old names are kept as alias.
1402 * Switch to platform v4 format.
1403 - Rename from 'power' to 'speed' the attributes describing the amount of
1404 flops that a <host>, <peer>, <cluster> or <cabinet> can deliver per second.
1405 - In <trace_connect>, attribute kind="POWER" is now kind="SPEED".
1406 - In <host> and <link>, attributes availability and state are gone.
1407 It was redundant with state and availability traces, and with peak values.
1408 - In <cluster>, attributes availability_file and state_file are gone.
1409 It was too complex and unused.
1410 - Kill <gpu>. Was not doing anything.
1411 - The DOCTYPE points to the right URL:
1412 http://simgrid.gforge.inria.fr/simgrid/simgrid.dtd
1413 (the file at this address now documents the changelog since its v1)
1414 - A warning is emitted for unit-less values (they are still accepted).
1415 - speed. Default: 'f' or 'flops'. Also defined:
1416 'Yf', 'Zf', 'Ef', 'Pf', 'Tf', 'Gf', 'Mf', 'kf'
1417 'yottaflops', 'zettaflops', 'exaflops', 'petaflops', 'teraflops', 'gigaflops', 'megaflops', 'kiloflops'
1418 - bandwidth. Default: 'Bps' bytes per second (or 'bps' for bits but 1 Bps = 8 bps)
1419 Also defined in bytes: 'TiBps', 'GiBps', 'MiBps', 'KiBps', 'TBps', 'GBps', 'MBps', 'kBps', 'Bps'
1420 And the same in bits: 'Tibps', 'Gibps', 'Mibps', 'Kibps', 'Tbps', 'Gbps', 'Mbps', 'kbps', 'bps'
1421 - latency. Default: 's' second. Also defined:
1422 'w' week, 'd' day, 'h' hour, 'm' minute, 'ms' millisecond, 'us' microsecond, 'ns' nanosecond, 'ps' picosecond
1424 * bin/simgrid_update_xml can upgrade your files automatically (won't convert unit-less values)
1425 tools/sg_xml_unit_converter.py may help (but it's just a warning and will probably ever be).
1428 * s4u::Host is now the preferred public interface to the Host features.
1429 sg_host_* functions are C bindings to the exact same behavior
1430 MSG_host_* and SD_workstation_* are #define to the sg_host_* ones
1433 * The examples were completely reorganized (in C and Java), for your browsing pleasure.
1434 * Kill all deprecated functions (the ones you had when declaring MSG_DEPRECATED).
1435 They were deprecated since a few years, and probably did not even compile anymore.
1438 * The API has been profoundly modified to directly use the core objects instead of redefining its own.
1439 SD_Workstation_t and SD_link_t are now sg_host_t and sg_link_t respectively.
1440 Some functions have also been renamed for consistency. Backward compatibility is maintained, but users are
1441 encouraged to update their codes. A list of the modified functions can be found at the end of
1442 include/simgrid/simdag.h
1445 * simgrid::simix::kernelImmediate() is the closure callback. It ensures that
1446 the lambda or closure passed as a parameter will run in kernel mode.
1447 All the callback functions should be rewritten to that interface at some point.
1450 * Reorganizing and cleaning the internals all around the place.
1453 * Remove old default barrier/bcast buggy algorithms (see #18407)
1454 * Various bug fixes to handle more codes
1455 * Remove the need for the --foreground option of smpirun (it is still
1456 accepted for backward compatibility).
1459 * Kill the setset data container: MC don't use it anymore.
1460 * Kill the queue data container: it made more sense with GRAS.
1461 * Kill the xbt_peer_t data type: it's useless without GRAS.
1462 * Kill rm_cb feature of config sets: it was never useful.
1463 * Kill graphxml parsing feature. It was not used.
1464 * Kill the deprecated code protected by XBT_USE_DEPRECATED
1466 - xbt_dynar_sort_strings(), when the content is char*
1467 - xbt_str_parse_int / xbt_str_parse_double, wrapping strtol/strtod
1468 They throw exceptions on invalid input;
1469 * C++ support for declaring CLI flags (simgrid::config::Flag);
1470 * class for abstracting different signal backends (simgrid::xbt::signal).
1471 with no external dependencies (we need very simple signals).
1474 * refactoring and cleanup of the code;
1475 * ongoing process to cleanly separate the model-checking algorithms
1476 from the code model-checking support.
1478 -- Wed Apr 27 21:00:53 CEST 2016 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1480 SimGrid (3.12) stable; urgency=low
1482 The Facelift Release.
1485 * Require g++ v4.7 at least to not speak prehistorical C++.
1486 * Require Boost 1.48 (for signal2 component).
1487 * Java must be version 7 at least when activated.
1488 * Builds on Windows again (including Java bindings).
1489 * Tracing is now always enabled (no way to turn it out)
1490 * Remove GTNetS. It was not working anyway.
1491 * Various cleanups in the cmake scripts.
1492 * Move headers around to sort them out on installed systems:
1493 - instr/instr.h -> simgrid/instr.h
1494 - instr/jedule/* -> simgrid/jedule
1495 - simdag/datatypes.h was removed
1496 - simdag/simdag.h -> simgrid/simdag.h
1497 - msg/datatypes.h was removed
1498 - msg/msg.h -> simgrid/msg.h
1501 * Interface improvement:
1502 - Rename MSG_host_is_avail(h) to MSG_host_is_on(h)
1503 - Sanitize the interface in MSG_task_ module:
1504 - Merge two functions that were close enough but misleading:
1505 set_compute_duration(t) -> set_flops_amount(t)
1506 get_remaining_computation(t) -> get_flops_amount(t)
1507 - set_data_size(t) -> set_bytes_amount(t)
1508 get_data_size(t) -> get_bytes_amount(t)
1509 - Massive cleanups in the functions related to the energy
1510 - MSG_host_get_pstate_number() -> MSG_host_get_nb_pstates()
1511 - New: MSG_host_get_pstate()
1513 - msg/energy/onoff: switching hosts on and off
1515 * Interface improvement:
1516 - Rename Host.isAvail() to Host.isOn()
1517 - Rename Process.currentProcess() to Process.getCurrentProcess()
1518 - Rename Task.setDataSize() to Task.setBytesAmount()
1519 - Merge Task.getRemainingDuration() and Task.getComputeDuration() into Task.getFlopsAmount()
1521 - #18874: Actually allows the GC to reclaim tasks
1525 - SIMIX_process_throw: raises an exception in a remote process
1526 * Refactoring: Separate sub-modules
1527 - libsmx: the public interface, as libc in a real system
1528 - popping: the strange dance that converts a user request into a kernel handling
1529 - smx_context_*: the virtualization mechanisms that embed the user code
1530 - smx_*: the handling of each simcalls
1531 * Interface cleanup:
1532 - simcall_host_set_power_peak_at -> simcall_host_set_pstate
1533 * Rename smx_action_t into smx_synchro_t, making explicit that these
1534 things are used to synchronize processes with their environment.
1535 For example, a communication is a sort of synchronization involving
1536 the communicating processes (that may block until the exchange) and
1537 the platform. The same can be said from computations, etc.
1539 - #18888: segfault when a process ends before its kill_time
1543 - Onesided early support for: MPI_Win_(create, free, fence, get_name, set_name, get_group), MPI_Get, MPI_Put, MPI_Accumulate, MPI_Alloc_mem, MPI_Free_mem.
1544 - MPI_Keyval*, MPI_Attr* functions, as well as MPI_Comm_attr*, MPI_Type_attr* variants (C only, no Fortran support yet)
1545 - MPI_Type_set_name, MPI_Type_get_name
1546 - MPI_*_c2f and MPI_*_f2c functions
1547 - MPI_Info_* functions (beware, get_nthkey may not follow the insertion order)
1548 - MPI_Pack, MPI_Unpack and MPI_Pack_size functions
1549 - Activate a lot of new tests from the mpich 3 testsuite
1551 - Constant times can be injected inside MPI_Wtime and MPI_Test through options smpi/wtime and smpi/test
1552 - InfiniBand network model added: Based on the works of Jerome Vienne
1553 http://mescal.imag.fr/membres/jean-marc.vincent/index.html/PhD/Vienne.pdf
1554 - When smpi/display_timing is set, also display global simulation time and application times
1555 - Have smpirun, smpicc and friends display the simgrid git hash version on --git-version
1556 * Collective communications
1557 - SMP-aware algorithms are now dynamically handled. An internal communicator is created for each node, and an external one to handle communications between "leaders" of each node
1558 - MVAPICH2 (1.9) collective algorithms selector: normal and SMP algorithms are handled, and selection logic is based on the one used on TACC's Stampede cluster (https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/stampede/).
1559 - Support for Rabenseifner Reduce/Allreduce algorithms (https://fs.hlrs.de/projects/par/mpi//myreduce.html)
1561 - Replay now uses algorithms from wanted collective selector
1562 - Replay can be used with SMP-aware algorithms
1563 - Memory occupation of replay should now be contained (temporary buffers allocated in collective algorithms should be shared between processes)
1564 - Replay can now replay several traces at the same time (check examples/smpi/replay_multiple example), to simulate interactions between several applications on a given platform. User can specify the start time of each instance. This should also allow replay + actual applications to run.
1566 - [#17799]: have mpi_group_range_incl and mpi_group_range_excl better test some corner cases
1567 - Correctly use loopback on fat-tree clusters
1568 - Asynchronous small messages shouldn't trigger deadlocks anymore
1569 * Energy/DVFS cleanup and improvement
1570 - smpi_set_host_power_peak_at() -> smpi_set_host_pstate()
1571 - new: smpi_get_host_pstate()
1574 - "Full" network optimization flag was broken since Surf++
1575 - Better handling of precision flags in maxmin
1576 - Fix bug causing sometimes "Impossible" errors
1577 - Properly pass cluster properties to included hosts
1578 * Improvement of the Energy plugin.
1579 - Always update the consumption before returning that value
1580 - New property: watt_off to denote the dissipation when the host is off
1581 - New functions getWattMinAt and getWattMaxAt to retrieve the
1582 dissipation of pstates that we are not currently at.
1583 * Java: class NetworkLink renamed to Link
1584 * New function: simcall_process_get_kill_time()
1585 * Massive rename s/workstation/host/
1586 - That's intrusive, but that's good for the project consistency. Sorry.
1587 - Change config option "workstation/model" into "host/model"
1590 - Add a xbt_heap_update function, to avoid costly xbt_heap_remove+xbt_heap_insert use
1591 - Add a xbt wrapper for simcall_mutex_trylock (asked in [#17878])
1592 - Add two new log appenders: rollfile and splitfile. Patch by Fabien Chaix.
1593 - xbt_dirname and xbt_basename for non-POSIX systems
1595 * The model checker now runs as a separate process.
1596 * The model checker runs must now be launched with the new simgrid-mc program.
1597 * Record/Replay: the MC can display a textual representation of a path in the
1598 execution graph. It can then be replayed outside of the model checker.
1600 -- Mon Oct 12 06:02:41 CEST 2015 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1602 SimGrid (3.11) stable; urgency=low
1607 * Normalizing pointers addresses tool for better diff between logs
1610 * Add cloud examples using new VMs
1611 - examples/msg/cloud/two_tasks_vm.tesh
1612 - examples/msg/cloud/simple_vm.tesh
1613 - examples/java/cloud/cloud.tesh
1614 - examples/java/cloud/migration/migration.tesh
1615 * Add java surf examples:
1616 - examples/java/surfPlugin/surf_plugin.tesh
1617 - examples/java/reservationSurfPlugin/reservation_surf_plugin.tes
1618 - examples/java/surfCpuModel/surf_cpu_model.tesh
1619 * Add SMPI+MSG example:
1620 - examples/smpi/smpi_msg_masterslave/
1625 - msg task destroy cancel test
1626 - msg_host on/off test
1627 * Move all tests in testsuite to teshsuite (adding tesh files)
1628 * Restructure teshsuites
1629 - one folder for each kind of test
1630 * Restructure AddTests.cmake
1632 - structure the order of tests (with sections)
1635 * Add virtual machine
1636 - creation of a VM on a PM
1637 - migration of a VM from a PM to another PM
1639 - MSG_process_join(msg_process_t process, double timeout)
1640 - msg_bar_t MSG_barrier_init(unsigned int count)
1641 - int MSG_barrier_wait(msg_bar_t barrier)
1642 - void MSG_barrier_destroy(msg_bar_t barrier)
1643 - msg_as_t MSG_environment_as_get_by_name(const char * name)
1644 * New option "msg/debug_multiple_use" to help debugging when a task is used
1647 - Improvements and finalization of MSG_storage, MSG_file APIs and their
1649 - Increase code coverage in test suites
1653 * Protect context stacks against stack overflow. The number of protected memory
1654 pages allocated on the top of each stack (1 by default) can be configured
1655 with the new command line option --cfg=contexts/guard_size:<value>.
1656 * Simcalls are now generated by a python script that
1657 - generates files included by SimGrid
1658 - checks that all the functions exist, and proposes prototypes
1660 - remove sem_destroy, file_set_data, comm_destroy, vm_set_state,
1661 host_set_data, host_get_data
1663 - simcall_process_join(smx_process_t process, double timeout)
1664 * Fix bug where sleeping processing could not be suspended.
1667 * Translate surf models from C to C++
1668 - Generic classes for all models: Model, Resource, Action
1669 - A generic interface for each kind of model (CPU, Network, Storage
1670 Workstation, WorkstationVM)
1672 * Translate surf routings from C to C++
1673 * Add callbacks using sigc++ or boost::signals2
1674 - Add callback functions for resource creation/destruction
1675 - Add callback functions for action state change
1676 - Handle Energy as a plugin
1677 * Replace swag by boost::intrusive
1678 * Add new routing models for clusters. For documentation, see
1679 http://simgrid.gforge.inria.fr/simgrid/latest/doc/platform.html#pf_cluster
1680 - tori, with topology="TORUS" and topo_parameters="ndim1,ndim2,...,ndimn"
1681 parameters for cluster tag
1682 - Fat trees, with topology="FAT_TREE" and
1683 topo_parameters="h;m1,...,mh;w1,...,wh;p1,...,ph" parameters for cluster tag
1684 - see examples/platforms/torus_cluster.xml and
1685 examples/platforms/fat_tree_cluster.xml
1686 * More documentation
1689 * Hostfiles support host:nb_processes construct to deploy several processes on
1691 * Collective communication algorithms should not crash if used with
1692 improper number of nodes and report the error.
1693 * SMPI now partially supports MPI_Topologies: MPI_Cart_create, MPI_Cart_shift,
1694 MPI_Cart_rank, MPI_Cart_get, MPI_Cart_coords, MPI_Cartdim_get,
1695 MPI_Dims_create, MPI_Cart_sub are supported.
1696 * New interface to use SMPI programmatically (still depends on MSG for
1697 some parts, see examples/smpi/smpi_msg_masterslave):
1698 - SMPI_app_instance_register(const char *name, xbt_main_func_t code,
1702 * Global variables privatization in MPI executables is now performed at runtime
1703 with the option smpi/privatize_global_variables (default:no).
1704 Limitations: Linux/BSD only, with mmap enabled. Global variables inside
1705 dynamic libraries loaded by the application are not privatized (static
1706 linking with these libraries is advised in this case)
1709 * Options defined in XML work correctly now.
1712 * New cmake option, enable_lib_in_jar, to control whether native libraries are
1713 copied into simgrid.jar or not (ON by default). Use this option if you want
1714 to reduce the size of the installed simgrid.jar, *and* the native libraries
1715 are kept installed elsewhere.
1716 * Surf binding with SWIG (code generated in maintainer mode only):
1717 - plugin to handle callbacks
1718 - CPU model only for the moment
1721 * Supernovae build mode is definitively removed. It was used to improve
1722 inlining and inter-module optimizations. It is nowadays superseded by
1723 link-time optimizations commonly available in compilers.
1724 * Update ns-3 find lib. Bindings for ns-3 should work again now.
1725 * Add boost dependency for surf++
1726 * Add new macro for tests
1727 - ADD_TESH(name <tesh_args>)
1728 - ADD_TESH_FACTORIES(name "thread;ucontext;raw" <tesh_args>)
1732 - xbt_bar_t XBT_barrier_init(unsigned int count)
1733 - int XBT_barrier_wait(xbt_bar_t barrier)
1734 - void XBT_barrier_destroy(xbt_bar_t barrier)
1735 * Make the xbt_os_time module public
1737 -- Sat May 31 22:39:38 CEST 2014 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1739 SimGrid (3.10) stable; urgency=low
1741 The Clean Diaper Release, a.k.a. SimGrid is leak-free.
1744 * Reintegrate Java to the main archive as desynchronizing these
1745 package is not acceptable anymore (Java is now considered stable)
1746 * Add explicit synchronization facilities through semaphores
1747 * Bug fix: Task.setDataSize() only changed the C world, not the value
1748 cached in the Java world
1751 * Dramatically change the way files are handled. API and internals changed, but
1752 this part of MSG was not considered as production grade either.
1753 * Add explicit synchronization facilities through semaphores
1754 * Add a new function MSG_host_get_process_list()
1755 * Preliminary DVFS support (see examples/msg/energy/ for details)
1758 * SMPI is now included directly in the libsimgrid as the windows
1759 linker doesn't force us on splitting it anymore.
1760 * Improvements of the SMPI replay tool:
1761 - Most of the collective communications are now rooted in the same process as
1762 in the original application.
1763 - Traces now rely on the same MPI data type as the application (MPI_BYTE was
1764 used until now). Multiple data types can now be used in a trace.
1765 - The replay tool now supports traces produce either by TAU or a modified
1767 - Bug Fix: the compute part of the reduce action is now taken into account.
1768 - Gatherv collective is now supported
1769 - SimGrid (SMPI for now) can generate replay traces as well. Option -trace-ti
1770 of smpirun outputs time independent traces for the current run. One file
1771 is created per process. If too many processes are simulated, this behavior
1772 can be changed to one file for all processes by using the
1773 tracing/smpi/format/ti_one_file flag
1774 * smpirun generates the host file if needed (with given host count and platform)
1775 * Integration of more than 100 STAR-MPI, MPICH, OpenMPI collective algorithms
1776 - allows to select one in particular with --cfg=smpi/coll_name:algorithm
1777 - allows to use the decision logic of OpenMPI(1.7) or MPICH(3.0.4) by setting
1778 --cfg=smpi/coll_selector:(mpich/ompi)
1779 * Support for new functions: MPI_Issend, MPI_Ssend, Commutative operations in
1781 * Add a --cfg:tracing/smpi/internals option, to trace internal communications
1782 happening inside a collective SMPI call.
1783 * Fix the behavior of complex data types handling.
1784 * Make MPI_Wtime another synchronization point to take computations into
1786 * Replace MPICH-1 test suite by the one from MPICH 3.0.4. Can be built using
1787 enable_smpi_MPICH3_testsuite flag in cmake. Run with ctest.
1788 * Add all missing Fortran bindings, SMPI should work with Fortran 90
1789 (no privatization of global variables yet)
1790 * Preliminary DVFS support (see examples/smpi/energy/ for details)
1793 * Verification of liveness properties is now available for SMPI applications
1794 (in addition to MSG applications)
1795 * Bugged examples using SMPI in examples/smpi/mc/
1796 * Add --cfg=model-check/visited option. Allows the verification of infinite
1797 programs. Detection of loops in the execution thanks to the system state
1798 comparison and reduction of the state space to explore. Can be combined with
1799 DPOR for safety properties.
1802 * Allow to change SimGrid configuration (see --help) within the code
1803 thanks to SD_config() as it can be done in MSG.
1804 * Add a new function SD_task_set_amount() upon user request.
1807 * Handle units for values (10ms, 10kiloflops, 10Bps, 1GB, ...)
1808 * Remove rule based routing (no more PCRE dependency)
1809 * Add a limiter_link option to cluster tag, to specify a maximum reachable
1810 bandwidth in fullduplex mode when it is less than twice the nominal bandwidth.
1811 * Add a loopback_bw and loopback_lat options to cluster tag.
1812 * Fix the peer tag that could not be mixed with other AS within a Vivaldi
1813 routing. Now peers are encapsulated in an AS and have their own private
1814 router but this is transparent.
1817 * Our own implementation of getline is renamed xbt_getline, and gets
1818 used even if the OS provide a getline(). This should reduce the
1819 configuration complexity by using the same code on all platforms.
1820 * New type: xbt_cfg_elm_boolean.
1821 * Allow to use yes/no for boolean configuration options in the command line.
1822 * Allow to disable SimGrid cleanups at exit from command line option.
1823 There are situations where one may want a simulation to end with an exit.
1824 Unfortunately, calling exit may cause SimGrid to segfault, which is quite
1825 annoying when scripting around the simulator. Adding a
1826 --cfg=clean_atexit:no allows to circumvent this issue.
1829 * Lots of memory leaks were corrected in this release.
1830 There is no known memory leaks anymore, in all of our 600+ tests.
1831 * New command line option --version, to get SimGrid version information.
1832 Packagers may want to add extra words to SIMGRID_VERSION_EXTRA defined in
1834 * Supernovae builds are deprecated, and expected to be removed in the next
1837 -- Sun Nov 17 00:26:44 CET 2013 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1839 SimGrid (3.9) stable; urgency=low
1841 The Grasgory release: GRAS is really dead now.
1843 * Complete overhaul of the internal host structures scheme.
1846 * If you use GRAS, you should stay at SimGrid 3.5 (at most) since it
1847 was considered as experimental and badly maintained since then.
1848 * Keeping it was thus a trap to our potential users, that could take
1849 it instead of MSG or SMPI by mistake despite is pity state.
1850 * GRAS seems to have very few users (if any), and no one volunteered
1851 to maintain it further. It also induces a lot of XBT code (for
1852 portability sake), that must be maintained too.
1853 * For all these reasons, we killed GRAS. If someone wants to revive it
1854 in the future, don't cry, our git history still remembers of GRAS.
1857 * Major overhaul. Merge our documentation again as time proved that
1858 splitting it was really not helping our users.
1859 * Further improve the developer documentation to help newcomers
1860 hacking on SimGrid itself. The user documentation (and in
1861 particular, the beginner documentation) is still in a sorry state.
1864 * Now works on Windows too!
1865 * Much more extensive test suite, from MPICH
1868 * Add a new loader (SD_PTG_dotload) that creates a parallel task graph
1869 (i.e., a DAG whose nodes are parallel tasks) from a dot file. Creates a
1870 dynar of SD_TASK_COMP_PAR_AMDAHL and SD_TASK_COMM_MXN_1D_BLOCK tasks.
1871 * Bug fix: let task be scheduled when the last dependency to be solved is
1872 a control dependency.
1873 * Remove SD_load_environment_script function.
1874 Use the C sg_platf function if you want to declare a platform
1878 * New function: MSG_process_get_number()
1879 * Old function documented: MSG_config()
1880 * Remove MSG_load_platform_script function
1881 Use the C sg_platf function if you want to declare a platform
1885 * Change the default value of the TCP_gamma constant (maximal size of TCP
1886 congestion window) to a more realistic 4MiB value. If you notice changes in
1887 your simulation results, you can fall back to the previous 20k tiny window
1888 by adding --cfg=network/TCP_gamma:20000 on command line.
1889 * (Hopefully) fix a bug wrt periodic availability and state traces
1890 * Bug fix: use default values at start when first event in availability/state
1891 trace is not at time 0.
1894 * remove the "new_" part of function name sg_platf_new_trace_connect
1895 (resulting in sg_platf_trace_connect), since it does not create
1899 * Kill synchronized dynars, and xbt_dynar_dopar(). We cannot think of a
1900 use case where it's really mandatory, and maintaining it was a pain in
1902 * New: xbt_fifo_search(), search an item with a user-provided
1903 comparison function instead of dumb pointer comparison.
1906 * Fix the lua deployment:
1907 Use `simgrid.init_application()` before deployment instead of
1908 `simgrid.msg_register_application()` after.
1911 * Transfer the tracing files into the corresponding modules.
1913 -- Tue Feb 5 11:31:43 CET 2013 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1915 SimGrid (3.8.1) stable; urgency=low
1917 The "we are told that some people want to also *install* the simgrid
1920 * Add missing file "tesh.1" to the archive.
1922 -- Sat Oct 27 16:12:11 CEST 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1924 SimGrid (3.8) stable; urgency=low
1926 The Psssshiiiit release: SimGrid jumps into the Cloud.
1929 * Add an experimental interface to manipulate VMs. They are mainly
1930 process groups with very few intrinsic semantic, but they should
1931 allow you to build the semantic you want easily.
1932 * New function: MSG_host_set_property_value()
1933 * New function: MSG_process_on_exit(). To clean memory in all cases.
1934 * Bug fixes that made the host (and link) failures unusable.
1935 * Add a way to auto-restart process when the host in which they are
1936 executing comes back (ON_FAILURE="RESTART" on deployment file,
1937 MSG_process_auto_restart_set).
1938 * Use the "msg_" prefix for all datatypes (instead of m_, msg_ and MSG_),
1939 please stop using the old ones, they are DEPRECATED.
1941 * Deprecate functions MSG_global_init() / MSG_global_init_args()
1942 Please use MSG_init() instead. (reducing the amount of entry
1943 points in the library helps us).
1944 * Make it impossible to link against the wrong version of the lib
1945 * Deprecate MSG_clean(). No need to call it anymore.
1946 * Function MSG_get_host_number() is not deprecated anymore.
1949 * Split the doc into a user guide and a reference guide.
1950 * Start a developper guide to help people hacking on SimGrid.
1953 * Enable tracing by default. This modules rocks you should use it.
1954 * Remove option custom_flags. Now use environment variables CFLAGS
1956 * Use default cmake things to detect lua instead of home grown ones.
1957 * New option "enable_mallocators" to disable mallocators, for debugging
1958 purpose ("on" by default).
1961 * Bug fixes around the resource failures: don't let the processes
1962 survive the host they are running onto.
1963 * Add an interface to auto-restart processes when the host in which they are
1964 executing comes back.
1965 * Ensures that SIMIX_clean is called automatically. It's not part of
1966 the public interface anymore (bindings should be updated).
1969 * Bug fix for when SD_Simulate is called with a positive value: be careful
1970 when comparing doubles. Sometimes they are different for non significant
1972 * New types of typed tasks. SD_TASK_COMP_PAR_AMDAHL represents a
1973 parallel task whose initial work is distributed among host according
1974 to the Amdahl's law. Such tasks are created with a parameter alpha
1975 that corresponds to the non-parallelizable part of the computation.
1976 SD_TASK_COMM_PAR_MXN_1D_BLOCK represents a complex data redistribution
1977 between two sets of workstations assuming a 1D block distribution (each
1978 workstation owns a similar share of data) on both sides.
1980 These tasks can be scheduled with SD_task_schedulel or SD_task_schedulev.
1981 Data redistribution will be automatically scheduled once parent and child
1982 are both scheduled. The filling of computation_amount and
1983 communication_amount structures is now done seamlessly thanks to the chosen
1985 * New function SD_workstation_dump to display various information
1986 * New function SD_task_set_rate to throttle the bandwidth allowed to be used
1987 by a SD_TASK_COMM_E2E typed task. This rate depends on both the nominal
1988 bandwidth on the route onto which the task is scheduled and the amount of
1990 To divide the nominal bandwidth by 2, the rate then has to be:
1991 rate = bandwidth/(2*amount)
1992 * Compute tasks that have failed can now be rescheduled and executed again
1993 (from their beginning)
1994 * Increasing source code coverage (src/simdag is now covered at 95.8%
1998 * Re-implement time-independent trace replay using SMPI (at the
1999 smpi_smp_* level) instead of MSG. This should replace
2000 examples/msg/actions/actions.c
2001 * Implement support of MPI Datatypes (vectors, hvectors, indexed,
2002 hindexed and structs)
2003 * Implement the exchange of non-contiguous data.
2004 [Khalid Hasanov & Jean-Noel Quintin] Thanks for the patch, guys.
2005 * Correct behavior of smpi/sender_gap and set its default value to 0
2006 * Add option to asynchronously send small messages to allow better
2007 simulation of pt2pt communications. --cfg=smpi/async_small_threshold:value
2008 specifies the size in bytes under which messages will be asynchronously sent.
2009 * Add support of MPI_Iprobe, MPI_Probe, MPI_Testall, MPI_Wtick functions
2010 * SMPI now handles more MPI specific values in input. Closes [#14389] and [#14388]
2013 * New C interface to define a platform: XML is now optional.
2014 For more info, please check include/simgrid/platf.h.
2015 * New interface to define random platforms from the C:
2016 For more info, please check include/simgrid/platf_generator.h and
2017 examples/msg/masterslave/masterslave_platfgen.c
2018 * Export a sg_cmdline dynar containing all the arguments we got from
2022 * Two new tracing options for adding comments to trace file so you
2023 can track your experiments (see --help-tracing for details).
2024 * New option to generate an impoverished trace file (--cfg=tracing/basic:1)
2025 * Adding the SimGrid version that generated the trace file as a comment.
2026 * Instrumenting other MSG functions (MSG_task_isend_with_matching and MSG_task_dsend)
2027 * Fix to avoid key clashes on Paje links
2028 * Other minor fixes related to the Paje specification
2031 * Functions xbt_dict_hash() and xbt_dict_hash_ext() are made public,
2032 and renamed to xbt_str_hash() and xbt_str_hash_ext().
2033 * New function: xbt_os_timer_resume() to restart a timer w/o resetting it.
2034 * Greatly improve the robustness of mmalloc to user errors (such as
2035 using an area after freeing it, or freeing it twice)
2037 -- Thu Oct 25 17:30:06 CEST 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2039 SimGrid-java (3.8.1) stable; urgency=low
2041 * New module: org.simgrid.trace.Trace (SimGrid trace bindings)
2042 Warning: all methods are visible, but only some of them are
2043 implemented so far. Check the source (src/jtrace.c)
2044 for further information.
2045 * New module: org.simgrid.msg.File (SimGrid File management functions)
2046 * New Module: org.simgrid.msg.VM (SimGrid interface to mimick IAAS clouds)
2047 * Change the meaning of Process.restart: now restart the process from
2048 the beginning, like MSG_process_restart in C.
2049 * Add Process.setAutoRestart: handling of process restart when failed
2051 * Add Process.getProperty, Host.getProperty, Host.getProperty: allows
2052 you to retrieve the properties of the processes/hosts
2053 * Deprecate Msg.clean(): you can just forget about it now.
2054 * New function Process.getCount(), that only works when compiling
2055 with the not yet released version 3.9 of the C library.
2057 * New context factory based on Coroutines. It mandates a modified JVM
2058 but then, the simulations run about five times faster, and there is
2059 no limit to the amount of processes (beside of the available memory).
2061 -- 2012-12-04 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2063 SimGrid (3.7.1) stable; urgency=low
2066 * Restore the prototype of MSG_process_create_with_environment() to
2067 the pre-3.7 situation by removing the kill_time argument.
2068 * Add a MSG_process_set_kill_time() function instead.
2071 * Fix weird behaviors when dealing with parallel tasks.
2074 * Simgrid is now built as a dll.
2075 * Simgrid-java now works on Windows.
2076 * Simgrid-Java is now included into Windows package.
2079 * First pre-build package for MacOSX.
2082 * Fix compilation when using MSG_USE_DEPRECATED.
2083 * Fix some compilation issues on Macs and Windows.
2084 * Reduce the number of failing tests on exotic systems, like Debian/Hurd.
2085 * Environment variables CFLAGS and LDFLAGS are now honored by cmake.
2087 We discovered that the Lua console is broken, but we are missing the
2088 manpower to fix it right now. The problem existed in 3.7 too, so we
2089 are not blocking the release for that. Sorry if you depended on this
2090 feature, any help would be really welcome.
2092 -- Thu Jun 7 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2095 SimGrid-java (3.7.1) stable; urgency=low
2097 The "Java aint got to be bloated and slow" release
2100 * Various internal cleanups and performance improvement
2101 Simulations are expected to run up to twice faster or so
2102 * Make Process.kill(process) an instance method, not a static one
2103 * User processes are not java.lang.Thread subclasses.
2104 This breaks the compatibility (sorry), but previous API was
2105 brain-dead, making it impossible to have non-trivial
2106 initializations in the process constructor.
2107 * Require a full constructor per Process sub-class.
2108 Kinda breaks the compatibility (sorry), but this allows a much more
2109 efficient way to launch the processes at simulation startup.
2110 * Do not embeed our version of semaphores, java 1.5 can be considered
2111 as sufficiently prevalent for us to not dupplicate its features.
2115 * Add examples for almost every part of the API
2116 We spotted and fixed a lot of bugs in the process
2118 * New module: asynchronous communication API
2119 * New function: Process.sleep()
2120 It takes milliseconds as argument, just as java.lang.Thread.sleep()
2121 * New module: org.simgrid.msg.Mutex (SimGrid mutexes)
2122 * New module: org.simgrid.msg.RngStream (RngStreams random generators)
2124 -- 2012-06-12 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2126 SimGrid (3.7) stable; urgency=low
2128 The "spring cleanups (before the next Big Project kicks in)" release.
2131 * We can specify the SMPI latency/bandwidth factor with command line
2132 add --cfg=smpi/bw_factor:"threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"
2133 or add --cfg=smpi/lat_factor:"threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"
2134 You can also use the "config tag" from platform file by adding this line
2135 <prop id="smpi/bw_factor" value="threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"></prop>
2136 (see "example/platforms/tag_config.xml" to use "config tag").
2137 Note that the command line supersedes the platform file configuration.
2138 * Change the correction factors used in LMM model, according to
2139 the latest experiments described in INRIA RR-7821.
2140 Accuracy should be improved this way.
2141 * Use the partial invalidation optimization by default for the
2142 network too. Should produce the exact same results, only faster.
2143 * Major cleanup in surf to merge models and split some optimization
2144 mechanisms from the core of the models. As a result you can now
2145 specify which model to use (e.g., --cfg=network/model:LV08
2146 --cfg=cpu/model:Cas01) and which optimization mode to use
2147 (e.g., --cfg=network/optim:lazy --cfg=cpu/optim:TI).
2148 Incompatible combinations should err at initialization. See
2149 --help-models for the list of all models and optimization modes.
2150 * The CLM03 workstation model was dropped for simplicity because it
2151 used the deprecated CM02 network model. Use default instead.
2152 * Rename the TCP_gamma configuration option to network/TCP_gamma
2153 * Rename the coordinates configuration option to
2154 network/coordinates, and document it
2155 * Use now crosstraffic keyword instead of the terribly misleading
2156 fullduplex keyword. It is activated by default now in the current
2157 default model, use --cfg=network/crosstraffic:0 to turn it off.
2158 * Ongoing refactoring the model parsing to make XML files optional
2159 See include/simgrid/platf.h for details (still to be completed)
2162 * Major overhaul of the documentation. Almost instructive now :/
2163 * Deprecate the use of m_channel_t mechanism like MSG_task_{get,put}
2164 functions and friends. This interface was considered as
2165 deprecated since over 2 years, it's time to inform our users that it is.
2166 Switch to MSG_task_{send,recv} instead, or compile SimGrid command line
2167 'cmake -Dcustom_flags="-DMSG_USE_DEPRECATED" .' if you really need to
2168 use these (crappy) functions in your code.
2169 These functions will be removed soon. Stop using them now.
2170 * Deprecate MSG_get_host_{table,number}
2171 Implement MSG_hosts_as_dynar() instead.
2172 * Implement MSG_processes_as_dynar() (Closes gforge #13642)
2173 * Remove the public field msg_host_t->name. Use MSG_host_get_name()
2176 * Stabilize the parallel execution mode of user contexts
2177 * Introduce configuration variables to control parallel execution:
2178 - contexts/synchro: Synchronization mode to use when running
2179 contexts in parallel (either futex, posix or busy_wait)
2180 - contexts/parallel_threshold: Minimal number of user contexts
2181 that must be part of a scheduling round to switch to parallel
2182 execution mode (raw contexts only)
2183 * Fix bugs that prevented to use suspend/resume along with
2184 synchronization structures.
2185 * Fix bugs in process termination that lead to invalid memory access
2186 in very specific conditions.
2189 * Introduce a parallel mode for the models (controlled by surf/nthreads
2190 configuration item). In our tests, running the models in parallel
2191 never lead to any speedups because they are so fast that the gain
2192 of computing each model in parallel does not amortizes the
2193 synchronization costs, even when ultra fast futexes are used.
2194 This is released anyway because YMMV.
2197 * Performance boost by using a swag internally to compute the set of
2198 tasks that are finished and should constitute the return value of
2202 * Enable it by default now that it is considered rather stable.
2205 * Documentation of the tracing functions.
2206 * Performance gains when tracing categorized/uncategorized resource
2207 utilization by avoiding calls to get route when updating resource
2208 variables. LMM constraints are being used instead.
2209 * API changed to set task categories. Use MSG_task_set_category instead
2210 of TRACE_msg_set_task_category, and SD_task_set_category instead
2211 of TRACE_sd_set_task_category. They only work if ENABLE_TRACING is ON.
2212 * Bugfix for graphicator, routes not correctly obtained, memory leaks
2213 * Examples for link user variables added (see at examples/msg/tracing/)
2214 * Deprecated function TRACE_msg_set_process_category completely removed
2215 * Trace header updated according to the latest Paje file format
2216 * Tracing network lazy updates, no longer obligate users to use full updates
2217 * --cfg=tracing/platform:1 also registers power/bandwidth variables
2218 * Experimental: let user code declare/set/push/pop application states for hosts
2219 * API changed to allow the manual creation of graph configuration files
2220 for Triva. See TRACE_get_node_types() and TRACE_get_edge_types().
2223 * Improve the API of Lua MSG bindings, using the Lua spirit.
2224 * Each simulated process now lives in its own Lua world (globals are
2225 automatically duplicated). It helps writing simulators. Will allow
2226 to run Splay programs within SimGrid in the future.
2227 * Add a Chord example in Lua, equivalent to the MSG one.
2230 * Start the implementation of a solution to express temporal
2231 properties, not only local assertions. This is still an
2232 experimental work in progress, stay clear from it to be safe.
2236 - Add new runtime parameters --help-logs and --help-log-categories
2237 to display information about supported logging parameters and
2239 - Old deprecated parameters --{gras,surf,msg,simix,xbt}-log=...
2240 don't exists anymore.
2241 * Mallocators: allow value NULL for the reset function.
2243 - New function xbt_dict_new_homogeneous(void(*)(void*)) to
2244 create homogeneous dictionaries, where all the elements share the
2245 same free function. Non homogeneous dictionaries will be
2246 deprecated in the next release.
2247 - Dicts of scalar elements (xbt_dicti_*) are deprecated.
2248 - Multi-level dictionaries are deprecated.
2250 - new function xbt_dynar_search_or_negative() that is useful when
2251 you have less than 2 million elements in your dynar and don't
2252 want of the extra complexity of catching exceptions when the
2253 element is not found.
2255 - Make xbt_os_thread module (for thread portability) public.
2256 Documentation is still to come, sorry.
2258 - Cleanups and simplifications to make it maintainable again.
2259 - Exotic features (such as memalign and valloc) were removed.
2260 - The metadata were extended and improved so that the
2261 model-checker becomes able to explore and inspect the heaps.
2262 - This may induce a performance drop when enable_model-checking is
2263 ON in cmake (even if it's not used in the simulation), but it is
2264 necessary at this point to get MC working.
2266 Turn model-checking OFF if simulation performance matters to you.
2267 Not enabling it at runtime is not enough, disable it in cmake.
2269 -- Tue May 15 11:30:19 UTC 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2272 SimGrid (3.6.2) stable; urgency=low
2274 The "Not coding new stuff allows to polish old things" release.
2277 * New bindings to the NS3 packet level simulator (experimental)
2278 * Use the raw (efficient) execution contexts instead of the sysv
2279 (portable) ones when possible.
2280 * libpcre is now mandatory in any cases since not using it led to
2281 severe performance loss and possibly other issues
2282 * Update the XML platforms:
2283 - G5K: include the latest machine in Nancy
2284 - GridPP and LCG: new platforms
2285 * Documentation was partially updated, at least (more to come)
2287 Bug fixes, cosmetics and small improvements
2288 * Free terminated processes before the end of the simulation to avoid
2289 exhausting the memory of users having very dynamic amount of
2291 * Bug fix and cosmetics about canceling non-running tasks
2292 * Bug fix about the dot loader's issues when using libcgraph
2295 * Create an installer for windows with nsis (amd64 and win32)
2296 - Add an hello world project to illustrate simgrid project creation.
2297 - Embed libpcre into the Simgrid installer to avoid
2298 its compilation burden
2299 * The raw execution contexts should work on Apple now
2300 * Port to Windows 64 bits
2301 - Sysv contexts now have an implementation for this arch
2302 - GRAS communication features now support this arch
2303 * Drop support for borland compiler on windows
2304 - this code was not maintained, and we kinda depend on gcc nowadays
2305 * Fix portability issues on kfreebsd/gnu: build error about semaphores
2306 * Fix portability issue on unstable ubuntu: linker became picky on
2309 -- Wed Oct 5 15:51:01 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2311 SimGrid (3.6.1) stable; urgency=low
2313 The "Oops, we broke Macs too" release
2316 * Fixed contexts detection so that raw ones are used when possible
2317 * On Mac, do not use Posix Ucontexts with gcc v4.[1-5] since this
2318 leads to a strange error, with user code segfaulting sometimes when
2319 the generated code is not perfectly aligned (which is not
2320 controllable from the user side, depends on the amount of code)
2323 * New macro: CATCH_ANONYMOUS, which is like CATCH(e) but without argument.
2325 -- Mon Jun 27 13:59:03 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2327 SimGrid-java (3.6) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * Split of every thing from simgrid v3.5 into a separate package.
2332 -- 2011-10-05 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2334 SimGrid (3.6) stable; urgency=medium
2336 The Summer Release, also known as the "OMG! They Killed Kenny!" version
2339 * Bindings now constitute their own package, separated from the main one.
2340 Rationale: reduce our maintenance nightmare by reducing the module coupling
2341 They will soon be released on their own on gforge.
2343 svn co svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/simgrid/contrib/trunk/simgrid-java
2344 svn co svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/simgrid/contrib/trunk/simgrid-ruby
2346 GRAS: It is not considered as stable anymore, but experimental. Sorry.
2347 * It's not quite deprecated for now because we have no replacement,
2348 but it may soon become the case.
2351 * New MPI functions supported: MPI_Comm_disconnect, MPI_Comm_get_name
2352 * Fortran: New user-level cache variable to store the rank of the running
2353 process. This improves performance by an order of magnitude.
2354 * C: New coccinelle script to automatically locate and modify global and
2355 local static variables.
2356 * Improved SMPI network model with a sender-side gap to account for multiple
2360 * New function MSG_comm_get_status(). MSG_comm_test() and MSG_comm_testany()
2361 only say if a communication is finished, no matter whether it succeeded or
2362 failed. You can call MSG_comm_get_status() to know the status of a finished
2364 * New function MSG_task_dsend() to send a task and detach it. When a
2365 communication is detached, you are never notified of its success or failure
2366 and the memory is released automatically once it is finished. This function
2367 is useful when you don't care about the end nor the success of a
2369 * Change the prototypes of action replay. Sorry for inconvenience,
2370 but this is really more efficient this way (and to adapt your code,
2371 you just have to fix the initialization, that shouldn't be too long)
2372 * Kill the braindead MSG_task_refcount_dec() function. I guess nobody
2373 ever managed to do anything useful with it.
2374 * New function MSG_comm_testany(). Similarly to MSG_comm_waitany(), it
2375 takes a dynar of communications. It returns immediately and gives the
2376 index of a finished communication (if any).
2377 * New example: a basic implementation of the Chord P2P algorithm.
2380 * New model for multi-core CPUs. You can now use the core attribute to
2381 precise the number of cores of a host. This is a basic model. Every
2382 process running on the host receives at most the power provided in
2383 the DTD (throughput<=power). Total throughput of process cannot exceed
2385 * New peer tag. This peer tag creates a tiny AS comprising a host and a
2386 router linked by an up-link and a down-link (possibly asymmetrical).
2387 This kind of pattern allows to easily build last-mile model style platforms.
2388 Aggregating such patterns in a rule-based AS is thus the technique of
2389 choice for modeling large peer-to-peer/volunteer computing/cloud platforms.
2390 * New model for Vivaldi routing. We transformed the Vivaldi network model
2391 into a Vivaldi routing model (based on the rule-based model). This allows to
2392 combine Vivaldi based latencies with last-mile platforms.
2395 * Added a check for NaN of IEEE754 infinite in the double entries of
2397 * Introduce a new context factory "raw", highly inspirated from the
2398 ucontext factory, but using manually crafted functions in assembly to
2399 do the work in an efficient manner.
2400 * Allow to change the used context factory at run time, not only at
2401 compilation time. Use --cfg=contexts/factory:raw for maximal speed.
2402 * Add an option --cfg=contexts/stacksize:N to set the stack size of the user
2403 contexts at runtime (only with raw contexts or ucontexts).
2404 * Completely rewrote this module to allow parallel execution of user
2405 processes. Use --cfg=contexts/nthreads:N to execute user processes
2406 with N parallel threads (the default is 1, meaning no parallelism).
2407 * Allow to decide dynamically between sequential and parallel modes.
2408 When nthreads > 1, you can use --cfg=contexts/threshold:P to run the user
2409 processes in parallel only when their number is greater than or equal to P
2411 * Added a check for NaN of IEEE754 infinite in the double entries of
2415 * New command line option: if you pass --cfg=verbose-exit:0, SimGrid
2416 won't output the state of processes when interrupted with Ctrl-C
2417 * Add a new function xbt_dynar_to_array that transforms a dynar into a
2418 NULL-terminated array. This may solve backward compatibility issues
2419 due to the change to return type of SD_simulate. See also:
2420 http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/simgrid-user/2010-December/002206.html
2421 * Add new macros with variable number of arguments.
2422 - in xbt/log.h: XBT_DEBUG, XBT_VERB, XBT_INFO, etc.
2423 - in xbt/asserts.h: xbt_assert
2424 - in xbt/cunit.h: xbt_test_{add,fail,assert,log}
2425 - in xbt/ex.h: THROWF and RETHROWF.
2426 Define XBT_USE_DEPRECATED if you want to use the old numbered macros like
2428 * Change xbt_die() to accept a format string with arguments, just like printf.
2429 * New data structure: xbt_lib_t, like a dict but more general and with better
2433 * New configuration options
2434 Options triva/categorized and triva/uncategorized can be used to generate
2435 graph configuration files for Triva visualization tool.
2436 * Configuration option tracing/platform is renamed to tracing/categorized
2437 * XBT logging makes tracing error checks easier, new root log hierarchy: instr
2438 * New TRACE_user_link_variable interface:
2439 User provides the name of the link and the tracing variable to attach to it
2440 * the declaration of tracing categories must be done after the environment
2442 * simpler tracing interface, just one way to declare categories
2443 TRACE_category or TRACE_category_with_color, it is up to you
2444 * links in the trace file are again identified by their names
2445 * trace contains the full platform hierarchy exactly as declared using the ASes
2446 * Options tracing/msg/[task|process]:1 groups the process by hosts
2447 for both cases, tasks and processes must have names that are unique during the simulation
2448 these options generate traces that are suited to gantt-charts, such as the space-time view of Paje
2449 * The experimental option tracing/msg/volume is deprecated
2450 its functionality may be reincorporated if needed
2452 The tracing generates a trace file with unordered timestamped events,
2453 because of the way the core simulator (surf) works. A script available
2454 at the tools directory (fix-paje-trace.sh) can be used to put the events
2455 in order. We have changed the tracing so it can generate ordered timestamped
2456 events in the final trace, but depending on the simulator (and how much time
2457 is simulated) that can lead to a huge memory utilization. It is deactivated
2458 by default, but it can be activated using the --cfg=tracing/buffer:1 switch.
2460 Build Infrastructure
2461 * Define a SIMGRID_VERSION macro in simgrid_config.h.
2462 - We are trying hard to keep the API stable, but it may happen that
2463 some things change (we're a research project after all, not a
2464 nuclear plant operating system). If such things should happen, you
2465 could rely on that macro to adapt.
2466 - current value: 30600 for 3.06.00, aka 3.6
2467 * Define macro MAKE_SIMGRID_VERSION(major, minor, patch) to help building
2468 a number that can be compared with SIMGRID_VERSION.
2469 * Add a build option -Denable_debug (set to ON by default): when set to OFF,
2470 assertions and verbose/debug logging events are disabled at compile time.
2472 -- Tue Jun 21 08:57:43 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2474 SimGrid (3.5) stable; urgency=medium
2477 * New feature to any SimGrid-based simulator: Model-Checking
2478 Check SIN#1 for more details.
2481 * New Model SMPI (three-interval linear regression for correction factors)
2482 See RR-7426, available at http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00527150
2483 * Ability to use FORTRAN MPI code (through f2c, automatically privatized)
2484 * New MPI functions supported: MPI_Get_count(), MPI_Comm_split()
2485 * New: RAM folding (see RR-7426 and examples/smpi/NAS/DT-folding)
2486 * New: execution sampling (see RR-7426 and examples/smpi/NAS/EP-sampling)
2487 * See also src/smpi/README
2492 - Tracing API changes: TRACE_start and TRACE_end should not be called
2493 by user-code. They are automatically called by simulators created
2494 with SimDAG, MSG and SMPI if the toolkit is compiled with
2495 tracing_enabled=ON. Categories declaration and utilization remain the
2496 same for MSG and SimDag.
2497 - A function was added to the tracing API to declare categories with
2499 - TRACE_category_with_color (char *category, char *color)
2500 where color must be in the following format
2501 "%f %f %f", red, green, blue
2502 and red, green, blue are float values in the interval [0, 1]
2503 - User can specify NULL as color parameter, or continue calling
2504 TRACE_category (cat)
2505 On that case, the tracing system will define random colors
2506 - The following command-line options are supported:
2507 --cfg=tracing/filename:msg.trace
2508 --cfg=tracing:1 (activate tracing, needed to use others)
2509 --cfg=tracing/platform:1 (categorized resource use)
2510 --cfg=tracing/uncategorized:1 (uncategorized resource use)
2511 --cfg=tracing/msg/task:1 (task creation)
2512 --cfg=tracing/msg/process:1 (process creation, migration)
2513 --cfg=tracing/msg/volume:1 (volume of MSG send/recv)
2514 --cfg=tracing/smpi:1 (SMPI interface tracing)
2515 --cfg=tracing/simdag:1 (allow SimDAG tasks receive categories)
2516 - examples of examples/msg/tracing updated
2518 - DAXLoader and DOTLoader functions can generate tasks with categories
2519 - A new function to attribute a category to SD tasks:
2520 TRACE_sd_set_task_category (SD_task_t task, char *category)
2521 * Tracing the MPI interface implemented by SMPI
2522 - Collective operations are traced with states
2523 - Point-to-Point operations are traced with states/links
2524 - Tracing activated by a parameter "-trace filename" passed
2525 to smpirun during execution (considering that simgrid
2526 is compiled with tracing enabled)
2527 - To run the simulation with gdb, the simulator
2528 accepts --cfg=tracing/smpi:1 to trace SMPI
2529 - tesh files to check if smpi tracing is ok
2530 - See examples/smpi/NAS/DT-trace
2531 * GTNetS tracing re-worked
2532 - adaptation to the tracing system of GTNets to cope
2533 with modifications regarding the fullduplex mode
2534 - new tesh files to check if gtnets tracing is ok
2537 * Asynchronous communications through the functions:
2538 MSG_task_isend/irecv and MSG_comm_test/wait/waitall
2539 * New function: MSG_load_platform_script()
2540 to make possible using a lua script instead of XML files to set up platforms
2541 * New function: MSG_set_function
2542 to associate functions to processes, used when bypassing the parser
2543 * New functions: MSG_task_set_name(), MSG_task_set_compute_duration()
2545 Platforms: Add some more examples in examples/platforms
2546 * Grid'5000: see www.grid5000.fr
2547 * *_30000_hosts.xml: various huge files [mainly scalability testing]
2550 * Change the XML format. This is a very important modification. SimGrid
2551 3.5 introduces a new hierarchical format based on the notion of
2552 Autonomous Systems. Compatibility with old format is ensured
2553 through the perl script provided in the install bin directory
2554 bin/simgrid_update_xml.
2555 It is now possible to build platforms with specific routing
2556 mechanism (Full/Dijkstra/DijkstraCache/Floyd) and to easily
2557 connect several platforms together. We will try to provide soon
2558 set of realistic platforms exploiting these properties (have a
2559 look at examples/platforms/ for the moment).
2560 * Take the opportunity of the XML format change to be a good XML citizen:
2561 rename link:ctn to link_ctn and similar changes (also dealt with by
2563 * Add a new routing scheme (rule-based) using regular expressions. It
2564 enables to have an extremely low memory footprint when the
2565 underlying routing is simple and can be compactly described. You
2566 need to have libpcre4-dev (perl regular expressions) installed if
2567 you want to use this routing scheme.
2568 * Revive the cluster TAG and allow to easily and efficiently (both in
2569 term of memory and speed) connect clusters together. Have a look
2570 at teshsuite/simdag/platforms/ to see how this can be done. With
2571 this tag, you can create clusters with thousands of tasks at no
2572 cost (have a look at examples/platforms/).
2573 Note: clusters are implemented as ASes, so there is no need for an
2574 enclosing AS tag if you have only one cluster in your platform.
2575 * Add new generic functions in the public interface that allows the user
2576 to call SURF 'create_resource' methods from your code (same
2577 functionality as the XML bypass mechanism but with a much lighter
2579 * Add a new model (enabled through command line --cfg=network/model:SMPI)
2580 that uses a piecewise linear approximation to produce better
2581 results when exchanging small messages.
2582 * Add a new parameter to handle correctly full duplex link and account
2583 for interferences between uplink and downlink communications
2584 (activate with --cfg=fullduplex:1).
2587 * Rename the SD_READY (all dependencies are satisfied and task is
2588 scheduled) state in SD_RUNNABLE and define a new SD_SCHEDULABLE (all
2589 dependencies are satisfied) state.
2590 This prevents a confusion between the notion of "ready to schedule"
2591 (SD_SCHEDULABLE) used in DAG scheduling and that of "ready to be
2592 simulated" (SD_RUNNABLE) used by the simulation kernel.
2593 * Change the way a task is considered as ready. Instead of removing
2594 dependencies when a task is done, a counter is decreased. This way,
2595 it is always possible to reach ancestors thanks to the
2596 SD_taks_get_parents function (even after the end of the simulation.)
2597 * Change the return type of SD_Simulate from (SD_task_t*) into
2598 xbt_dynar_t. This function was in handling a dynar internally and
2599 converted it into a NULL terminated array for historical reasons.
2600 * New function SD_dotload(char*) to load a DAG described in dot
2601 format. This loader and the corresponding examples require the
2602 installation of the graphviz library.
2603 * Fix a bug in the management of tasks of size 0 in the surf network
2604 models. This problem was only visible with SIMDAG and you should
2605 thus disregard results produced with earlier versions if you
2606 relied on this feature (some tasks were blocked because of this).
2607 * Fix a bunch of stuff that prevented to use classical models with SIMDAG
2608 even though your applications were doing only point-to-point
2609 communications and sequential computations. Now you can really use any
2610 model you want (of course, if you create real parallel tasks, which are
2611 not implemented in most models beside ptaskL07, this will abort).
2612 * Add an example that schedules a DAX on an heterogeneous platform
2613 using a Min-Min strategy.
2614 * New function SD_workstation_get_current_task() that returns the kind
2615 of task currently running on a workstation in the sequential access
2617 * Raise some warnings when unexecuted tasks remains at the end of the
2618 simulation. This is usually caused by cycles in the DAG.
2621 * New function: SIMIX_process_set_function() called by MSG_set_function
2622 * Change the underlying waiting queue in semaphores so that a process
2623 can wait on several of them simultaneously (as in waitany).
2624 * Fix the way to handle tokens in semaphores so that all access patterns
2625 work: {acquire, acquire_timeout, waitany} / {release, release_forever}.
2626 * kill the dirty pimple SIMIX_message_sizes_output()
2627 Please use (proper) visualization instead
2630 * New data container: setset (set of sets of elements)
2631 * New module: mmalloc (mapped malloc, allowing to have several
2632 independent segments of malloc)
2633 * New function: xbt_dict_cursor_set_data()
2634 * New functions: xbt_dynar_sort(), xbt_dynar_compare()
2635 * New function: xbt_dynar_is_empty()
2636 * New function: xbt_fifo_get_last_item()
2637 * Fix xbt_dynar_shrink(): use the right element size.
2638 * Fix xbt_dynar_set*(): allow index larger than current size and memset 0
2639 uninitialized areas during expand.
2640 * Fix semaphores: previous implementation was severely broken.
2641 * Use library init/fini functions for our initialization.
2642 - you can use logs and other feature as soon as you want in your
2643 code (even before the xbt_init / MSG_init)
2644 - xbt_exit is now a no-op and produce a warning when used.
2647 * Port GRAS to new SIMIX mechanisms. This allows gras users to
2648 benefit from the latest improvement to the simulation kernel.
2649 * Kill measurement sockets for now. If you rely on them, sorry. This
2650 release is not for you. This feature will be reintroduced in the
2651 future, but we cannot delay the release any further.
2652 * New function: gras_msgtype_get_name().
2653 * Implement gras_agent_spawn in RL too (the prototype changed a bit)
2654 * Fix (at last) the pmm example: it should not randomly fail anymore.
2656 Build chain: bug fixes and overall polishing
2657 * Cmake is now stable enough. Hence, we killed the autotools.
2658 * Port to windows ( TM :)
2659 * Fix the 'make install' target.
2660 No need to use 'make install-simgrid' anymore
2661 * Introduce a 'make dist' target compiling a *source* archive
2662 'make package' compiles a binary archive
2663 * Compile java files only on need
2664 * Add --cd and --setenv command line options to tesh
2665 * Out of source builds are not fully supported yet, but we are close
2666 * Enable supernovae and optimization flags by default for our users
2669 * Add layer to set up environment directly from lua, without XML.
2670 * The effect of gras_stub_generator can be achieved through
2671 lua too (check examples/gras/console/ping_generator.lua)
2673 -- Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:09:23 +0100 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2675 SimGrid (3.4.1) stable; urgency=low
2677 The "Polishing easter eggs is probably a good idea" release.
2678 This is a bug fixes release only.
2682 * Fix a bug preventing the tasks from begin garbage collected.
2685 * Fix a bug occurring when a host involved in a communication fails.
2686 This was not detected properly by the other peer involved in the
2687 communication. Now, it's reported as a network error.
2690 * Warn the user about loop dependencies in data flow of DAX files
2691 * Obey the control-flow dependencies of DAX files
2694 * Add option "enable_smpi" allowing to not compile SMPI.
2695 Probably useful for the (Mac) users experiencing a build error here
2696 * Improve the detection of lua5.1 and ruby1.8
2698 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Tus, 04 May 2010 28 16:11:16 +0100
2700 SimGrid (3.4) stable; urgency=low
2702 The "Easter in Cargese" release. Also known as (major changes):
2704 * the "se habla Java, Ruby 話せます, fala-se Lua (and deaf-friendly)"
2705 ~> bindings were greatly improved
2706 ~> new tracing infrastructure for better visualization introduced
2708 * the "Welcome to configury modernity" release.
2709 ~> we switched from autotools to cmake, and improved our cdash
2712 A more detailled list of changes follow (full detail in svn log).
2714 Java Bindings: Various Cleanups
2715 * (install java-gcj-compat-dev on debian-like to use them)
2716 * Remove put/get: no need to export deprecated interface in Java
2717 Use send/receive instead.
2718 * Cleanup the examples and add a README per directory
2719 * Remove example autoDestination (that's the only way to go now)
2720 * Remove example explicitDestination (was a plain copy of basic)
2721 * Make JniException a runtime exception, so that there is no need to
2722 declare the fact that you may encounter such a beast. I guess that
2723 nobody will ever want to survive such error.
2724 * Create specific errors for each MSG case of failure:
2725 host failure, transfer failure, timeout, task cancelled
2726 * Cleanup the exceptions that may get thrown by each function
2727 * Other internal cleanups in Java bindings. Performance still bad :/
2728 Ruby and Lua Bindings: create them
2729 * (install ruby1.8-dev/liblua5.1-0-dev on debian-like to use them)
2730 * That's new and great, you should try them out.
2731 Same functionalities than Java bindings, only even less polished
2733 * Kill the useless "rate" argument of SD_task_get_execution_time()
2734 Everyone used to provide -1 as a value, it was not used, and the
2735 semantic of a possible use wasn't even clear.
2736 * SD_SCHED_NO_COST: Constant to use as cost in SD_task_schedule()
2737 either as comm costs or compute costs to mean that there is no
2738 such thing for that specific task.
2739 * Add a SD_task_set_name() function
2740 * Fix SD_task_unschedule() on typed tasks
2741 * Fix SD_task_get_execution_time() to return seconds, not flop*sec
2742 * In DAX loader, accept useless 'level' attributes to <job> since
2743 LIGO DAGs have them (seem to be to ease graphical representation).
2745 * Add an example masterslave_mailbox.c using send/receive and not
2746 the deprecated put/get interface.
2747 * Kill the MSG_paje_output() function. It's a noop since 2 years.
2748 * Kill MSG_WARNING and MSG_FATAL return codes: they were not used
2750 * Rename MSG_TIMEOUT_FAILURE into MSG_TIMEOUT for sake of logic
2751 (declare MSG_USE_DEPRECATED to still have the old name)
2752 * Add a MSG_task_set_data() function
2753 * About trace replay (see examples/msg/actions):
2755 - Allow to work with splitted trace files for each process
2756 Give the specific trace file as argument of each process,
2757 and call MSG_action_trace_run(NULL)
2758 You can still have one merged file for all processes.
2759 - Fix implementation of collective operations
2760 * Allow task_execute() on 0-sized tasks (closes #10063)
2762 * This is the first release of SimGrid where SMPI is not considered
2763 beta anymore (even if some corners should still be improved)
2764 * Port over the new SIMIX_network submodule (internal refactoring)
2765 * Basic support to log events as with SMPE (use --cfg=SMPE:1)
2766 * Implement more missing elements of the standard:
2768 - MPI_MAXLOC MPI_MINLOC + all associated datatype MPI_DOUBLE_INT,
2770 - MPI_Address() MPI_Get_count() MPI_Type_free() MPI_Type_extent()
2771 MPI_Scan() MPI_Get_processor_name()
2772 - Added implementation of missing case for Alltoall (warning: it's
2773 *not* the bruck variant from OpenMPI; based on Alltoallv instead)
2774 - SMPI_MPI_Gather() SMPI_MPI_Gatherv() SMPI_MPI_Scatterv()
2775 SMPI_MPI_Reduce_scatter() SMPI_MPI_Allgather()
2776 SMPI_MPI_Allgatherv()
2777 * Bug fixes include:
2778 - MPI_Waitsome() was broken
2779 - Allow relative includes in smpicc
2780 - Command line cfg argument 'reference_speed' was ignored...
2781 - Some functions did not properly lead to auto-benching of user code
2782 - smpicc passes -O2 by default (just like openmpi one)
2784 * add SIMIX_action_suspend() and SIMIX_action_resume() functions
2785 * Bug fixes about timeouts during communications
2786 * add SIMIX_message_sizes_output() as a pimple to write to file the
2787 amount of messages per size. Use gnuplot to get histogram.
2788 Pimple because that's the only user-visible function of simix,
2789 defined directly in xbt.h (irk, sorry)
2791 - Add a SIMIX_sem_get_capacity() function
2792 - Fix interactions with processe resume/suspende
2793 - release_forever() was stupidly broken
2794 - Fix SIMIX_display_process_status() for processes in a semaphore
2795 - Make SIMIX_sem_block_onto() user-visible
2796 * Refactoring context stuff:
2797 - Use pseudo-OOP for better modularity
2798 - reimplement SIMIX_process_kill() without process_schedule() so
2799 that the latter can take as invariant that it is called from
2801 - Merge context_start into context_new for sake of simplicity
2803 * Add a Vivaldi network model, coded live during SUD'10 ;)
2804 * Rename configuration variables to start a hierarchy:
2805 o cpu_model -> cpu/model
2806 o network_model -> network/model
2807 o workstation_model -> workstation/model
2808 * New configuration variables:
2809 o network/bandwidth_factor: correction to bandwidth
2810 o network/latency_factor: correction to latency
2811 o netwotk/weight_S: correction to the weight of competing streams
2812 * Add a long description to the models, that users can see with such
2813 argument on the command line: --cfg=cpu/model:help
2814 * --help-models display the long description of all known models
2816 * config: add the ability to set a default value after registration
2817 Does not override any previously set value (e.g. from cmd line)
2818 * dict: allow to have integer key and data.
2819 When so, you need to use the following functions
2820 void xbt_dicti_set(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key, uintptr_t data);
2821 uintptr_t xbt_dicti_get(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key);
2822 void xbt_dicti_remove(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key);
2823 In contrary to regular dicts, the key is not malloced before copy.
2824 Mixing scalar and regular elements in the same dict is not tested
2826 * Allow to use xbt_dynar_shrink() to expend the dynar instead
2827 Tracing for Visualization:
2828 * SimGrid is now instrumented in order to generate a trace file for
2829 visualization analysis: to use it, need to compile SimGrid with the
2830 "tracing" option enabled, and instrument the program using SimGrid with
2831 TRACE_start, TRACE_category, TRACE_msg_set_task_category and TRACE_end
2832 (among other functions).
2833 * The instrumentation only traces the platform utilization for now
2834 * Documentation to use the tracing functions and how to analyze the
2835 traces with the Triva tool is written.
2836 * More information about: SimGrid FAQ (in the section Tracing Simulations
2839 * We moved to cmake as default build system. Autotools support will
2840 be dropped soon. Check the FAQ for more info about how to use it.
2841 * Greatly improved our cdash/ctest interactions
2842 Check http://cdash.inria.fr/CDash/index.php?project=Simgrid
2843 * Added memory checking tests with valgrind; lot of memleak fixing.
2844 This may be the first release of simgrid with so few memory issues
2845 * Added code coverage tests.
2846 Our coverage is still improvable, but at least we see it on cdash.
2848 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Wed, 28 Apr 2010 28 17:11:16 +0100
2850 SimGrid (3.3.4) stable; urgency=low
2852 The "Desktop Grid needs love too" release (also called Xmas release).
2854 Models improvements:
2855 * Major speedup in the maxmin system solving by using lazy evaluation
2856 Instead of solving completely the maxmin system at each iteration,
2857 only invalidate (and recompute) the modified parts.
2858 This new feature is enabled in default models but you can try to
2859 turn it on with "--cfg:maxmin-selective-update=1" for other models.
2860 * Cas01 IMproved as default CPU model
2861 This CPU model is the same Cas01 model, but it uses the
2862 maxmin-selective-update flag and a heap structure to manage
2863 actions on SURF kernel.
2864 It reduces the complexity to find the next action to finish and,
2865 consequently, it's faster than the old Cas01.
2866 This is the new default CPU model (Cas01).
2867 * Rename the old Cas01 model to Cas01_fullupdate
2868 Keep the old cpu model Cas01 with the new name of Cas01_fullupdate.
2869 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:Cas01_fullupdate" to use the old default CPU model.
2870 * CpuTI (CPU Trace Integration)
2871 A new CPU model whose objective is simulate faster when using
2872 availability trace files.
2873 Instead of using a full featured, over engineered maxmin system for
2874 CPU modeling, this model does the pre-integration of traces files
2875 to calculate the amount of CPU power available, and so, executes
2876 faster than the old CPU models.
2877 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:CpuTI" to change to this CPU model.
2878 * Use LV08 as default network model since it gives better accuracy
2879 for small messages and shouldn't change things for big ones.
2880 Use --cfg=network_model:CM02 to get the previous behavior.
2883 ******************************************
2884 *DO NOT MIX 3.3.4 RESULTS WITH OLDER ONES*
2885 ******************************************
2886 * The new CPU model may changes simulations!
2887 The point is that events occurring at the exact same timestamp
2888 are not scheduled in the same order with the old and new
2889 version. This may be enough to completely change the execution
2890 of simulations in some cases.
2891 * The new network model will change simulations!
2892 This new model is more realistic than the previous one, so you
2893 should consider redoing your old experiments with this model.
2894 Sorry for the inconvenience.
2897 * Introduce the supernovae compilation mode
2898 When compiled that way, the whole SimGrid (or almost) is put in a
2899 single compilation unit and compiled in one shoot.
2900 This is to help gcc which has difficulties to inline stuff from one
2902 The speedup seem to be above 15%, althrough more tests are needed on
2903 amd64 to confirm that gain.
2906 * Port of MSG's mailbox on top of SIMIX network
2907 The put/get mechanism was greatly simplified on the way.
2910 * New SIMIX network module. Provides:
2911 - Mailbox: rendez-vous mechanism to find with who you want to speak
2912 - Synchronous send/recv: easier and hopefully faster since the
2913 logic is handled in the maestro process directly now
2914 - Asynchronous send/recv: you dreamt of it? It's here now
2915 Too bad that nobody cared enough to propagate the change to MSG.
2916 * Add semaphores as SIMIX synchronization mechanism.
2919 * new function SD_daxload(char*) to load a DAX file
2920 (see http://vtcpc.isi.edu/pegasus/index.php/WorkflowGenerator)
2921 * Introduce typed tasks. Specify its kind and cost at creation.
2922 At scheduling, just give where it should be placed, and the cost
2923 for each involved resource is automatically computed.
2924 Existing constructors so far (more to come of course):
2925 - SD_task_create_comm_e2e() for end-to-end communication
2926 - SD_task_create_comp_seq() for sequential computation
2927 Use SD_task_schedulev() / SD_task_schedulel() to schedule them.
2928 * new function SD_task_dump() for debugging display
2929 * new function SD_task_dotty(task,FILE*) writing to file the info
2930 about the task in dotty format
2931 * SD_task_dependency_exists() can now cope with having one of its
2932 arguments NULL. If so, it tests whether the other argument has any
2934 * Add getters on list of preceding/following tasks:
2935 SD_task_get_parents(task) and SD_task_get_children(task)
2936 * Add getters on amount of workstations and list:
2937 SD_task_get_workstation_count(t) and SD_task_get_workstation_list(t)
2938 * Add getter on task kind: SD_task_get_kind(task)
2939 * Update the start_time and finish_time of tasks on completion/failure
2940 * Bugfix: Remove task from state swags when destroyed
2943 * New function: void gras_cpu_burn(double flops) -- a simple CPU burner
2946 * New function: xbt_dynar_dopar(dynar,fun) to map a function over the
2947 dynar with one separate thread per value of the dynar.
2948 * Change the prototype of xbt_thread_create(), sorry.
2949 Added a boolean parameter indicating whether we want to join this
2950 thread (used in SG only for now)
2951 * Implement xbt_thread_join and xbt_thread_yield in SG also.
2954 * GTNetS wrappers should now be usable again (and betterly tested too)
2955 * Fix a major regression from 3.2 where the timeout provided to
2956 MSG_task_put_with_timeout() was used as absolute time before which
2957 the comm should be done.
2958 * Start to fix the <cluster> tag.
2959 - Internal links should be good now (beside of the loopback, which
2960 use the private link instead)
2961 - paths to the external world is still rather broken
2962 - the <route:multi> tag is just broken. Actually that's brain-dead.
2963 We need sth like <route:multi src="myCluster" dst="$*-${myCluster}">
2964 to make it less stupid
2965 ** Check your platform with teshsuite/simdag/platforms/flatifier **
2966 * Fix a source-level compatibility glitch from 3.2: after defining
2967 MSG_USE_DEPRECATED, you can use the old name
2968 MSG_task_put_with_time_out() for MSG_task_put_with_timeout()
2969 * Allow to compile from the SVN with automake 1.11
2970 * Fix some problems when using the "start_time" tag in deployment XMLs.
2971 * Fix #8569: XBT/synchro.h has redundant declarations
2972 * Fix #8563: MSG return values and exceptions
2973 Introduce a MSG_TIMEOUT_FAILURE return code and use it consistently.
2974 * Integrate patch #8636: Obey DESTDIR when installing documentation.
2975 Thanks to Robson Peixoto.
2976 * Fix a vicious bug in dictionaries inducing that some elements were
2977 not freed on xbt_dict_free()
2979 Portability report of this version:
2980 * Main portability targets:
2981 - linux (ubuntu (804/810/910) /debian (4/5/testing) /fedora (core11))
2982 on (amd64/i386/ia64)
2983 - mac leopard on i386
2984 Known problems: http://cdash.inria.fr/CDash/index.php?project=Simgrid
2985 but nothing critical.
2986 * Other platforms: windows, AIX and others were not tested for this release
2988 Timing report of this version:
2989 * Lazy evaluation brings arbitrary speedup (ie, speedup depending on
2990 scenario parameters). From 8h to a few seconds in desktop grid settings.
2991 * Supernovae brings about 25% speedup on i386.
2993 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:07:39 +0100
2995 SimGrid (3.3.3) stable; urgency=low
2997 The "Need for Speed" release.
2999 The timings done to validate the 3.3.2 were faulty.
3000 Instead of being 5% faster, it was 15% slower (compared to 3.3.1).
3002 The problem was a conversion from a manually handled vector to
3003 xbt_dynar_t on the critical path.
3004 xbt_dynar_foreach calls functions, inducing stack management crap.
3006 We inlined these functions and xbt_dynar_foreach is now breath taking.
3007 We also inlined xbt_swag_belong on the way.
3009 Here are some approximate speedup measurements (on master/slaves
3010 simulations lasting between 10s and 20s each):
3011 3.3.1 -> 3.3.2: about same performance
3012 3.3.2 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
3013 3.3.1 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
3014 3.3.1 with inline patch -> 3.3.3: 30% speedup
3016 Our reading is that the refactoring which occurred in 3.3.2 made us
3017 suffer much more from the xbt_dynar_foreach low performance, but
3018 once we solved this, this refactoring proved to be very performance
3019 effective. From the 40% speedup, somehow, 10% are due to the
3020 inlining and 30% to the refactoring.
3022 That's a pitty that gcc cannot inline functions placed in other files
3023 alone. We have to choose between:
3024 - break the encapsulation (by putting private data structures and
3025 accessors in headers files to help gcc)
3026 - live with low performance
3027 - switch to a decent compiler such as icc (not quite possible).
3029 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:21:33 +0200
3031 SimGrid (3.3.2) stable; urgency=low
3033 The "Simplicity does not preceed complexity, but follows it" release.
3035 The main contributors of this release were (lexical order):
3036 Silas De Munck, Stéphane Genaud, Martin Quinson, Cristian Rosa.
3039 * Extract the routing logic into its own object.
3040 (was dupplicated in network.c and workstation_LV07.c;
3041 Allows to implement other ways of storing that info)
3042 => kill now useless network_card concept
3043 - Use dynar to represent routes (instead of void** + int*)
3044 - kill link_set (use surf_network_model->resource_set instead)
3045 - Add a command-line option to choose the routing schema to use
3046 - Add three new models:
3047 * Floyd (shortest path computed at initialization)
3048 * Dijikstra (shortest path recomputed all the time)
3049 * Cached Dijikstra (shortest path computed on need)
3050 All these models where contributed by Silas De Munck, and are
3051 described in his ICCS09 paper.
3053 * Simplify model declaration
3054 (less redirections, less function to write when defining a model)
3055 - Factorize stuff between models:
3058 surf_model_resource_set(model)
3059 surf_model_resource_by_name(model, name)
3060 - Unify the types of models in s_surf_model_t (using an union)
3061 - Embeed fields of common_public directly into s_surf_model_t
3062 - Rename model methods:
3063 action_free ~> action_unref
3064 action_change_state ~> action_state_set
3065 action_get_state ~> action_state_get
3066 - Change model methods into functions:
3067 (model)->common_public->action_use ~> surf_action_ref
3069 * Implement a generic resource; use it as ancestor to specific ones
3070 (allows to kill duplicated code in models)
3071 Drawback: timer command don't need no name nor properties;
3072 workstation_CLM03 don't need no properties
3073 (but I guess we can live with those few bytes wasted)
3075 * Improve the action object model
3076 - implement a constructor avoiding dupplicated code about field
3077 initialization in generic_action part.
3079 * Kill the SDP model: it has an external dependency, is deprecated
3080 in flavor of modern lmm models, and didn't compile since a while
3083 * Relocation of the context module from XBT to SIMIX.
3084 (the context were decoupled from the simix processes, duplicating a lot of code)
3085 => a lot of code was factorized
3086 - less overhead is introduced during scheduling
3087 - simpler API for the context factory
3088 - the logic for process creation,destruction and manipulation was simplified
3089 * Simplification of the s_smx_process_t data structure.
3090 => accesing the simix level data associated to a process is faster now,
3091 and the code is a lot more readable.
3094 * Implement some more MPI primitives:
3095 MPI_Bcast, MPI_Waitany, MPI_Waitall, MPI_Reduce, MPI_Allreduce, MPI_Scatter, MPI_Sendrecv, MPI_Alltoall
3096 -implementation: Bcast: flat or 2-ary tree (default),
3097 Barrier: 4-ary tree,
3099 Allreduce: Reduce then Bcast
3100 Alltoall: "basic_linear" if data per proc < 3Kb, "otherwise pairwise".
3101 Not yet implemented: "Bruck" for data per proc < 200b and comm size > 12
3102 Alltoallv: flat tree, like ompi
3104 * Add support for optimized collectives (Bcast is now binomial by default)
3105 * Port smpirun and smpicc to OS X
3108 * Kill SD_link_get_properties: hard to maintain and makes very little sense
3109 Shout out if you used it.
3112 * Display the list of still queued messages in SG mode when existing
3116 * Add xbt_set_get_by_name_or_null() [Silas De Munck]
3117 * Add xbt_graph_node_get_outedges() [Silas De Munck]
3118 * Add xbt_str_from_file(FILE*)
3119 * Add xbt_dict_get_key achieving a linear reverse search
3120 * Remove the context module
3122 Portability report of this version:
3123 * Main portability targets:
3124 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
3125 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
3126 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
3127 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
3128 On these, we still have the eratic breakages of gras/pmm and
3129 amok/saturate_sg reported in previous version. We still think
3130 that the tests are the cause of the fault, not the tested code.
3132 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
3133 Still false negative in tesh autotesting.
3134 Smpi still fails, but this time because readlink does not accept -f
3135 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
3138 - AIX version 5.3 (only tested contexts this time)
3139 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
3140 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
3142 I managed to compile it for the first time, but several breakages.
3143 Won't delay the release for this exotic platform.
3145 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
3148 Timing report of this version:
3149 This version seem to be more than 5% faster than 3.3.1 (on linux
3150 64bits with contextes). The gain is less than expected, we are
3151 investigating this for next release.
3153 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:07:12 +0200
3155 SimGrid (3.3.1) stable; urgency=low
3158 * Implement a --cfg-help to show existing configuration variables
3159 * Build chain do not require doxygen in maintainer mode
3162 * fix a bug on struct sizeof computation, which prevented the
3163 exchange of arrays of structs in some conditions
3164 - added a regression test about this in datadesc_usage
3165 * Allow the exchange of 0-long dynamic vectors.
3166 - for that, use -1 as indicator of dynamic size instead of 0
3167 - This implied to change any size from unsigned long to long,
3168 reducing a bit communication abilities, but I guess that with
3169 64bits being quite common, this is more than enough.
3170 - This also induce a protocol change, thus bumping network protocol
3171 version from 0 to 1 (if we have external users, we have to get
3172 clean on that point too ;)
3173 - added two regression tests about this in datadesc_usage
3174 * Be more verbose when propagating local exceptions
3175 This helps debugging.
3176 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT in
3180 * Allow to control the simulation from a trace file.
3181 New functions MSG_action_register() and MSG_action_trace_run()
3182 The first one allows to associate a function execution to each
3183 kind of action while the second one parses a trace file and
3184 triggers the corresponding actions within the system.
3185 For now, only a toy example is provided in examples/msg/actions
3186 * Add an example of process migration in examples/msg/migration
3187 * Fix a bug in task exchange which broke MSG_task_get_sender()
3188 Add a teshsuite regression test for that.
3189 [Bug: if MSG_task_get_sender() is called after sender exit,
3191 * Fix a bug which prevented suspend/resume to work properly
3192 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT
3193 This fixes a regression of v3.3. due to the introduction of SIMIX
3194 * Bug fixing in failure management:
3195 - trace could not start by a failure at time 0
3196 - failure during communications were not working
3199 * Add SIMIX_process_set_name() to change the name of the current
3200 process in the log messages.
3201 * Store smx_hosts in a dict since we only retrieve them by name
3202 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
3205 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
3208 * Massive internal cleanups:
3209 - Store internal structures on processes instead of hosts (allows
3210 to have more than one process per host, in addition of being more
3212 - Cleanup the initialization/finalization process
3213 - Kill a whole bunch of unneeded synchronization:
3214 processes run in exclusive manner within the simulator
3215 - Move queues from global tables to process data fields
3217 - now accept -platform and -hostfile arguments
3218 - Pass the right rank value to processes according to the hostfile
3219 * Compile the examples by default, and use them as regression tests
3220 * Implement MPI_Wtime()
3221 * Change the reference speed to a command line option
3224 * TCP_gamma can now be specified as command line option using
3225 --cfg=TCP_gamma:10000000.0
3226 * Change the --surf-path cmd line option into --cfg=path:
3229 * Also include strbuff from xbt.h public header
3230 * xbt_ex_display(): do not free the exception after displaying
3231 This allows to do more with the given exception afterward.
3232 Users should call xbt_ex_free() themselves.
3236 Portability report of this version:
3237 * Main portability targets:
3238 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
3239 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
3240 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
3241 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
3242 These targets fail about 1/10 of times on gras/pmm, but we believe
3243 that this is because of the test, not because of simgrid.
3244 amok/saturate_sg fails even more rarely, and the test may not be
3247 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
3248 The test suite still spits tons of errors because some obscure
3249 force prevents us from removing the temporary directories
3250 arguing that they still contain some metadata I've never heard of.
3251 Smpi fails because seq is not installed.
3252 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
3255 - AIX version 5.3 (both contexts and pthread)
3256 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
3257 XML inclusions seems rosty on AIX.
3259 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
3262 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:14:30 +0200
3264 SimGrid (3.3) stable; urgency=high
3268 * JAVA BINDINGS for MSG (you dreamt of them? We made them)
3269 [Malek Cherier & Mt]
3271 * Introduce the SIMIX module: factorize code between MSG and GRAS.
3274 Until now, GRAS were using MSG as an interface to SURF. It was
3275 quite difficult because both interface have several differences
3276 (MSG channels vs GRAS sockets were the most notable point).
3278 This also opens the gate to SMPI (which should occur soon) and speed
3279 up simulations by to 40% (even if it were not the main goal).
3281 **************************************
3282 *DO NOT MIX 3.2 RESULTS WITH 3.3 ONES* Simix may changes simulations!
3283 **************************************
3284 The point is that events occurring at the exact same timestamp are
3285 not scheduled in the same order with the old and new version. This
3286 may be enough to completely change the execution of simulations in
3287 some cases. Sorry for the inconvenience.
3289 * Cleanup and upgrade the XML format to push further scalability
3290 issues (check http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00256883/ for more info)
3292 * Improve the testing infrastructure with tesh. Now a very large part of
3293 the code is tested not only by being run but also by checking that the
3294 output match an expected output [Mt].
3296 * Move on to FleXML v1.7 for the embeeded XML parsers. This version
3297 is really less memory-demanding, which should allow you to use
3298 larger files in SimGrid [AL].
3300 * Inform valgrind about our contextes, so that it becomes usable
3301 with the default (and more effecient) version of SimGrid
3302 [contributed by Sékou Diakite, many thanks]
3305 * Introduce a listener thread in charge of receiving incoming
3306 messages from the network. It allows to overlap communication and
3307 computation but most notably, it removes some stupid deadlocks due
3308 to the fact that so far, a process could not send and receive at
3309 the same time. This made most non trivial communication schema
3311 * Convert the PIDs from long int to int to match the MSG ones (and
3312 linux ones too) [Mt]
3313 * New function: gras_agent_spawn() to launch a new process on
3314 current host. Only working in simulation for now. [Mt]
3315 * New function: gras_os_hostport() returning a constant form (ie,
3316 not needing to be freed) of "gras_os_hostname():gras_os_myport()"
3319 * Make the backtrace of exceptions more human readable [Mt]
3320 * New module: xbt/str [Mt]
3321 a ton of string utility functions (split, join, printf to a newly
3322 allocated buffer, trim, etc)
3323 * New module: xbt/hash [Mt]
3324 SHA1 hashing algorithm (more to come if needed)
3325 * New module: xbt/synchro [Mt]
3326 synchronization tools (mutex and conditions) working the same way
3327 in simulation and in real life (mainly useful for GRAS, but not
3329 * New module: xbt/queue [Mt]
3330 classical producer/consumer synchronization scheme
3331 * xbt_dynar_new_sync() creates a synchronized dynar. All access
3332 (using the classical functions will get serialized) [Mt]
3333 * Make dictionary internal table dynamic. No need to specify its size
3334 anymore; functions xbt_dict_new_ext() and xbt_dict_hashsize_set()
3336 * Make sure the log channels are organized as a tree under windows
3337 (because of ANSI C compatibility issue, any channel were child of
3338 root directly) [Mt].
3341 * Cleaned many thing in surf and fixed a few bugs [AL].
3342 * Add a nice command line configuration mechanism to compose models [AL].
3343 * Add a new model for parallel tasks (ptask_L07) that is less buggy than
3344 the previous one (KCCFLN05). It relies on something that looks like
3345 a max-min sharing mechanism but cannot be written as such. A new solver
3346 was thus designed [AL].
3347 * Add a new solver to lmm. Based on Lagrange optimization and
3348 gradient-based descent, it enables to efficiently maximise systems s.a
3350 sum f_i(x_i) s.t Ax<= b with A_{i,j}>=0 and f_i a concave function.
3352 This solver enables to propose two new network models for TCP Reno and
3353 TCP Vegas based on Low's work. These models still need to be fully
3354 tested though [Pedro Velho].
3357 * Bug fix in SD_simulate. Now the time bound given as argument is
3359 * Use the new parallel task model (ptask_L07) as default.
3360 * Use the SURF command line configuration mechanism.
3361 * 0-size tasks (for synchronization) should now work.
3363 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sun Apr 12 05:20:36 CEST 2009
3365 SimGrid (3.2) stable; urgency=high
3369 We still experience issues on this platform, but we believe that at
3370 least MSG is usable.
3372 GRAS API BREAKAGE (for simplification purpose, sorry):
3373 * the gras_msgtype_by_name is not used anymore. Instead of
3374 gras_msg_send(toserver, gras_msgtype_by_name("request"), &request);
3375 you can write (and must)
3376 gras_msg_send(toserver, "request", &request);
3377 - If you still want to pass a gras_msgtype_t to the function (to cache
3378 the type and avoid the lookup time), use the gras_msg_send_() variant.
3379 - Impacted functions:
3380 gras_cb_register, gras_cb_unregister, gras_msg_send, gras_msg_wait,
3381 gras_msg_rpccall, gras_msg_rpc_async_call, gras_msg_wait_ext
3382 * The callbacks are now expected to return 0 when everything went well
3383 (just like the main() function)
3385 GRAS new features and improvements:
3386 * New module mechanism where user code can use per process globals [Mt]
3387 This is similar to gras_userdata_*() functions, but for libraries. It
3388 factorize some code developped over and over in the examples and AMOK.
3389 It has still to be documented and used (only amok/peermanagement is
3391 * Fix a vicious bug in the TCP buffering mechanism which leaded to message
3392 loss when they were small enough to fit into the buffer and sent quickly
3393 enough so that they can all get received in one shoot.
3394 * gras_datadesc_by_name and gras_msgtype_by_name: now raise an exception
3395 if not found. Use the *_or_null() variant for the old semantic.
3396 * In gras_msg_handle, do not discard messages without callback.
3397 They are probably messages to be explicitly awaited later (ie, proofs of
3398 mis-synchronization in userland since they are sent before being awaited)
3399 No big deal usually.
3400 * gras_socket_meas_send/recv: semantic changed!
3401 The numerical arguments used to be (1) the total amount of data to send
3402 and (2) msg_size. This was changed to (1) msg_size and (2) amount of
3403 messages. This was need for the fool willing to send more than MAXINT
3404 bytes on quite fat pipes.
3407 * Do really rename the hostmanagement module to peermanagement. [Mt]
3408 Ie, rename functions from amok_hm_* to amok_pm_*. This breaks the API,
3409 but this is rather new and this was documented in the module
3410 documentation (poor excuses, I admit)
3411 * Bandwidth measurement semantic changed! This follows the changes to
3412 gras_socket_meas_send/recv explained above.
3415 * A sequential mode has been added to the workstations. When a workstation
3416 is in sequential mode, it can execute only one task, and the other tasks
3417 are waiting in a FIFO. [Christophe Thiery]
3420 * The KCCFLN05 workstation model now handles parallel tasks. It is the
3421 model for SIMDAG. [Christophe Thiery]
3422 * Bug fix in the maxmin solver: Some values were close to 0 instead of
3423 equal to 0, which caused some bad behaviors in
3424 saturated_constraint_set_update. I now use a threshold mechanism like in
3428 * When running manually src/testall, you select specific units [Mt]
3429 testall is the result of our cunit mechanism, and should replace all
3430 the scripty thingy around since bash don't run easily on billware.
3432 * A mallocator system has been added. [Christophe Thiery]
3433 Mallocators allow you to recycle your unused objects instead of freeing them
3434 and allocating new ones.
3436 Documentation update:
3437 * FAQ reworking + New FAQs:
3438 - "Valgrind spits tons of errors!" [Mt]
3439 - "How to repport bugs" [Mt]
3440 - "Cross-compiling a Windows DLL of SimGrid from Linux" [Mt]
3441 - "What is the difference between MSG, SimDag, and GRAS?" [Mt]
3442 - Communication time measurement within MSG [AL]
3443 - I experience weird communication times when I change the latency [AL]
3444 * GRAS tutorial [Mt]
3446 - an introduction to the framework and to the used communication model
3447 - an initiatic tour introducing the most proheminent features:
3449 . Lesson 0: Installing GRAS
3450 . Lesson 1: Setting up your own project
3451 o Part 2: Message passing
3452 . Lesson 2: Exchanging simple messages
3453 . Lesson 3: Passing arguments to the processes (in SG)
3454 . Lesson 4: Attaching callbacks to messages
3455 . Lesson 5: Using globals in processes
3456 . Lesson 6: Logging information properly
3457 . Lesson 7: Using internal timers
3458 . Lesson 8: Handling errors through exceptions
3459 . Lesson 9: Exchanging simple data
3460 . Lesson 10: Remote Procedure Calling (RPC)
3461 . Lesson 11: Explicitly waiting for messages
3462 . Recapping of message passing features in GRAS
3463 - A HOWTO section containing:
3464 o HOWTO design a GRAS application
3465 More are due, of course. They will come latter. In the meanwhile, you can
3466 check the examples which are still here.
3468 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri Mar 16 21:11:46 CET 2007
3470 SimGrid (3.1) stable; urgency=high
3474 There was a stack corruption somewhere, visible only when optimizing
3475 with these versions. [Vince]
3478 * This is a NEW module! SimDAG (SD for short) is a revival of the old SG
3479 module that enabled to play with Directed Acyclic Graphs. It is built
3480 directly on top of SURF and provides an API rather close to the old
3481 SG. Some old codes using SG are currently under rewrite to check that
3482 all needful functions are provided. [Christophe Thiery]
3485 * Complete rewrite of the KCCFLN05 workstation model. It is now an
3486 extension of the classical CLM03 model that gracefully handles
3487 failures. This is now the default model for MSG and GRAS. It doesn't
3488 handle parallel tasks yet though. [AL]
3489 * Bug fix: Weights were not correctly set in the network part.
3490 WARNING: This may have resulted in incorrect results with simulations
3491 where there are more than one flow on a given link. [AL]
3494 * After a (long ?) discussion on simgrid-devel, we have decided that the
3495 convention we had on units was stupid. That is why it has been decided
3496 to move from (MBits, MFlops, seconds) to (Bits, Flops, seconds).
3497 WARNING: This means that all previous platform files will not work as
3498 such with this version! A warning is issued to ask users to update
3500 A conversion script can be found in the contrib module of the CVS, under
3501 the name contrib/platform_generation/surfxml_update.pl [MQ]
3504 * Bug fix: Processes were started in reverse order, wrt deployment file.
3505 WARNING: if your code relies on this bug, please fix it. [AL]
3506 * Bug fix: Add a test in MSG_task_execute to stop whenever a task is
3507 being executed on two different locations. [AL]
3508 * Bug fix: Failures are now better supported thanks to Derrick's tests
3509 (there was many failure situations I hadn't thought of and that weren't
3510 correctly handled). [AL]
3511 * New function: MSG_host_is_avail indicates you whether a given m_host_t
3515 * New! a real RPC mechanism, as it ought to be since too long. [MQ]
3516 Exception occurring on server-side are propagated back to client (!).
3518 API CHANGE: the callback changed their prototype. Change:
3519 int my_handler(gras_socket_t expeditor, void *payload_data) {
3521 int my_handler(gras_msg_cb_ctx_t ctx , void *payload_data) {
3522 gras_socket_t expeditor=gras_msg_cb_ctx_from(ctx);
3524 * New! function: gras_msg_handleall to deal with all messages arriving
3525 within a given period.
3526 * New! function: gras_socket_server_range to get a server socket in a
3527 range of port numbers (ease to avoid port number conflicts) [MQ]
3528 * New! gras processes display their backtrace when they get a SIGUSR1
3529 or when Ctrl-C is pressed. Use Ctrl-C Ctrl-C to exit.
3530 Sweet to debug RL processes [MQ]
3534 - Do not force experiment sizes to be expressed in kb, or it becomes
3535 impossible to measure the latency this way (needs one byte-long tests)
3536 WARNING: this changes the amok_bw_* function semantic. [MQ]
3537 - Implements the link saturation stuff. [MQ]
3538 * Peer management module:
3539 New! module factorizing code that we wrote over and over [MQ].
3542 * New module: cunit (my jUnit implementation in ansi C) [MQ]
3543 - Test units are placed directly into the library code, they get extracted
3544 automatically and placed into the src/testall binary.
3545 - Convert most of the XBT tests to this system.
3546 * New functions: xbt_dynar_getfirst_as() and xbt_dynar_getlast_as() [MQ]
3547 * XML parsing: rewrote parts of flexml to enable multiple xml parsers to
3548 live in the same C code. This required to change a little bit the API
3549 of surfxml parsing but shouldn't be an issue for end-users. [AL]
3550 * New module: sparse graph structure with basic algorithms (this is work
3551 in progress and the API is not considered to be frozen yet). [AL]
3552 * Display more information on backtraces: source line & function names are
3553 now displayed just like valgrind does (rely on addr2line tool) [MQ]
3554 * New function: xbt_backtrace_display(). Sweet while debugging [MQ]
3555 * Reworked a little bit some #include statements to load only required
3556 headers. Some user code that relied on SimGrid to include stdlib or
3557 stdio may need to include it by themselves. [AL]
3558 * Fixed xbt/log.h. A missing SG_BEGIN_DECL prevented compilation with
3560 * Renamed xbt_host_t into xbt_peer_t since it betterly describes what I
3561 meant. This breaks the API of AMOK and of xbt/config. Sorry about this,
3562 but I guess that almost nobody used those parts. [MQ]
3564 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:32:27 +0200
3566 SimGrid (3.0.1) stable; urgency=low
3569 * Unfortunately, I had missed 5 misnamed functions:
3570 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_newitem(void);
3571 void xbt_fifo_freeitem(xbt_fifo_item_t);
3572 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getFirstItem(xbt_fifo_t l);
3573 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getNextItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
3574 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getPrevItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
3575 They're now deprecated. Please use their new versions:
3576 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_new_item(void);
3577 void xbt_fifo_free_item(xbt_fifo_item_t);
3578 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_first_item(xbt_fifo_t l);
3579 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_next_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
3580 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_prev_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
3582 * Bugfix: really disconnect fifo items which are remove_item()ed [AL]
3583 * Documentation: xbt_log module unmercifully reworked [MQ]
3584 * Bugfix: there was a problem with the ending of contexts with
3585 the pthread backend. It caused some weird deadlock or behavior
3586 depending on the pthread implementation. [AL]
3587 * Bugfix: get the exceptions raised in the simulator repport where
3588 and why they come from when they are not caught in time [AL, MQ]
3591 * Bugfix: Do repport the error when two non-connected hosts try to
3592 exchange data (Thanks to Flavien for stumbling into this one) [AL]
3595 * Add additionnal checkings on communications. Assert that two
3596 communicating hosts are connected by a set of links... [AL]
3599 * Add additionnal checkings on channel values in communication [AL]
3600 * New: MSG_task_get_source to see on which host a task was generated [HC]
3601 * New: int MSG_task_probe_from_host(int channel, m_host_t host): returns
3602 the number of tasks waiting to be received on channel and sent
3604 * New: MSG_error_t MSG_task_get_from_host(m_task_t * task, int channel, m_host_t host);
3605 waits for the first task coming from a given host.. [AL]
3607 GRAS new functionnalities: [MQ]
3608 * Enhance the parsing macro to allow the size of multidimentional objects
3609 to be given thru annotations.
3610 * New example (and documentation): Matrix Multiplication a la RPC
3611 (as when I was young!) and fix a bunch of bugs found on the way.
3613 GRAS performance improvements: [MQ]
3615 * Reduce the amount of cbps creation/destruction by making it static to
3616 datadesc_send/recv() and using a (newly created) cbps_reset (based on
3619 * Change libdata to a set so that we can search for stuff by ID (and thus
3620 reduce the insane amount of dict lookups)
3623 * Actually implement gras_datadesc_copy() so that we don't have to mimick
3624 RL communication on top of SG since it's so uneffective.
3625 It may also be used for inter-thread communication in RL, one day.
3626 * Use gras_datadesc_copy() to exchange messages on top of SG
3628 - improve message exchange performance on top of SG
3629 - deprecate transport_plugin_sg.c:gras_trp_sg_chunk_send() & recv()
3630 * Don't exchange on the network the size of the used part of buffer,
3631 instead, specify the possible buffer size to read().
3633 - reduces the amount of read/write calls (one pair per exchange)
3634 - reduces the amount of exchanged data (the size)
3635 - allows to retrieve all arrived data on receiver side, if we don't need
3636 it right now (subsequent read will peek the buffer)
3637 - allows the receiver to proceed with the beginning of the stream before
3638 everything is arrived
3639 - make it possible to build an iov transport (using readv/writev)
3641 - take care of the data with non-stable storage (like stacked data),
3643 * If possible, TCP send uses vector I/O (when writev() is here)
3644 - Don't use it for receive since we send data sizes and data on the
3645 same stream, so we wouldn't be able to chain large amount of chunks
3646 before having to flush the stuff to read the size.
3647 * Rework the transport plugin mechanism to simplify it and reduce the
3648 amount of pointer dereferencement when searching for the right function
3651 * I guess that now, we do almost as few system calls as possible while
3652 doing as few data copy as possible.
3654 To improve it further, we could try to send all the sizes first and then
3655 all the data (to use iov on receiving size), but it's only a partial
3656 solution: when you have 2 dimensional data, the sizes of the second
3657 dimension is data of the first dimension, so you need 3 streams.
3659 I'm not sure the potential performance gains justify the coding burden.
3661 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:42:20 +0200
3663 SimGrid (3.00) stable; urgency=high
3666 * New! Give the possibility to hijack the surf parser and thus bypass
3667 MSG_create_environment and MSG_launch_application. Have a look at
3668 examples/msg/msg_test_surfxml_bypassed.c to see how it can be done.
3670 -- Arnaud Legrand <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 20 Aug 2005 23:25:25 -0700
3672 SimGrid (2.96) unstable; urgency=low
3677 * New! Exception handling with setjmp or such (code from OSSP ex) [MQ]
3678 This deprecates the xbt_error_t mechanisms.
3679 It modifies (simplifies) all XBT and GRAS API.
3680 MSG API keeps unchanged (exceptions raised by XBT are caught from
3681 within MSG and masked with existing error handling facilities)
3684 * New! Add a FATPIPE model. [AL]
3685 * New! Add a parallel task model. [AL]
3686 * New! Add automatically a loopback interface (in the default
3687 network model) if none was precised.
3690 * Bugfix: MSG_process_resume now works with the current running process.
3692 * New! Add MSG_parallel_task_create and MSG_parallel_task_execute. [AL]
3693 * Modification of MSG_task_get_compute_duration. Once a task has been
3694 processed, the value returned by this function is now equal to 0. [AL]
3695 * New! Add double MSG_task_get_remaining_computation(m_task_t task) and
3696 MSG_error_t MSG_task_cancel(m_task_t task). Add a state
3697 (MSG_TASK_CANCELLED) to MSG_error_t corresponding to the cancelation
3698 of a m_task. For now, MSG_task_cancel only works with computation
3700 * New! Add double MSG_get_host_speed(m_host_t h) that returns the speed
3701 of the processor (in Mflop/s) regardless of the current load on the
3703 * API Change: use proper naming convention for MSG_getClock and
3704 MSG_process_isSuspended: MSG_get_clock and MSG_process_is_suspended.
3706 * New! Add void MSG_task_set_priority(m_task_t task, double priority).
3707 This function changes the priority of a computation task. This priority
3708 doesn't affect the transfer rate. A priority of 2 will make a task
3709 receive two times more cpu power than the other ones. This function
3710 has been added to suit the needs of Nguyen The Loc and hasn't been that
3711 much tested yet. So if it fails, please report it and send me your code.
3713 * API Change: removed all functions and types that were marked "deprecated"
3714 since many months. Renamed MSG_global_init_args to MSG_global_init.
3716 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:58:47 -0700
3718 SimGrid (2.95) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * Steal some nice code to GNU pth to fix context detection and usage [AL]
3722 * Cleanup in the xbt_config API; add configuration callbacks. [MQ]
3723 * Cleanup in the initialization API: the unused "defaultlog" is dead. [MQ]
3726 * Bugfix: Allow absolute paths for platform description files [MQ]
3727 * Bugfix: do free the variables after use. Leads to drastic performance
3729 * Implement max_duration (ie, timeouts) on resources [AL]
3732 * Implement MSG_config to configure MSG at runtime. xbt_cfg test on a real
3734 * Implement MSG_channel_select_from() to help GRAS now that SURF provide
3735 the needed support (timeouts) [AL]
3738 * Implement measurement sockets. You can now get the bandwidth between two
3739 hosts thanks to AMOK (see below). [MQ]
3740 * gras_datadesc_dynar() builds a dynar type descriptor, allowing to send
3741 dynar over the network (yeah) [MQ]
3742 * Real (even if simplistic) implementation of gras_os_myname() on RL [MQ]
3743 * simple/static token-ring example. [Alexandre Colucci and MQ]
3744 * Use MSG_channel_select_from() and remove the *slow* hack we had to put
3745 in place before [MQ]
3748 * Differentiate the types "char[22]" and "unsigned char[22]" in automatic
3749 type parsing. "short" and "long" modifiers were also ignored; other
3750 modifier (such as reference level) are still ignored. [MQ]
3751 * Embeed the buffer size within the buffer itself on SG. [MQ]
3752 That way, send() are atomic and cannot get intermixed anymore (at least
3753 the ones which are less than 100k; bigger messages still have the issue)
3754 * Array size pushed by the field, not by the field type (or each
3755 and every long int will push stuff to the cbps) [MQ]
3756 * use select() to sleep since it allows to portably sleep less than one
3759 GRAS (minor cleanups)
3760 * <project>.Makefile.local (generated from gras_stub_generator) |MQ]:
3763 * Type Callbacks now receive the gras_datadesc_type_t they work on as argument.
3764 * type category 'ignored' killed as it was never used and were difficult
3766 * whether a type can cycle or not is now a flag, leaving room for more
3767 flags (as "ignored", if we feel the need one day ;)
3768 * Rename raw sockets to measurement sockets since "raw" has another
3769 meaning in networking community.
3772 * Advanced Metacomputing Overlay Kit introduction. It is based over GRAS
3773 and offers features not belonging to GRAS but that most applications
3774 need. One day, it may be a set of plugins loadable at runtime.
3775 * New module: bandwidth
3776 bandwidth measurement between arbitrary nodes running this module. [MQ]
3778 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:29:20 -0700
3780 SimGrid (2.94) unstable; urgency=low
3782 The first beta release of SimGrid 3 !
3786 * Update the main page and the FAQ. Adding references to gforge.
3789 * Add a gras_os_getpid function.
3792 * Add MSG_task_get_compute_duration() and MSG_task_get_data_size()
3793 * Extend the logs so that they also print PID, hostname, date, ... if
3795 * Convert the MSG example to the use of xbt_logs instead of PRINT_MESSAGE,
3796 and kill the old version which were in testsuite/
3797 * Rewrite tools/MSG_visualization/colorize.pl for using with logs instead
3801 * Add xbt_os_time(). As the rest of xbt/portability, this is not public
3802 for users. Instead, each programming environment (GRAS, MSG,...) use it
3803 when needed to provide such a feature to users.
3804 Don't shortcut the mechanism or you will also shortcut the virtualization
3805 you need on the simulator.
3809 * Cleanups in configury with regard to compile optimization/warning flags.
3810 Also add -fno-loop-optimize to any powerpc since it's the optimization
3811 killing gcc (< 3.4.0).
3812 * Doxygen cleanups: move MSG examples, kill the second Doxygen phase
3813 needed by MSG examples complications
3814 * Borrow configury beautifications from PHP
3817 * Bugfix: XBT_LOG_NEW_DEFAULT_CATEGORY now compiles without compiler
3818 warning (thanks loris for stumbling into this one).
3819 * Bugfix: stop loading private headers (gras_config.h) from the public
3823 * Change SIMGRID_INSTALL_PATH to GRAS_ROOT in Makefiles generated for user.
3824 * Rename gras_get_my_fqdn to gras_os_myname and implement it in the simulator
3825 RL would imply a DNS resolver, which is *hard* to do in a portable way
3826 (and therefore delayed).
3827 * Implement a real timer mechanism and use it in timing macros. This allows
3828 to avoid rounding errors and get a 0.000005 sec precision in timing
3829 macros. While I was at it, various cleanups:
3830 - allow to declare more than one timed section per file (fix a stupid bug)
3831 - move some private declaration to the right place
3832 - merge conditional execution and timing macros into emulation module
3833 - document the module
3834 - make sure the module cleanups its mess on gras_exit
3835 * Documentation improvements:
3836 - (new) how to compile applications using GRAS
3837 - (new) emulation support (timing macros)
3839 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 13 May 2005 10:49:31 +0200
3841 SimGrid (2.93) unstable; urgency=low
3843 Alpha 4 on the path to SimGrid 3 (aka the "neuf-trois" version)
3846 - Use Paje properly where used. Still to be sanitized properly.
3847 - Portability fix: Add an implementation of the contexts using pthread
3851 - Add xbt_procname(): returns the name of the current process.
3852 Use it to show the current process's name in all logging.
3854 - fix detection of older flex version and the reaction, since we do
3855 depend on modern ones (we use lex_destroy)
3856 - Better separation of SG and RL in the libs: remove all simulation code
3857 from libgras. As a result, this lib is now only 200k when stripped.
3858 Some of the xbt modules may also be duplicated (two sets and such) and
3859 should be cleaned/killed before SG3.
3860 - Insist on using xlC on AIX because of weird problems involving gcc there.
3861 - Cleanup the make remote stuff. This is now done by scripts
3862 tools/graspe-{master,slave} (GRAS Platform Expender). This is still
3863 mainly for our private use, but we're working on changing them to user
3866 - Bugfix: flush the socket on close only if there is some *output*.
3867 - Bugfix: flush idempotent when there's nothing to send (don't send size=0)
3869 - Add MSG_task_get_name. The task names are mainly for debugging purpose,
3872 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:32:37 -0800
3874 SimGrid (2.92) unstable; urgency=low
3876 Alpha 3 on the path to SimGrid 3
3880 - New! First try of benchmarking macros.
3881 - New! First try so that gras_stub_generator generate deployment and
3882 remote compilation helpers.
3884 - Bugfix: Initialization fix in msg_test.
3888 - Bugfix: applied patch to lexer so that it doesn't need a huge heap.
3890 - Bugfix: let dicts work with NULL content (_foreach didn't) and cleanups
3892 - API Change: gras_os_sleep to take the amount of seconds as a double.
3893 Accepting an int was error prone since it was the only location where
3894 seconds were coded as such. It leaded to damn rounding errors.
3895 - Bugfix: Hard to belive that timers ever worked before this.
3897 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:09:21 +0100
3899 SimGrid (2.91) unstable; urgency=low
3901 Alpha 2 on the path to SimGrid 3
3905 - Bug fix in the lmm_solver.
3907 - New! Interface to Paje (see http://www-id.imag.fr/Logiciels/paje/)
3908 through the function MSG_paje_output.
3909 - New! Introducing two new functions MSG_process_kill() and MSG_process_killall().
3910 - It is possible to bound the rate of a communication in MSG with
3911 MSG_task_put_bounded() (was already in the previous version but I had forgotten
3912 to write it in the changelog).
3913 - Bug fix to let GRAS run on top of MSG until we move it directly on top
3918 - Various cleanups to the autotools stuff
3919 - Begin to move Gras examples to examples/gras/
3920 - Let make distcheck work again (yeah!)
3922 - documentation overhauled using doxygen.
3923 gtk-doc-tools is dead in SimGrid now.
3924 - Automatically extract all existing logging categories, and add the list
3925 to the documentation (long standing one, to say the less)
3927 - Cleanup the known architecture table. Reorder the entries to group what
3928 should be, and use a more consistent naming scheme.
3929 (some of the test dataset are still to be regenerated)
3930 - New! Allow library to register globals on each process just as userdata
3932 This is implemented using a xbt_dict and not a xbt_set, so we loose the
3933 lookup time (for now).
3934 Use it in msg and trp.
3935 This cleans a lot the internals and helps enforcing privacy of the
3936 headers between the gras components.
3937 - New! Add a timer mechanism, not unlike cron(8) and at(1).
3938 - Bugfix: gras_os_time was delirious in RL.
3939 - Bugfix: gras_trp_select/RL don't run into the wall when asked to select
3941 - Reenable GRAS now that it works.
3943 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:02:13 -0800
3945 SimGrid (2.90) unstable; urgency=low
3947 Alpha 1 on the path to SimGrid 3
3949 * It is a long time since the last release of SimGrid. I'm sorry about
3950 that but as I had told you, I was rewriting a lot of things. I apologize
3951 to those who had been reporting bugs to me and that I had not answered.
3952 If your bug is still in the new version, please tell me. Here is a
3953 summary of the main changes.
3955 * REVOLUTION 1: The SimGrid project has merged with the GRAS project
3956 lead by Martin Quinson. As a consequence SimGrid gains a lot in
3957 portability, speed, and a lot more but you'll figure it out later.
3958 SimGrid now comprises 3 different projects: MSG, GRAS and SMPI.
3959 I wanted to release the new MSG as soon as possible and I have
3960 broken GRAS, which is the reason why, for now, only MSG is fully
3961 functional. A laconic description of these projects is available
3962 in the documentation.
3964 * REVOLUTION 2: I have removed SG and I am now using a new simulation
3965 kernel optimized for our needs (called SURF but only the developers
3966 should use it). Hence, MSG is now roughly 30 times faster and I think
3967 that by rewriting a little bit MSG, I could event speed it up a little
3968 bit more. Beside the gain in speed, it is also much easier to encode a
3969 new platform model with SURF than it was with SG. More to come...
3971 * REVOLUTION 3: I have tried to change a little as possible the API of
3972 MSG but a few things really had to disappear. The main differences
3973 with the previous version are:
3974 1) no more m_links_t and the corresponding functions. Platforms are
3975 directly read from an XML description and cannot be hard-coded
3976 anymore. The same format is used for application deployment
3977 description. The new format is described in the documentation.
3978 Have a look in tools/platform_generation. There is a tiny script
3979 that converts from the old platform format to the new one. Concerning
3980 the application deployment format, parsing the old one is tricky.
3981 I think most of you should however be able to convert your files. If
3982 it is really an issue, I can write a C code that does the conversion.
3984 2) the toolbox tbx does not exist anymore. We now have a library
3985 with much more data-structures but without the hash-tables (we have
3986 dictionaries that are much faster).
3988 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:45:53 -0800
3990 *****************************************************************************
3991 * Follows the old GRAS changelog. It does not follow the same syntax, but I *
3992 * don't feel like converting the oldies. (Mt) *
3993 *****************************************************************************
3996 Version 2.90: "the long awaited one"
3997 - Finished rewriting and debugging MSG. Rewrote the documentation.
3998 - disable GRAS for now since it needs to be ported to the newest SG
4001 - Finish the port to windows (using mingw32 for cross-compile)
4004 - Main loop and datastructures of SURF. A cpu resource object is
4005 functional. Surf can thus be used to create cpu's with variable
4006 performance on which you can execute some actions.
4008 2004-11-15 Martin Quinson
4009 - Port to ARM. Simply added the alignment and size descriptions. Should
4010 work, but the ARM machines are so slow that I didn't had the opportunity
4011 to 'make check' over there yet.
4013 2004-11-15 Arnaud Legrand
4014 - Trace manager now written. It uses a heap structure and is therefore
4015 expected to be efficient. It may however be speeded up (particularly
4016 when many events occur at the same date) by using red and black
4017 trees. One day maybe...
4018 - Max-min linear system solver written. It uses a sparse matrix
4019 structure taking advantage of its expected use. Most operations are
4020 O(1) and free/calloc are called as few as possible. The computation of
4021 the minimum could however be improved by using a red and black tree
4024 2004-11-03 Arnaud Legrand
4025 - Rename every gras_* function that was in xbt/ to its xbt_
4027 - Add a heap and a doubly-linked list to xbt
4028 - Added a dichotomy to the dictionaries. make check works as well before
4029 so I assume that the patch is correct. I do not know however if things
4030 run effectively faster than before now. :)
4032 Inclusion of the SimGrid tree in the GRAS one. The archive is renamed to
4033 SimGrid, and the version number is bumped to 2.x
4035 2004-10-29 Martin Quinson
4036 - Introduction of the remote errors.
4037 They are the result of a RMI/RPC on the remote machine.
4038 ErrCodes being scalar values, you can't get the host on which those
4039 errors did happen. Extending the error mechanism as in Gnome is possible.
4040 No idea yet whether it is a good idea.
4042 2004-10-28 Martin Quinson
4043 - Interface revolution: the Starred Structure Eradication.
4044 I used to do typedef struct {} toto_t; and then handle *toto_t.
4045 Arnaud (and Oli) didn't like it, and I surrendered. Now, you have:
4046 - ???_t is a valid type (builded with typedef)
4047 - s_toto_t is a structure (access to fields with .)
4048 - s_toto is a structure needing 'struct' keyword to be used
4049 - e_toto_t is an enum
4050 - toto_t is an 'object' (struct*)
4052 typedef struct s_toto {} s_toto_t, *toto_t;
4053 typedef enum {} e_toto_t;
4054 Moreover, only toto_t (and e_toto_t) are public. The rest (mainly
4055 s_toto_t) is private.
4057 - While I was at it, all gras_<obj>_free() functions want a gras_<obj>_t*
4058 so that it can set the variable to NULL. It was so for dicts and sets,
4059 it changed for dynars.
4061 - Fix a bunch of memleaks in dict_remove
4062 - Fix a bug in sg/server_socket opening: it failed all the time.
4064 2004-10-07 Martin Quinson
4065 - Speed up dynar lookup operation a bit.
4067 gras_dynar_get is dead.
4069 Now, you can choose between gras_dynar_get_cpy (the old gras_dynar_get
4070 but should be avoided for efficiency reasons) and gras_dynar_get_ptr
4071 (which gives you the address of the stored data).
4073 gras_dynar_get_as is an helpful macro which allows you to retrieve a
4074 copy of the data using an affectation to do the job and not a memcpy.
4076 int toto = gras_dynar_get_as(dyn,0,int); rewrites itself to
4077 int toto = *(int*)gras_dynar_get_ptr(dyn,0);
4079 It does not really speedup the dynar test because they are
4080 setting elements all the time (and look them seldom). But the dict does
4081 far more lookup than setting.
4083 So, this brings the dict_crash test from ~33s to ~25s (200000 elms).
4085 2004-10-05 Martin Quinson
4086 - Allow to (en/dis)able the cycle detection at run time.
4088 Whether we should check for cycle or not is now a property of each
4089 datatype. When you think there may be some cycle, use datadesc_cycle_set.
4090 datadesc_cycle_unset allow to remove this property when previously set.
4092 Note that the cycle detection is off by default since it impacts the
4093 performance. Watch the data you feed GRAS with ;)
4095 This property is hereditary. Any element embedded in a structure having it
4096 set have it set for the time of this data exchange.
4098 You should set it both on sender and receiver side. If you don't set it on
4099 sender side, it will enter an endless loop. If you forget on receiver
4100 side, the cycles won't be recreated after communication.
4102 - Header reorganization.
4103 Kill gras_private.h, each submodule must load the headers it needs.
4105 2004-10-04 Martin Quinson
4106 - Interface revolution: do not try to survive to malloc failure.
4108 Now, gras_malloc and friends call gras_abort() on failure.
4109 As a conclusion, malloc_error is not a valid error anymore, and all
4110 functions for which it was the only gras_error_t return value are
4111 changed. They now return void, or there result directly.
4112 This simplify the API a lot.
4114 2004-09-29 Martin Quinson
4115 - Re-enable raw sockets.
4116 Created by gras_socket_{client,server}_ext;
4117 Used with gras_raw_{send,recv}
4120 It should allow to kill the last bits of gras first version soon.
4122 This is not completely satisfactory yet (duplicate code with
4123 chunk_{send,recv}; a bit out of the plugin mechanism), but it should
4126 - Simplify transport plugin (internal) interface by not passing any
4127 argument to _server and _client, but embedding them in the socket
4130 2004-09-28 Martin Quinson
4131 - Finish the port to AIX.
4132 autoconf was my problem (segfault within the malloc replacement
4133 function. No idea why)
4135 2004-09-16 Martin Quinson
4136 - Fix some size_t madness on 64bit architectures.
4138 2004-09-08 Martin Quinson
4139 - Reduce the number of system headers loaded, overload some more system
4140 calls (such as malloc to cast the result of the system one, and work
4142 - Fix and reintroduce the config support
4144 2004-09-07 Martin Quinson
4145 - Source code reorganization to allow Arnaud to surf all over there.
4146 - Allow to document the logging categories.
4147 - Remove all uppercase from logging categories and useless cleanup in names.
4149 2004-08-18 Martin Quinson
4150 Version 0.6.2 (protocol not changed; API changed)
4151 - Interface cleanup: gras_msgtype_by_name returns the type (instead of a
4152 gras_error_t), and NULL when not found. Functions expecting a msgtype
4153 as argument (msg_wait; msg_send) deal with NULL argument by providing a
4154 hopefully usefull message.
4155 - Portability to prehistoric sparcs again
4157 2004-08-17 Martin Quinson
4158 Version 0.6.1 (protocol not changed; ABI not changed)
4159 - prealloc some buffers to speed things up
4161 2004-08-11 Martin Quinson
4162 Version 0.6 (protocol not changed; ABI expended)
4163 - The parsing macro can deal with the references, provided that you add
4164 the relevant annotations (using GRAS_ANNOTE(size,field_name))
4166 2004-08-09 Martin Quinson
4167 Version 0.5 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
4168 - Allow to off turn the cycle detection code in data exchange at
4169 compilation time. It should be at run time, but I'm short of time (and
4170 the config stuff is still broken). That way, we keep dict out of the
4171 critical path, which is good because the performance is poor:
4172 - search not dichotomial yet
4173 - dynar give no way to access their content and memcpy everytime
4174 - In composed data description (struct, ref and so on), stop foolness of
4175 keeping the subtype's ID, but store the type itself. This keeps sets out
4176 of the critical path, which is good since they rely on dynar and
4177 dictionaries. The only loose of that is that we cannot detect the
4178 redeclaration of a structure/union with another content (but I'm not sure
4179 the code detected well this error before anyway). We still can detect
4180 the redefinition discrepancy for the other types.
4181 - Use a whole bunch of optimisation flags (plus -fno-strict-aliasing since
4182 it breaks the code because of type-punning used all over the place).
4183 This breaks on all non-gcc architectures (for now).
4185 All those changes (plus the buffer of last time) allow me to gain 2 order
4186 of magnitude on cruel tests consisting of 800000 array of integers on two
4187 level of a hierarchical structure (200 secondes -> 4 secondes)
4190 - the selector of reference must now return the type it points to, not
4191 the ID of this type.
4193 2004-08-06 Martin Quinson
4194 Version 0.4 (protocol changed; ABI not changed)
4195 - Allow to pass --gras-log argument to processes in simulation mode. Really.
4196 - New debugging level: trace (under debug) to see effect of GRAS_IN/OUT
4197 - Implement a buffer transport, and use it by default (it relies on tcp in
4198 real life and on sg in simulation).
4199 That's a bit hackish since I had a new field to the structure to store
4200 its data without interfering with the subtype ones. Inheritance
4201 is tricky in C. And that's a kind of reverse inheritance with one class
4202 derivating two classes. Or maybe a game with java interfaces. Anyway,
4203 that's damn hard in C (at least).
4204 Moreover, I got tired while trying to ensure plugin separation and
4205 genericity in SG mode. MSG wants me to do weird things, so let's go for
4206 cruel hacks (temporarily of course ;).
4207 See comment in transport_private.h:71
4208 - do not include all the _interface headers in private but in the files
4209 which really need them (to cut the compilation time when they are
4212 2004-07-26 Martin Quinson
4213 Version 0.3 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
4214 - Major overhault of the datadesc interface to simplify it:
4215 - shorted the function names:
4216 s/gras_datadesc_declare_struct/gras_datadesc_struct/ and so on
4217 - add a trivial way to push/pop integers into the cbps without malloc.
4218 This allows to make really generic sub_type description, which simply
4219 pop their size of the stack.
4220 - add a function gras_datadesc_ref_pop_arr() which does what users want
4221 most of the time: Declare a dynamic array (which pops its size of the
4222 stack) and declare a reference to it. Poor name, but anyway.
4223 - kill the post-send callback, add a post-receive one
4225 2004-07-23 Martin Quinson
4226 Version 0.2 (protocol changed; ABI changed)
4227 - add some testing for cpbs in the test cases, and fix some more bugs.
4228 This invalidate again the little64 data file, since I cannot regenerate
4230 - remove an awfull optimization in the logging stuff, allowing me to:
4231 - understand it again
4232 - learn gcc how to check that the argument match the provided format
4233 - fix all errors revealed by gcc after that
4234 - internal keys of dict are not \0 terminated. Deal with it properly in
4235 loggings instead of segfaulting when the user want to see the logs :-/
4237 2004-07-22 Martin Quinson
4238 - Fix some stupid bug preventing cbps (callback postit) from working
4240 2004-07-21 Martin Quinson
4241 - Some documentation cleanups
4242 - remove the useless last argument of msgtype_declare
4243 - rename the Virtu functions to fit into the 'os' namespace
4244 - move headers src/include -> src/include/gras/ and stop fooling with
4245 gras -> . symbolic link
4246 - make distcheck is now successful
4248 2004-07-19 Martin Quinson
4250 - Build shared library also
4251 - Install html doc to the right location
4252 - stop removing maintainer files in make clean
4253 - build tests only on make check
4255 2004-07-13 Martin Quinson
4257 - No major issue in previous version => change versioning schema
4258 - Re-enable little64 convertion test now that Abdou kindly regenerated the
4259 corresponding dataset.
4261 2004-07-11 Martin Quinson
4263 - Get it working with any kind of structure (we can compute the padding
4264 bytes remotely for all the architectures I have access to)
4265 - Implement the structure parsing macro (still not quite robust/complete)
4266 - Improvement to the remote testing toysuite
4268 2004-07-10 Martin Quinson
4269 [autoconf mechanism]
4270 - get ride of a bunch of deprecated macros
4271 - actually run the test for two-compliment, not only compile it :-/
4272 - test whether the structures get packed (and bail out if yes. Damn.
4273 Alignment is a serious matter)
4274 - test whether the structures get compacted (but respecting the alignment
4275 constraints of each types)
4276 - test whether the array fields of structures can straddle alignment boundaries
4278 - Damnit, double are bigger than float (typo in creation of 'double' datadesc)
4279 (took me 2 hours to find that bug, looking at the wrong place)
4280 - Add gras_datadesc_declare_{union,struct}_close(). They must be used
4281 before sending/receiving and are used to compute the offsets of fields
4282 - Given that padding size depend even on compiler options, keep track of
4283 alignment and aligned_size only for the current architecture. Not a big
4284 deal since we send structure fields one after the other (seems
4286 - Add the datastructure used for IEEE paper by the PBIO guys to the test
4287 program, let it work on linux/gcc/little32. portability todo.
4289 2004-07-08 Martin Quinson
4290 - import and improve remote compilation support from FAST
4291 - make sure make check works on half a dozen of machines out there
4293 2004-07-07 Martin Quinson
4294 Let's say it's version 0.0.3 ;)
4295 - Implement conversions (yuhu!)
4296 - Let it work on solaris (beside conversion, of course)
4297 - Stupid me, using rand() to generate the conversion datatests in not wise.
4299 2004-07-06 Martin Quinson
4300 - Let make dist work, since I'm gonna need it to compile on remote hosts
4301 - Let Tests/datadesc_usage write the architecture on which the file was
4302 generated as first byte.
4303 - Add PowerPC (being also IRIX64), SPARC (also power4) and ALPHA
4304 architecture descriptions.
4305 - Add datadesc_usage.{i386,ppc,sparc} files being the result of execution
4306 on those architectures.
4307 - Optimization: send/recv array of scalar in one shoot
4309 2004-07-05 Martin Quinson
4310 - YEAH! GRAS/SG and GRAS/RL are both able to run the ping example !
4312 - Plug a whole bunch of memleaks
4313 - each process now have to call gras_{init,exit}. One day, their log
4314 settings will be separated
4315 - Continue the code factorisation between SG, RL and common in Transport.
4317 2004-07-04 Martin Quinson
4319 - Redistribution between SG and RL.
4320 We wanna have to accept in SG, so move accepted related parts of RL in
4321 the common part. (more precisely, the dynar of all known sockets is no
4322 more a static in transport.c, but part of the process_data)
4324 [gras_stub_generator]
4325 - Bug fix: Do call gras_process_init from gras_init (wasnt called in RL).
4327 2004-07-03 Martin Quinson
4328 - Create a new log channel tbx containing dict, set, log, dynar (to shut
4329 them all up in one shot)
4331 - Fix the ugly case of reference to dynamic array.
4332 - New (semi-public) function gras_datadesc_size to allow the messaging
4333 layer to malloc the needed space for the buffer.
4335 - gras_socket_close now expect the socket to close (and not its address to
4336 put NULL in it after it). This is because the socket passed to handlers
4337 is one of their argument (=> not writable).
4339 - propagate the interface cleanup from last week in datadesc, ie remove a
4340 superfluous level of indirection. User pass adress of variable
4341 containing data (both when sending and receiving), and not of a variable
4342 being a pointer to the data. Let's say that I like it better ;)
4343 The price for that is constructs like "int msg=*(int*)payload" in
4344 handlers, but it's a fine price, IMHO.
4346 - Let it work in RL (yuhu)
4348 2004-06-21 Martin Quinson
4350 - porting SG plugin and SG select to new standards (works almost).
4351 - plug memleaks and fix bugs around.
4354 - cleanup the prototype of data recv and force users to specify when they
4355 want to handle references to objects. Test case working even for cycles.
4356 - plug memleaks. Valgrind is perfectly ok with this.
4358 2004-06-12 Martin Quinson
4360 - cleanup the separation between plugin and main code in plugin creation
4362 2004-06-11 Martin Quinson
4364 - Reput hook for raw sockets, needed for BW experiments
4365 - kill a few lines of dead code
4366 [Data description] Interface cleanup
4367 - gras_datadesc_by_name returns the searched type or NULL.
4368 That way, no variable is needed to use a type desc once, which makes
4370 - gras_datadesc_declare_[struct|union]_append_name is removed. The last
4371 two parameters were strings (field name, type name), leading to
4373 [Dicos] Interface cleanup
4374 - gras_dico_retrieve -> gras_dico_get ; gras_dico_insert -> gras_dico_set
4375 This is consistant with the dynar API.
4377 2004-04-21 Martin Quinson
4379 - Porting to new standards.
4381 - interface cleanup.
4382 There is no bag anymore, no need to take extra provision to mask the
4383 pointers behind "ID".
4384 Better splitup of functions between files create/exchange/convert.
4385 This is still a bit artificial since convert and receive are so
4386 interleaved, but anyway.
4388 - add a queued message list to procdata (the ones not matching criteria
4390 - factorize some more code between SG and RL wrt procdata
4392 - use gras_exit in example to track memleaks
4393 - get rid of gs_example now that GS is properly integrated into gras
4394 - update run_test to integrate the latest tests (datadesc)
4396 - rename WARNINGn macros to WARNn since it prooved error-prone
4398 2004-04-19 Martin Quinson
4400 - register init/exit functions within gras module mechanism
4401 - send/receive function.
4402 Convertion is not implemented, but short-cutted if not needed.
4403 struct/array elements are sent one by one (instead of block-wise), but
4404 nobody really cares (yet). Get a prototype before optimizing.
4405 - tests (using a file socket) for DD send/receive on:
4406 - base types: int, float
4407 - array: fixed size, string (ie ref to dynamic string)
4408 - structure: homogeneous, heterogeneous
4409 - chained list, graph with cycle
4410 Believe it or not, valgrind is not too unhappy with the results. The
4411 cycle happily segfaults, but the others are ok. And I'm sick of pointers
4415 - Bugfix when using a filename explicitly (instead of '-')
4417 2004-04-09 Martin Quinson
4419 - factorize more code between RL and SG in socket creation
4420 - Complete the implementation and tests of:
4422 o file (only in RL, and mainly for debugging)
4424 I lost 3 days to design a portable address resolver, and then decided
4425 that the prototype mainly have to run on my box.
4426 Addressing portability too early may be like optimizing too early :-/
4428 - use gras_init in the Tests instead of the crappy parse_log_opt
4429 (the latter function is removed)
4430 [Conditional execution]
4431 - New functions: gras_if_RL/gras_if_SG (basic support for this)
4432 [Code reorganisation]
4433 - Get rid of libgrasutils.a since it makes more trouble than it solves.
4434 Build examples against the RL library, since there is no way to disable
4435 its creation for now.
4437 For information, the beginning of coding on GRAS was back in june
4438 2003. I guess that every line has been rewritten at least twice since