1 SimGrid (3.11) NOT RELEASED; urgency=low
3 TENTATIVE RELEASE GOALS for 3.11:
4 * Switch to tesh.pl, and kill the now unused parts of xbt that seem fragile
5 * Clean up CMake files (may need a full rewrite).
6 Non exhaustive list of subgoals:
7 - Use genuine cmake mechanisms and variables when available,
8 instead of reinventing the wheel.
9 - Correctly determine system and architecture (e.g. x32).
10 - Correctly determine compiler type and version (e.g. clang).
11 - Correctly set compiler flags according to compiler type and version.
12 - Correctly set compiler flags for C++, Java, and Fortran compilers too.
13 - Use git to generate the dist archive. Either use git-archive to
14 generate the tarball, or keep using cmake -E tar, but use git-ls-files
15 to get the list of files to pack.
20 * Normalizing pointers addresses tool for better diff between logs
23 * Add cloud examples using new VMs
24 - examples/msg/cloud/two_tasks_vm.tesh
25 - examples/msg/cloud/simple_vm.tesh
26 - examples/java/cloud/cloud.tesh
27 - examples/java/cloud/migration/migration.tesh
28 * Add java surf examples:
29 - examples/java/surfPlugin/surf_plugin.tesh
30 - examples/java/reservationSurfPlugin/reservation_surf_plugin.tes
31 - examples/java/surfCpuModel/surf_cpu_model.tesh
36 - msg task destroy cancel test
37 - msg_host on/off test
38 * Move all tests in testsuite to teshsuite (adding tesh files)
39 * Restructure teshsuites
40 - one folder for each kind of test
41 * Restructure AddTests.cmake
43 - structure the order of tests (with sections)
47 - creation of a VM on a PM
48 - migration of a VM from a PM to another PM
50 - MSG_process_join(msg_process_t process, double timeout)
51 * New option "msg/debug_multiple_use" to help debugging when a task is used
55 * Protect context stacks against stack overflow. The number of protected memory
56 pages allocated on the top of each stack (1 by default) can be configured
57 with the new command line option --cfg=contexts/guard_size:<value>.
58 * Simcalls are now generated by a python script that
59 - generates files included by SimGrid
60 - checks that all the functions exist, and proposes prototypes
62 - remove sem_destroy, file_set_data, comm_destroy, vm_set_state,
63 host_set_data, host_get_data
65 - simcall_process_join(smx_process_t process, double timeout)
66 * Fix bug where sleeping processing could not be suspended.
69 * Translate surf models from C to C++
70 - Generic classes for all models: Model, Resource, Action
71 - A generic interface for each kind of model (CPU, Network, Storage
72 Workstation, WorkstationVM)
74 * Translate surf routings from C to C++
75 * Add callbacks using sigc++ or boost::signals2
76 - Add callback functions for resource creation/destruction
77 - Add callback functions for action state change
78 - Handle Energy as a plugin
79 * Replace swag by boost::intrusive
80 * Add new routing model for torus clusters
84 * Hostfiles support host:nb_processes construct to deploy several processes on
86 * Collective communication algorithms should not crash if used with
87 improper number of nodes and report the error.
90 * Options defined in XML work correctly now.
93 * New cmake option, enable_lib_in_jar, to control whether native libraries are
94 copied into simgrid.jar or not (ON by default). Use this option if you want
95 to reduce the size of the installed simgrid.jar, *and* the native libraries
96 are kept installed elsewhere.
97 * Surf binding with SWIG (code generated in maintainer mode only):
98 - plugin to handle callbacks
99 - CPU model only for the moment
102 * Supernovae build mode is definitively removed. It was used to improve
103 inlining and inter-module optimizations. It is nowadays superseded by
104 link-time optimizations commonly available in compilers.
105 * Update ns-3 find lib. Bindings for ns-3 should work again now.
106 * Add boost dependency for surf++
107 * Add new macro for tests
108 - ADD_TESH(name <tesh_args>)
109 - ADD_TESH_FACTORIES(name "thread;ucontext;raw" <tesh_args>)
111 -- $date Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
113 SimGrid (3.10) stable; urgency=low
115 The Clean Diaper Release, a.k.a. SimGrid is leak-free.
118 * Reintegrate Java to the main archive as desynchronizing these
119 package is not acceptable anymore (Java is now considered stable)
120 * Add explicit synchronization facilities through semaphores
121 * Bug fix: Task.setDataSize() only changed the C world, not the value
122 cached in the Java world
125 * Dramatically change the way files are handled. API and internals changed, but
126 this part of MSG was not considered as production grade either.
127 * Add explicit synchronization facilities through semaphores
128 * Add a new function MSG_host_get_process_list()
129 * Preliminary DVFS support (see examples/msg/energy/ for details)
132 * SMPI is now included directly in the libsimgrid as the windows
133 linker doesn't force us on splitting it anymore.
134 * Improvements of the SMPI replay tool:
135 - Most of the collective communications are now rooted in the same process as
136 in the original application.
137 - Traces now rely on the same MPI data type as the application (MPI_BYTE was
138 used until now). Multiple data types can now be used in a trace.
139 - The replay tool now supports traces produce either by TAU or a modified
141 - Bug Fix: the compute part of the reduce action is now taken into account.
142 - Gatherv collective is now supported
143 - SimGrid (SMPI for now) can generate replay traces as well. Option -trace-ti
144 of smpirun outputs time independent traces for the current run. One file
145 is created per process. If too many processes are simulated, this behavior
146 can be changed to one file for all processes by using the
147 tracing/smpi/format/ti_one_file flag
148 * smpirun generates the host file if needed (with given host count and platform)
149 * Integration of more than 100 STAR-MPI, MPICH, OpenMPI collective algorithms
150 - allows to select one in particular with --cfg=smpi/coll_name:algorithm
151 - allows to use the decision logic of OpenMPI(1.7) or MPICH(3.0.4) by setting
152 --cfg=smpi/coll_selector:(mpich/ompi)
153 * Support for new functions : MPI_Issend, MPI_Ssend, Commutative operations in
155 * Add a --cfg:tracing/smpi/internals option, to trace internal communications
156 happening inside a collective SMPI call.
157 * Fix the behavior of complex data types handling.
158 * Make MPI_Wtime another synchronization point to take computations into account.
159 * Replace MPICH-1 test suite by the one from MPICH 3.0.4. Can be built using
160 enable_smpi_MPICH3_testsuite flag in cmake. Run with ctest.
161 * Add all missing Fortran bindings, SMPI should work with Fortran 90
162 (no privatization of global variables yet)
163 * Preliminary DVFS support (see examples/smpi/energy/ for details)
166 * Verification of liveness properties is now available for SMPI applications
167 (in addition to MSG applications)
168 * Bugged examples using SMPI in examples/smpi/mc/
169 * Add --cfg=model-check/visited option. Allows the verification of infinite
170 programs. Detection of loops in the execution thanks to the system state
171 comparison and reduction of the state space to explore. Can be combined with
172 DPOR for safety properties.
175 * Allow to change SimGrid configuration (see --help) within the code
176 thanks to SD_config() as it can be done in MSG.
177 * Add a new function SD_task_set_amount() upon user request.
180 * Handle units for values (10ms, 10kiloflops, 10Bps, 1GB, ...)
181 * Remove rule based routing (no more PCRE dependency)
182 * Add a limiter_link option to cluster tag, to specify a maximum reachable
183 bandwidth in fullduplex mode when it is less than twice the nominal bandwidth.
184 * Add a loopback_bw and loopback_lat options to cluster tag.
185 * Fix the peer tag that could not be mixed with other AS within a Vivaldi
186 routing. Now peers are encapsulated in an AS and have their own private
187 router but this is transparent.
190 * Our own implementation of getline is renamed xbt_getline, and gets
191 used even if the OS provide a getline(). This should reduce the
192 configuration complexity by using the same code on all platforms.
193 * New type: xbt_cfg_elm_boolean.
194 * Allow to use yes/no for boolean configuration options in the command line.
195 * Allow to disable SimGrid cleanups at exit from command line option.
196 There are situations where one may want a simulation to end with an exit.
197 Unfortunately, calling exit may cause SimGrid to segfault, which is quite
198 annoying when scripting around the simulator. Adding a
199 --cfg=clean_atexit:no allows to circumvent this issue.
202 * Lots of memory leaks were corrected in this release.
203 There is no known memory leaks anymore, in all of our 600+ tests.
204 * New command line option --version, to get SimGrid version information.
205 Packagers may want to add extra words to SIMGRID_VERSION_EXTRA defined in
207 * Supernovae builds are deprecated, and expected to be removed in the next
210 -- Sun Nov 17 00:26:44 CET 2013 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
212 SimGrid (3.9) stable; urgency=low
214 The Grasgory release: GRAS is really dead now.
216 * Complete overhaul of the internal host structures scheme.
219 * If you use GRAS, you should stay at SimGrid 3.5 (at most) since it
220 was considered as experimental and badly maintained since then.
221 * Keeping it was thus a trap to our potential users, that could take
222 it instead of MSG or SMPI by mistake despite is pity state.
223 * GRAS seems to have very few users (if any), and no one volunteered
224 to maintain it further. It also induces a lot of XBT code (for
225 portability sake), that must be maintained too.
226 * For all these reasons, we killed GRAS. If someone wants to revive it
227 in the future, don't cry, our git history still remembers of GRAS.
230 * Major overhaul. Merge our documentation again as time proved that
231 splitting it was really not helping our users.
232 * Further improve the developer documentation to help newcomers
233 hacking on SimGrid itself. The user documentation (and in
234 particular, the beginner documentation) is still in a sorry state.
237 * Now works on Windows too!
238 * Much more extensive test suite, from MPICH
241 * Add a new loader (SD_PTG_dotload) that creates a parallel task graph
242 (i.e., a DAG whose nodes are parallel tasks) from a dot file. Creates a
243 dynar of SD_TASK_COMP_PAR_AMDAHL and SD_TASK_COMM_MXN_1D_BLOCK tasks.
244 * Bug fix: let task be scheduled when the last dependency to be solved is
245 a control dependency.
246 * Remove SD_load_environment_script function.
247 Use the C sg_platf function if you want to declare a platform
251 * New function: MSG_process_get_number()
252 * Old function documented: MSG_config()
253 * Remove MSG_load_platform_script function
254 Use the C sg_platf function if you want to declare a platform
258 * Change the default value of the TCP_gamma constant (maximal size of TCP
259 congestion window) to a more realistic 4MiB value. If you notice changes in
260 your simulation results, you can fall back to the previous 20k tiny window
261 by adding --cfg=network/TCP_gamma:20000 on command line.
262 * (Hopefully) fix a bug wrt periodic availability and state traces
263 * Bug fix: use default values at start when first event in availability/state
264 trace is not at time 0.
267 * remove the "new_" part of function name sg_platf_new_trace_connect
268 (resulting in sg_platf_trace_connect), since it does not create
272 * Kill synchronized dynars, and xbt_dynar_dopar(). We cannot think of a
273 use case where it's really mandatory, and maintaining it was a pain in
275 * New: xbt_fifo_search(), search an item with a user-provided
276 comparison function instead of dumb pointer comparison.
279 * Fix the lua deployment:
280 Use `simgrid.init_application()` before deployment instead of
281 `simgrid.msg_register_application()` after.
284 * Transfer the tracing files into the corresponding modules.
286 -- Tue Feb 5 11:31:43 CET 2013 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
288 SimGrid (3.8.1) stable; urgency=low
290 The "we are told that some people want to also *install* the simgrid
293 * Add missing file "tesh.1" to the archive.
295 -- Sat Oct 27 16:12:11 CEST 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
297 SimGrid (3.8) stable; urgency=low
299 The Psssshiiiit release: SimGrid jumps into the Cloud.
302 * Add an experimental interface to manipulate VMs. They are mainly
303 process groups with very few intrinsic semantic, but they should
304 allow you to build the semantic you want easily.
305 * New function: MSG_host_set_property_value()
306 * New function: MSG_process_on_exit(). To clean memory in all cases.
307 * Bug fixes that made the host (and link) failures unusable.
308 * Add a way to auto-restart process when the host in which they are
309 executing comes back (ON_FAILURE="RESTART" on deployment file,
310 MSG_process_auto_restart_set).
311 * Use the "msg_" prefix for all datatypes (instead of m_, msg_ and MSG_),
312 please stop using the old ones, they are DEPRECATED.
314 * Deprecate functions MSG_global_init() / MSG_global_init_args()
315 Please use MSG_init() instead. (reducing the amount of entry
316 points in the library helps us).
317 * Make it impossible to link against the wrong version of the lib
318 * Deprecate MSG_clean(). No need to call it anymore.
319 * Function MSG_get_host_number() is not deprecated anymore.
322 * Split the doc into a user guide and a reference guide.
323 * Start a developper guide to help people hacking on SimGrid.
326 * Enable tracing by default. This modules rocks you should use it.
327 * Remove option custom_flags. Now use environment variables CFLAGS
329 * Use default cmake things to detect lua instead of home grown ones.
330 * New option "enable_mallocators" to disable mallocators, for debugging
331 purpose ("on" by default).
334 * Bug fixes around the resource failures: don't let the processes
335 survive the host they are running onto.
336 * Add an interface to auto-restart processes when the host in which they are
337 executing comes back.
338 * Ensures that SIMIX_clean is called automatically. It's not part of
339 the public interface anymore (bindings should be updated).
342 * Bug fix for when SD_Simulate is called with a positive value: be careful
343 when comparing doubles. Sometimes they are different for non significant
345 * New types of typed tasks. SD_TASK_COMP_PAR_AMDAHL represents a
346 parallel task whose initial work is distributed among host according
347 to the Amdahl's law. Such tasks are created with a parameter alpha
348 that corresponds to the non-parallelizable part of the computation.
349 SD_TASK_COMM_PAR_MXN_1D_BLOCK represents a complex data redistribution
350 between two sets of workstations assuming a 1D block distribution (each
351 workstation owns a similar share of data) on both sides.
353 These tasks can be scheduled with SD_task_schedulel or SD_task_schedulev.
354 Data redistribution will be automatically scheduled once parent and child
355 are both scheduled. The filling of computation_amount and
356 communication_amount structures is now done seamlessly thanks to the chosen
358 * New function SD_workstation_dump to display various information
359 * New function SD_task_set_rate to throttle the bandwidth allowed to be used
360 by a SD_TASK_COMM_E2E typed task. This rate depends on both the nominal
361 bandwidth on the route onto which the task is scheduled and the amount of
363 To divide the nominal bandwidth by 2, the rate then has to be :
364 rate = bandwidth/(2*amount)
365 * Compute tasks that have failed can now be rescheduled and executed again
366 (from their beginning)
367 * Increasing source code coverage (src/simdag is now covered at 95.8%
371 * Re-implement time-independent trace replay using SMPI (at the
372 smpi_smp_* level) instead of MSG. This should replace
373 examples/msg/actions/actions.c
374 * Implement support of MPI Datatypes (vectors, hvectors, indexed,
375 hindexed and structs)
376 * Implement the exchange of non-contiguous data.
377 [Khalid Hasanov & Jean-Noel Quintin] Thanks for the patch, guys.
378 * Correct behavior of smpi/sender_gap and set its default value to 0
379 * Add option to asynchronously send small messages to allow better
380 simulation of pt2pt communications. --cfg=smpi/async_small_threshold:value
381 specifies the size in bytes under which messages will be asynchronously sent.
382 * Add support of MPI_Iprobe, MPI_Probe, MPI_Testall, MPI_Wtick functions
383 * SMPI now handles more MPI specific values in input. Closes [#14389] and [#14388]
386 * New C interface to define a platform: XML is now optional.
387 For more info, please check include/simgrid/platf.h.
388 * New interface to define random platforms from the C:
389 For more info, please check include/simgrid/platf_generator.h and
390 examples/msg/masterslave/masterslave_platfgen.c
391 * Export a sg_cmdline dynar containing all the arguments we got from
395 * Two new tracing options for adding comments to trace file so you
396 can track your experiments (see --help-tracing for details).
397 * New option to generate a impoverished trace file (--cfg=tracing/basic:1)
398 * Adding the SimGrid version that generated the trace file as a comment.
399 * Instrumenting other MSG functions (MSG_task_isend_with_matching and MSG_task_dsend)
400 * Fix to avoid key clashes on Paje links
401 * Other minor fixes related to the Paje specification
404 * Functions xbt_dict_hash() and xbt_dict_hash_ext() are made public,
405 and renamed to xbt_str_hash() and xbt_str_hash_ext().
406 * New function: xbt_os_timer_resume() to restart a timer w/o resetting it.
407 * Greatly improve the robustness of mmalloc to user errors (such as
408 using an area after freeing it, or freeing it twice)
410 -- Thu Oct 25 17:30:06 CEST 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
412 SimGrid (3.7.1) stable; urgency=low
415 * Restore the prototype of MSG_process_create_with_environment() to
416 the pre-3.7 situation by removing the kill_time argument.
417 * Add a MSG_process_set_kill_time() function instead.
420 * Fix weird behaviors when dealing with parallel tasks.
423 * Simgrid is now built as a dll.
424 * Simgrid-java now works on Windows.
425 * Simgrid-Java is now included into Windows package.
428 * First pre-build package for MacOSX.
431 * Fix compilation when using MSG_USE_DEPRECATED.
432 * Fix some compilation issues on Macs and Windows.
433 * Reduce the number of failing tests on exotic systems, like Debian/Hurd.
434 * Environment variables CFLAGS and LDFLAGS are now honored by cmake.
436 We discovered that the Lua console is broken, but we are missing the
437 manpower to fix it right now. The problem existed in 3.7 too, so we
438 are not blocking the release for that. Sorry if you depended on this
439 feature, any help would be really welcome.
441 -- Thu Jun 7 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
443 SimGrid (3.7) stable; urgency=low
445 The "spring cleanups (before the next Big Project kicks in)" release.
448 * We can specify the SMPI latency/bandwidth factor with command line
449 add --cfg=smpi/bw_factor:"threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"
450 or add --cfg=smpi/lat_factor:"threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"
451 You can also use the "config tag" from platform file by adding this line
452 <prop id="smpi/bw_factor" value="threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"></prop>
453 (see "example/platforms/tag_config.xml" to use "config tag").
454 Note that the command line supersedes the platform file configuration.
455 * Change the correction factors used in LMM model, according to
456 the latest experiments described in INRIA RR-7821.
457 Accuracy should be improved this way.
458 * Use the partial invalidation optimization by default for the
459 network too. Should produce the exact same results, only faster.
460 * Major cleanup in surf to merge models and split some optimization
461 mechanisms from the core of the models. As a result you can now
462 specify which model to use (e.g., --cfg=network/model:LV08
463 --cfg=cpu/model:Cas01) and which optimization mode to use
464 (e.g., --cfg=network/optim:lazy --cfg=cpu/optim:TI).
465 Incompatible combinations should err at initialization. See
466 --help-models for the list of all models and optimization modes.
467 * The CLM03 workstation model was dropped for simplicity because it
468 used the deprecated CM02 network model. Use default instead.
469 * Rename the TCP_gamma configuration option to network/TCP_gamma
470 * Rename the coordinates configuration option to
471 network/coordinates, and document it
472 * Use now crosstraffic keyword instead of the terribly misleading
473 fullduplex keyword. It is activated by default now in the current
474 default model, use --cfg=network/crosstraffic:0 to turn it off.
475 * Ongoing refactoring the model parsing to make XML files optional
476 See include/simgrid/platf.h for details (still to be completed)
479 * Major overhaul of the documentation. Almost instructive now :/
480 * Deprecate the use of m_channel_t mechanism like MSG_task_{get,put}
481 functions and friends. This interface was considered as
482 deprecated since over 2 years, it's time to inform our users that it is.
483 Switch to MSG_task_{send,recv} instead, or compile SimGrid command line
484 'cmake -Dcustom_flags="-DMSG_USE_DEPRECATED" .' if you really need to
485 use these (crappy) functions in your code.
486 These functions will be removed soon. Stop using them now.
487 * Deprecate MSG_get_host_{table,number}
488 Implement MSG_hosts_as_dynar() instead.
489 * Implement MSG_processes_as_dynar() (Closes gforge #13642)
490 * Remove the public field msg_host_t->name. Use MSG_host_get_name()
493 * Stabilize the parallel execution mode of user contexts
494 * Introduce configuration variables to control parallel execution:
495 - contexts/synchro: Synchronization mode to use when running
496 contexts in parallel (either futex, posix or busy_wait)
497 - contexts/parallel_threshold: Minimal number of user contexts
498 that must be part of a scheduling round to switch to parallel
499 execution mode (raw contexts only)
500 * Fix bugs that prevented to use suspend/resume along with
501 synchronization structures.
502 * Fix bugs in process termination that lead to invalid memory access
503 in very specific conditions.
506 * Introduce a parallel mode for the models (controlled by surf/nthreads
507 configuration item). In our tests, running the models in parallel
508 never lead to any speedups because they are so fast that the gain
509 of computing each model in parallel does not amortizes the
510 synchronization costs, even when ultra fast futexes are used.
511 This is released anyway because YMMV.
514 * Performance boost by using a swag internally to compute the set of
515 tasks that are finished and should constitute the return value of
519 * Enable it by default now that it is considered rather stable.
522 * Documentation of the tracing functions.
523 * Performance gains when tracing categorized/uncategorized resource
524 utilization by avoiding calls to get route when updating resource
525 variables. LMM constraints are being used instead.
526 * API changed to set task categories. Use MSG_task_set_category instead
527 of TRACE_msg_set_task_category, and SD_task_set_category instead
528 of TRACE_sd_set_task_category. They only work if ENABLE_TRACING is ON.
529 * Bugfix for graphicator, routes not correctly obtained, memory leaks
530 * Examples for link user variables added (see at examples/msg/tracing/)
531 * Deprecated function TRACE_msg_set_process_category completely removed
532 * Trace header updated according to the latest Paje file format
533 * Tracing network lazy updates, no longer obligate users to use full updates
534 * --cfg=tracing/platform:1 also registers power/bandwidth variables
535 * Experimental: let user code declare/set/push/pop application states for hosts
536 * API changed to allow the manual creation of graph configuration files
537 for Triva. See TRACE_get_node_types() and TRACE_get_edge_types().
540 * Improve the API of Lua MSG bindings, using the Lua spirit.
541 * Each simulated process now lives in its own Lua world (globals are
542 automatically duplicated). It helps writing simulators. Will allow
543 to run Splay programs within SimGrid in the future.
544 * Add a Chord example in Lua, equivalent to the MSG one.
547 * Start the implementation of a solution to express temporal
548 properties, not only local assertions. This is still an
549 experimental work in progress, stay clear from it to be safe.
553 - Add new runtime parameters --help-logs and --help-log-categories
554 to display informations about supported logging parameters and
556 - Old deprecated parameters --{gras,surf,msg,simix,xbt}-log=...
557 don't exists anymore.
558 * Mallocators: allow value NULL for the reset function.
560 - New function xbt_dict_new_homogeneous(void(*)(void*)) to
561 create homogeneous dictionaries, where all the elements share the
562 same free function. Non homogeneous dictionaries will be
563 deprecated in the next release.
564 - Dicts of scalar elements (xbt_dicti_*) are deprecated.
565 - Multi-level dictionaries are deprecated.
567 - new function xbt_dynar_search_or_negative() that is useful when
568 you have less than 2 million elements in your dynar and don't
569 want of the extra complexity of catching exceptions when the
570 element is not found.
572 - Make xbt_os_thread module (for thread portability) public.
573 Documentation is still to come, sorry.
575 - Cleanups and simplifications to make it maintainable again.
576 - Exotic features (such as memalign and valloc) were removed.
577 - The metadata were extended and improved so that the
578 model-checker becomes able to explore and inspect the heaps.
579 - This may induce a performance drop when enable_model-checking is
580 ON in cmake (even if it's not used in the simulation), but it is
581 necessary at this point to get MC working.
583 Turn model-checking OFF if simulation performance matters to you.
584 Not enabling it at runtime is not enough, disable it in cmake.
586 -- Tue May 15 11:30:19 UTC 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
588 SimGrid (3.6.2) stable; urgency=low
590 The "Not coding new stuff allows to polish old things" release.
593 * New bindings to the NS3 packet level simulator (experimental)
594 * Use the raw (efficient) execution contexts instead of the sysv
595 (portable) ones when possible.
596 * libpcre is now mandatory in any cases since not using it led to
597 severe performance loss and possibly other issues
598 * Update the XML platforms:
599 - G5K: include the latest machine in Nancy
600 - GridPP and LCG: new platforms
601 * Documentation was partially updated, at least (more to come)
603 Bug fixes, cosmetics and small improvements
604 * Free terminated processes before the end of the simulation to avoid
605 exhausting the memory of users having very dynamic amount of
607 * Bug fix and cosmetics about canceling non-running tasks
608 * Bug fix about the dot loader's issues when using libcgraph
611 * Create an installer for windows with nsis (amd64 and win32)
612 - Add an hello world project to illustrate simgrid project creation.
613 - Embed libpcre into the Simgrid installer to avoid
614 its compilation burden
615 * The raw execution contexts should work on Apple now
616 * Port to Windows 64 bits
617 - Sysv contexts now have an implementation for this arch
618 - GRAS communication features now support this arch
619 * Drop support for borland compiler on windows
620 - this code was not maintained, and we kinda depend on gcc nowadays
621 * Fix portability issues on kfreebsd/gnu: build error about semaphores
622 * Fix portability issue on unstable ubuntu: linker became picky on
625 -- Wed Oct 5 15:51:01 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
627 SimGrid (3.6.1) stable; urgency=low
629 The "Oops, we broke Macs too" release
632 * Fixed contexts detection so that raw ones are used when possible
633 * On Mac, do not use Posix Ucontexts with gcc v4.[1-5] since this
634 leads to a strange error, with user code segfaulting sometimes when
635 the generated code is not perfectly aligned (which is not
636 controllable from the user side, depends on the amount of code)
639 * New macro: CATCH_ANONYMOUS, which is like CATCH(e) but without argument.
641 -- Mon Jun 27 13:59:03 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
643 SimGrid (3.6) stable; urgency=medium
645 The Summer Release, also known as the "OMG! They Killed Kenny!" version
648 * Bindings now constitute their own package, separated from the main one.
649 Rationale: reduce our maintenance nightmare by reducing the module coupling
650 They will soon be released on their own on gforge.
652 svn co svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/simgrid/contrib/trunk/simgrid-java
653 svn co svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/simgrid/contrib/trunk/simgrid-ruby
655 GRAS: It is not considered as stable anymore, but experimental. Sorry.
656 * It's not quite deprecated for now because we have no replacement,
657 but it may soon become the case.
660 * New MPI functions supported: MPI_Comm_disconnect, MPI_Comm_get_name
661 * Fortran: New user-level cache variable to store the rank of the running
662 process. This improves performance by an order of magnitude.
663 * C: New coccinelle script to automatically locate and modify global and
664 local static variables.
665 * Improved SMPI network model with a sender-side gap to account for multiple
669 * New function MSG_comm_get_status(). MSG_comm_test() and MSG_comm_testany()
670 only say if a communication is finished, no matter whether it succeeded or
671 failed. You can call MSG_comm_get_status() to know the status of a finished
673 * New function MSG_task_dsend() to send a task and detach it. When a
674 communication is detached, you are never notified of its success or failure
675 and the memory is released automatically once it is finished. This function
676 is useful when you don't care about the end nor the success of a
678 * Change the prototypes of action replay. Sorry for inconvenience,
679 but this is really more efficient this way (and to adapt your code,
680 you just have to fix the initialization, that shouldn't be too long)
681 * Kill the braindead MSG_task_refcount_dec() function. I guess nobody
682 ever managed to do anything useful with it.
683 * New function MSG_comm_testany(). Similarly to MSG_comm_waitany(), it
684 takes a dynar of communications. It returns immediately and gives the
685 index of a finished communication (if any).
686 * New example: a basic implementation of the Chord P2P algorithm.
689 * New model for multi-core CPUs. You can now use the core attribute to
690 precise the number of cores of a host. This is a basic model. Every
691 process running on the host receives at most the power provided in
692 the DTD (throughput<=power). Total throughput of process cannot exceed
694 * New peer tag. This peer tag creates a tiny AS comprising a host and a
695 router linked by an up-link and a down-link (possibly asymmetrical).
696 This kind of pattern allows to easily build last-mile model style platforms.
697 Aggregating such patterns in a rule-based AS is thus the technique of
698 choice for modeling large peer-to-peer/volunteer computing/cloud platforms.
699 * New model for Vivaldi routing. We transformed the Vivaldi network model
700 into a Vivaldi routing model (based on the rule-based model). This allows to
701 combine Vivaldi based latencies with last-mile platforms.
704 * Added a check for NaN of IEEE754 infinite in the double entries of
706 * Introduce a new context factory "raw", highly inspirated from the
707 ucontext factory, but using manually crafted functions in assembly to
708 do the work in an efficient manner.
709 * Allow to change the used context factory at run time, not only at
710 compilation time. Use --cfg=contexts/factory:raw for maximal speed.
711 * Add an option --cfg=contexts/stacksize:N to set the stack size of the user
712 contexts at runtime (only with raw contexts or ucontexts).
713 * Completely rewrote this module to allow parallel execution of user
714 processes. Use --cfg=contexts/nthreads:N to execute user processes
715 with N parallel threads (the default is 1, meaning no parallelism).
716 * Allow to decide dynamically between sequential and parallel modes.
717 When nthreads > 1, you can use --cfg=contexts/threshold:P to run the user
718 processes in parallel only when their number is greater than or equal to P
720 * Added a check for NaN of IEEE754 infinite in the double entries of
724 * New command line option: if you pass --cfg=verbose-exit:0, SimGrid
725 won't output the state of processes when interrupted with Ctrl-C
726 * Add a new function xbt_dynar_to_array that transforms a dynar into a
727 NULL-terminated array. This may solve backward compatibility issues
728 due to the change to return type of SD_simulate. See also:
729 http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/simgrid-user/2010-December/002206.html
730 * Add new macros with variable number of arguments.
731 - in xbt/log.h: XBT_DEBUG, XBT_VERB, XBT_INFO, etc.
732 - in xbt/asserts.h: xbt_assert
733 - in xbt/cunit.h: xbt_test_{add,fail,assert,log}
734 - in xbt/ex.h: THROWF and RETHROWF.
735 Define XBT_USE_DEPRECATED if you want to use the old numbered macros like
737 * Change xbt_die() to accept a format string with arguments, just like printf.
738 * New data structure: xbt_lib_t, like a dict but more general and with better
742 * New configuration options
743 Options triva/categorized and triva/uncategorized can be used to generate
744 graph configuration files for Triva visualization tool.
745 * Configuration option tracing/platform is renamed to tracing/categorized
746 * XBT logging makes tracing error checks easier, new root log hierarchy: instr
747 * New TRACE_user_link_variable interface:
748 User provides the name of the link and the tracing variable to attach to it
749 * the declaration of tracing categories must be done after the environment
751 * simpler tracing interface, just one way to declare categories
752 TRACE_category or TRACE_category_with_color, it is up to you
753 * links in the trace file are again identified by their names
754 * trace contains the full platform hierarchy exactly as declared using the ASes
755 * Options tracing/msg/[task|process]:1 groups the process by hosts
756 for both cases, tasks and processes must have names that are unique during the simulation
757 these options generate traces that are suited to gantt-charts, such as the space-time view of Paje
758 * The experimental option tracing/msg/volume is deprecated
759 its functionality may be reincorporated if needed
761 The tracing generates a trace file with unordered timestamped events,
762 because of the way the core simulator (surf) works. A script available
763 at the tools directory (fix-paje-trace.sh) can be used to put the events
764 in order. We have changed the tracing so it can generate ordered timestamped
765 events in the final trace, but depending on the simulator (and how much time
766 is simulated) that can lead to a huge memory utilization. It is deactivated
767 by default, but it can be activated using the --cfg=tracing/buffer:1 switch.
770 * Define a SIMGRID_VERSION macro in simgrid_config.h.
771 - We are trying hard to keep the API stable, but it may happen that
772 some things change (we're a research project after all, not a
773 nuclear plant operating system). If such things should happen, you
774 could rely on that macro to adapt.
775 - current value: 30600 for 3.06.00, aka 3.6
776 * Define macro MAKE_SIMGRID_VERSION(major, minor, patch) to help building
777 a number that can be compared with SIMGRID_VERSION.
778 * Add a build option -Denable_debug (set to ON by default): when set to OFF,
779 assertions and verbose/debug logging events are disabled at compile time.
781 -- Tue Jun 21 08:57:43 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
783 SimGrid (3.5) stable; urgency=medium
786 * New feature to any SimGrid-based simulator: Model-Checking
787 Check SIN#1 for more details.
790 * New Model SMPI (three-interval linear regression for correction factors)
791 See RR-7426, available at http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00527150
792 * Ability to use FORTRAN MPI code (through f2c, automatically privatized)
793 * New MPI functions supported: MPI_Get_count(), MPI_Comm_split()
794 * New: RAM folding (see RR-7426 and examples/smpi/NAS/DT-folding)
795 * New: execution sampling (see RR-7426 and examples/smpi/NAS/EP-sampling)
796 * See also src/smpi/README
801 - Tracing API changes: TRACE_start and TRACE_end should not be called
802 by user-code. They are automatically called by simulators created
803 with SimDAG, MSG and SMPI if the toolkit is compiled with
804 tracing_enabled=ON. Categories declaration and utilization remain the
805 same for MSG and SimDag.
806 - A function was added to the tracing API to declare categories with
808 - TRACE_category_with_color (char *category, char *color)
809 where color must be in the following format
810 "%f %f %f", red, green, blue
811 and red, green, blue are float values in the interval [0, 1]
812 - User can specify NULL as color parameter, or continue calling
814 On that case, the tracing system will define random colors
815 - The following command-line options are supported:
816 --cfg=tracing/filename:msg.trace
817 --cfg=tracing:1 (activate tracing, needed to use others)
818 --cfg=tracing/platform:1 (categorized resource use)
819 --cfg=tracing/uncategorized:1 (uncategorized resource use)
820 --cfg=tracing/msg/task:1 (task creation)
821 --cfg=tracing/msg/process:1 (process creation, migration)
822 --cfg=tracing/msg/volume:1 (volume of MSG send/recv)
823 --cfg=tracing/smpi:1 (SMPI interface tracing)
824 --cfg=tracing/simdag:1 (allow SimDAG tasks receive categories)
825 - examples of examples/msg/tracing updated
827 - DAXLoader and DOTLoader functions can generate tasks with categories
828 - A new function to attribute a category to SD tasks:
829 TRACE_sd_set_task_category (SD_task_t task, char *category)
830 * Tracing the MPI interface implemented by SMPI
831 - Collective operations are traced with states
832 - Point-to-Point operations are traced with states/links
833 - Tracing activated by a parameter "-trace filename" passed
834 to smpirun during execution (considering that simgrid
835 is compiled with tracing enabled)
836 - To run the simulation with gdb, the simulator
837 accepts --cfg=tracing/smpi:1 to trace SMPI
838 - tesh files to check if smpi tracing is ok
839 - See examples/smpi/NAS/DT-trace
840 * GTNetS tracing re-worked
841 - adaptation to the tracing system of GTNets to cope
842 with modifications regarding the fullduplex mode
843 - new tesh files to check if gtnets tracing is ok
846 * Asynchronous communications through the functions:
847 MSG_task_isend/irecv and MSG_comm_test/wait/waitall
848 * New function: MSG_load_platform_script()
849 to make possible using a lua script instead of XML files to set up platforms
850 * New function: MSG_set_function
851 to associate functions to processes, used when bypassing the parser
852 * New functions: MSG_task_set_name(), MSG_task_set_compute_duration()
854 Platforms: Add some more examples in examples/platforms
855 * Grid'5000: see www.grid5000.fr
856 * *_30000_hosts.xml: various huge files [mainly scalability testing]
859 * Change the XML format. This is a very important modification. SimGrid
860 3.5 introduces a new hierarchical format based on the notion of
861 Autonomous Systems. Compatibility with old format is ensured
862 through the perl script provided in the install bin directory
863 bin/simgrid_update_xml.
864 It is now possible to build platforms with specific routing
865 mechanism (Full/Dijkstra/DijkstraCache/Floyd) and to easily
866 connect several platforms together. We will try to provide soon
867 set of realistic platforms exploiting these properties (have a
868 look at examples/platforms/ for the moment).
869 * Take the opportunity of the XML format change to be a good XML citizen:
870 rename link:ctn to link_ctn and similar changes (also dealt with by
872 * Add a new routing scheme (rule-based) using regular expressions. It
873 enables to have an extremely low memory footprint when the
874 underlying routing is simple and can be compactly described. You
875 need to have libpcre4-dev (perl regular expressions) installed if
876 you want to use this routing scheme.
877 * Revive the cluster TAG and allow to easily and efficiently (both in
878 term of memory and speed) connect clusters together. Have a look
879 at teshsuite/simdag/platforms/ to see how this can be done. With
880 this tag, you can create clusters with thousands of tasks at no
881 cost (have a look at examples/platforms/).
882 Note: clusters are implemented as ASes, so there is no need for an
883 enclosing AS tag if you have only one cluster in your platform.
884 * Add new generic functions in the public interface that allows the user
885 to call SURF 'create_resource' methods from your code (same
886 functionality as the XML bypass mechanism but with a much lighter
888 * Add a new model (enabled through command line --cfg=network/model:SMPI)
889 that uses a piecewise linear approximation to produce better
890 results when exchanging small messages.
891 * Add a new parameter to handle correctly full duplex link and account
892 for interferences between uplink and downlink communications
893 (activate with --cfg=fullduplex:1).
896 * Rename the SD_READY (all dependencies are satisfied and task is
897 scheduled) state in SD_RUNNABLE and define a new SD_SCHEDULABLE (all
898 dependencies are satisfied) state.
899 This prevents a confusion between the notion of "ready to schedule"
900 (SD_SCHEDULABLE) used in DAG scheduling and that of "ready to be
901 simulated" (SD_RUNNABLE) used by the simulation kernel.
902 * Change the way a task is considered as ready. Instead of removing
903 dependencies when a task is done, a counter is decreased. This way,
904 it is always possible to reach ancestors thanks to the
905 SD_taks_get_parents function (even after the end of the simulation.)
906 * Change the return type of SD_Simulate from (SD_task_t*) into
907 xbt_dynar_t. This function was in handling a dynar internally and
908 converted it into a NULL terminated array for historical reasons.
909 * New function SD_dotload(char*) to load a DAG described in dot
910 format. This loader and the corresponding examples require the
911 installation of the graphviz library.
912 * Fix a bug in the management of tasks of size 0 in the surf network
913 models. This problem was only visible with SIMDAG and you should
914 thus disregard results produced with earlier versions if you
915 relied on this feature (some tasks were blocked because of this).
916 * Fix a bunch of stuff that prevented to use classical models with SIMDAG
917 even though your applications were doing only point-to-point
918 communications and sequential computations. Now you can really use any
919 model you want (of course, if you create real parallel tasks, which are
920 not implemented in most models beside ptaskL07, this will abort).
921 * Add an example that schedules a DAX on an heterogeneous platform
922 using a Min-Min strategy.
923 * New function SD_workstation_get_current_task() that returns the kind
924 of task currently running on a workstation in the sequential access
926 * Raise some warnings when unexecuted tasks remains at the end of the
927 simulation. This is usually caused by cycles in the DAG.
930 * New function: SIMIX_process_set_function() called by MSG_set_function
931 * Change the underlying waiting queue in semaphores so that a process
932 can wait on several of them simultaneously (as in waitany).
933 * Fix the way to handle tokens in semaphores so that all access patterns
934 work: {acquire, acquire_timeout, waitany} / {release, release_forever}.
935 * kill the dirty pimple SIMIX_message_sizes_output()
936 Please use (proper) visualization instead
939 * New data container: setset (set of sets of elements)
940 * New module: mmalloc (mapped malloc, allowing to have several
941 independent segments of malloc)
942 * New function: xbt_dict_cursor_set_data()
943 * New functions: xbt_dynar_sort(), xbt_dynar_compare()
944 * New function: xbt_dynar_is_empty()
945 * New function: xbt_fifo_get_last_item()
946 * Fix xbt_dynar_shrink(): use the right element size.
947 * Fix xbt_dynar_set*(): allow index larger than current size and memset 0
948 uninitialized areas during expand.
949 * Fix semaphores: previous implementation was severely broken.
950 * Use library init/fini functions for our initialization.
951 - you can use logs and other feature as soon as you want in your
952 code (even before the xbt_init / MSG_init)
953 - xbt_exit is now a no-op and produce a warning when used.
956 * Port GRAS to new SIMIX mechanisms. This allows gras users to
957 benefit from the latest improvement to the simulation kernel.
958 * Kill measurement sockets for now. If you rely on them, sorry. This
959 release is not for you. This feature will be reintroduced in the
960 future, but we cannot delay the release any further.
961 * New function: gras_msgtype_get_name().
962 * Implement gras_agent_spawn in RL too (the prototype changed a bit)
963 * Fix (at last) the pmm example: it should not randomly fail anymore.
965 Build chain: bug fixes and overall polishing
966 * Cmake is now stable enough. Hence, we killed the autotools.
967 * Port to windows ( TM :)
968 * Fix the 'make install' target.
969 No need to use 'make install-simgrid' anymore
970 * Introduce a 'make dist' target compiling a *source* archive
971 'make package' compiles a binary archive
972 * Compile java files only on need
973 * Add --cd and --setenv command line options to tesh
974 * Out of source builds are not fully supported yet, but we are close
975 * Enable supernovae and optimization flags by default for our users
978 * Add layer to set up environment directly from lua, without XML.
979 * The effect of gras_stub_generator can be achieved through
980 lua too (check examples/gras/console/ping_generator.lua)
982 -- Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:09:23 +0100 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
984 SimGrid (3.4.1) stable; urgency=low
986 The "Polishing easter eggs is probably a good idea" release.
987 This is a bug fixes release only.
991 * Fix a bug preventing the tasks from begin garbage collected.
994 * Fix a bug occuring when a host involved in a communication fails.
995 This was not detected properly by the other peer involved in the
996 communication. Now, it's reported as a network error.
999 * Warn the user about loop dependencies in data flow of DAX files
1000 * Obey the control-flow dependencies of DAX files
1003 * Add option "enable_smpi" allowing to not compile SMPI.
1004 Probably useful for the (Mac) users experiencing a build error here
1005 * Improve the detection of lua5.1 and ruby1.8
1007 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Tus, 04 May 2010 28 16:11:16 +0100
1009 SimGrid (3.4) stable; urgency=low
1011 The "Easter in Cargese" release. Also known as (major changes):
1013 * the "se habla Java, Ruby 話せます, fala-se Lua (and deaf-friendly)"
1014 ~> bindings were greatly improved
1015 ~> new tracing infrastructure for better visualization introduced
1017 * the "Welcome to configury modernity" release.
1018 ~> we switched from autotools to cmake, and improved our cdash
1021 A more detailled list of changes follow (full detail in svn log).
1023 Java Bindings: Various Cleanups
1024 * (install java-gcj-compat-dev on debian-like to use them)
1025 * Remove put/get: no need to export deprecated interface in Java
1026 Use send/receive instead.
1027 * Cleanup the examples and add a README per directory
1028 * Remove example autoDestination (that's the only way to go now)
1029 * Remove example explicitDestination (was a plain copy of basic)
1030 * Make JniException a runtime exception, so that there is no need to
1031 declare the fact that you may encounter such a beast. I guess that
1032 nobody will ever want to survive such error.
1033 * Create specific errors for each MSG case of failure:
1034 host failure, transfer failure, timeout, task cancelled
1035 * Cleanup the exceptions that may get thrown by each function
1036 * Other internal cleanups in Java bindings. Performance still bad :/
1037 Ruby and Lua Bindings: create them
1038 * (install ruby1.8-dev/liblua5.1-0-dev on debian-like to use them)
1039 * That's new and great, you should try them out.
1040 Same functionalities than Java bindings, only even less polished
1042 * Kill the useless "rate" argument of SD_task_get_execution_time()
1043 Everyone used to provide -1 as a value, it was not used, and the
1044 semantic of a possible use wasn't even clear.
1045 * SD_SCHED_NO_COST: Constant to use as cost in SD_task_schedule()
1046 either as comm costs or compute costs to mean that there is no
1047 such thing for that specific task.
1048 * Add a SD_task_set_name() function
1049 * Fix SD_task_unschedule() on typed tasks
1050 * Fix SD_task_get_execution_time() to return seconds, not flop*sec
1051 * In DAX loader, accept useless 'level' attributes to <job> since
1052 LIGO DAGs have them (seem to be to ease graphical representation).
1054 * Add an example masterslave_mailbox.c using send/receive and not
1055 the deprecated put/get interface.
1056 * Kill the MSG_paje_output() function. It's a noop since 2 years.
1057 * Kill MSG_WARNING and MSG_FATAL return codes: they were not used
1059 * Rename MSG_TIMEOUT_FAILURE into MSG_TIMEOUT for sake of logic
1060 (declare MSG_USE_DEPRECATED to still have the old name)
1061 * Add a MSG_task_set_data() function
1062 * About trace replay (see examples/msg/actions):
1064 - Allow to work with splitted trace files for each process
1065 Give the specific trace file as argument of each process,
1066 and call MSG_action_trace_run(NULL)
1067 You can still have one merged file for all processes.
1068 - Fix implementation of collective operations
1069 * Allow task_execute() on 0-sized tasks (closes #10063)
1071 * This is the first release of SimGrid where SMPI is not considered
1072 beta anymore (even if some corners should still be improved)
1073 * Port over the new SIMIX_network submodule (internal refactoring)
1074 * Basic support to log events as with SMPE (use --cfg=SMPE:1)
1075 * Implement more missing elements of the standard:
1077 - MPI_MAXLOC MPI_MINLOC + all associated datatype MPI_DOUBLE_INT,
1079 - MPI_Address() MPI_Get_count() MPI_Type_free() MPI_Type_extent()
1080 MPI_Scan() MPI_Get_processor_name()
1081 - Added implementation of missing case for Alltoall (warning: it's
1082 *not* the bruck variant from OpenMPI; based on Alltoallv instead)
1083 - SMPI_MPI_Gather() SMPI_MPI_Gatherv() SMPI_MPI_Scatterv()
1084 SMPI_MPI_Reduce_scatter() SMPI_MPI_Allgather()
1085 SMPI_MPI_Allgatherv()
1086 * Bug fixes include:
1087 - MPI_Waitsome() was broken
1088 - Allow relative includes in smpicc
1089 - Command line cfg argument 'reference_speed' was ignored...
1090 - Some functions did not properly lead to auto-benching of user code
1091 - smpicc passes -O2 by default (just like openmpi one)
1093 * add SIMIX_action_suspend() and SIMIX_action_resume() functions
1094 * Bug fixes about timeouts during communications
1095 * add SIMIX_message_sizes_output() as a pimple to write to file the
1096 amount of messages per size. Use gnuplot to get histogram.
1097 Pimple because that's the only user-visible function of simix,
1098 defined directly in xbt.h (irk, sorry)
1100 - Add a SIMIX_sem_get_capacity() function
1101 - Fix interactions with processe resume/suspende
1102 - release_forever() was stupidly broken
1103 - Fix SIMIX_display_process_status() for processes in a semaphore
1104 - Make SIMIX_sem_block_onto() user-visible
1105 * Refactoring context stuff:
1106 - Use pseudo-OOP for better modularity
1107 - reimplement SIMIX_process_kill() without process_schedule() so
1108 that the latter can take as invariant that it is called from
1110 - Merge context_start into context_new for sake of simplicity
1112 * Add a Vivaldi network model, coded live during SUD'10 ;)
1113 * Rename configuration variables to start a hierarchy:
1114 o cpu_model -> cpu/model
1115 o network_model -> network/model
1116 o workstation_model -> workstation/model
1117 * New configuration variables:
1118 o network/bandwidth_factor: correction to bandwith
1119 o network/latency_factor: correction to latency
1120 o netwotk/weight_S: correction to the weight of competing streams
1121 * Add a long description to the models, that users can see with such
1122 argument on the command line: --cfg=cpu/model:help
1123 * --help-models display the long description of all known models
1125 * config: add the ability to set a default value after registration
1126 Does not override any previously set value (e.g. from cmd line)
1127 * dict: allow to have integer key and data.
1128 When so, you need to use the following functions
1129 void xbt_dicti_set(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key, uintptr_t data);
1130 uintptr_t xbt_dicti_get(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key);
1131 void xbt_dicti_remove(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key);
1132 In contrary to regular dicts, the key is not malloced before copy.
1133 Mixing scalar and regular elements in the same dict is not tested
1135 * Allow to use xbt_dynar_shrink() to expend the dynar instead
1136 Tracing for Visualization:
1137 * SimGrid is now instrumented in order to generate a trace file for
1138 visualization analysis: to use it, need to compile SimGrid with the
1139 "tracing" option enabled, and instrument the program using SimGrid with
1140 TRACE_start, TRACE_category, TRACE_msg_set_task_category and TRACE_end
1141 (among other functions).
1142 * The instrumentation only traces the platform utilization for now
1143 * Documentation to use the tracing functions and how to analyze the
1144 traces with the Triva tool is written.
1145 * More information about: SimGrid FAQ (in the section Tracing Simulations
1148 * We moved to cmake as default build system. Autotools support will
1149 be dropped soon. Check the FAQ for more info about how to use it.
1150 * Greatly improved our cdash/ctest interactions
1151 Check http://cdash.inria.fr/CDash/index.php?project=Simgrid
1152 * Added memory checking tests with valgrind; lot of memleak fixing.
1153 This may be the first release of simgrid with so few memory issues
1154 * Added code coverage tests.
1155 Our coverage is still improvable, but at least we see it on cdash.
1157 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Wed, 28 Apr 2010 28 17:11:16 +0100
1159 SimGrid (3.3.4) stable; urgency=low
1161 The "Desktop Grid needs love too" release (also called Xmas release).
1163 Models improvements:
1164 * Major speedup in the maxmin system solving by using lazy evaluation
1165 Instead of solving completely the maxmin system at each iteration,
1166 only invalidate (and recompute) the modified parts.
1167 This new feature is enabled in default models but you can try to
1168 turn it on with "--cfg:maxmin-selective-update=1" for other models.
1169 * Cas01 IMproved as default CPU model
1170 This CPU model is the same Cas01 model, but it uses the
1171 maxmin-selective-update flag and a heap structure to manage
1172 actions on SURF kernel.
1173 It reduces the complexity to find the next action to finish and,
1174 consequently, it's faster than the old Cas01.
1175 This is the new default CPU model (Cas01).
1176 * Rename the old Cas01 model to Cas01_fullupdate
1177 Keep the old cpu model Cas01 with the new name of Cas01_fullupdate.
1178 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:Cas01_fullupdate" to use the old default CPU model.
1179 * CpuTI (CPU Trace Integration)
1180 A new CPU model whose objective is simulate faster when using
1181 availability trace files.
1182 Instead of using a full featured, over engineered maxmin system for
1183 CPU modeling, this model does the pre-integration of traces files
1184 to calculate the amount of CPU power available, and so, executes
1185 faster than the old CPU models.
1186 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:CpuTI" to change to this CPU model.
1187 * Use LV08 as default network model since it gives better accuracy
1188 for small messages and shouldn't change things for big ones.
1189 Use --cfg=network_model:CM02 to get the previous behavior.
1192 ******************************************
1193 *DO NOT MIX 3.3.4 RESULTS WITH OLDER ONES*
1194 ******************************************
1195 * The new CPU model may changes simulations!
1196 The point is that events occurring at the exact same timestamp
1197 are not scheduled in the same order with the old and new
1198 version. This may be enough to completely change the execution
1199 of simulations in some cases.
1200 * The new network model will change simulations!
1201 This new model is more realistic than the previous one, so you
1202 should consider redoing your old experiments with this model.
1203 Sorry for the inconvenience.
1206 * Introduce the supernovae compilation mode
1207 When compiled that way, the whole SimGrid (or almost) is put in a
1208 single compilation unit and compiled in one shoot.
1209 This is to help gcc which has difficulties to inline stuff from one
1211 The speedup seem to be above 15%, althrough more tests are needed on
1212 amd64 to confirm that gain.
1215 * Port of MSG's mailbox on top of SIMIX network
1216 The put/get mechanism was greatly simplified on the way.
1219 * New SIMIX network module. Provides:
1220 - Mailbox: rendez-vous mecanism to find with who you want to speak
1221 - Synchronous send/recv: easier and hopefully faster since the
1222 logic is handled in the maestro process directly now
1223 - Asynchronous send/recv: you dreamt of it? It's here now
1224 Too bad that nobody cared enough to propagate the change to MSG.
1225 * Add semaphores as SIMIX synchronization mechanism.
1228 * new function SD_daxload(char*) to load a DAX file
1229 (see http://vtcpc.isi.edu/pegasus/index.php/WorkflowGenerator)
1230 * Introduce typed tasks. Specify its kind and cost at creation.
1231 At scheduling, just give where it should be placed, and the cost
1232 for each involved resource is automatically computed.
1233 Existing constructors so far (more to come of course):
1234 - SD_task_create_comm_e2e() for end-to-end communication
1235 - SD_task_create_comp_seq() for sequential computation
1236 Use SD_task_schedulev() / SD_task_schedulel() to schedule them.
1237 * new function SD_task_dump() for debuging display
1238 * new function SD_task_dotty(task,FILE*) writing to file the info
1239 about the task in dotty format
1240 * SD_task_dependency_exists() can now cope with having one of its
1241 arguments NULL. If so, it tests whether the other argument has any
1243 * Add getters on list of preceding/following tasks:
1244 SD_task_get_parents(task) and SD_task_get_children(task)
1245 * Add getters on amount of workstations and list:
1246 SD_task_get_workstation_count(t) and SD_task_get_workstation_list(t)
1247 * Add getter on task kind: SD_task_get_kind(task)
1248 * Update the start_time and finish_time of tasks on completion/failure
1249 * Bugfix: Remove task from state swags when destroyed
1252 * New function: void gras_cpu_burn(double flops) -- a simple CPU burner
1255 * New function: xbt_dynar_dopar(dynar,fun) to map a function over the
1256 dynar with one separate thread per value of the dynar.
1257 * Change the prototype of xbt_thread_create(), sorry.
1258 Added a boolean parameter indicating whether we want to join this
1259 thread (used in SG only for now)
1260 * Implement xbt_thread_join and xbt_thread_yield in SG also.
1263 * GTNetS wrappers should now be usable again (and betterly tested too)
1264 * Fix a major regression from 3.2 where the timeout provided to
1265 MSG_task_put_with_timeout() was used as absolute time before which
1266 the comm should be done.
1267 * Start to fix the <cluster> tag.
1268 - Internal links should be good now (beside of the loopback, which
1269 use the private link instead)
1270 - paths to the external world is still rather broken
1271 - the <route:multi> tag is just broken. Actually that's brain-dead.
1272 We need sth like <route:multi src="myCluster" dst="$*-${myCluster}">
1273 to make it less stupid
1274 ** Check your platform with teshsuite/simdag/platforms/flatifier **
1275 * Fix a source-level compatibility glitch from 3.2: after defining
1276 MSG_USE_DEPRECATED, you can use the old name
1277 MSG_task_put_with_time_out() for MSG_task_put_with_timeout()
1278 * Allow to compile from the SVN with automake 1.11
1279 * Fix some problems when using the "start_time" tag in deployment XMLs.
1280 * Fix #8569: XBT/synchro.h has redundant declarations
1281 * Fix #8563: MSG return values and exceptions
1282 Introduce a MSG_TIMEOUT_FAILURE return code and use it consistently.
1283 * Integrate patch #8636: Obey DESTDIR when installing documentation.
1284 Thanks to Robson Peixoto.
1285 * Fix a vicious bug in dictionaries inducing that some elements were
1286 not freed on xbt_dict_free()
1288 Portability report of this version:
1289 * Main portability targets:
1290 - linux (ubuntu (804/810/910) /debian (4/5/testing) /fedora (core11))
1291 on (amd64/i386/ia64)
1292 - mac leopard on i386
1293 Known problems: http://cdash.inria.fr/CDash/index.php?project=Simgrid
1294 but nothing critical.
1295 * Other platforms: windows, AIX and others were not tested for this release
1297 Timing report of this version:
1298 * Lazy evaluation brings arbitrary speedup (ie, speedup depending on
1299 scenario parameters). From 8h to a few seconds in desktop grid settings.
1300 * Supernovae brings about 25% speedup on i386.
1302 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:07:39 +0100
1304 SimGrid (3.3.3) stable; urgency=low
1306 The "Need for Speed" release.
1308 The timings done to validate the 3.3.2 were faulty.
1309 Instead of being 5% faster, it was 15% slower (compared to 3.3.1).
1311 The problem was a conversion from a manually handled vector to
1312 xbt_dynar_t on the critical path.
1313 xbt_dynar_foreach calls functions, inducing stack management crap.
1315 We inlined these functions and xbt_dynar_foreach is now breath taking.
1316 We also inlined xbt_swag_belong on the way.
1318 Here are some approximate speedup measurements (on master/slaves
1319 simulations lasting between 10s and 20s each):
1320 3.3.1 -> 3.3.2: about same performance
1321 3.3.2 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
1322 3.3.1 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
1323 3.3.1 with inline patch -> 3.3.3: 30% speedup
1325 Our reading is that the refactoring which occurred in 3.3.2 made us
1326 suffer much more from the xbt_dynar_foreach low performance, but
1327 once we solved this, this refactoring proved to be very performance
1328 effective. From the 40% speedup, somehow, 10% are due to the
1329 inlining and 30% to the refactoring.
1331 That's a pitty that gcc cannot inline functions placed in other files
1332 alone. We have to choose between:
1333 - break the encapsulation (by putting private data structures and
1334 accessors in headers files to help gcc)
1335 - live with low performance
1336 - switch to a decent compiler such as icc (not quite possible).
1338 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:21:33 +0200
1340 SimGrid (3.3.2) stable; urgency=low
1342 The "Simplicity does not preceed complexity, but follows it" release.
1344 The main contributors of this release were (lexical order):
1345 Silas De Munck, Stéphane Genaud, Martin Quinson, Cristian Rosa.
1348 * Extract the routing logic into its own object.
1349 (was dupplicated in network.c and workstation_LV07.c;
1350 Allows to implement other ways of storing that info)
1351 => kill now useless network_card concept
1352 - Use dynar to represent routes (instead of void** + int*)
1353 - kill link_set (use surf_network_model->resource_set instead)
1354 - Add a command-line option to choose the routing schema to use
1355 - Add three new models:
1356 * Floyd (shortest path computed at initialization)
1357 * Dijikstra (shortest path recomputed all the time)
1358 * Cached Dijikstra (shortest path computed on need)
1359 All these models where contributed by Silas De Munck, and are
1360 described in his ICCS09 paper.
1362 * Simplify model declaration
1363 (less redirections, less function to write when defining a model)
1364 - Factorize stuff between models:
1367 surf_model_resource_set(model)
1368 surf_model_resource_by_name(model, name)
1369 - Unify the types of models in s_surf_model_t (using an union)
1370 - Embeed fields of common_public directly into s_surf_model_t
1371 - Rename model methods:
1372 action_free ~> action_unref
1373 action_change_state ~> action_state_set
1374 action_get_state ~> action_state_get
1375 - Change model methods into functions :
1376 (model)->common_public->action_use ~> surf_action_ref
1378 * Implement a generic resource; use it as ancestor to specific ones
1379 (allows to kill duplicated code in models)
1380 Drawback: timer command don't need no name nor properties;
1381 workstation_CLM03 don't need no properties
1382 (but I guess we can live with those few bytes wasted)
1384 * Improve the action object model
1385 - implement a constructor avoiding dupplicated code about field
1386 initialization in generic_action part.
1388 * Kill the SDP model: it has an external dependency, is deprecated
1389 in flavor of modern lmm models, and didn't compile since a while
1392 * Relocation of the context module from XBT to SIMIX.
1393 (the context were decoupled from the simix processes, duplicating a lot of code)
1394 => a lot of code was factorized
1395 - less overhead is introduced during scheduling
1396 - simpler API for the context factory
1397 - the logic for process creation,destruction and manipulation was simplified
1398 * Simplification of the s_smx_process_t data structure.
1399 => accesing the simix level data associated to a process is faster now,
1400 and the code is a lot more readable.
1403 * Implement some more MPI primitives:
1404 MPI_Bcast, MPI_Waitany, MPI_Waitall, MPI_Reduce, MPI_Allreduce, MPI_Scatter, MPI_Sendrecv, MPI_Alltoall
1405 -implementation: Bcast: flat or 2-ary tree (default),
1406 Barrier: 4-ary tree,
1408 Allreduce: Reduce then Bcast
1409 Alltoall: "basic_linear" if data per proc < 3Kb, "otherwise pairwise".
1410 Not yet implemented: "Bruck" for data per proc < 200b and comm size > 12
1411 Alltoallv: flat tree, like ompi
1413 * Add support for optimized collectives (Bcast is now binomial by default)
1414 * Port smpirun and smpicc to OS X
1417 * Kill SD_link_get_properties: hard to maintain and makes very little sense
1418 Shout out if you used it.
1421 * Display the list of still queued messages in SG mode when existing
1425 * Add xbt_set_get_by_name_or_null() [Silas De Munck]
1426 * Add xbt_graph_node_get_outedges() [Silas De Munck]
1427 * Add xbt_str_from_file(FILE*)
1428 * Add xbt_dict_get_key achieving a linear reverse search
1429 * Remove the context module
1431 Portability report of this version:
1432 * Main portability targets:
1433 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
1434 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
1435 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
1436 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
1437 On these, we still have the eratic breakages of gras/pmm and
1438 amok/saturate_sg reported in previous version. We still think
1439 that the tests are the cause of the fault, not the tested code.
1441 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
1442 Still false negative in tesh autotesting.
1443 Smpi still fails, but this time because readlink does not accept -f
1444 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
1447 - AIX version 5.3 (only tested contexts this time)
1448 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
1449 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
1451 I managed to compile it for the first time, but several breakages.
1452 Won't delay the release for this exotic platform.
1454 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
1457 Timing report of this version:
1458 This version seem to be more than 5% faster than 3.3.1 (on linux
1459 64bits with contextes). The gain is less than expected, we are
1460 investigating this for next release.
1462 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:07:12 +0200
1464 SimGrid (3.3.1) stable; urgency=low
1467 * Implement a --cfg-help to show existing configuration variables
1468 * Build chain do not require doxygen in maintainer mode
1471 * fix a bug on struct sizeof computation, which prevented the
1472 exchange of arrays of structs in some conditions
1473 - added a regression test about this in datadesc_usage
1474 * Allow the exchange of 0-long dynamic vectors.
1475 - for that, use -1 as indicator of dynamic size instead of 0
1476 - This implied to change any size from unsigned long to long,
1477 reducing a bit communication abilities, but I guess that with
1478 64bits being quite common, this is more than enough.
1479 - This also induce a protocol change, thus bumping network protocol
1480 version from 0 to 1 (if we have external users, we have to get
1481 clean on that point too ;)
1482 - added two regression tests about this in datadesc_usage
1483 * Be more verbose when propagating local exceptions
1484 This helps debugging.
1485 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT in
1489 * Allow to control the simulation from a trace file.
1490 New functions MSG_action_register() and MSG_action_trace_run()
1491 The first one allows to associate a function execution to each
1492 kind of action while the second one parses a trace file and
1493 triggers the corresponding actions within the system.
1494 For now, only a toy example is provided in examples/msg/actions
1495 * Add an exemple of process migration in examples/msg/migration
1496 * Fix a bug in task exchange which broke MSG_task_get_sender()
1497 Add a teshsuite regression test for that.
1498 [Bug: if MSG_task_get_sender() is called after sender exit,
1500 * Fix a bug which prevented suspend/resume to work properly
1501 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT
1502 This fixes a regression of v3.3. due to the introduction of SIMIX
1503 * Bug fixing in failure management:
1504 - trace could not start by a failure at time 0
1505 - failure during communications were not working
1508 * Add SIMIX_process_set_name() to change the name of the current
1509 process in the log messages.
1510 * Store smx_hosts in a dict since we only retrieve them by name
1511 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
1514 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
1517 * Massive internal cleanups:
1518 - Store internal structures on processes instead of hosts (allows
1519 to have more than one process per host, in addition of being more
1521 - Cleanup the initialization/finalization process
1522 - Kill a whole bunch of unneeded synchronization:
1523 processes run in exclusive manner within the simulator
1524 - Move queues from global tables to process data fields
1526 - now accept -platform and -hostfile arguments
1527 - Pass the right rank value to processes according to the hostfile
1528 * Compile the examples by default, and use them as regression tests
1529 * Implement MPI_Wtime()
1530 * Change the reference speed to a command line option
1533 * TCP_gamma can now be specified as command line option using
1534 --cfg=TCP_gamma:10000000.0
1535 * Change the --surf-path cmd line option into --cfg=path:
1538 * Also include strbuff from xbt.h public header
1539 * xbt_ex_display(): do not free the exception after displaying
1540 This allows to do more with the given exception afterward.
1541 Users should call xbt_ex_free() themselves.
1545 Portability report of this version:
1546 * Main portability targets:
1547 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
1548 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
1549 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
1550 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
1551 These targets fail about 1/10 of times on gras/pmm, but we believe
1552 that this is because of the test, not because of simgrid.
1553 amok/saturate_sg fails even more rarely, and the test may not be
1556 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
1557 The test suite still spits tons of errors because some obscure
1558 force prevents us from removing the temporary directories
1559 arguing that they still contain some metadata I've never heard of.
1560 Smpi fails because seq is not installed.
1561 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
1564 - AIX version 5.3 (both contexts and pthread)
1565 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
1566 XML inclusions seems rosty on AIX.
1568 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
1571 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:14:30 +0200
1573 SimGrid (3.3) stable; urgency=high
1577 * JAVA BINDINGS for MSG (you dreamt of them? We made them)
1578 [Malek Cherier & Mt]
1580 * Introduce the SIMIX module: factorize code between MSG and GRAS.
1583 Until now, GRAS were using MSG as an interface to SURF. It was
1584 quite difficult because both interface have several differences
1585 (MSG channels vs GRAS sockets were the most notable point).
1587 This also opens the gate to SMPI (which should occur soon) and speed
1588 up simulations by to 40% (even if it were not the main goal).
1590 **************************************
1591 *DO NOT MIX 3.2 RESULTS WITH 3.3 ONES* Simix may changes simulations!
1592 **************************************
1593 The point is that events occuring at the exact same timestamp are
1594 not scheduled in the same order with the old and new version. This
1595 may be enough to completely change the execution of simulations in
1596 some cases. Sorry for the inconvenience.
1598 * Cleanup and upgrade the XML format to push further scalability
1599 issues (check http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00256883/ for more info)
1601 * Improve the testing infrastructure with tesh. Now a very large part of
1602 the code is tested not only by being run but also by checking that the
1603 output match an expected output [Mt].
1605 * Move on to FleXML v1.7 for the embeeded XML parsers. This version
1606 is really less memory-demanding, which should allow you to use
1607 larger files in SimGrid [AL].
1609 * Inform valgrind about our contextes, so that it becomes usable
1610 with the default (and more effecient) version of SimGrid
1611 [contributed by Sékou Diakite, many thanks]
1614 * Introduce a listener thread in charge of receiving incoming
1615 messages from the network. It allows to overlap communication and
1616 computation but most notably, it removes some stupid deadlocks due
1617 to the fact that so far, a process could not send and receive at
1618 the same time. This made most non trivial communication schema
1620 * Convert the PIDs from long int to int to match the MSG ones (and
1621 linux ones too) [Mt]
1622 * New function: gras_agent_spawn() to launch a new process on
1623 current host. Only working in simulation for now. [Mt]
1624 * New function: gras_os_hostport() returning a constant form (ie,
1625 not needing to be freed) of "gras_os_hostname():gras_os_myport()"
1628 * Make the backtrace of exceptions more human readable [Mt]
1629 * New module: xbt/str [Mt]
1630 a ton of string utility functions (split, join, printf to a newly
1631 allocated buffer, trim, etc)
1632 * New module: xbt/hash [Mt]
1633 SHA1 hashing algorithm (more to come if needed)
1634 * New module: xbt/synchro [Mt]
1635 synchronization tools (mutex and conditions) working the same way
1636 in simulation and in real life (mainly useful for GRAS, but not
1638 * New module: xbt/queue [Mt]
1639 classical producer/consumer synchronization scheme
1640 * xbt_dynar_new_sync() creates a synchronized dynar. All access
1641 (using the classical functions will get serialized) [Mt]
1642 * Make dictionary internal table dynamic. No need to specify its size
1643 anymore; functions xbt_dict_new_ext() and xbt_dict_hashsize_set()
1645 * Make sure the log channels are organized as a tree under windows
1646 (because of ANSI C compatibility issue, any channel were child of
1647 root directly) [Mt].
1650 * Cleaned many thing in surf and fixed a few bugs [AL].
1651 * Add a nice command line configuration mechanism to compose models [AL].
1652 * Add a new model for parallel tasks (ptask_L07) that is less buggy than
1653 the previous one (KCCFLN05). It relies on something that looks like
1654 a max-min sharing mechanism but cannot be written as such. A new solver
1655 was thus designed [AL].
1656 * Add a new solver to lmm. Based on Lagrange optimization and
1657 gradient-based descent, it enables to efficiently maximise systems s.a
1659 sum f_i(x_i) s.t Ax<= b with A_{i,j}>=0 and f_i a concave function.
1661 This solver enables to propose two new network models for TCP Reno and
1662 TCP Vegas based on Low's work. These models still need to be fully
1663 tested though [Pedro Velho].
1666 * Bug fix in SD_simulate. Now the time bound given as argument is
1668 * Use the new parallel task model (ptask_L07) as default.
1669 * Use the SURF command line configuration mechanism.
1670 * 0-size tasks (for synchronization) should now work.
1672 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sun Apr 12 05:20:36 CEST 2009
1674 SimGrid (3.2) stable; urgency=high
1678 We still experience issues on this platform, but we believe that at
1679 least MSG is usable.
1681 GRAS API BREAKAGE (for simplification purpose, sorry):
1682 * the gras_msgtype_by_name is not used anymore. Instead of
1683 gras_msg_send(toserver, gras_msgtype_by_name("request"), &request);
1684 you can write (and must)
1685 gras_msg_send(toserver, "request", &request);
1686 - If you still want to pass a gras_msgtype_t to the function (to cache
1687 the type and avoid the lookup time), use the gras_msg_send_() variant.
1688 - Impacted functions:
1689 gras_cb_register, gras_cb_unregister, gras_msg_send, gras_msg_wait,
1690 gras_msg_rpccall, gras_msg_rpc_async_call, gras_msg_wait_ext
1691 * The callbacks are now expected to return 0 when everything went well
1692 (just like the main() function)
1694 GRAS new features and improvements:
1695 * New module mecanism where user code can use per process globals [Mt]
1696 This is similar to gras_userdata_*() functions, but for libraries. It
1697 factorize some code developped over and over in the examples and AMOK.
1698 It has still to be documented and used (only amok/peermanagement is
1700 * Fix a vicious bug in the TCP buffering mecanism which leaded to message
1701 loss when they were small enough to fit into the buffer and sent quickly
1702 enough so that they can all get received in one shoot.
1703 * gras_datadesc_by_name and gras_msgtype_by_name: now raise an exception
1704 if not found. Use the *_or_null() variant for the old semantic.
1705 * In gras_msg_handle, do not discard messages without callback.
1706 They are probably messages to be explicitly awaited later (ie, proofs of
1707 mis-synchronization in userland since they are sent before being awaited)
1708 No big deal usually.
1709 * gras_socket_meas_send/recv: semantic changed!
1710 The numerical arguments used to be (1) the total amount of data to send
1711 and (2) msg_size. This was changed to (1) msg_size and (2) amount of
1712 messages. This was need for the fool willing to send more than MAXINT
1713 bytes on quite fat pipes.
1716 * Do really rename the hostmanagement module to peermanagement. [Mt]
1717 Ie, rename functions from amok_hm_* to amok_pm_*. This breaks the API,
1718 but this is rather new and this was documented in the module
1719 documentation (poor excuses, I admit)
1720 * Bandwidth measurement semantic changed! This follows the changes to
1721 gras_socket_meas_send/recv explained above.
1724 * A sequential mode has been added to the workstations. When a workstation
1725 is in sequential mode, it can execute only one task, and the other tasks
1726 are waiting in a FIFO. [Christophe Thiery]
1729 * The KCCFLN05 workstation model now handles parallel tasks. It is the
1730 model for SIMDAG. [Christophe Thiery]
1731 * Bug fix in the maxmin solver: Some values were close to 0 instead of
1732 equal to 0, which caused some bad behaviors in
1733 saturated_constraint_set_update. I now use a threshold mechanism like in
1737 * When running manually src/testall, you select specific units [Mt]
1738 testall is the result of our cunit mecanism, and should replace all
1739 the scripty thingy around since bash don't run easily on billware.
1741 * A mallocator system has been added. [Christophe Thiery]
1742 Mallocators allow you to recycle your unused objects instead of freeing them
1743 and allocating new ones.
1745 Documentation update:
1746 * FAQ reworking + New FAQs:
1747 - "Valgrind spits tons of errors!" [Mt]
1748 - "How to repport bugs" [Mt]
1749 - "Cross-compiling a Windows DLL of SimGrid from Linux" [Mt]
1750 - "What is the difference between MSG, SimDag, and GRAS?" [Mt]
1751 - Communication time measurement within MSG [AL]
1752 - I experience weird communication times when I change the latency [AL]
1753 * GRAS tutorial [Mt]
1755 - an introduction to the framework and to the used communication model
1756 - an initiatic tour introducing the most proheminent features:
1758 . Lesson 0: Installing GRAS
1759 . Lesson 1: Setting up your own project
1760 o Part 2: Message passing
1761 . Lesson 2: Exchanging simple messages
1762 . Lesson 3: Passing arguments to the processes (in SG)
1763 . Lesson 4: Attaching callbacks to messages
1764 . Lesson 5: Using globals in processes
1765 . Lesson 6: Logging informations properly
1766 . Lesson 7: Using internal timers
1767 . Lesson 8: Handling errors through exceptions
1768 . Lesson 9: Exchanging simple data
1769 . Lesson 10: Remote Procedure Calling (RPC)
1770 . Lesson 11: Explicitely waiting for messages
1771 . Recapping of message passing features in GRAS
1772 - A HOWTO section containing:
1773 o HOWTO design a GRAS application
1774 More are due, of course. They will come latter. In the meanwhile, you can
1775 check the examples which are still here.
1777 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri Mar 16 21:11:46 CET 2007
1779 SimGrid (3.1) stable; urgency=high
1783 There was a stack corruption somewhere, visible only when optimizing
1784 with these versions. [Vince]
1787 * This is a NEW module! SimDAG (SD for short) is a revival of the old SG
1788 module that enabled to play with Directed Acyclic Graphs. It is built
1789 directly on top of SURF and provides an API rather close to the old
1790 SG. Some old codes using SG are currently under rewrite to check that
1791 all needful functions are provided. [Christophe Thiery]
1794 * Complete rewrite of the KCCFLN05 workstation model. It is now an
1795 extension of the classical CLM03 model that gracefully handles
1796 failures. This is now the default model for MSG and GRAS. It doesn't
1797 handle parallel tasks yet though. [AL]
1798 * Bug fix: Weights were not correctly set in the network part.
1799 WARNING: This may have resulted in incorrect results with simulations
1800 where there are more than one flow on a given link. [AL]
1803 * After a (long ?) discussion on simgrid-devel, we have decided that the
1804 convention we had on units was stupid. That is why it has been decided
1805 to move from (MBits, MFlops, seconds) to (Bits, Flops, seconds).
1806 WARNING : This means that all previous platform files will not work as
1807 such with this version! A warning is issued to ask users to update
1809 A conversion script can be found in the contrib module of the CVS, under
1810 the name contrib/platform_generation/surfxml_update.pl [MQ]
1813 * Bug fix: Processes were started in reverse order, wrt deployment file.
1814 WARNING: if your code relies on this bug, please fix it. [AL]
1815 * Bug fix: Add a test in MSG_task_execute to stop whenever a task is
1816 being executed on two different locations. [AL]
1817 * Bug fix: Failures are now better supported thanks to Derrick's tests
1818 (there was many failure situations I hadn't thought of and that weren't
1819 correctly handled). [AL]
1820 * New function: MSG_host_is_avail indicates you whether a given m_host_t
1824 * New! a real RPC mecanism, as it ought to be since too long. [MQ]
1825 Exception occurring on server-side are propagated back to client (!).
1827 API CHANGE: the callback changed their prototype. Change:
1828 int my_handler(gras_socket_t expeditor, void *payload_data) {
1830 int my_handler(gras_msg_cb_ctx_t ctx , void *payload_data) {
1831 gras_socket_t expeditor=gras_msg_cb_ctx_from(ctx);
1833 * New! function: gras_msg_handleall to deal with all messages arriving
1834 within a given period.
1835 * New! function: gras_socket_server_range to get a server socket in a
1836 range of port numbers (ease to avoid port number conflicts) [MQ]
1837 * New! gras processes display their backtrace when they get a SIGUSR1
1838 or when Ctrl-C is pressed. Use Ctrl-C Ctrl-C to exit.
1839 Sweet to debug RL processes [MQ]
1843 - Do not force experiment sizes to be expressed in kb, or it becomes
1844 impossible to measure the latency this way (needs one byte-long tests)
1845 WARNING: this changes the amok_bw_* function semantic. [MQ]
1846 - Implements the link saturation stuff. [MQ]
1847 * Peer management module:
1848 New! module factorizing code that we wrote over and over [MQ].
1851 * New module: cunit (my jUnit implementation in ansi C) [MQ]
1852 - Test units are placed directly into the library code, they get extracted
1853 automatically and placed into the src/testall binary.
1854 - Convert most of the XBT tests to this system.
1855 * New functions: xbt_dynar_getfirst_as() and xbt_dynar_getlast_as() [MQ]
1856 * XML parsing: rewrote parts of flexml to enable multiple xml parsers to
1857 live in the same C code. This required to change a little bit the API
1858 of surfxml parsing but shouldn't be an issue for end-users. [AL]
1859 * New module: sparse graph structure with basic algorithms (this is work
1860 in progress and the API is not considered to be frozen yet). [AL]
1861 * Display more information on backtraces: source line & function names are
1862 now displayed just like valgrind does (rely on addr2line tool) [MQ]
1863 * New function: xbt_backtrace_display(). Sweet while debuging [MQ]
1864 * Reworked a little bit some #include statements to load only required
1865 headers. Some user code that relied on SimGrid to include stdlib or
1866 stdio may need to include it by themselves. [AL]
1867 * Fixed xbt/log.h. A missing SG_BEGIN_DECL prevented compilation with
1869 * Renamed xbt_host_t into xbt_peer_t since it betterly describes what I
1870 meant. This breaks the API of AMOK and of xbt/config. Sorry about this,
1871 but I guess that almost nobody used those parts. [MQ]
1873 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:32:27 +0200
1875 SimGrid (3.0.1) stable; urgency=low
1878 * Unfortunately, I had missed 5 misnamed functions:
1879 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_newitem(void);
1880 void xbt_fifo_freeitem(xbt_fifo_item_t);
1881 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getFirstItem(xbt_fifo_t l);
1882 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getNextItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
1883 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getPrevItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
1884 They're now deprecated. Please use their new versions:
1885 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_new_item(void);
1886 void xbt_fifo_free_item(xbt_fifo_item_t);
1887 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_first_item(xbt_fifo_t l);
1888 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_next_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
1889 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_prev_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
1891 * Bugfix: really disconnect fifo items which are remove_item()ed [AL]
1892 * Documentation: xbt_log module unmercifully reworked [MQ]
1893 * Bugfix: there was a problem with the ending of contexts with
1894 the pthread backend. It caused some weird deadlock or behavior
1895 depending on the pthread implementation. [AL]
1896 * Bugfix: get the exceptions raised in the simulator repport where
1897 and why they come from when they are not catched in time [AL, MQ]
1900 * Bugfix: Do repport the error when two non-connected hosts try to
1901 exchange data (Thanks to Flavien for stumbling into this one) [AL]
1904 * Add additionnal checkings on communications. Assert that two
1905 communicating hosts are connected by a set of links... [AL]
1908 * Add additionnal checkings on channel values in communication [AL]
1909 * New: MSG_task_get_source to see on which host a task was generated [HC]
1910 * New: int MSG_task_probe_from_host(int channel, m_host_t host): returns
1911 the number of tasks waiting to be received on channel and sent
1913 * New: MSG_error_t MSG_task_get_from_host(m_task_t * task, int channel, m_host_t host);
1914 waits for the first task coming from a given host.. [AL]
1916 GRAS new functionnalities: [MQ]
1917 * Enhance the parsing macro to allow the size of multidimentional objects
1918 to be given thru annotations.
1919 * New example (and documentation): Matrix Multiplication a la RPC
1920 (as when I was young!) and fix a bunch of bugs found on the way.
1922 GRAS performance improvements: [MQ]
1924 * Reduce the amount of cbps creation/destruction by making it static to
1925 datadesc_send/recv() and using a (newly created) cbps_reset (based on
1928 * Change libdata to a set so that we can search for stuff by ID (and thus
1929 reduce the insane amount of dict lookups)
1932 * Actually implement gras_datadesc_copy() so that we don't have to mimick
1933 RL communication on top of SG since it's so uneffective.
1934 It may also be used for inter-thread communication in RL, one day.
1935 * Use gras_datadesc_copy() to exchange messages on top of SG
1937 - improve message exchange performance on top of SG
1938 - deprecate transport_plugin_sg.c:gras_trp_sg_chunk_send() & recv()
1939 * Don't exchange on the network the size of the used part of buffer,
1940 instead, specify the possible buffer size to read().
1942 - reduces the amount of read/write calls (one pair per exchange)
1943 - reduces the amount of exchanged data (the size)
1944 - allows to retrieve all arrived data on receiver side, if we don't need
1945 it right now (subsequent read will peek the buffer)
1946 - allows the receiver to proceed with the begining of the stream before
1947 everything is arrived
1948 - make it possible to build an iov transport (using readv/writev)
1950 - take care of the data with non-stable storage (like stacked data),
1952 * If possible, TCP send uses vector I/O (when writev() is here)
1953 - Don't use it for receive since we send data sizes and data on the
1954 same stream, so we wouldn't be able to chain large amount of chunks
1955 before having to flush the stuff to read the size.
1956 * Rework the transport plugin mecanism to simplify it and reduce the
1957 amount of pointer dereferencement when searching for the right function
1960 * I guess that now, we do almost as few system calls as possible while
1961 doing as few data copy as possible.
1963 To improve it further, we could try to send all the sizes first and then
1964 all the data (to use iov on receiving size), but it's only a partial
1965 solution: when you have 2 dimensional data, the sizes of the second
1966 dimension is data of the first dimension, so you need 3 streams.
1968 I'm not sure the potential performance gains justify the coding burden.
1970 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:42:20 +0200
1972 SimGrid (3.00) stable; urgency=high
1975 * New! Give the possibility to hijack the surf parser and thus bypass
1976 MSG_create_environment and MSG_launch_application. Have a look at
1977 examples/msg/msg_test_surfxml_bypassed.c to see how it can be done.
1979 -- Arnaud Legrand <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 20 Aug 2005 23:25:25 -0700
1981 SimGrid (2.96) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * New! Exception handling with setjmp or such (code from OSSP ex) [MQ]
1987 This deprecates the xbt_error_t mecanisms.
1988 It modifies (simplifies) all XBT and GRAS API.
1989 MSG API keeps unchanged (exceptions raised by XBT are catched from
1990 within MSG and masked with existing error handling facilities)
1993 * New! Add a FATPIPE model. [AL]
1994 * New! Add a parallel task model. [AL]
1995 * New! Add automatically a loopback interface (in the default
1996 network model) if none was precised.
1999 * Bugfix: MSG_process_resume now works with the current running process.
2001 * New! Add MSG_parallel_task_create and MSG_parallel_task_execute. [AL]
2002 * Modification of MSG_task_get_compute_duration. Once a task has been
2003 processed, the value returned by this function is now equal to 0. [AL]
2004 * New! Add double MSG_task_get_remaining_computation(m_task_t task) and
2005 MSG_error_t MSG_task_cancel(m_task_t task). Add a state
2006 (MSG_TASK_CANCELLED) to MSG_error_t corresponding to the cancelation
2007 of a m_task. For now, MSG_task_cancel only works with computation
2009 * New! Add double MSG_get_host_speed(m_host_t h) that returns the speed
2010 of the processor (in Mflop/s) regardless of the current load on the
2012 * API Change: use proper naming convention for MSG_getClock and
2013 MSG_process_isSuspended: MSG_get_clock and MSG_process_is_suspended.
2015 * New! Add void MSG_task_set_priority(m_task_t task, double priority).
2016 This function changes the priority of a computation task. This priority
2017 doesn't affect the transfer rate. A priority of 2 will make a task
2018 receive two times more cpu power than the other ones. This function
2019 has been added to suit the needs of Nguyen The Loc and hasn't been that
2020 much tested yet. So if it fails, please report it and send me your code.
2022 * API Change: removed all functions and types that were marked "deprecated"
2023 since many months. Renamed MSG_global_init_args to MSG_global_init.
2025 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:58:47 -0700
2027 SimGrid (2.95) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * Steal some nice code to GNU pth to fix context detection and usage [AL]
2031 * Cleanup in the xbt_config API; add configuration callbacks. [MQ]
2032 * Cleanup in the initialization API: the unused "defaultlog" is dead. [MQ]
2035 * Bugfix: Allow absolute paths for platform description files [MQ]
2036 * Bugfix: do free the variables after use. Leads to drastic performance
2038 * Implement max_duration (ie, timeouts) on resources [AL]
2041 * Implement MSG_config to configure MSG at runtime. xbt_cfg test on a real
2043 * Implement MSG_channel_select_from() to help GRAS now that SURF provide
2044 the needed support (timeouts) [AL]
2047 * Implement measurement sockets. You can now get the bandwidth between two
2048 hosts thanks to AMOK (see below). [MQ]
2049 * gras_datadesc_dynar() builds a dynar type descriptor, allowing to send
2050 dynar over the network (yeah) [MQ]
2051 * Real (even if simplistic) implementation of gras_os_myname() on RL [MQ]
2052 * simple/static token-ring example. [Alexandre Colucci and MQ]
2053 * Use MSG_channel_select_from() and remove the *slow* hack we had to put
2054 in place before [MQ]
2057 * Differentiate the types "char[22]" and "unsigned char[22]" in automatic
2058 type parsing. "short" and "long" modifiers were also ignored; other
2059 modifier (such as reference level) are still ignored. [MQ]
2060 * Embeed the buffer size within the buffer itself on SG. [MQ]
2061 That way, send() are atomic and cannot get intermixed anymore (at least
2062 the ones which are less than 100k; bigger messages still have the issue)
2063 * Array size pushed by the field, not by the field type (or each
2064 and every long int will push stuff to the cbps) [MQ]
2065 * use select() to sleep since it allows to portably sleep less than one
2068 GRAS (minor cleanups)
2069 * <project>.Makefile.local (generated from gras_stub_generator) |MQ]:
2072 * Type Callbacks now receive the gras_datadesc_type_t they work on as argument.
2073 * type category 'ignored' killed as it was never used and were difficult
2075 * whether a type can cycle or not is now a flag, leaving room for more
2076 flags (as "ignored", if we feel the need one day ;)
2077 * Rename raw sockets to measurement sockets since "raw" has another
2078 meaning in networking community.
2081 * Advanced Metacomputing Overlay Kit introduction. It is based over GRAS
2082 and offers features not belonging to GRAS but that most applications
2083 need. One day, it may be a set of plugins loadable at runtime.
2084 * New module: bandwidth
2085 bandwidth measurement between arbitrary nodes running this module. [MQ]
2087 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:29:20 -0700
2089 SimGrid (2.94) unstable; urgency=low
2091 The first beta release of SimGrid 3 !
2095 * Update the main page and the FAQ. Adding references to gforge.
2098 * Add a gras_os_getpid function.
2101 * Add MSG_task_get_compute_duration() and MSG_task_get_data_size()
2102 * Extend the logs so that they also print PID, hostname, date, ... if
2104 * Convert the MSG example to the use of xbt_logs instead of PRINT_MESSAGE,
2105 and kill the old version which were in testsuite/
2106 * Rewrite tools/MSG_visualization/colorize.pl for using with logs instead
2110 * Add xbt_os_time(). As the rest of xbt/portability, this is not public
2111 for users. Instead, each programming environment (GRAS, MSG,...) use it
2112 when needed to provide such a feature to users.
2113 Don't shortcut the mecanism or you will also shortcut the virtualization
2114 you need on the simulator.
2118 * Cleanups in configury with regard to compile optimization/warning flags.
2119 Also add -fno-loop-optimize to any powerpc since it's the optimization
2120 killing gcc (< 3.4.0).
2121 * Doxygen cleanups: move MSG examples, kill the second Doxygen phase
2122 needed by MSG examples complications
2123 * Borrow configury beautifications from PHP
2126 * Bugfix: XBT_LOG_NEW_DEFAULT_CATEGORY now compiles without compiler
2127 warning (thanks loris for stumbling into this one).
2128 * Bugfix: stop loading private headers (gras_config.h) from the public
2132 * Change SIMGRID_INSTALL_PATH to GRAS_ROOT in Makefiles generated for user.
2133 * Rename gras_get_my_fqdn to gras_os_myname and implement it in the simulator
2134 RL would imply a DNS resolver, which is *hard* to do in a portable way
2135 (and therefore delayed).
2136 * Implement a real timer mecanism and use it in timing macros. This allows
2137 to avoid rounding errors and get a 0.000005 sec precision in timing
2138 macros. While I was at it, various cleanups:
2139 - allow to declare more than one timed section per file (fix a stupid bug)
2140 - move some private declaration to the right place
2141 - merge conditional execution and timing macros into emulation module
2142 - document the module
2143 - make sure the module cleanups its mess on gras_exit
2144 * Documentation improvements:
2145 - (new) how to compile applications using GRAS
2146 - (new) emulation support (timing macros)
2148 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 13 May 2005 10:49:31 +0200
2150 SimGrid (2.93) unstable; urgency=low
2152 Alpha 4 on the path to SimGrid 3 (aka the "neuf-trois" version)
2155 - Use Paje properly where used. Still to be sanitized properly.
2156 - Portability fix: Add an implementation of the contexts using pthread
2160 - Add xbt_procname(): returns the name of the current process.
2161 Use it to show the current process's name in all logging.
2163 - fix detection of older flex version and the reaction, since we do
2164 depend on modern ones (we use lex_destroy)
2165 - Better separation of SG and RL in the libs: remove all simulation code
2166 from libgras. As a result, this lib is now only 200k when stripped.
2167 Some of the xbt modules may also be duplicated (two sets and such) and
2168 should be cleaned/killed before SG3.
2169 - Insist on using xlC on AIX because of weird problems involving gcc there.
2170 - Cleanup the make remote stuff. This is now done by scripts
2171 tools/graspe-{master,slave} (GRAS Platform Expender). This is still
2172 mainly for our private use, but we're working on changing them to user
2175 - Bugfix: flush the socket on close only if there is some *output*.
2176 - Bugfix: flush idempotent when there's nothing to send (don't send size=0)
2178 - Add MSG_task_get_name. The task names are mainly for debugging purpose,
2181 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:32:37 -0800
2183 SimGrid (2.92) unstable; urgency=low
2185 Alpha 3 on the path to SimGrid 3
2189 - New! First try of benchmarking macros.
2190 - New! First try so that gras_stub_generator generate deployment and
2191 remote compilation helpers.
2193 - Bugfix: Initialization fix in msg_test.
2197 - Bugfix: applied patch to lexer so that it doesn't need a huge heap.
2199 - Bugfix: let dicts work with NULL content (_foreach didn't) and cleanups
2201 - API Change: gras_os_sleep to take the amount of seconds as a double.
2202 Accepting an int was error prone since it was the only location where
2203 seconds were coded as such. It leaded to damn rounding errors.
2204 - Bugfix: Hard to belive that timers ever worked before this.
2206 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:09:21 +0100
2208 SimGrid (2.91) unstable; urgency=low
2210 Alpha 2 on the path to SimGrid 3
2214 - Bug fix in the lmm_solver.
2216 - New! Interface to Paje (see http://www-id.imag.fr/Logiciels/paje/)
2217 through the function MSG_paje_output.
2218 - New! Introducing two new functions MSG_process_kill() and MSG_process_killall().
2219 - It is possible to bound the rate of a communication in MSG with
2220 MSG_task_put_bounded() (was already in the previous version but I had forgotten
2221 to write it in the changelog).
2222 - Bug fix to let GRAS run on top of MSG until we move it directly on top
2227 - Various cleanups to the autotools stuff
2228 - Begin to move Gras examples to examples/gras/
2229 - Let make distcheck work again (yeah!)
2231 - documentation overhauled using doxygen.
2232 gtk-doc-tools is dead in SimGrid now.
2233 - Automatically extract all existing logging categories, and add the list
2234 to the documentation (long standing one, to say the less)
2236 - Cleanup the known architecture table. Reorder the entries to group what
2237 should be, and use a more consistent naming scheme.
2238 (some of the test dataset are still to be regenerated)
2239 - New! Allow library to register globals on each process just as userdata
2241 This is implemented using a xbt_dict and not a xbt_set, so we loose the
2242 lookup time (for now).
2243 Use it in msg and trp.
2244 This cleans a lot the internals and helps enforcing privacy of the
2245 headers between the gras components.
2246 - New! Add a timer mechanism, not unlike cron(8) and at(1).
2247 - Bugfix: gras_os_time was delirious in RL.
2248 - Bugfix: gras_trp_select/RL don't run into the wall when asked to select
2250 - Reenable GRAS now that it works.
2252 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:02:13 -0800
2254 SimGrid (2.90) unstable; urgency=low
2256 Alpha 1 on the path to SimGrid 3
2258 * It is a long time since the last release of SimGrid. I'm sorry about
2259 that but as I had told you, I was rewriting a lot of things. I apologize
2260 to those who had been reporting bugs to me and that I had not answered.
2261 If your bug is still in the new version, please tell me. Here is a
2262 summary of the main changes.
2264 * REVOLUTION 1: The SimGrid project has merged with the GRAS project
2265 lead by Martin Quinson. As a consequence SimGrid gains a lot in
2266 portability, speed, and a lot more but you'll figure it out later.
2267 SimGrid now comprises 3 different projects : MSG, GRAS and SMPI.
2268 I wanted to release the new MSG as soon as possible and I have
2269 broken GRAS, which is the reason why, for now, only MSG is fully
2270 functional. A laconic description of these projects is available
2271 in the documentation.
2273 * REVOLUTION 2: I have removed SG and I am now using a new simulation
2274 kernel optimized for our needs (called SURF but only the developers
2275 should use it). Hence, MSG is now roughly 30 times faster and I think
2276 that by rewriting a little bit MSG, I could event speed it up a little
2277 bit more. Beside the gain in speed, it is also much easier to encode a
2278 new platform model with SURF than it was with SG. More to come...
2280 * REVOLUTION 3: I have tried to change a little as possible the API of
2281 MSG but a few things really had to disappear. The main differences
2282 with the previous version are :
2283 1) no more m_links_t and the corresponding functions. Platforms are
2284 directly read from a XML description and cannot be hard-coded
2285 anymore. The same format is used for application deployment
2286 description. The new format is described in the documentation.
2287 Have a look in tools/platform_generation. There is a tiny script
2288 that converts from the old platform format to the new one. Concerning
2289 the application deployment format, parsing the old one is tricky.
2290 I think most of you should however be able to convert your files. If
2291 it is really an issue, I can write a C code that does the conversion.
2293 2) the toolbox tbx does not exist anymore. We now have a library
2294 with much more data-structures but without the hash-tables (we have
2295 dictionaries that are much faster).
2297 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:45:53 -0800
2299 *****************************************************************************
2300 * Follows the old GRAS changelog. It does not follow the same syntax, but I *
2301 * don't feel like converting the oldies. (Mt) *
2302 *****************************************************************************
2305 Version 2.90: "the long awaited one"
2306 - Finished rewriting and debugging MSG. Rewrote the documentation.
2307 - disable GRAS for now since it needs to be ported to the newest SG
2310 - Finish the port to windows (using mingw32 for cross-compile)
2313 - Main loop and datastructures of SURF. A cpu resource object is
2314 functional. Surf can thus be used to create cpu's with variable
2315 performance on which you can execute some actions.
2317 2004-11-15 Martin Quinson
2318 - Port to ARM. Simply added the alignment and size descriptions. Should
2319 work, but the ARM machines are so slow that I didn't had the opportunity
2320 to 'make check' over there yet.
2322 2004-11-15 Arnaud Legrand
2323 - Trace manager now written. It uses a heap structure and is therefore
2324 expected to be efficient. It may however be speeded up (particularly
2325 when many events occur at the same date) by using red and black
2326 trees. One day maybe...
2327 - Max-min linear system solver written. It uses a sparse matrix
2328 structure taking advantage of its expected use. Most operations are
2329 O(1) and free/calloc are called as few as possible. The computation of
2330 the minimum could however be improved by using a red and black tree
2333 2004-11-03 Arnaud Legrand
2334 - Rename every gras_* function that was in xbt/ to its xbt_
2336 - Add a heap and a doubly-linked list to xbt
2337 - Added a dichotomy to the dictionaries. make check works as well before
2338 so I assume that the patch is correct. I do not know however if things
2339 run effectively faster than before now. :)
2341 Inclusion of the SimGrid tree in the GRAS one. The archive is renamed to
2342 SimGrid, and the version number is bumped to 2.x
2344 2004-10-29 Martin Quinson
2345 - Introduction of the remote errors.
2346 They are the result of a RMI/RPC on the remote machine.
2347 ErrCodes being scalar values, you can't get the host on which those
2348 errors did happen. Extending the error mechanism as in Gnome is possible.
2349 No idea yet whether it is a good idea.
2351 2004-10-28 Martin Quinson
2352 - Interface revolution: the Starred Structure Eradication.
2353 I used to do typedef struct {} toto_t; and then handle *toto_t.
2354 Arnaud (and Oli) didn't like it, and I surrendered. Now, you have:
2355 - ???_t is a valid type (builded with typedef)
2356 - s_toto_t is a structure (access to fields with .)
2357 - s_toto is a structure needing 'struct' keyword to be used
2358 - e_toto_t is an enum
2359 - toto_t is an 'object' (struct*)
2361 typedef struct s_toto {} s_toto_t, *toto_t;
2362 typedef enum {} e_toto_t;
2363 Moreover, only toto_t (and e_toto_t) are public. The rest (mainly
2364 s_toto_t) is private.
2366 - While I was at it, all gras_<obj>_free() functions want a gras_<obj>_t*
2367 so that it can set the variable to NULL. It was so for dicts and sets,
2368 it changed for dynars.
2370 - Fix a bunch of memleaks in dict_remove
2371 - Fix a bug in sg/server_socket opening: it failed all the time.
2373 2004-10-07 Martin Quinson
2374 - Speed up dynar lookup operation a bit.
2376 gras_dynar_get is dead.
2378 Now, you can choose between gras_dynar_get_cpy (the old gras_dynar_get
2379 but should be avoided for efficiency reasons) and gras_dynar_get_ptr
2380 (which gives you the address of the stored data).
2382 gras_dynar_get_as is an helpful macro which allows you to retrieve a
2383 copy of the data using an affectation to do the job and not a memcpy.
2385 int toto = gras_dynar_get_as(dyn,0,int); rewrites itself to
2386 int toto = *(int*)gras_dynar_get_ptr(dyn,0);
2388 It does not really speedup the dynar test because they are
2389 setting elements all the time (and look them seldom). But the dict does
2390 far more lookup than setting.
2392 So, this brings the dict_crash test from ~33s to ~25s (200000 elms).
2394 2004-10-05 Martin Quinson
2395 - Allow to (en/dis)able the cycle detection at run time.
2397 Whether we should check for cycle or not is now a property of each
2398 datatype. When you think there may be some cycle, use datadesc_cycle_set.
2399 datadesc_cycle_unset allow to remove this property when previously set.
2401 Note that the cycle detection is off by default since it impacts the
2402 performance. Watch the data you feed GRAS with ;)
2404 This property is hereditary. Any element embedded in a structure having it
2405 set have it set for the time of this data exchange.
2407 You should set it both on sender and receiver side. If you don't set it on
2408 sender side, it will enter an endless loop. If you forget on receiver
2409 side, the cycles won't be recreated after communication.
2411 - Header reorganization.
2412 Kill gras_private.h, each submodule must load the headers it needs.
2414 2004-10-04 Martin Quinson
2415 - Interface revolution: do not try to survive to malloc failure.
2417 Now, gras_malloc and friends call gras_abort() on failure.
2418 As a conclusion, malloc_error is not a valid error anymore, and all
2419 functions for which it was the only gras_error_t return value are
2420 changed. They now return void, or there result directly.
2421 This simplify the API a lot.
2423 2004-09-29 Martin Quinson
2424 - Re-enable raw sockets.
2425 Created by gras_socket_{client,server}_ext;
2426 Used with gras_raw_{send,recv}
2429 It should allow to kill the last bits of gras first version soon.
2431 This is not completely satisfactory yet (duplicate code with
2432 chunk_{send,recv}; a bit out of the plugin mechanism), but it should
2435 - Simplify transport plugin (internal) interface by not passing any
2436 argument to _server and _client, but embedding them in the socket
2439 2004-09-28 Martin Quinson
2440 - Finish the port to AIX.
2441 autoconf was my problem (segfault within the malloc replacement
2442 function. No idea why)
2444 2004-09-16 Martin Quinson
2445 - Fix some size_t madness on 64bit architectures.
2447 2004-09-08 Martin Quinson
2448 - Reduce the number of system headers loaded, overload some more system
2449 calls (such as malloc to cast the result of the system one, and work
2451 - Fix and reintroduce the config support
2453 2004-09-07 Martin Quinson
2454 - Source code reorganization to allow Arnaud to surf all over there.
2455 - Allow to document the logging categories.
2456 - Remove all uppercase from logging categories and useless cleanup in names.
2458 2004-08-18 Martin Quinson
2459 Version 0.6.2 (protocol not changed; API changed)
2460 - Interface cleanup: gras_msgtype_by_name returns the type (instead of a
2461 gras_error_t), and NULL when not found. Functions expecting a msgtype
2462 as argument (msg_wait; msg_send) deal with NULL argument by providing a
2463 hopefully usefull message.
2464 - Portability to prehistoric sparcs again
2466 2004-08-17 Martin Quinson
2467 Version 0.6.1 (protocol not changed; ABI not changed)
2468 - prealloc some buffers to speed things up
2470 2004-08-11 Martin Quinson
2471 Version 0.6 (protocol not changed; ABI expended)
2472 - The parsing macro can deal with the references, provided that you add
2473 the relevant annotations (using GRAS_ANNOTE(size,field_name))
2475 2004-08-09 Martin Quinson
2476 Version 0.5 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
2477 - Allow to off turn the cycle detection code in data exchange at
2478 compilation time. It should be at run time, but I'm short of time (and
2479 the config stuff is still broken). That way, we keep dict out of the
2480 critical path, which is good because the performance is poor:
2481 - search not dichotomial yet
2482 - dynar give no way to access their content and memcpy everytime
2483 - In composed data description (struct, ref and so on), stop foolness of
2484 keeping the subtype's ID, but store the type itself. This keeps sets out
2485 of the critical path, which is good since they rely on dynar and
2486 dictionnaries. The only loose of that is that we cannot detect the
2487 redeclaration of a structure/union with another content (but I'm not sure
2488 the code detected well this error before anyway). We still can detect
2489 the redefinition discrepancy for the other types.
2490 - Use a whole bunch of optimisation flags (plus -fno-strict-aliasing since
2491 it breaks the code because of type-punning used all over the place).
2492 This breaks on all non-gcc architectures (for now).
2494 All those changes (plus the buffer of last time) allow me to gain 2 order
2495 of magnitude on cruel tests consisting of 800000 array of integers on two
2496 level of a hierarchical structure (200 secondes -> 4 secondes)
2499 - the selector of reference must now return the type it points to, not
2500 the ID of this type.
2502 2004-08-06 Martin Quinson
2503 Version 0.4 (protocol changed; ABI not changed)
2504 - Allow to pass --gras-log argument to processes in simulation mode. Really.
2505 - New debugging level: trace (under debug) to see effect of GRAS_IN/OUT
2506 - Implement a buffer transport, and use it by default (it relies on tcp in
2507 real life and on sg in simulation).
2508 That's a bit hackish since I had a new field to the structure to store
2509 its data without interfering with the subtype ones. Inheritance
2510 is tricky in C. And that's a kind of reverse inheritance with one class
2511 derivating two classes. Or maybe a game with java interfaces. Anyway,
2512 that's damn hard in C (at least).
2513 Moreover, I got tired while trying to ensure plugin separation and
2514 genericity in SG mode. MSG wants me to do weird things, so let's go for
2515 cruel hacks (temporarily of course ;).
2516 See comment in transport_private.h:71
2517 - do not include all the _interface headers in private but in the files
2518 which really need them (to cut the compilation time when they are
2521 2004-07-26 Martin Quinson
2522 Version 0.3 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
2523 - Major overhault of the datadesc interface to simplify it:
2524 - shorted the function names:
2525 s/gras_datadesc_declare_struct/gras_datadesc_struct/ and so on
2526 - add a trivial way to push/pop integers into the cbps without malloc.
2527 This allows to make really generic sub_type description, which simply
2528 pop their size of the stack.
2529 - add a function gras_datadesc_ref_pop_arr() which does what users want
2530 most of the time: Declare a dynamic array (which pops its size of the
2531 stack) and declare a reference to it. Poor name, but anyway.
2532 - kill the post-send callback, add a post-receive one
2534 2004-07-23 Martin Quinson
2535 Version 0.2 (protocol changed; ABI changed)
2536 - add some testing for cpbs in the test cases, and fix some more bugs.
2537 This invalidate again the little64 data file, since I cannot regenerate
2539 - remove an awfull optimization in the logging stuff, allowing me to:
2540 - understand it again
2541 - learn gcc how to check that the argument match the provided format
2542 - fix all errors revealed by gcc after that
2543 - internal keys of dict are not \0 terminated. Deal with it properly in
2544 loggings instead of segfaulting when the user want to see the logs :-/
2546 2004-07-22 Martin Quinson
2547 - Fix some stupid bug preventing cbps (callback postit) from working
2549 2004-07-21 Martin Quinson
2550 - Some documentation cleanups
2551 - remove the useless last argument of msgtype_declare
2552 - rename the Virtu functions to fit into the 'os' namespace
2553 - move headers src/include -> src/include/gras/ and stop fooling with
2554 gras -> . symbolic link
2555 - make distcheck is now successful
2557 2004-07-19 Martin Quinson
2559 - Build shared library also
2560 - Install html doc to the right location
2561 - stop removing maintainer files in make clean
2562 - build tests only on make check
2564 2004-07-13 Martin Quinson
2566 - No major issue in previous version => change versionning schema
2567 - Re-enable little64 convertion test now that Abdou kindly regenerated the
2568 corresponding dataset.
2570 2004-07-11 Martin Quinson
2572 - Get it working with any kind of structure (we can compute the padding
2573 bytes remotely for all the architectures I have access to)
2574 - Implement the structure parsing macro (still not quite robust/complete)
2575 - Improvement to the remote testing toysuite
2577 2004-07-10 Martin Quinson
2578 [autoconf mechanism]
2579 - get ride of a bunch of deprecated macros
2580 - actually run the test for two-compliment, not only compile it :-/
2581 - test whether the structures get packed (and bail out if yes. Damn.
2582 Alignment is a serious matter)
2583 - test whether the structures get compacted (but respecting the alignment
2584 constraints of each types)
2585 - test whether the array fields of structures can straddle alignment boundaries
2587 - Damnit, double are bigger than float (typo in creation of 'double' datadesc)
2588 (took me 2 hours to find that bug, looking at the wrong place)
2589 - Add gras_datadesc_declare_{union,struct}_close(). They must be used
2590 before sending/receiving and are used to compute the offsets of fields
2591 - Given that padding size depend even on compiler options, keep track of
2592 alignment and aligned_size only for the current architecture. Not a big
2593 deal since we send structure fields one after the other (seems
2595 - Add the datastructure used for IEEE paper by the PBIO guys to the test
2596 program, let it work on linux/gcc/little32. portability todo.
2598 2004-07-08 Martin Quinson
2599 - import and improve remote compilation support from FAST
2600 - make sure make check works on half a dozen of machines out there
2602 2004-07-07 Martin Quinson
2603 Let's say it's version 0.0.3 ;)
2604 - Implement conversions (yuhu!)
2605 - Let it work on solaris (beside conversion, of course)
2606 - Stupid me, using rand() to generate the conversion datatests in not wise.
2608 2004-07-06 Martin Quinson
2609 - Let make dist work, since I'm gonna need it to compile on remote hosts
2610 - Let Tests/datadesc_usage write the architecture on which the file was
2611 generated as first byte.
2612 - Add PowerPC (being also IRIX64), SPARC (also power4) and ALPHA
2613 architecture descriptions.
2614 - Add datadesc_usage.{i386,ppc,sparc} files being the result of execution
2615 on those architectures.
2616 - Optimization: send/recv array of scalar in one shoot
2618 2004-07-05 Martin Quinson
2619 - YEAH! GRAS/SG and GRAS/RL are both able to run the ping example !
2621 - Plug a whole bunch of memleaks
2622 - each process now have to call gras_{init,exit}. One day, their log
2623 settings will be separated
2624 - Continue the code factorisation between SG, RL and common in Transport.
2626 2004-07-04 Martin Quinson
2628 - Redistribution between SG and RL.
2629 We wanna have to accept in SG, so move accepted related parts of RL in
2630 the common part. (more precisely, the dynar of all known sockets is no
2631 more a static in transport.c, but part of the process_data)
2633 [gras_stub_generator]
2634 - Bug fix: Do call gras_process_init from gras_init (wasnt called in RL).
2636 2004-07-03 Martin Quinson
2637 - Create a new log channel tbx containing dict, set, log, dynar (to shut
2638 them all up in one shot)
2640 - Fix the ugly case of reference to dynamic array.
2641 - New (semi-public) function gras_datadesc_size to allow the messaging
2642 layer to malloc the needed space for the buffer.
2644 - gras_socket_close now expect the socket to close (and not its address to
2645 put NULL in it after it). This is because the socket passed to handlers
2646 is one of their argument (=> not writable).
2648 - propagate the interface cleanup from last week in datadesc, ie remove a
2649 superfluous level of indirection. User pass adress of variable
2650 containing data (both when sending and receiving), and not of a variable
2651 being a pointer to the data. Let's say that I like it better ;)
2652 The price for that is constructs like "int msg=*(int*)payload" in
2653 handlers, but it's a fine price, IMHO.
2655 - Let it work in RL (yuhu)
2657 2004-06-21 Martin Quinson
2659 - porting SG plugin and SG select to new standards (works almost).
2660 - plug memleaks and fix bugs around.
2663 - cleanup the prototype of data recv and force users to specify when they
2664 want to handle references to objects. Test case working even for cycles.
2665 - plug memleaks. Valgrind is perfectly ok with this.
2667 2004-06-12 Martin Quinson
2669 - cleanup the separation between plugin and main code in plugin creation
2671 2004-06-11 Martin Quinson
2673 - Reput hook for raw sockets, needed for BW experiments
2674 - kill a few lines of dead code
2675 [Data description] Interface cleanup
2676 - gras_datadesc_by_name returns the searched type or NULL.
2677 That way, no variable is needed to use a type desc once, which makes
2679 - gras_datadesc_declare_[struct|union]_append_name is removed. The last
2680 two parameters were strings (field name, type name), leading to
2682 [Dicos] Interface cleanup
2683 - gras_dico_retrieve -> gras_dico_get ; gras_dico_insert -> gras_dico_set
2684 This is consistant with the dynar API.
2686 2004-04-21 Martin Quinson
2688 - Porting to new standards.
2690 - interface cleanup.
2691 There is no bag anymore, no need to take extra provision to mask the
2692 pointers behind "ID".
2693 Better splitup of functions between files create/exchange/convert.
2694 This is still a bit artificial since convert and receive are so
2695 interleaved, but anyway.
2697 - add a queued message list to procdata (the ones not matching criteria
2699 - factorize some more code between SG and RL wrt procdata
2701 - use gras_exit in example to track memleaks
2702 - get rid of gs_example now that GS is properly integrated into gras
2703 - update run_test to integrate the latest tests (datadesc)
2705 - rename WARNINGn macros to WARNn since it prooved error-prone
2707 2004-04-19 Martin Quinson
2709 - register init/exit functions within gras module mechanism
2710 - send/receive function.
2711 Convertion is not implemented, but short-cutted if not needed.
2712 struct/array elements are sent one by one (instead of block-wise), but
2713 nobody really cares (yet). Get a prototype before optimizing.
2714 - tests (using a file socket) for DD send/receive on:
2715 - base types: int, float
2716 - array: fixed size, string (ie ref to dynamic string)
2717 - structure: homogeneous, heterogeneous
2718 - chained list, graph with cycle
2719 Believe it or not, valgrind is not too unhappy with the results. The
2720 cycle happily segfaults, but the others are ok. And I'm sick of pointers
2724 - Bugfix when using a filename explicitely (instead of '-')
2726 2004-04-09 Martin Quinson
2728 - factorize more code between RL and SG in socket creation
2729 - Complete the implementation and tests of:
2731 o file (only in RL, and mainly for debugging)
2733 I lost 3 days to design a portable address resolver, and then decided
2734 that the prototype mainly have to run on my box.
2735 Addressing portability too early may be like optimizing too early :-/
2737 - use gras_init in the Tests instead of the crappy parse_log_opt
2738 (the latter function is removed)
2739 [Conditional execution]
2740 - New functions: gras_if_RL/gras_if_SG (basic support for this)
2741 [Code reorganisation]
2742 - Get rid of libgrasutils.a since it makes more trouble than it solves.
2743 Build examples against the RL library, since there is no way to disable
2744 its creation for now.
2746 For information, the beginning of coding on GRAS was back in june
2747 2003. I guess that every line has been rewritten at least twice since