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3 SimGrid (3.29) October 7. 2021
5 The "Ask a stupid question" release.
7 We wish that every user ask one question about SimGrid to celebrate.
8 On Mattermost, Stack Overflow or using the issues tracker.
11 New modeling features:
12 - Non-linear resource sharing, modeling resources whose performance heavily degrades with contention:
13 - The total capacity may be updated dynamically through a callback
14 and depends mainly on the number of concurrent flows.
15 - Examples (both cpp and python): io-degradation, network-nonlinear, exec-cpu-nonlinear
17 - Dynamic factors: model variability in the speed of activities
18 - Each action can now have a factor that affects its progression.
19 This multiplicative factor is applied when updating the amount of work
20 remaining, thereby an activity with factor=0.5 only uses half of the
21 instantaneous power/bandwidth it is allocated and will appear twice
22 slower than what it actually consumes.
23 - This can be used to model a overhead (e.g., there is a 20 bytes
24 header in a 480 bytes TCP packet so the factor 0.9583) but the novelty
25 is this factor can now easily be adjusted depending on activity's and
26 resources characteristics.
27 - This existed for network (e.g., the effective bandwidth depends
28 on the message in SMPI piecewise-linear network model) but it is now
29 more general (the factor may depend on the source and destination and
30 thus account to different behaviors for intra-node communications and
31 extra-node communications) and is available for CPUs (e.g., if you
32 want to model an affinity as in the "Unrelated Machines" problem in
33 scheduling) and disks (e.g., if you want to model a stochastic
35 - For that, resources can be provided with a callback that computes
36 the activity factor when creating the action.
37 - Example: examples/cpp/exec-cpu-factors
38 - The same mechanism is also available for the latency, which
39 allows to easily introduce complex variability patterns.
42 - Added support to programmatic platform creation in Python.
43 Example: examples/python/clusters-multicpu
46 - Disk and Host now have a set_sharing_policy() too, for non-linear sharing.
47 This can only be set through the API, not through XML files.
51 - Multiple fixes to ensure reproducibility of tracing
52 - scan/excan can now be replayed
53 - wait action now uses ranks and not pid, as the other ones.
54 - smpi/init and smpi/finalization-barrier are now valid for replays.
55 - exit() is now intercepted by SMPI to avoid premature shutdown of
56 simulation. First non 0 return codes is returned as simulation return
60 * New section "Release Notes" documenting recent and current developments.
61 * New section "Modeling I/O: the realistic way" presenting how to properly model disks in SimGrid.
62 * Improvements in API Reference for C++ and Python interfaces.
65 - Make wifi creation compatible with ns-3 version 3.34 too.
67 Fixed bugs (FG#.. -> FramaGit bugs; FG!.. -> FG merge requests)
68 (FG: issues on Framagit; GF: issues on GForge; GH: issues on GitHub)
69 - FG#78: Multiple fixes for SMPI replay:
70 - TI tracing of allotallv/w was outputting wrong values
71 - MPI_LOGICAL in fortran is actually 32 bits wide, and not 8.
72 - FG#77: Search feature of doc is broken (update sphinx theme version)
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75 SimGrid (3.28) July 14. 2021
77 The Victoriadagarna Release.
80 - C++ platform interface: Users can now describe their platform directly in C++.
81 This provides greatly flexibility and performance improvement for complex
82 platforms. Main features:
83 - Fat-Tree/DragonFly/Torus composing: allows you to create clusters of
84 "zones", instead of single hosts. This feature enables the description
85 of clusters with complex hosts, composed of several CPUs, GPUs, etc.
86 - StarZone: new zone with a Star-like topology. The routes are defined
87 as a set of links used to communicate from node to everybody (node<->ALL).
88 - Split-Duplex links: auxiliary method to create split-duplex links in
89 the platform, easing its utilisation. It automatically creates both UP
90 and DOWN links (similarly as done in XML).
91 - Please refer to the documentation and the examples included:
92 e.g. examples/cpp/clusters-multicpu/ and examples/platforms/*.cpp.
93 - New plugin: Producer-Consumer with monitor. Just requires to include the
94 include/simgrid/plugins/ProducerConsumer.hpp header to be used. See the
95 associated example (examples/cpp/plugin-prodcons).
98 - New: s4u::Comm::wait_all_for() (like s4u::Comm::wait_all, but with a timeout),
99 s4u::Io::wait_any(), s4u::Io::wait_any_for().
100 - Methods test_all/test_any/wait_all/wait_any in s4u now take their vector
101 parameter by reference, instead of a pointer.
102 - Fixed a bug where Activity::wait_for() killed the activity on timeout.
103 Explicitly cancel the activity to get back to previous behavior.
104 - New: Link::set_concurrency_limit() to limit the amount of concurrent flows.
107 - The default SMPI compiler flags are no more taken from the environment.
108 They can be explicitly set through cmake parameters SMPI_C_FLAGS,
109 SMPI_CXX_FLAGS, or SMPI_Fortran_FLAGS.
111 --cfg=smpi/finalization-barrier: which can be used to add
112 a barrier inside MPI_Finalize. This can help for some codes which cleanup
113 data attached to a process, but still used in other SMPI processes.
114 --cfg=smpi/errors-are-fatal: True by default, behaves like if MPI_ERRORS_RETURN
115 is active when set to false, to keep going after a small error
116 --cfg=smpi/pedantic: True by default. Do not report some harmless MPI errors
117 which may or may not be problematic in the end.
119 - fix behaviour, as maximum iteration count could be ignored
120 - add SMPI_SAMPLE_LOCAL_TAG and SMPI_SAMPLE_GLOBAL_TAG macros, to allow user to
121 use sampling when the same kernel is called with a different set of parameters
122 which have an impact on the timing.
123 - realloc is now intercepted, to be coherent, as malloc/calloc/free were already.
124 It should now work with smpi/auto-shared-malloc-thresh.
125 - Improve error handling and reporting in multiple places
126 - Improve correctness checks on the MPI code.(MPI_Op and MPI_Datatype
127 validity checks, truncated messages are now an error, return errors
128 when explicitely deleted handles are reused, ...)
129 - RMA: multiple fixes and stability improvements.
130 - analysis (-analyze flag in smpirun):
131 - SMPI can now report buffer leaks as well as MPI handles leaks,
132 if code was compiled without SMPI_NO_OVERRIDE_MALLOC.
133 - if -trace-call-location is used when compiling, SMPI can report
134 origin of leaked handles/buffers
135 - group leaks by type/origin in output message if possible
136 - New implemented MPI calls: MPI_Comm_test_inter
139 - Changed internal implementation of bandwidth factors in network models.
140 Models affected: CM02, LV08 (default), SMPI, IB.
141 Configuration affected: "network/bandwidth-factors" and "smpi/bw-factors".
142 Bandwidth factors are applied to communications to describe that users
143 cannot use 100% of the available bandwidth. For example, the default network model,
144 LV08, applies a factor of 0.97 to the bandwidth. In older versions, this
145 behavior was implemented by limiting the bandwidth available in the LMM
146 system for this flow. This may give the false impression that there is
147 bandwidth available for other flows due to its underutilization, especially
148 for the dynamic bandwidth factors used in SMPI models.
149 To avoid this, we have modified the implementation so that each flow uses the
150 maximum physical bandwidth according to the LMM system.
151 However, the actual throughput of the flow seen by the user is defined by
152 the physical bandwidth multiplied by the bandwidth factor.
153 This change impacts on the simulation results for all network models on
154 which we have bandwidth factors configured.
155 *****************************************
156 *DO NOT MIX 3.28 RESULTS WITH OLDER ONES*
157 *****************************************
158 This change may impact on the timing of your simulation results.
159 Take care when comparing simulations from different SimGrid's
160 versions. Sorry for the inconvenience.
161 - Dynamic network factors: users can configure a callback to define
162 the network factors dynamically. This API is available at
163 simgrid::kernel::resource::NetworkModelIntf.
164 - Users have access to complete information about the current communication
165 to decide which factor to apply. This includes: message size, source and
166 destination hosts, links and zones traversed.
167 - Dynamic factors for both latency and bandwidth.
168 - For more details, see the example in (examples/cpp/network-factors).
169 - Plugin host_energy: the "watt_off" and "watt_per_state" host properties,
170 deprecated since version 3.24, are no longer supported. Instead, use
171 "wattage_off" and "wattage_per_state".
174 - xbt_assert is not disabled anymore, even when built with enable_debug=off.
177 - New tutorial: Model-checking and formal assessment
178 - New sections: "Demystifying the routing" and "C++ platforms"
179 - Update and improve the part on visualization in MPI and Algo tutorials.
180 - Improve the section on routing: how to define it, how it's used internally
181 - Fix many issues, broken links and missing references in doxygen and Sphinx
184 - Lua platform files are deprecated. Their support will be dropped after v3.31.
187 - Legacy functions deprecated in this release: SIMIX_get_clock(), SIMIX_run().
189 Fixed bugs (FG#.. -> FramaGit bugs; FG!.. -> FG merge requests)
190 (FG: issues on Framagit; GF: issues on GForge; GH: issues on GitHub)
191 - FG#47: Complete and fix tests from teshuite/s4u/activity-lifecycle
192 - FG#64: Configuring smpi/IB-penalty-factors
193 - FG#67: Running computation concurrently with MPI_Iallreduce
194 - FG#69: Tutorial misleading users of pre-v3.26 versions of SimGrid
195 - FG#71: Segmentation fault on invalid gw_src/gw_dst
196 - GH#322: Issue when an actor kills his host vm
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200 SimGrid (3.27) March 29. 2021
202 The Ragnar Release (anniversary of the siege of Paris by Vikings in 845)
204 Main user-visible changes:
205 - All functions marked as deprecated for one year were removed.
206 - Removed all that was related to the "Storage" type in all APIs and bindings.
207 "Disks" have been introduced more than a year ago to replace them for the better.
208 It's time to finish this replacement.
209 - SMPI ABI breaks from previous version: MPI global handles (predefined datatypes,
210 ops, COMM_WORLD) are now defined differently, and can be used in initializers,
211 avoiding "initializer element is not constant" errors with some codes. Please be
212 careful to recompile your MPI codes if switching to this new SimGrid version.
213 - Network model ns-3 now requires version ns-3.28 or higher.
214 - Removed some option aliases that were deprecated since v3.23 (June 2019)
215 - 'verbose-exit' is now 'debug/verbose-exit'
216 - 'simix/breakpoint' is now 'debug/breakpoint'
217 - 'clean-atexit' is now 'debug/clean-atexit'
220 - New functions: Comm::sendto_{init,async} to initiate a communication
221 on between two (possibly remote) hosts.
222 - Define new template functions Mailbox::get_unique(), returning a std::unique_ptr.
223 - Functions Mailbox::get() and Mailbox::get_async() are now templated with the
224 type of the pointee. Untyped functions are deprecated. Use Mailbox::get<void>()
225 or Mailbox::get_async<void>() if you really want to play with void*.
226 - Unify the interface of Activity::on_{start/activity}
227 - New function: Comm::get_dst_data()
228 - New function: Comm::set_payload_size() to set the amount of bytes to simulate.
231 - ptask should now work better with multicore hosts (FG#37).
232 - Internal cleanups and refactoring around activities, to prepare for SimDAG++.
233 - Internal cleanups and refactoring around models, to prepare for programmatic
235 - Modernize our tests of the performance models
239 - New section: Configuring the logs from the command line.
240 - New section: Programming API of logs.
241 - New section: Getting realistic results
242 - New section: Examples of SMPI Usage
243 - New part: SimGrid's Internals, with a section on Design goals
244 - Move back to the classical Breathe tool chain, and fix many small glitches.
247 - Handle leak checking: SMPI will now display a message if MPI handles are still
248 present at the end of a simulation. Option smpi/list-leaks:n will display the n
249 first leaked pointers and their types.
250 - smpi/display-allocs option : Display Memory allocations analysis, with hints
251 about the largest allocations. This only works for allocations with malloc/calloc
252 and not compiled with SMPI_NO_OVERRIDE_MALLOC
253 - "-analyze" option in smpirun will activate smpi/display-allocs and smpi/display-timing
254 - New implemented MPI calls: MPI_File_set_size, MPI_Aint_add, MPI_Aint_diff,
255 MPI_Type_get_extent_x, MPI_Type_get_true_extent_x, MPI_Status_set_elements_x
256 - Support for MPI C++ datatypes (MPI_CXX_BOOL, MPI_CXX_FLOAT_COMPLEX,
257 MPI_CXX_DOUBLE_COMPLEX, MPI_CXX_LONG_DOUBLE_COMPLEX)
258 - Replay now opens and parses the trace file only once for all ranks when possible.
260 - better handling of MPI_PROC_NULL
261 - MPI_Group_incl was broken in some cases
262 - PAPI tracing now fixed
263 - MPI_Errhandlers are properly handled for MPI_COMM_WORLD
264 - SMPI will now fail properly when receive size < sent size, instead of
265 just setting MPI_ERR_TRUNCATE and keep going.
266 - Proxy Apps ( https://framagit.org/simgrid/SMPI-proxy-apps ):
267 - Remove useless build patches and split build/run patches on the page
268 - Build in parallel when possible
269 - Test on yum-based systems
270 - New nightly tested Proxy-apps:
271 - OpenMPI mpi-test-suite
272 - Coral MCB, LSMS, Qbox, CLOMP
273 - ECP/Mantevo Cloverleaf3D, Ember
274 - Codevault bhtree_mpi
277 - Only initialize the Dwarf parser when needed, saving 10 seconds in most cases.
278 - Start to overhaul the implementation to modernize it (still ongoing).
281 - Drop simgrid::xbt::demangle(). Please use boost::core::demangle() instead.
282 - Drop xbt_dynar_cursor_rm(), xbt_dynar_search_or_negative(),
283 xbt_str_split_quoted(), xbt_str_split_quoted_in_place().
284 - Deprecate xbt_dynar_to_array().
285 - When an exception occurs in kernel mode, display both the actor and kernel stacks.
287 C binding and interface:
288 - Rename (lowercase) functions sg_actor_get_PID, sg_actor_get_PPID, sg_actor_by_PID.
289 - Constness requirement has been lowered for parameter argv of sg_actor_start()
290 and sg_actor_create() It's now (char* const*). The previous version is still
291 available as sg_actor_start_() and sg_actor_create_().
293 Fixed bugs (FG#.. -> FramaGit bugs; FG!.. -> FG merge requests)
294 (FG: issues on Framagit; GF: issues on GForge; GH: issues on GitHub)
295 - FG#37: Parallel tasks are limited to 1 core per host
296 - FG#62: Running "smpirun -replay" on large networks
297 - FG!46: Fix a few potential memory leaks in SMPI colls
298 - GH#343: Wrong consumed energy when an exec timeouts
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302 SimGrid (3.26) December 15. 2020
304 The Release release (the French lockdown was eased today).
306 Important user-visible changes:
307 - SimGrid now requires a compiler with C++14 support.
308 Sibling projects should upgrade their FindSimgrid.cmake
309 - Surf precision default value is now 1e-9, instead of 1e-5. This was changed as
310 several users had difficulties to understand issues when using high bandwidth or
311 small latency events. The new value was already the default for SMPI and
312 should not cause too much performance hit. It can change some simulation
313 timings if simulation was skipping a lot of small events (which was actually
314 an issue per see). The old value can be restored with --cfg=surf/precision:1e-5.
315 - On some network models (L07, CM02, LV08), an implicit loopback link is created
316 for local communication. Default bandwidth was 500MBps and latency was 15µs,
317 which was rather bad. Default values have been changed to 10GBps and 0 latency.
318 Options network/loopback-lat and network/loopback-bw have been added to adapt
319 these values if needed. Network and routing models already providing separate
320 loopbacks (clusters and such) are not impacted by this change.
321 - SMPI now adds 16 bytes of header to each message sent, in order to simulate
322 metadata that are added to each MPI message by MPI libraries (tag,
323 src/dest, and communicator information). This may change simulation times
324 for very small message sizes, but should be more realistic.
327 - New routing 'WiFi' that makes it easier to specify a wifi network zone.
328 - New plugins: wifi_energy and link_load. See the associated examples.
329 - New examples: wifi networks, and communication suspend.
332 - LTO is now enabled for Intel/clang compilers.
333 - LTO behavior on GCC can be parameterized using LTO_EXTRA_FLAG in cmake.
334 Setting it to "auto" will use all available cores, while setting it to n will
335 use n cores to speedup link step (usage: cmake -DLTO_EXTRA_FLAG=4).
336 - Remove obsolete runtime option 'contexts/parallel-threshold'.
337 - Runtime option 'tracing/msg/process' renamed to 'tracing/actor'. The old name
338 has been kept for compatibility.
339 - Finally remove obsolete snake_case() aliases for runtime options.
340 - Further improve the documentation.
343 - the on_exit() of each actor is also executed when the simulation deadlocks.
344 - New functions: s4u::Activity:: suspend(), resume() and is_suspended()
345 An example is provided for s4u::Comm but it should work with Exec and Io.
348 - Update proxy apps coverage of new ECP apps: 60+ apps now tested nightly on
349 https://framagit.org/simgrid/SMPI-proxy-apps
350 - MPI/IO: supports names starting with "./"
351 - Fortran: many MPI/IO bindings, support for MPI_UB/LB, C MPI_INT/FLOAT/DOUBLE
353 - smpicc/cxx/ff/f90 now will actually perform definition checks at link time. When
354 building shared libraries, this may cause issues, so environment variable
355 SMPI_NO_UNDEFINED_CHECK can be added to disable this.
356 - most temporary files should now be created in /tmp dir (or equivalent).
357 If this one does not allow execution of code (noexec flag), this may cause issues.
358 Please use another tmp directory (using TMPDIR or equivalent system variable)
362 - A large refactoring is ongoing, but this should be transparent for users so far.
365 - Drop xbt_str_split().
367 C binding and interface:
368 - The return type of the sg_actor_on_exit() callbacks is now 'void'
369 (int value was previously ignored)
370 - Many C functions were renamed to follow a common naming style
371 (sg_object_get_something and sg_object_set_something). As usual, the deprecated
372 names are kept until version 3.30.
373 - Many MSG tests were converted to the new S4U's interface in C, that
374 was extended for that.
376 Fixed bugs (FG#.. -> FramaGit bugs; FG!.. -> FG merge requests)
377 (FG: issues on Framagit; GF: issues on GForge; GH: issues on GitHub)
378 - FG#41: Add sg_actor_create C interface
379 - FG#43: xbt::random needs some care
380 - FG#48: The Impossible Did Happen (yet again)
381 - FG#50: Suspending an actor executed at the current timestamp fails
382 - FG#52: Zero-seconds timeout : "That's in the past already"
383 - FG#53: Crash while using ns-3 network model
384 - FG#54: How to suspend a comm?
385 - FG!22: Stochastic Profiles
386 - FG!24: Documentation and fix for xbt/random
387 - FG!35: Add a modeling hint for parallel links in doc
388 - FG!36: [xbt/random] Read/Write the state of the RNG
389 - FG!42: Link cumulated load plugin
390 - FG!44: Test condition variable wait_until+notify_all
391 - GF#18137: Allow different stack sizes?
392 - GH#128: Parallelization of simulation with --cfg=contexts/nthreads
393 - GH#139: Allow pthread creation in SMPI
394 - GH#336: Packet-level simulation using SMPI?
395 - GH#345: Error in the LMM while migrating a VM
396 - GH#346: [SMPI] error while loading shared libraries: libsimgrid.so
397 - GH#352: pip install / python setup.py install fail to find pybind11
398 - GH!337: Fix link_energy plugin for wifi platforms
399 - GH!339: Add Mailbox set_receiver method to python binding
400 - GH!344: Cast hugepages macros parameters to int64
402 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
404 SimGrid (3.25) February 2. 2020 (aka 02 02 2020)
406 The Palindrom Day Release.
408 Important user-visible changes:
409 - Improve the Python usability (stability and documentation).
410 - A nasty synchronization bug was ironed out, see also below.
411 - Python's doc was organized as a separate tree, now integrated with C++.
412 - C bindings of S4U were not part of the doc.
413 - The C++ doc was also improved as methods are now split by theme.
414 - Further deprecate MSG: you now have to pass -Denable_msg=ON to cmake.
415 - This is mandatory to use the Java bindings.
416 - OFF by default; The plan is to completely remove MSG by 2020Q4 or 2021Q1.
417 - SimDAG++: Automatic dependencies on S4U activities (experimental)
418 - Some features are already implemented but not all of them
419 - Cannot block an activity until it's scheduled on a resource
420 - No heterogeneous wait_any() that would mix Exec/Comm/Io activities.
421 - See examples/s4u/{io,exec,comm}-dependent for what's already there.
424 - Upgrade documented Java dependency to Java 8 (earlier versions don't work).
425 - Drop support for Viva/Triva (old visualization tools), hence removed
426 TRACE_get_node_types() and TRACE_get_edge_types() functions.
429 - Require pybind11 version 2.4.
430 - Greatly improve locking during context switches with Python.
431 - Declaring Python callbacks to this_actor::on_exit is now working.
432 - No more tests are failing currently, even on win32.
435 - Actor: Merge signals on_migration_start/end into on_host_change
436 - Actor: Rename migrate() into set_host()
437 - Disk: Allow users to get the read and write nominal bandwidth values
438 - Exec: Implement wait_for(timeout)
439 - Io: Implement wait_for(timeout)
442 - Parse errors now raise a simgrid::ParseError that you may want to catch.
445 - In simgrid::kernel::resource::Model, the methods next_occuring_event*() have
446 been renamed to fix a spelling error. As usual, the previous definitions are
447 kept with a deprecation warning. However, to avoid runtime errors, it is now
448 forbidden to override these deprecated methods in a derived class. Please use
449 the new names immediately if you need to override them.
452 - Remove unused parameter 'free_ctn' for xbt_dict_set() and xbt_dict_set_ext().
453 - Drop unused functions for dicts and dynars: xbt_dict_cursor_get_elm,
454 xbt_dict_get, xbt_dict_get_elm, xbt_dict_get_ext, xbt_dict_get_key,
455 xbt_dict_remove, xbt_dict_reset, xbt_dynar_compare, xbt_dynar_dump,
456 xbt_dynar_foreach_ptr, xbt_dynar_free_data, xbt_dynar_free_voidp,
457 xbt_dynar_init, xbt_dynar_insert_at_as, xbt_dynar_merge,
458 xbt_dynar_remove_n_at, xbt_dynar_replace, xbt_dynar_search, xbt_dynar_set.
459 - New module: random, providing classical random numbers generators.
462 - New option : "smpi/auto-shared-malloc-thresh" which sets a value for
463 allocations' size above which they are considered "shared" by default (as if
464 they were performed through SMPI_SHARED_MALLOC macros).
465 Default = 0 = disabled feature.
466 Note : malloc, calloc and free are now overridden by smpicc/cxx by default.
467 This can cause some troubles if codes are already overriding these. If this
468 is the case, defining SMPI_NO_OVERRIDE_MALLOC in the compilation flags can
469 help, but will make this feature unusable.
470 - Input check is now performed much more consistently and outputs precise
471 warnings for each error found
472 - New supported calls : MPI_File_set_view, MPI_File_get_view
473 - MPI I/O now only supports disks, as storage is discontinued.
474 - MPI I/O allows opening files without specifying absolute path
475 - Note : SMPI configuration options are now initialized by smpi_init_options()
476 call, which should be called if SMPI is not being used through smpirun.
478 Fixed bugs (FG#.. -> framagit bugs; FG!.. -> framagit merge requests):
479 - FG#9: Python bindings crashing
480 - FG#39: Missing s4u::Comm::wait_any_for example
481 - FG#42: Add support for ThreadSanitizer (TSan)
482 - FG!19: Removing RngStream
483 - FG!20: A module for RNG calls
484 - FG!21: Choice between ad-hoc and standard distributions implementations
486 - FG!25: Fix link in Mutex doc
487 - FG!26: Fix links in SMPI interface doc
488 - GH#31: [MC] please provide an option to make MPI_Send asynchronous
489 - GH#305: Unscheduled tasks are still excuted
490 - GH#313: smpirun: manual outdated w.r.t. --help
491 - GH#321: [S4U] Get task remaining work ratio
492 - GH#323: Crash when an actor turn off his physical host
493 - GH#335: Missing links on dragonfly example svg
494 - https://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/simgrid-user/2019-November/004653.html:
495 MPI_Cart_sub was not working properly. Kudos to Jonathan Borne for the report.
497 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
499 SimGrid (3.24) October 9. 2019
501 The Clean Disk Release.
504 - Introduce a s4u::Disk interface to manage the newly introduced <disk>
505 tag. s4u::Disk is called to supplant s4u::Storage in a near future. It
506 thus becomes the default resource to execute I/O operations. Examples
507 and the file system plugin have been modified to use disks instead of
508 storage elements. Storage can still be used but is doomed to disappear.
509 Users are thus adviced to update their simulators accordingly.
510 - Barrier::wait returns SG_BARRIER_SERIAL_THREAD for (only) one actor
511 for consistency with pthread_barrier_wait()
512 - Host::get_englobing_zone() returns the englobing netzone
513 - Actor::on_destruction is now called in the destructor
514 Actor::on_termination new signal called when the actor terminates
516 - Global signals are now part of the Engine:
517 - on_platform_creation: after config settings, before the XML parsing
518 - on_platform_created: right after the XML parsing
519 - on_time_advance: each time the clock advances
520 - on_simulation_end: after simulation, before cleanups
521 - on_deadlock: as the name implies.
523 - sg_{actor,host,link}_{data,data_set}() now all exist.
524 Use them to attach user data to the object and retrieve it.
527 - Introduce an experimental Wifi model. It sounds reasonable
528 according to the state of the art, but it still has to be properly
529 validated, at least against ns-3 if not against reality.
530 - Improved the usability of ns-3. Several bugs were ironed out.
531 - host_energy: Wattage was expressed as 'idle:oneCore:allCores'.
532 It is now expressed as 'idle:epsilon:allCores' to properly model the
533 consumption of non-whole tasks on mono-core hosts. More info in the doc.
536 - convert a new set of functions to the S4U C interface and move the old MSG
537 versions to legacy (MSG_process_self*, MSG_process_{un}ref, ...)
540 - Fortran bindings for DVFS have been removed.
541 - Add support for MPI_Irsend, MPI_Rsend, MPI_Rsend_init, MPI_Bsend,
542 MPI_Ibsend, MPI_Bsend_init, MPI_Buffer_attach, MPI_Buffer_detach
543 - SMPI can now be selected by cmake's find_module(MPI) with
544 MPI_C_COMPILER, MPI_CXX_COMPILER, MPI_Fortran_COMPILER variables.
545 - Add support for MPI Errhandlers in Comm, File or Win. Default errhandler is now
546 MPI_ERRORS_ARE_FATAL, so codes which were sending warnings may start failing.
547 - trace-call-location can be used with TI traces, and replayed, and is compatible
548 with smpi/comp-adjustment-file.
549 - sleep events are now correctly traced/replayed.
550 - Default for trace-call-location is now to use file names and not full paths.
551 To revert to previous behavior (in case of collision of filenames), option
552 "smpi/trace-call-use-absolute-path" can be set to yes.
555 - Use the included xxHash as an hash implem when C++14 is usable.
556 - Option model-checker/hash was removed. This is always activated now.
557 - New option smpi/buffering controls the MPI buffering in MC mode.
558 - MPI calls now MC_assert() that no MPI_ERR_* code is returned.
559 This is useful to check for MPI compliance.
562 - New section on plugins: how to define a new one, and existing ones.
565 - xbt_mutex_t and xbt_cond_t are now marked as deprecated, a new C interface
566 on S4U is already available to replace them by sg_mutex_t and sg_cond_t.
569 - Introduce the <disk> tag as a replacement of the <storage>, <storage_type>,
570 and <mount> tags. The rationale is finish to decouple what should be handle
571 by SimGrid kernel (i.e., resources and activities) from plugins built in
572 user space (e.g., the file system plugin). This new tag currently accepts
573 only three attributes (id, read_bw, and write_bw). All the other information
574 that was declared with the storage related tags now has to be expressed as
575 properties. An example of platform using this new tag is available at
576 examples/platforms/hosts_with_disks.xml
579 - 'expect signal' can now accept more than one potential signal.
581 Fixed bugs (FG#.. -> framagit bugs; FG!.. -> framagit merge requests):
582 - FG#28: add sg_actor_self (and other wrappers on this_actor methods)
583 - FG#29 and FG#33: provide a new C API to mutexes and condition variables
584 - FG#30: convert MSG_process_{un}ref to sg_actor_{un}ref
585 - FG#31: per-actor data
586 - FG#34: SG_BARRIER_SERIAL_THREAD?
587 - FG#35: model-checker does not like buster-produced binaries
588 - FG!13: MC: complete workaround in the error msg seen on modern systems
589 - FG!15: execute_flops now logs compute
590 - FG!16: Fix the ns-3 bindings when several flows are simultaneously finishing
591 - FG!17: ns-3: unblock the right number of communications + others issues
592 - FG!18: Improving the performance of the ns-3 bindings
593 - GH#189: Energy consumption of parallel tasks
594 - GH#219: Error in the throughput of TCP transfer
595 - GH!330: Minor polishing of English: Configuring_Simgrid
596 - GH!331: Fix a doc error about actors (Tutorial_algorithms)
597 - GH!332: Add '-O0' flag for: cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug
598 - GH!334: Rework energy plugin, again
600 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
602 SimGrid (3.23.2) July 8. 2019
605 - Nicer introduction page.
606 - Migrate the "Deploy your application" page to the new doc.
607 - Move Java as a subtree of MSG.
610 - Rename simgrid::TimeoutError to simgrid::TimeoutException.
613 - Drop xbt_dynar_sort_strings().
616 - Really fix FG#26: Turning off a link should raise NetworkFailureException
617 - FG#27: Wrong exception thrown to wait_any when link is turned off
618 - GH#328: Java: Canceling multiple tasks in a single vm/host
620 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
622 SimGrid (3.23) June 25. 2019
624 The Exotic Solstice Release.
627 - SunOS and Haiku OS support. Because exotic platforms are fun.
628 - Stop setting random seed with srand48() at initialization.
629 - Use addr2line as a fallback for stacktraces when backtrace is not available.
630 - Build option -Denable_documentation is now OFF by default.
631 - Network model 'NS3' was renamed into 'ns-3'.
634 - Simgrid can now hopefully be installed with pip.
637 - wait_any can now be used for asynchronous executions too.
640 - New log appenders: stdout and stderr. Use stdout for xbt_help.
641 - Drop xbt_dict_dump.
644 - SMPI now reports support of MPI3.1. This does not mean SMPI supports all MPI 3 calls, but it was already the case with 2.2
645 - MPI/IO is now supported over the Storage API (no files are written or read, storage is simulated). Supported calls are all synchronous ones.
646 - MPI interface is now const correct for input parameters
647 - MPI_Ireduce, MPI_Iallreduce, MPI_Iscan, MPI_Iexscan, MPI_Ireduce_scatter, MPI_Ireduce_scatter_block support
648 - Fortran bindings for async collectives.
649 - MPI_Comm_get_name, MPI_Comm_set_name, MPI_Count support.
652 - Remove option 'model-check/record': Paths are recorded in any cases now.
653 - Remove option 'model-check/sparse-checkpoint': Checkpoints are now
654 always sparse. That's an immense gain in memory, and can even be
655 faster because of cache effects. So there is no need to clutter the
656 code to allow the user to go for the unefficient mode.
659 - Remove the lagrange-based models (Reno/Reno2/Vegas). The regular
660 models proved to be more accurate than these old experiments.
662 Fixed bugs (FG=FramaGit; GH=GitHub -- Please prefer framagit for new bugs)
663 - FG#1: Broken link in error messages
664 - FG#2: missing installation documentation
665 - FG#3: missing documentation in smpirun
666 - FG#6: Python bindings not available on PyPI
667 - FG#7: simple cmake call requires doxygen
668 - FG#8: make python bindings an optional dependency
669 - FG#10: Can not use MSG_process_set_data from SMPI any more
670 - FG#11: Auto-restart actors forget their on_exit behavior
671 - FG#12: -Denable_lto=OFF doesn't disable LTO
672 - FG#13: Installs unstripped file 'bin/graphicator'
673 - FG#14: Installs the empty directory 'doc/simgrid/html'
674 - FG#15: Setting -Denable_python=OFF doesn't disable the search for pybind11
675 - FG#17: Dead link in doc (pls_ns3)
676 - FG#20: 'tesh --help' should return 0
677 - FG#21: Documentation link on http://simgrid.org/ broken
678 - FG#22: Debian installation instruction are broken
679 - FG#26: Turning off a link should raise NetworkFailureException exceptions
680 - GH#133: Java: a process can run on a VM even if its host is off
681 - GH#320: Stacktrace: Avoid the backtrace variant of Boost.Stacktrace?
682 - GH#326: Valgrind-detected error for join() when energy plugin is activated
684 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
686 SimGrid (3.22) April 1. 2019
688 The Easter Christmas Release (this one is somewhat late).
691 - We are excited to introduce the SimGrid/S4U interface to your neighborhood
692 - Not complete yet: asynchronous activities (amongst others) are still missing
693 - Still ongoing: the interface may change in the future. We need more
694 testers! Please report any glitches.
695 - No new project using Java should start now. Please switch to Python.
698 - Some of the internal cleanups may lead to speed improvements:
699 - The hard limitation on the amount of simulated actors with
700 Java+Mac was removed. Now, the available memory is the only limit.
701 - Our refcounting was tidyied, leading to 10% speedups in some cases.
702 - We are still working on making our code robust to the actor kills
703 and hosts' churn. Things are improving, but it's not perfect yet.
704 - Replaced our own code to display a backtrace (that was forking addr2line)
705 with the Boost.Stacktrace library.
706 You won't see your backtraces without this optional dependency.
707 - Bump cmake dependency to 3.5 (provided by Ubuntu 16.04).
708 - Stop setting random seed with srand() at initialization.
711 - In <host> and <peer>, 'availability_file' is now 'speed_file'.
712 XML file version remains 4.2 since old files are still compatible.
715 - Process termination which was broken at version 3.21 has been repaired.
716 - Expose host load plugin: loadInit, getCurrentLoad, getComputedFlops, getAvgLoad
717 - Hide the examples into examples/deprecated. New users should use Python.
720 - Drop MSG_process_create_from_stdfunc() from the API.
721 This C++ function was a pimple in the C API, made necessary at some
722 point by the Java bindings. This is fixed now.
723 - Hide the examples into examples/deprecated. New users should use S4U.
724 - MSG_process_create and MSG_process_attach now crash if the host used
725 to run this process is off.
726 - Fix the protype of MSG_process_on_exit()
727 Now use (int,void*) callbacks instead of (void*,void*) ones.
728 The implementation was ways too messy to actually work, I guess.
731 - Change the way SMPI_SAMPLE_* macros work to avoid invalidating cache
732 too often and provide more accurate timings.
733 - Add -gdb, -lldb, and -vgdb shortcuts to help debug MPI codes with smpirun
734 - MPI_Alltoallw support
735 - Partial MPI nonblocking collectives implementation: MPI_Ibcast, MPI_Ibarrier,
736 MPI_Iallgather, MPI_Iallgatherv, MPI_Ialltoall, MPI_Ialltoallv, MPI_Igather,
737 MPI_Igatherv, MPI_Iscatter, MPI_Iscatterv, MPI_Ialltoallw.
738 - MPI_Request_get_status, MPI_Status_set_cancelled, MPI_Status_set_elements
740 - Basic implementation of generalized requests (SMPI doesn't
741 allow MPI_THREAD_MULTIPLE) : MPI_Grequest_complete, MPI_Grequest_start
744 - Drop sg_cmdline. Please use xbt_cmdline instead.
745 - Drop the C xbt_os_mutex_t; Use the C++11 std::mutex.
746 - Drop the C xbt_os_sem_t; Use the C++ xbt::OsSemaphore.
747 OsSemaphore is implemented in a portable way with C++11 threads.
748 This should allow much more threads to be created at the same time,
749 allowing Mac and Java users to simulate many more actors.
750 - Implement the 'thread' factory with std::thread instead of xbt ones.
751 It is not possible to set the stack size with threads anymore, but
752 -fsplit-stack is the way to go nowadays when using threads.
753 - Drop the xbt_os_thread_t module (now unused)
754 - Drop xbt_ex_display(), use simgrid::xbt::log_exception() instead.
755 - Drop xbt_str_join_array().
756 - Drop cunit, use Catch2 instead.
759 - Many cleanups in the kernel::activity namespace. This was long
760 overdue, and shall open the path to many future endeavors.
763 - #132: Java: a process can not shut down its own host
764 - #220: S4U: detached send causes exception if sender terminates soon after sending
765 - #261: Document the parameters of parallel execution's constructor
766 - #300: [s4u] BarrierPtr is missing
767 - #314: SMPI args internal cleanup
768 - #316: Fix a bug related to the CPU utilization of multi-core VM
769 - #318: Invalid trace file when using option --cfg=tracing/smpi/display-sizes:yes
770 - #324: S4U: Attempting to create an actor on turned off host segfaults instead of throwing
771 - #325: Turning off a host has different behavior on sleeping actors and computing actors
773 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
775 SimGrid (3.21) October 3. 2018
777 The Restarting Documentation (TRD) Release.
780 - Convert the user manual to Sphinx for improved usability.
781 Unstable version now hosted on https://simgrid.frama.io/simgrid
782 Many glitches remain; stay tuned.
783 - Restrict the Doxygen reference API to the installed header files.
784 (documenting all internals this way is overkill + doxygen scales badly)
785 - New tutorial on S4U (highly inspired from the old MSG one, but with
786 a git repository to fork as a starting point, and a docker image)
787 - Started but not finished an SMPI tutorial inspired from the JLPC'14 one.
788 - The Developper manual is still to be converted (not compiled until then)
789 - Some parts are still missing in this conversion (such as the
790 platform and deployment sections) while others were blindly converted
791 and would need more love (such as the configuration flags).
792 Things will certainly further improve in the future releases.
795 - Fully reimplement auto_restart mechanism that was utterly broken
796 (fix #22, #131 and #281 that were all very related)
797 - Implement semaphores (fix #303 and #291)
798 - When creating an actor from a function and its parameters,
799 move-only parameters are not allowed anymore, as it would prevent
800 the actor to be restartable if its parameters are consumed on run.
801 - s4u::Io: IOs go asynchronous as activities. New methods in s4u::Storage:
802 - io_init(sg_size_t, s4u::Io::OpType) to create a READ or WRITE asynchronous
803 IO operations that can be started, waited for, or canceled as a regular
805 - read_async(sg_size_t) and write_async(sg_size_t) which are wrappers on
809 - Rename 'power' and 'power_used' variables into 'speed' and 'speed_used'
810 - New host variable: 'core_count'
813 - Remove xbt_os_thread_specific features
814 - Remove portability wrapper to condition variables
815 - Remove xbt_os_thread_yield()
818 - MPICH collective selector now mimics MPICH 3.3b
819 - OpenMPI collective selector now mimics OpenMPI 3.1.2 (default "tuned" setting)
820 - MPI_Init(NULL,NULL) is now allowed
821 - smpi/wtime option now injects time in gettimeofday or clock_gettime calls
822 - Command-line arguments should now be handled properly in Fortran simulations
823 - MPI Attributes and related callbacks should work in Fortran
824 - Apps using C + Fortran should now work
825 - MPI_* calls now check for non MPI_SUCCESS return values and emit warnings
826 - Support MPI_Error_String
829 - Due to an internal bug, Msg.run() must now be your last line.
830 We hope to fix it in a future release, and we are sorry for the inconvenience.
833 - #22: Process autorestart seem to only work with CAS01 cpus
834 - #56: Feature request: dynamic SMPI replay
835 - #93: simgrid should not eat --help
836 - #111: How to change the loopback link characteristics?
837 - #116: Platform cluster radical
838 - #117: Platform cluster/host order
839 - #129: Replay_multiple on steroid
840 - #131: Java : autostart does not work
841 - #143: Setting a breakpoint at a given time
842 - #235: Network energy models should be integrated
843 - #264: Add ptask L07 resource tracing
844 - #271: Dynamic and manual replay of SMPI traces
845 - #279: Breakpoints option uses time deltas instead of absolute time
846 - #281: Daemonized actor no longer daemonized after an auto-restart
847 - #282: TIT convertor erase traces when using absolute path in the trace list file
848 - #285: segfault when a s4u actor kills itself with msg process tracing activated
849 - #286: Pajé traces are not exposing the number of cores
850 - #287: Command-line parsing should stop when encountering '--'
851 - #288: MPI_Init(NULL, NULL)
852 - #289: Improve documentation of Actor::on_destruction and this_actor::on_exit()
853 - #290: Method to check if a mailbox has a message ready to be consumed
854 - #291: [s4u] semaphores do not seem available yet
855 - #294: Alltoall collective implementation of mpich
856 - #295: Starting a Host as OFF is not supported
857 - #296: DTD too permissive
858 - #299: Add a s4u barrier example
860 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
862 SimGrid (3.20) Released June 24. 2018
864 The proxy snake_case() release.
867 - The whole API is now using snake_case() instead of mixing it with camelCase.
868 Compatibility wrappers in place for one year.
869 - We took the opportunity to increase the consistency of the API.
870 Please report any remaining glitches.
871 - New function simgrid::s4u::Host::get_actor_count:
872 Returns the number of actors running on a specific host.
875 - SMPI is now tested with ~45 proxy apps from various sources, with none or
876 only minor patching needed: check https://github.com/simgrid/SMPI-proxy-apps
877 - Replay: The replay file has been re-written in C++.
878 - Replay: Tags used for messages sent via MPI_Send / MPI_Recv are now
879 supported. They are stored in the trace and used when replayed.
880 - Basic support of MPI_Cancel. Robustness not guaranteed.
881 - Support of MPI_Win_allocate_shared, MPI_Win_shared_query, MPI_Comm_split_type
882 (only for MPI_COMM_TYPE_SHARED).
883 - New option: smpi/privatize-libs, to add external shared libs to be privatized
884 by SMPI. They will be copied locally and loaded separately by each process.
885 Example --cfg=smpi/privatize-libs:"libgfortran.so.3;libscalapack.so".
886 - Tracing: add tracing for MPI_Start, Startall, Testall, Testany
887 - Interception of getopt, getopt_long and getopt_long_only calls to avoid issues
888 with internal index optind with multiple processes. Only works if MPI_Init has
890 - Fortran: SMPI builds a mpi.mod file which should allow use of "use mpi"
891 syntax without preprocessing tricks.
894 - Change --cfg=tracing/msg/vm to --cfg=tracing/vm as virtual machine
895 behavior tracing is no longer limited to MSG
896 - TIT (Time Independent Traces): We finally support tags. Unfortunately,
897 this means that traces now need to be updated or re-obtained; both Irecv
898 and Isend lines in your traces have now in total 5 mandatory fields:
899 <rankid> <command> <to/from rankid> <tag> <size>
900 To update your traces, it suffices to add a 0 for the tag here.
901 - TIT now also supports waiting for a distinct request via MPI_Wait.
902 Wait/Test now wait for a specific request, not just the last one that was
903 issued. This unfortunately means another update, because we need to
904 identify which request you want to wait for. We do this via the
905 triplet (sender, receiver, tag), which needs to be added:
906 <rankid> <command> <sender> <receiver> <tag>
907 - Actions are now in lower case (e.g., "allReduce" becomes "allreduce").
908 New script simgrid_convert_TI_traces.py: upgrade your TI traces.
911 - The deprecation of MSG is ongoing (but this should not impact you).
912 Many MSG functions are now simple wrappers on the C API of S4U. If
913 you wish to convert your code to S4U, find the S4U counterparts of
914 your MSG calls in src/msg/msg_legacy.cpp.
915 - MSG can still be used, but won't evolve anymore.
918 - Allow to run the Link energy plugin from the command line with
919 --cfg=plugin:link_energy
920 - Rename Energy plugin into host_energy
921 - Rename Load plugin into host_load
924 - Add parameter --cfg=simix/breakpoint to raise a SIGTRAP at given time.
925 - kill simix::onDeadlock() that was somewhat dupplicating s4u::on_deadlock()
926 - Improve performance when handling timeouts of simix synchros.
929 - Config: the C API is now deprecated (will be removed in 3.23), and
930 the C++ API has been slightly improved.
933 - Fix several build issues on OSX.
934 - Move simgrid_config.h to simgrid/config.h (old header still working)
937 - #143: Setting a breakpoint at a given time
938 - #150: Inconsistent event names in SMPI replay
939 - #258: daemonized actors hang after all non-daemonized actors have completed
940 - #267: Linker error on unit_tmgr
941 - #269: SMPI: tracing of MPI_Wait/all/any broken
942 - SMPI: Fix various crashes with combined use of MPI_PROC_NULL and MPI_IGNORE_STATUS
944 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
946 SimGrid (3.19.1) Released March 22 2018
948 The Fixed ABI Release.
950 As you may know, we are currently refactoring SimGrid in deep.
951 Upcoming SimGrid4 will be really different from SimGrid3: modular,
952 standard and extensible vs. layered, homegrown and rigid. C++ vs. C.
954 Our goal is to smooth this transition, with backward compatibility
955 and automatic update paths, while still progressing toward SimGrid4.
957 SimGrid remains open during works: The last pure SimGrid3 release was
958 v3.12 while all subsequent versions are usable alpha versions of
959 SimGrid4: Existing interfaces remain unchanged, but the new S4U
960 interface is budding and the internals are deeply reorganized.
962 Since 2015, we work hard to reduce the changes to public APIs. When
963 we need to rename a public library symbol in S4U, we let your
964 compiler issue an explicative warning when you use the deprecated
965 function. These messages remain for four releases, i.e. for one full
966 year, before turning into an error. Starting with v3.15, your can
967 also adapt to API changes with the SIMGRID_VERSION macro, that is
968 defined to 31500 for v3.15, to 31901 for v3.19.1 and so on.
970 Starting with this v3.19.1, our commitment to reduce the changes to
971 the public interfaces is extended from the API to the ABI: a program
972 using only MSG or SimDag and compiled against a given version of
973 simgrid can probably be used with a later version of SimGrid without
974 recompilation. We will do our best... but don't expect too much of
975 it, that's a really difficult goal during such profund refactoring.
977 The difference between v3.19 and v3.19.1 is that the former was
978 accidentally breaking the ABI of MSG, while the later is restoring
981 S4U and kernel APIs will still evolve until SimGrid4, with one-year
982 deprecation warnings as currently. In fact, cleaning up these
983 interfaces and converting them to snake_case() is one release goal of
984 v3.20. But don't worry, we are working to smooth this upgrade path.
986 In summary, new projects should start with S4U to benefit of the
987 future, but old MSG projects should still be usable with no change.
989 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
991 SimGrid (3.19) Released March 20 2018
993 The Moscovitly-cold Spring release.
995 SMPI user-visible improvements:
996 - Support of MPI_Type_create_subarray
997 - Unimplemented MPI calls now abort (instead of issuing a warning)
998 Some harmless calls around errhandlers still only issue a warning.
999 - MPI_Sendrecv was behaving badly when MPI_PROC_NULL was sender or receiver.
1000 - Starting MPI ranks (or even MSG/S4U actors) once the simulation started
1001 is now possible (mmap privatization was refactored to this end).
1002 Adding new SMPI instances should also be technically doable now.
1004 SMPI internal cleanups:
1005 - Removed index notion from SMPI -- no more "getPid() - 1"!
1006 In tracing files, actors are called rank-<PROCESS-ID> but these are
1007 NOT the real ranks (tracing several communicators is not supported yet).
1008 - Deprecate smpi_process_index() (will be removed in 3.22)
1009 - Better testing on classical proxy apps, through an external project:
1010 https://github.com/simgrid/SMPI-proxy-apps/
1013 - Use a graphical TOC to make it easier to find the documentation you need
1014 - Revamp the MSG tutorial
1017 - Fix MSG_task_get_remaining_work_ratio(): return 1.0 for unstarted tasks.
1018 - Remove parameter of MSG_process_killall().
1019 Resetting the PID was bogus anyway (several actors could have the same PID).
1022 - Execution->setHost() can be called after start(), to migrate it.
1023 - Comm::test_any() is now implemented.
1024 - s4u::Actor now has onCreation() and onDestruction() signals.
1025 - Install some kernel header files for the users' plugins and more.
1026 Warning, their API is really not stable yet.
1027 include/simgrid/kernel/resource/{Action,Resource,Model}.hpp
1028 include/simgrid/kernel/routing/*Zone.hpp
1031 - SD_task_dependency_add(): remove unused parameters 'name' and 'data'.
1033 Build System and other cleanups:
1034 - Remove unused run-time parameter "tracing/onelink-only".
1035 - SimGrid now works with intel compilers (MC still buggy)
1036 - Remove XBT_LOG_CONNECT, it should be useless nowadays.
1037 - tesh kills subprocesses on timeout (but not on windows)
1040 - Rename FULLDUPLEX into SPLITDUPLEX (old name still accepted)
1043 - #194: Feature request: simgrid::s4u::Comm::test_any()
1044 - #245: migrating an actor does not migrate its execution
1045 - #253: Feature Request: expose clusters as objects
1046 - #254: Something seems wrong with s4u::Actor::kill(aid_t)
1047 - #255: Tesh broken on Windows
1048 - #256: Modernize FindSimGrid.cmake
1049 - #257: Fix (ab)use of CMake install
1051 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1053 SimGrid (3.18) Released December 24 2017
1055 The "Ho Ho Ho! SimGrid 4 beta is coming to town" release.
1057 MSG IS NOW DEPRECATED. Please use S4U for new projects.
1058 - Support for MSG should not be removed from SimGrid before 2020,
1059 but future evolutions will be limited to the integration of
1060 user-provided patches.
1063 - s4u::onDeadlock() signal, run before stopping the simulation.
1064 - s4u::Exec: asynchronous executions (abstraction of background
1066 - s4u::Host->getLoad() returns the achieved speed in flops/s
1069 - Link::name() is deprecated and will be removed in v3.21, use
1070 Link::getCname() instead.
1071 - Mailbox::getName() changed to return a std::string, use
1072 Mailbox::getCname() instead to get a char*.
1073 - Storage::getName() changed to return a std::string, use
1074 Storage::getCname() instead to get a char*.
1075 - s4u::allStorages() becomes s4u::getStorageList(whereTo)
1076 to have both allocation and deallocation of the map in user space.
1079 - Forbid the use of MSG_task_get_flops_amount() on parallel tasks:
1080 The amount of flops remaining to do is a vector, not a scalar.
1081 - Introduce MSG_task_get_remaining_work_ratio(), which does what its
1082 name implies on both sequential and parallel tasks.
1083 - Both changes fix GitHub's #223 using PR #237 as a basis.
1084 Thanks Michael Mercier.
1085 - Most examples were converted to S4U and hidden elsewhere at tests.
1086 Rationale: we still want MSG to work; we want newcomers to use S4U.
1089 - LMM stuff moved to its own namespace: simgrid::kernel::lmm.
1090 - Renamed LMM classes (e.g. s_lmm_system_t -> System).
1093 - Switch to the faster dlopen privatization mechanism by default
1094 - Documentation improvments
1097 - Live migration is getting moved to a plugin. Dirty page tracking is
1098 the first part of this plugin. This imply that VM migration is now
1099 only possible if one this function is called:
1100 - C/MSG: MSG_vm_live_migration_plugin_init()
1101 - C/C++: sg_vm_live_migration_plugin_init()
1102 - Java: Msg.liveMigrationInit()
1103 For C and C++, "simgrid/plugins/live_migration.h" also has to be
1107 - Define class simgrid::xbt::Path to manage file names.
1108 - Removed unused functions:
1109 - xbt/file.h: xbt_basename(), xbt_dirname(), xbt_getline()
1110 - xbt/graph.h: xbt_graph_edge_get_length(), xbt_graph_edge_set_length,
1111 xbt_graph_export_graphviz()
1112 - xbt/str.h: xbt_str_join()
1113 - Remove unused datatypes:
1114 - xbt/heap.h: use std::priority_queue or boost::heap instead
1115 - xbt/swag.h: use boost::intrusive::list instead
1118 - New link_energy plugin for the consumption of the links.
1119 - All of the operations on files and storage contents have been
1120 packaged into a plugin (src/plugins/file_system). The current
1121 public interface can be found in
1122 include/simgrid/plugins/file_system.h
1123 To use these functions you now have to initialize the plugin by
1124 calling MSG_storage_file_system_init() just after calling
1125 MSG_init() or sg_storage_file_system_init() just after creating
1129 - Remove the undocumented/untested tag <include>
1132 - Remove viva specific tracing as the tool is no longer maintained
1135 - #248: Kill of finished processes leads to segfault
1136 - #240: xbt_cond_wait_timeout should gracefully return for C apps
1137 - #239: please implement signal s4u::onDeadlock()
1138 - #230: segfaults when exit() without run()
1139 - #225: s4u::Actor::kill() doesn not really kill victims in a join()
1140 - #223: MSG_task_get_flops_amount() not working with parallel tasks
1141 - #222: Actor::kill() doesn't really kill and segfaults
1142 - #221: odd LMM warning when killing an actor
1143 - #120: Memory leak when the processes are forcefully killed
1145 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1147 SimGrid (3.17) Released October 8 2017
1149 The Drained Leaks release: (almost) no known leaks despite the tests.
1151 Even very long simulations will preserve your memory: our testsuite
1152 stresses SimGrid for over 45mn on fast machines for a coverage of
1153 over 80%, and there is only one single known leak, of about 4kb.
1157 - Comm.detach(): start and forget about asynchronous emission. A cleanup
1158 handler may be given to free resources if the comm cannot be completed.
1159 - this_actor::send(mailbox) is now mailbox->put()
1160 - New: simgrid::s4u::Comm::wait_all()
1161 - New: Host.execute() for remote executions.
1164 - Unused option network/sender-gap is removed.
1167 - Deprecate MSG_task_isend_with_matching(): This unused feature
1168 really complicates our internals. Will be removed in v3.20.
1171 - Improved context termination. It is now possible to free resources, even
1172 when a process is forcibly killed.
1173 - ContextBoost: add support for Boost versions above 1.61.
1176 - Bring back run-time option --cfg=exception/cutpath to remove exception
1178 - Removed unused functions:
1179 - xbt/str.h: xbt_str_split_str(), xbt_str_subst(), xbt_str_ltrim(),
1180 xbt_str_rtrim(), xbt_str_trim().
1181 - xbt/xbt_os_thread.h: xbt_os_thread_cancel(), xbt_os_thread_detach().
1184 - Removed header files obsolete since SimGrid 3.12:
1185 msg/datatypes.h, msg/msg.h, simdag/datatypes.h, simdag/simdag.h.
1187 - #3: SD_exit should be made optional
1188 - #120: Memory leak when the processes are forcefully killed
1189 - #159: Threading test regression in Actor refcounting
1190 - #170: simgrid::s4u::Comm::wait_any() returns too many comms
1191 - #185: simgrid::s4u::Engine::instance()->shutdown() segfaults
1192 - #186: Actor::killAll() segfaults if some process is blocked on wait()
1193 - #191: VM migration and pstate
1194 - #192: Updating the energy consumptions of all hosts crashes with VMs
1195 - #195: All actors have PID=0 in the logs
1196 - #204: Sometimes segfault with thread contexts and mmap privatization
1197 - #222: Actor::kill() doesn't really kill and segfaults
1198 - #225: Actor::kill() doesn't really kill when victims are doing a join()
1200 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1202 SimGrid (3.16) Released June 22. 2017.
1204 The Blooming Spring Release: developments are budding.
1207 - FreeBSD: Disable SMPI mmap privatization, switch automatically to dlopen.
1208 - Mac, BSD: dlopen+thread broken, switch automatically to raw contexts.
1209 - Java JAR file should be finally fully working on Mac OSX too.
1211 XML platforms: Switch to platform v4.1 format.
1212 * This is (mainly) a backward compatible change: v4 are valid v4.1 files
1213 - <zone> can be used as a synonym for the now deprecated <as>
1214 - <zoneRoute> can be used as a synonym for the now deprecated <asroute>
1215 - <bypassZoneRoute> can be used as a synonym for the now deprecated <bypassAsRoute>
1216 - <actor> can be used as a synonym for the now deprecated <process>
1217 - state_file and avail_file periodicity is now easier to express
1218 (check the documentation) the old behavior should still work.
1219 * Storage: not backward compatible, but it seems that nobody ever used it
1220 - Remove attribute 'content_type' of <storage_type>: was never used
1221 - Make attribute 'model' of <storage_type> optional: for future usage
1222 - Remove Bconnection model property: was never (in)validated. Replaced by
1223 the maximum of the read and write bandwidth as a resource constraint.
1226 - New and Backwards Compatibility break:
1227 SD_simulate_with_update (double how_long, xbt_dynar_t changed_tasks_dynar)
1228 When one wants to get the list of tasks whose states have changed during a
1229 simulation round, s/he has to allocate and free a dynar and use it as
1230 argument to this function. The former SD_simulate (double how_long)
1234 - Allow multicore VMs, with the correct sharing (unless you overcommit)
1235 BUG: vCPU overcommitting still leads to buggy sharing, though. WIP.
1238 - New function to update the consumption of all hosts at once.
1239 - Fix the model for multi-core hosts, linear in the amount of busy
1240 cores with an abnormality for pIdle (see paper).
1241 BUG: Still not satisfactory for ptask on mono-cores.
1244 - The netzone are now available from the MSG API.
1245 The old names still work, but are now deprecated.
1248 - New algorithm to privatize globals: dlopen, with dynamic loading tricks
1249 - New option: smpi/keep-temps to not cleanup temp files
1250 - New option: smpi/shared-malloc-blocksize . Relevant only when global shared
1251 mallocs mode is used, allows to change the size of the fake file used
1252 (default 1MB), to potentially limit the number of mappings for large runs.
1253 - Support for sparse privatized malloc with SMPI_PARTIAL_SHARED_MALLOC()
1254 - Fortran ifort and flang compilers support
1255 - New RMA calls supported (experimental):
1256 - MPI_Win_allocate, MPI_Win_create_dynamic, MPI_Win_attach
1257 - MPI_Win_detach, MPI_Win_set_info, MPI_Win_get_info
1258 - MPI_Win_lock_all, MPI_Win_unlock_all, MPI_Win_flush
1259 - MPI_Win_flush_local, MPI_Win_flush_all, MPI_Win_flush_local_all
1260 - MPI_Op_commutative, MPI_Fetch_and_Op, MPI_Compare_and_swap
1261 - MPI_Rput, MPI_Rget, MPI_Raccumulate, MPI_Rget_accumulate
1264 - New: this_actor::isMaestro() returns whether we are in kernel mode.
1265 - Behind the scene, ActivityImpl are now automatically refcounted.
1266 Removing this nasty bottleneck will greatly simplify our internals.
1269 - Replay: New function xbt_replay_action_get():
1270 Retrieve the function previously associated to an event type.
1271 - DROPPED FUNCTION: xbt_str_varsubst()
1272 - DROPPED MODULE: strbuff. We don't need it anymore.
1273 - DROPPED MODULE: matrix. We don't need it anymore.
1274 - DROPPED MODULE: lib. We don't need it anymore.
1276 -- Thu Jun 22 22:48:12 CEST 2017 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1278 SimGrid (3.15) Released March 22. 2017
1280 The Spring Release: continuous integration servers become green
1281 We fixed even the transient bugs on all target architectures:
1282 Linux (CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora), Mac OSX (Mavericks, El Capitan)
1283 Windows, FreeBSD, NetBSD.
1285 - Rename NetCards to NetPoints.
1286 This was intended to help NS3 users, but that's not a netcard.
1287 That's a point in the routing algorithm, let's avoid wrong simplifications.
1290 - New: MSG_process_yield(). Stop and yield to other processes.
1291 - New: MSG_process_daemon(). Daemon processes are automatically killed
1292 when the last non-daemon process terminates
1293 - New: MSG_process_ref/unref(). Fiddle with the process refcounting.
1294 - Renamed MSG_energy_plugin_init() -> MSG_host_energy_plugin_init()
1295 to make room for the upcoming network energy plugin.
1296 - Drop MSG_host_get_current_power_peak: duplicates MSG_host_get_speed
1299 - Ensure that an actor can kill itself with Process::exit()
1300 - Kill the obscure NativeException. Nobody want to survive the issues
1301 it denotes, so use JniException that is a RuntimeException (not to
1302 be caught explicitly).
1303 - Partial bug fix in initialization. SimGrid flags on command line were
1304 consumed at C level but stayed in the original Java String[] args.
1305 This could mess users' args[i] if SG flags were not put at the end of
1307 The SimGrid flags are now removed from the Java arguments. However,
1308 the number of arguments REMAINS UNCHANGED. It is then UNSAFE to test
1309 if args.length is greater than the number of YOUR OWN ARGUMENTS.
1310 It might be if you have --log or --cfg flags in the command line.
1311 - Fix numerous memleaks all around the place. In particular, around VMs.
1315 - s4u::onPlatformCreated: right before the simulation starts
1316 - s4u::onSimulationEnd: right after the main simulation loop
1317 - s4u::onTimeAdvance: right after a clock change (time is discrete)
1318 - s4u::Host::onSpeedChange: when the pstate is changed, or when an
1319 event from the availability_file changes the avail speed.
1320 - Links are now usable from s4u
1321 - New: Engine::hostList() and Engine::hostCount(). Still clumsy.
1322 - New: Actor::suspend(), Actor::resume(), and Actor::migrate(new_host)
1323 - New examples: The conversion of MSG examples to S4U has begun
1324 - Actors: create, kill, migration, and suspend
1325 - Applications: master-worker and token-ring
1326 - Action replay: communications and storage
1327 - Drop Host::getPstateSpeedCurrent() which duplicates Host::speed()
1330 - Backwards Compatibility breaks
1331 - The SD_route_get_list and SD_route_get_size functions have been removed.
1332 They are replaced by the unique
1333 void sg_host_route(sg_host_t src, sg_host_t dst, xbt_dynar_t links)
1334 The route from src to dst is built in the links dynar whose size can
1335 be obtained with xbt_dynar_length.
1336 - The SD_route_bandwidth and SD_route_latency functions have been replaced by
1337 sg_host_route_bandwidth and sg_host_route_latency.
1338 Macros ensure the backwards compatibility, but you should fix your code
1341 - Major C++ rewrite ongoing (SMPI used to be C compiled in C++).
1342 This can break codes using SMPI internals (from private.h instead of the public smpi.h).
1343 - Bump our claim of support from MPI 1.1 to MPI 2.2.
1344 We don't support 100% of it, but it should be enough. Contact us if not.
1345 - MPI_Win_lock/unlock, MPI_Get_accumulate support added (as for all RMA, implementation is
1346 naive and probably inaccurate)
1347 - New algorithm for SMPI_SHARED_MALLOC: global, where all blocks are
1348 mapped onto a unique small file using some system magic.
1349 - Bugfix: smpirun was sometimes misusing hostfile when wrongly terminated
1350 - Fortran: cleanups, fixes, support of user-added operations
1351 - RMA: MPI_Accumulate are applied in correct order.
1352 - RMA: MPI_Win_{complete/post} shouldn't miss messages anymore.
1353 - Better support for MPI_IN_PLACE
1354 - Support for MPI_Win attrs and keyvals.
1355 - Support MPI_Comm_group_create, MPI_Type_size_x
1356 - MPI ops should be properly applied to all allowed types
1357 - Replace implementation of MPI_Bcast "scatter followed by rdb allgather"
1358 algorithm by a non failing one from mpich.
1361 - Kill the fifo data container: we don't use it anymore.
1364 - A <cluster> can now be created with different speed values to represent pstates.
1365 see examples/platforms/energy_cluster.xml for an example.
1367 SimGrid (3.14.159) Released December 28. 2016
1369 The previous release was only a crude approximation of a Pi release;
1370 this one should be a bit better.
1372 - Revert a last minute change that broke on Mac OSX.
1373 - Fix the changelog and NEWS files.
1374 - Improve the documentation, in particular of the routing module.
1375 - Integrate some patches flying around in Debian.
1377 SimGrid (3.14) Released December 24. 2016
1380 * The whole documentation was reworked and reorganized. There is
1381 still much room for improvement here, but we're on it.
1384 * We now need python3 for our testing infrastructure.
1385 * Model checking needs libevent
1388 * Now works on FreeBSD
1391 * Privatization now works on FreeBSD
1393 * Privatization is now activated by default in smpirun
1394 You can turn it off with -no-privatize if something goes wrong.
1396 * Call-location tracing for SMPI.
1397 You can add the exact location (filename / linenumber) of an MPI call to
1398 your trace files and slow down or speed up the simulation between two
1399 consecutive calls by using an adjustment file (see the documentation).
1401 * Fixed computation of timings for MPI_Send, MPI_Recv & possibly also others
1402 We've found a bug that prevented SMPI to account for MPI_Send, MPI_Recv
1403 and others (in some cases) in a correct way. That is, the smpi/os, smpi/or
1404 values were ignored in some cases. The timings of these functions can now
1405 be significantly different.
1407 * smpi/cpu-threshold:-1 should become smpi/simulate-computation:no
1408 smpi/running-power is renamed to smpi/host-speed
1410 * smpi/grow-injected-times option to enable or disable multiplication of the
1411 timings injected in MPI_Iprobe, or MPI_Test. Enabled by default, which can
1412 make simulation less precise (but also much faster).
1414 * smpirun script should be (much) faster for large deployments.
1416 * SMPI tracing: fixed issue with poor matching of send/receives.
1418 * Replay: Fix broken waitall
1420 New functions and features
1421 * MSG_parallel_task_execute_with_timeout, to timeout computations.
1423 Dropped / renamed functions and features
1424 * msg_mailbox_t and associated functions. Use s4u::Mailbox instead.
1425 - MSG_mailbox_is_empty() -> Mailbox::empty()
1426 - MSG_mailbox_front() -> Mailbox::front()
1427 - MSG_mailbox_get_by_alias() -> simgrid::s4u::Mailbox::byName(name)
1428 - MSG_mailbox_get_task_ext() -> MSG_task_receive_ext()
1429 - MSG_mailbox_get_task_ext_bounded -> MSG_task_receive_ext_bounded
1430 - MSG_host_(get/set)_params -> MSG_vm_(get/set)_params
1431 * Don't pass the free_f parameter to property related functions:
1432 - MSG_host_set_property_value()
1433 - MSG_as_router_set_property_value()
1434 - MSG_storage_set_property_value()
1435 * VM properties. Since msg_vm_t are msg_host_t, just use
1436 MSG_host_get_property_value() and friends
1437 * VM I/O related things:
1438 - Ignored parameter of vm_create: core_nb, disk_path and disk_size.
1439 - Unimplemented save/restore methods
1440 * MSG_as_router_get_property_value() was redundant with
1441 MSG_environment_as_get_property_value().
1442 - Removed MSG_as_router_*propert*() functions
1443 - Added MSG_environment_as_set_property_value() for consistency
1444 * xbt heterogeneous dictionaries (created with xbt_dict_new()).
1445 Well, they are still there for now, but deprecated with a warning.
1446 Please switch to xbt_dict_new_homogeneous() before this is removed
1448 * Task affinity. Its intended behavior (that was very badly tested
1449 and probably not really working) was deceiving what most users
1450 would have hoped here.
1451 * xbt_os_sem_get_value: unused internally, deprecated on OS X El Capitan
1452 * Option network/coordinates is now useless and should be dropped.
1455 * Added option storage/max_file_descriptors to allow more than 1024 files opened
1458 * Added option maxmin/concurrency_limit to allow more than 100 processes per host
1459 * Added Dragonfly topology support
1462 * Add Exa- and Peta- units such as EiB, EB, Eib, Eb for size, and
1463 EiBps, EBps, Eibps, Ebps for bandwidth.
1464 They may become useful to some lucky ones.
1467 * New functions: msg.Comm.waitAll() and msg.Comm.waitAny()
1468 * ex/app_tokenring: new example, very similar to the MSG Token Ring
1469 * ex/async_waitAll: new example, on asynchronous communications
1472 * Memory usage should be decreased for simulations with a large number
1473 of processes. This also helps for SMPI.
1475 SimGrid (3.13) stable; urgency=low
1477 The Half Release, a.k.a. the Zealous Easter Trim.
1479 - We removed half of the lines, that were mostly experimental cruft.
1480 v3.12 lasted 286000 lines of code, v3.13 is only 142000 lines
1481 (not counting blanks and comments -- according to openhub.net)
1482 - The internals are now compiled in C++ (and will soon be clean C++)
1483 - We removed 75 klines of XML, 12 klines of Java, 5 klines of cmake,
1484 59 klines of C, etc. We added only 29 klines of C++ in replacement.
1486 * Backwards Compatibility breaks
1487 - Removed Lua simulation bindings (switch to C or Java for that).
1488 Lua can still be used to describe platforms
1489 - Removed Java kernel plug-ins.
1490 Will be reintroduced after the ongoing major internals reorg.
1492 - the following functions were removed.
1493 They were too specific and should be reimplemented in a generic
1494 way, with filter function.
1495 - MSG_task_listen_from_host
1496 - MSG_mailbox_get_count_host_waiting_tasks
1497 - MSG_mailbox_put_with_timeout was removed.
1498 Please use MSG_task_send_with_timeout instead.
1500 - the SD_application_reinit function was removed. It has been a noop for a while.
1501 - The ACCESS_MODE of SD_workstation has been removed. This feature was not really usable and should soon be
1502 replaced by a more flexible mechanism.
1503 - The following functions thus do not exist anymore
1504 - SD_workstation_get_access_mode
1505 - SD_workstation_set_access_mode
1506 - SD_workstation_get_current_task
1507 - Basic estimation functions have been removed but can easily be replaced
1508 - SD_route_get_communication_time => SG_route_get_latency() + amount / SD_route_get_bandwidth()
1509 - SD_workstation_get_computation_time => amount / sg_host_speed()
1511 - VM.setBound(int load) is now VM.setBound(double bound) to meet the MSG semantics.
1512 Use VM.getSpeed()*load/100 for the legacy behavior.
1514 - option enable_tracing was removed. It was not doing anything for a while.
1515 - In the ModelChecker:
1516 - the model-checker now ptraces the model-checked process which means
1517 you cannot use a debugger on the latter anymore (we might make this
1518 optional in the feature);
1519 - removed soft-dirty page tracking;
1520 - remove model-checked side snapshot management,
1521 MC_snapshot() and MC_compare_snapshot();
1522 - keep the MC_cut() function as a stub (it was not really working
1523 in the previous release).
1526 * All options are consistently in kebab-case. Old names are kept as alias.
1529 * Switch to platform v4 format.
1530 - Rename from 'power' to 'speed' the attributes describing the amount of
1531 flops that a <host>, <peer>, <cluster> or <cabinet> can deliver per second.
1532 - In <trace_connect>, attribute kind="POWER" is now kind="SPEED".
1533 - In <host> and <link>, attributes availability and state are gone.
1534 It was redundant with state and availability traces, and with peak values.
1535 - In <cluster>, attributes availability_file and state_file are gone.
1536 It was too complex and unused.
1537 - Kill <gpu>. Was not doing anything.
1538 - The DOCTYPE points to the right URL:
1539 http://simgrid.gforge.inria.fr/simgrid/simgrid.dtd
1540 (the file at this address now documents the changelog since its v1)
1541 - A warning is emitted for unit-less values (they are still accepted).
1542 - speed. Default: 'f' or 'flops'. Also defined:
1543 'Yf', 'Zf', 'Ef', 'Pf', 'Tf', 'Gf', 'Mf', 'kf'
1544 'yottaflops', 'zettaflops', 'exaflops', 'petaflops', 'teraflops', 'gigaflops', 'megaflops', 'kiloflops'
1545 - bandwidth. Default: 'Bps' bytes per second (or 'bps' for bits but 1 Bps = 8 bps)
1546 Also defined in bytes: 'TiBps', 'GiBps', 'MiBps', 'KiBps', 'TBps', 'GBps', 'MBps', 'kBps', 'Bps'
1547 And the same in bits: 'Tibps', 'Gibps', 'Mibps', 'Kibps', 'Tbps', 'Gbps', 'Mbps', 'kbps', 'bps'
1548 - latency. Default: 's' second. Also defined:
1549 'w' week, 'd' day, 'h' hour, 'm' minute, 'ms' millisecond, 'us' microsecond, 'ns' nanosecond, 'ps' picosecond
1551 * bin/simgrid_update_xml can upgrade your files automatically (won't convert unit-less values)
1552 tools/sg_xml_unit_converter.py may help (but it's just a warning and will probably ever be).
1555 * s4u::Host is now the preferred public interface to the Host features.
1556 sg_host_* functions are C bindings to the exact same behavior
1557 MSG_host_* and SD_workstation_* are #define to the sg_host_* ones
1560 * The examples were completely reorganized (in C and Java), for your browsing pleasure.
1561 * Kill all deprecated functions (the ones you had when declaring MSG_DEPRECATED).
1562 They were deprecated since a few years, and probably did not even compile anymore.
1565 * The API has been profoundly modified to directly use the core objects instead of redefining its own.
1566 SD_Workstation_t and SD_link_t are now sg_host_t and sg_link_t respectively.
1567 Some functions have also been renamed for consistency. Backward compatibility is maintained, but users are
1568 encouraged to update their codes. A list of the modified functions can be found at the end of
1569 include/simgrid/simdag.h
1572 * simgrid::simix::kernelImmediate() is the closure callback. It ensures that
1573 the lambda or closure passed as a parameter will run in kernel mode.
1574 All the callback functions should be rewritten to that interface at some point.
1577 * Reorganizing and cleaning the internals all around the place.
1580 * Remove old default barrier/bcast buggy algorithms (see #18407)
1581 * Various bug fixes to handle more codes
1582 * Remove the need for the --foreground option of smpirun (it is still
1583 accepted for backward compatibility).
1586 * Kill the setset data container: MC don't use it anymore.
1587 * Kill the queue data container: it made more sense with GRAS.
1588 * Kill the xbt_peer_t data type: it's useless without GRAS.
1589 * Kill rm_cb feature of config sets: it was never useful.
1590 * Kill graphxml parsing feature. It was not used.
1591 * Kill the deprecated code protected by XBT_USE_DEPRECATED
1593 - xbt_dynar_sort_strings(), when the content is char*
1594 - xbt_str_parse_int / xbt_str_parse_double, wrapping strtol/strtod
1595 They throw exceptions on invalid input;
1596 * C++ support for declaring CLI flags (simgrid::config::Flag);
1597 * class for abstracting different signal backends (simgrid::xbt::signal).
1598 with no external dependencies (we need very simple signals).
1601 * refactoring and cleanup of the code;
1602 * ongoing process to cleanly separate the model-checking algorithms
1603 from the code model-checking support.
1605 -- Wed Apr 27 21:00:53 CEST 2016 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1607 SimGrid (3.12) stable; urgency=low
1609 The Facelift Release.
1612 * Require g++ v4.7 at least to not speak prehistorical C++.
1613 * Require Boost 1.48 (for signal2 component).
1614 * Java must be version 7 at least when activated.
1615 * Builds on Windows again (including Java bindings).
1616 * Tracing is now always enabled (no way to turn it out)
1617 * Remove GTNetS. It was not working anyway.
1618 * Various cleanups in the cmake scripts.
1619 * Move headers around to sort them out on installed systems:
1620 - instr/instr.h -> simgrid/instr.h
1621 - instr/jedule/* -> simgrid/jedule
1622 - simdag/datatypes.h was removed
1623 - simdag/simdag.h -> simgrid/simdag.h
1624 - msg/datatypes.h was removed
1625 - msg/msg.h -> simgrid/msg.h
1628 * Interface improvement:
1629 - Rename MSG_host_is_avail(h) to MSG_host_is_on(h)
1630 - Sanitize the interface in MSG_task_ module:
1631 - Merge two functions that were close enough but misleading:
1632 set_compute_duration(t) -> set_flops_amount(t)
1633 get_remaining_computation(t) -> get_flops_amount(t)
1634 - set_data_size(t) -> set_bytes_amount(t)
1635 get_data_size(t) -> get_bytes_amount(t)
1636 - Massive cleanups in the functions related to the energy
1637 - MSG_host_get_pstate_number() -> MSG_host_get_nb_pstates()
1638 - New: MSG_host_get_pstate()
1640 - msg/energy/onoff: switching hosts on and off
1642 * Interface improvement:
1643 - Rename Host.isAvail() to Host.isOn()
1644 - Rename Process.currentProcess() to Process.getCurrentProcess()
1645 - Rename Task.setDataSize() to Task.setBytesAmount()
1646 - Merge Task.getRemainingDuration() and Task.getComputeDuration() into Task.getFlopsAmount()
1648 - #18874: Actually allows the GC to reclaim tasks
1652 - SIMIX_process_throw: raises an exception in a remote process
1653 * Refactoring: Separate sub-modules
1654 - libsmx: the public interface, as libc in a real system
1655 - popping: the strange dance that converts a user request into a kernel handling
1656 - smx_context_*: the virtualization mechanisms that embed the user code
1657 - smx_*: the handling of each simcalls
1658 * Interface cleanup:
1659 - simcall_host_set_power_peak_at -> simcall_host_set_pstate
1660 * Rename smx_action_t into smx_synchro_t, making explicit that these
1661 things are used to synchronize processes with their environment.
1662 For example, a communication is a sort of synchronization involving
1663 the communicating processes (that may block until the exchange) and
1664 the platform. The same can be said from computations, etc.
1666 - #18888: segfault when a process ends before its kill_time
1670 - Onesided early support for: MPI_Win_(create, free, fence, get_name, set_name, get_group), MPI_Get, MPI_Put, MPI_Accumulate, MPI_Alloc_mem, MPI_Free_mem.
1671 - MPI_Keyval*, MPI_Attr* functions, as well as MPI_Comm_attr*, MPI_Type_attr* variants (C only, no Fortran support yet)
1672 - MPI_Type_set_name, MPI_Type_get_name
1673 - MPI_*_c2f and MPI_*_f2c functions
1674 - MPI_Info_* functions (beware, get_nthkey may not follow the insertion order)
1675 - MPI_Pack, MPI_Unpack and MPI_Pack_size functions
1676 - Activate a lot of new tests from the mpich 3 testsuite
1678 - Constant times can be injected inside MPI_Wtime and MPI_Test through options smpi/wtime and smpi/test
1679 - InfiniBand network model added: Based on the works of Jerome Vienne
1680 http://mescal.imag.fr/membres/jean-marc.vincent/index.html/PhD/Vienne.pdf
1681 - When smpi/display_timing is set, also display global simulation time and application times
1682 - Have smpirun, smpicc and friends display the simgrid git hash version on --git-version
1683 * Collective communications
1684 - SMP-aware algorithms are now dynamically handled. An internal communicator is created for each node, and an external one to handle communications between "leaders" of each node
1685 - MVAPICH2 (1.9) collective algorithms selector: normal and SMP algorithms are handled, and selection logic is based on the one used on TACC's Stampede cluster (https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/stampede/).
1686 - Support for Rabenseifner Reduce/Allreduce algorithms (https://fs.hlrs.de/projects/par/mpi//myreduce.html)
1688 - Replay now uses algorithms from wanted collective selector
1689 - Replay can be used with SMP-aware algorithms
1690 - Memory occupation of replay should now be contained (temporary buffers allocated in collective algorithms should be shared between processes)
1691 - Replay can now replay several traces at the same time (check examples/smpi/replay_multiple example), to simulate interactions between several applications on a given platform. User can specify the start time of each instance. This should also allow replay + actual applications to run.
1693 - [#17799]: have mpi_group_range_incl and mpi_group_range_excl better test some corner cases
1694 - Correctly use loopback on fat-tree clusters
1695 - Asynchronous small messages shouldn't trigger deadlocks anymore
1696 * Energy/DVFS cleanup and improvement
1697 - smpi_set_host_power_peak_at() -> smpi_set_host_pstate()
1698 - new: smpi_get_host_pstate()
1701 - "Full" network optimization flag was broken since Surf++
1702 - Better handling of precision flags in maxmin
1703 - Fix bug causing sometimes "Impossible" errors
1704 - Properly pass cluster properties to included hosts
1705 * Improvement of the Energy plugin.
1706 - Always update the consumption before returning that value
1707 - New property: watt_off to denote the dissipation when the host is off
1708 - New functions getWattMinAt and getWattMaxAt to retrieve the
1709 dissipation of pstates that we are not currently at.
1710 * Java: class NetworkLink renamed to Link
1711 * New function: simcall_process_get_kill_time()
1712 * Massive rename s/workstation/host/
1713 - That's intrusive, but that's good for the project consistency. Sorry.
1714 - Change config option "workstation/model" into "host/model"
1717 - Add a xbt_heap_update function, to avoid costly xbt_heap_remove+xbt_heap_insert use
1718 - Add a xbt wrapper for simcall_mutex_trylock (asked in [#17878])
1719 - Add two new log appenders: rollfile and splitfile. Patch by Fabien Chaix.
1720 - xbt_dirname and xbt_basename for non-POSIX systems
1722 * The model checker now runs as a separate process.
1723 * The model checker runs must now be launched with the new simgrid-mc program.
1724 * Record/Replay: the MC can display a textual representation of a path in the
1725 execution graph. It can then be replayed outside of the model checker.
1727 -- Mon Oct 12 06:02:41 CEST 2015 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1729 SimGrid (3.11) stable; urgency=low
1734 * Normalizing pointers addresses tool for better diff between logs
1737 * Add cloud examples using new VMs
1738 - examples/msg/cloud/two_tasks_vm.tesh
1739 - examples/msg/cloud/simple_vm.tesh
1740 - examples/java/cloud/cloud.tesh
1741 - examples/java/cloud/migration/migration.tesh
1742 * Add java surf examples:
1743 - examples/java/surfPlugin/surf_plugin.tesh
1744 - examples/java/reservationSurfPlugin/reservation_surf_plugin.tes
1745 - examples/java/surfCpuModel/surf_cpu_model.tesh
1746 * Add SMPI+MSG example:
1747 - examples/smpi/smpi_msg_masterslave/
1752 - msg task destroy cancel test
1753 - msg_host on/off test
1754 * Move all tests in testsuite to teshsuite (adding tesh files)
1755 * Restructure teshsuites
1756 - one folder for each kind of test
1757 * Restructure AddTests.cmake
1759 - structure the order of tests (with sections)
1762 * Add virtual machine
1763 - creation of a VM on a PM
1764 - migration of a VM from a PM to another PM
1766 - MSG_process_join(msg_process_t process, double timeout)
1767 - msg_bar_t MSG_barrier_init(unsigned int count)
1768 - int MSG_barrier_wait(msg_bar_t barrier)
1769 - void MSG_barrier_destroy(msg_bar_t barrier)
1770 - msg_as_t MSG_environment_as_get_by_name(const char * name)
1771 * New option "msg/debug_multiple_use" to help debugging when a task is used
1774 - Improvements and finalization of MSG_storage, MSG_file APIs and their
1776 - Increase code coverage in test suites
1780 * Protect context stacks against stack overflow. The number of protected memory
1781 pages allocated on the top of each stack (1 by default) can be configured
1782 with the new command line option --cfg=contexts/guard_size:<value>.
1783 * Simcalls are now generated by a python script that
1784 - generates files included by SimGrid
1785 - checks that all the functions exist, and proposes prototypes
1787 - remove sem_destroy, file_set_data, comm_destroy, vm_set_state,
1788 host_set_data, host_get_data
1790 - simcall_process_join(smx_process_t process, double timeout)
1791 * Fix bug where sleeping processing could not be suspended.
1794 * Translate surf models from C to C++
1795 - Generic classes for all models: Model, Resource, Action
1796 - A generic interface for each kind of model (CPU, Network, Storage
1797 Workstation, WorkstationVM)
1799 * Translate surf routings from C to C++
1800 * Add callbacks using sigc++ or boost::signals2
1801 - Add callback functions for resource creation/destruction
1802 - Add callback functions for action state change
1803 - Handle Energy as a plugin
1804 * Replace swag by boost::intrusive
1805 * Add new routing models for clusters. For documentation, see
1806 http://simgrid.gforge.inria.fr/simgrid/latest/doc/platform.html#pf_cluster
1807 - tori, with topology="TORUS" and topo_parameters="ndim1,ndim2,...,ndimn"
1808 parameters for cluster tag
1809 - Fat trees, with topology="FAT_TREE" and
1810 topo_parameters="h;m1,...,mh;w1,...,wh;p1,...,ph" parameters for cluster tag
1811 - see examples/platforms/torus_cluster.xml and
1812 examples/platforms/fat_tree_cluster.xml
1813 * More documentation
1816 * Hostfiles support host:nb_processes construct to deploy several processes on
1818 * Collective communication algorithms should not crash if used with
1819 improper number of nodes and report the error.
1820 * SMPI now partially supports MPI_Topologies: MPI_Cart_create, MPI_Cart_shift,
1821 MPI_Cart_rank, MPI_Cart_get, MPI_Cart_coords, MPI_Cartdim_get,
1822 MPI_Dims_create, MPI_Cart_sub are supported.
1823 * New interface to use SMPI programmatically (still depends on MSG for
1824 some parts, see examples/smpi/smpi_msg_masterslave):
1825 - SMPI_app_instance_register(const char *name, xbt_main_func_t code,
1829 * Global variables privatization in MPI executables is now performed at runtime
1830 with the option smpi/privatize_global_variables (default:no).
1831 Limitations: Linux/BSD only, with mmap enabled. Global variables inside
1832 dynamic libraries loaded by the application are not privatized (static
1833 linking with these libraries is advised in this case)
1836 * Options defined in XML work correctly now.
1839 * New cmake option, enable_lib_in_jar, to control whether native libraries are
1840 copied into simgrid.jar or not (ON by default). Use this option if you want
1841 to reduce the size of the installed simgrid.jar, *and* the native libraries
1842 are kept installed elsewhere.
1843 * Surf binding with SWIG (code generated in maintainer mode only):
1844 - plugin to handle callbacks
1845 - CPU model only for the moment
1848 * Supernovae build mode is definitively removed. It was used to improve
1849 inlining and inter-module optimizations. It is nowadays superseded by
1850 link-time optimizations commonly available in compilers.
1851 * Update ns-3 find lib. Bindings for ns-3 should work again now.
1852 * Add boost dependency for surf++
1853 * Add new macro for tests
1854 - ADD_TESH(name <tesh_args>)
1855 - ADD_TESH_FACTORIES(name "thread;ucontext;raw" <tesh_args>)
1859 - xbt_bar_t XBT_barrier_init(unsigned int count)
1860 - int XBT_barrier_wait(xbt_bar_t barrier)
1861 - void XBT_barrier_destroy(xbt_bar_t barrier)
1862 * Make the xbt_os_time module public
1864 -- Sat May 31 22:39:38 CEST 2014 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1866 SimGrid (3.10) stable; urgency=low
1868 The Clean Diaper Release, a.k.a. SimGrid is leak-free.
1871 * Reintegrate Java to the main archive as desynchronizing these
1872 package is not acceptable anymore (Java is now considered stable)
1873 * Add explicit synchronization facilities through semaphores
1874 * Bug fix: Task.setDataSize() only changed the C world, not the value
1875 cached in the Java world
1878 * Dramatically change the way files are handled. API and internals changed, but
1879 this part of MSG was not considered as production grade either.
1880 * Add explicit synchronization facilities through semaphores
1881 * Add a new function MSG_host_get_process_list()
1882 * Preliminary DVFS support (see examples/msg/energy/ for details)
1885 * SMPI is now included directly in the libsimgrid as the windows
1886 linker doesn't force us on splitting it anymore.
1887 * Improvements of the SMPI replay tool:
1888 - Most of the collective communications are now rooted in the same process as
1889 in the original application.
1890 - Traces now rely on the same MPI data type as the application (MPI_BYTE was
1891 used until now). Multiple data types can now be used in a trace.
1892 - The replay tool now supports traces produce either by TAU or a modified
1894 - Bug Fix: the compute part of the reduce action is now taken into account.
1895 - Gatherv collective is now supported
1896 - SimGrid (SMPI for now) can generate replay traces as well. Option -trace-ti
1897 of smpirun outputs time independent traces for the current run. One file
1898 is created per process. If too many processes are simulated, this behavior
1899 can be changed to one file for all processes by using the
1900 tracing/smpi/format/ti_one_file flag
1901 * smpirun generates the host file if needed (with given host count and platform)
1902 * Integration of more than 100 STAR-MPI, MPICH, OpenMPI collective algorithms
1903 - allows to select one in particular with --cfg=smpi/coll_name:algorithm
1904 - allows to use the decision logic of OpenMPI(1.7) or MPICH(3.0.4) by setting
1905 --cfg=smpi/coll_selector:(mpich/ompi)
1906 * Support for new functions: MPI_Issend, MPI_Ssend, Commutative operations in
1908 * Add a --cfg:tracing/smpi/internals option, to trace internal communications
1909 happening inside a collective SMPI call.
1910 * Fix the behavior of complex data types handling.
1911 * Make MPI_Wtime another synchronization point to take computations into
1913 * Replace MPICH-1 test suite by the one from MPICH 3.0.4. Can be built using
1914 enable_smpi_MPICH3_testsuite flag in cmake. Run with ctest.
1915 * Add all missing Fortran bindings, SMPI should work with Fortran 90
1916 (no privatization of global variables yet)
1917 * Preliminary DVFS support (see examples/smpi/energy/ for details)
1920 * Verification of liveness properties is now available for SMPI applications
1921 (in addition to MSG applications)
1922 * Bugged examples using SMPI in examples/smpi/mc/
1923 * Add --cfg=model-check/visited option. Allows the verification of infinite
1924 programs. Detection of loops in the execution thanks to the system state
1925 comparison and reduction of the state space to explore. Can be combined with
1926 DPOR for safety properties.
1929 * Allow to change SimGrid configuration (see --help) within the code
1930 thanks to SD_config() as it can be done in MSG.
1931 * Add a new function SD_task_set_amount() upon user request.
1934 * Handle units for values (10ms, 10kiloflops, 10Bps, 1GB, ...)
1935 * Remove rule based routing (no more PCRE dependency)
1936 * Add a limiter_link option to cluster tag, to specify a maximum reachable
1937 bandwidth in fullduplex mode when it is less than twice the nominal bandwidth.
1938 * Add a loopback_bw and loopback_lat options to cluster tag.
1939 * Fix the peer tag that could not be mixed with other AS within a Vivaldi
1940 routing. Now peers are encapsulated in an AS and have their own private
1941 router but this is transparent.
1944 * Our own implementation of getline is renamed xbt_getline, and gets
1945 used even if the OS provide a getline(). This should reduce the
1946 configuration complexity by using the same code on all platforms.
1947 * New type: xbt_cfg_elm_boolean.
1948 * Allow to use yes/no for boolean configuration options in the command line.
1949 * Allow to disable SimGrid cleanups at exit from command line option.
1950 There are situations where one may want a simulation to end with an exit.
1951 Unfortunately, calling exit may cause SimGrid to segfault, which is quite
1952 annoying when scripting around the simulator. Adding a
1953 --cfg=clean_atexit:no allows to circumvent this issue.
1956 * Lots of memory leaks were corrected in this release.
1957 There is no known memory leaks anymore, in all of our 600+ tests.
1958 * New command line option --version, to get SimGrid version information.
1959 Packagers may want to add extra words to SIMGRID_VERSION_EXTRA defined in
1961 * Supernovae builds are deprecated, and expected to be removed in the next
1964 -- Sun Nov 17 00:26:44 CET 2013 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1966 SimGrid (3.9) stable; urgency=low
1968 The Grasgory release: GRAS is really dead now.
1970 * Complete overhaul of the internal host structures scheme.
1973 * If you use GRAS, you should stay at SimGrid 3.5 (at most) since it
1974 was considered as experimental and badly maintained since then.
1975 * Keeping it was thus a trap to our potential users, that could take
1976 it instead of MSG or SMPI by mistake despite is pity state.
1977 * GRAS seems to have very few users (if any), and no one volunteered
1978 to maintain it further. It also induces a lot of XBT code (for
1979 portability sake), that must be maintained too.
1980 * For all these reasons, we killed GRAS. If someone wants to revive it
1981 in the future, don't cry, our git history still remembers of GRAS.
1984 * Major overhaul. Merge our documentation again as time proved that
1985 splitting it was really not helping our users.
1986 * Further improve the developer documentation to help newcomers
1987 hacking on SimGrid itself. The user documentation (and in
1988 particular, the beginner documentation) is still in a sorry state.
1991 * Now works on Windows too!
1992 * Much more extensive test suite, from MPICH
1995 * Add a new loader (SD_PTG_dotload) that creates a parallel task graph
1996 (i.e., a DAG whose nodes are parallel tasks) from a dot file. Creates a
1997 dynar of SD_TASK_COMP_PAR_AMDAHL and SD_TASK_COMM_MXN_1D_BLOCK tasks.
1998 * Bug fix: let task be scheduled when the last dependency to be solved is
1999 a control dependency.
2000 * Remove SD_load_environment_script function.
2001 Use the C sg_platf function if you want to declare a platform
2005 * New function: MSG_process_get_number()
2006 * Old function documented: MSG_config()
2007 * Remove MSG_load_platform_script function
2008 Use the C sg_platf function if you want to declare a platform
2012 * Change the default value of the TCP_gamma constant (maximal size of TCP
2013 congestion window) to a more realistic 4MiB value. If you notice changes in
2014 your simulation results, you can fall back to the previous 20k tiny window
2015 by adding --cfg=network/TCP_gamma:20000 on command line.
2016 * (Hopefully) fix a bug wrt periodic availability and state traces
2017 * Bug fix: use default values at start when first event in availability/state
2018 trace is not at time 0.
2021 * remove the "new_" part of function name sg_platf_new_trace_connect
2022 (resulting in sg_platf_trace_connect), since it does not create
2026 * Kill synchronized dynars, and xbt_dynar_dopar(). We cannot think of a
2027 use case where it's really mandatory, and maintaining it was a pain in
2029 * New: xbt_fifo_search(), search an item with a user-provided
2030 comparison function instead of dumb pointer comparison.
2033 * Fix the lua deployment:
2034 Use `simgrid.init_application()` before deployment instead of
2035 `simgrid.msg_register_application()` after.
2038 * Transfer the tracing files into the corresponding modules.
2040 -- Tue Feb 5 11:31:43 CET 2013 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2042 SimGrid (3.8.1) stable; urgency=low
2044 The "we are told that some people want to also *install* the simgrid
2047 * Add missing file "tesh.1" to the archive.
2049 -- Sat Oct 27 16:12:11 CEST 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2051 SimGrid (3.8) stable; urgency=low
2053 The Psssshiiiit release: SimGrid jumps into the Cloud.
2056 * Add an experimental interface to manipulate VMs. They are mainly
2057 process groups with very few intrinsic semantic, but they should
2058 allow you to build the semantic you want easily.
2059 * New function: MSG_host_set_property_value()
2060 * New function: MSG_process_on_exit(). To clean memory in all cases.
2061 * Bug fixes that made the host (and link) failures unusable.
2062 * Add a way to auto-restart process when the host in which they are
2063 executing comes back (ON_FAILURE="RESTART" on deployment file,
2064 MSG_process_auto_restart_set).
2065 * Use the "msg_" prefix for all datatypes (instead of m_, msg_ and MSG_),
2066 please stop using the old ones, they are DEPRECATED.
2068 * Deprecate functions MSG_global_init() / MSG_global_init_args()
2069 Please use MSG_init() instead. (reducing the amount of entry
2070 points in the library helps us).
2071 * Make it impossible to link against the wrong version of the lib
2072 * Deprecate MSG_clean(). No need to call it anymore.
2073 * Function MSG_get_host_number() is not deprecated anymore.
2076 * Split the doc into a user guide and a reference guide.
2077 * Start a developper guide to help people hacking on SimGrid.
2080 * Enable tracing by default. This modules rocks you should use it.
2081 * Remove option custom_flags. Now use environment variables CFLAGS
2083 * Use default cmake things to detect lua instead of home grown ones.
2084 * New option "enable_mallocators" to disable mallocators, for debugging
2085 purpose ("on" by default).
2088 * Bug fixes around the resource failures: don't let the processes
2089 survive the host they are running onto.
2090 * Add an interface to auto-restart processes when the host in which they are
2091 executing comes back.
2092 * Ensures that SIMIX_clean is called automatically. It's not part of
2093 the public interface anymore (bindings should be updated).
2096 * Bug fix for when SD_Simulate is called with a positive value: be careful
2097 when comparing doubles. Sometimes they are different for non significant
2099 * New types of typed tasks. SD_TASK_COMP_PAR_AMDAHL represents a
2100 parallel task whose initial work is distributed among host according
2101 to the Amdahl's law. Such tasks are created with a parameter alpha
2102 that corresponds to the non-parallelizable part of the computation.
2103 SD_TASK_COMM_PAR_MXN_1D_BLOCK represents a complex data redistribution
2104 between two sets of workstations assuming a 1D block distribution (each
2105 workstation owns a similar share of data) on both sides.
2107 These tasks can be scheduled with SD_task_schedulel or SD_task_schedulev.
2108 Data redistribution will be automatically scheduled once parent and child
2109 are both scheduled. The filling of computation_amount and
2110 communication_amount structures is now done seamlessly thanks to the chosen
2112 * New function SD_workstation_dump to display various information
2113 * New function SD_task_set_rate to throttle the bandwidth allowed to be used
2114 by a SD_TASK_COMM_E2E typed task. This rate depends on both the nominal
2115 bandwidth on the route onto which the task is scheduled and the amount of
2117 To divide the nominal bandwidth by 2, the rate then has to be:
2118 rate = bandwidth/(2*amount)
2119 * Compute tasks that have failed can now be rescheduled and executed again
2120 (from their beginning)
2121 * Increasing source code coverage (src/simdag is now covered at 95.8%
2125 * Re-implement time-independent trace replay using SMPI (at the
2126 smpi_smp_* level) instead of MSG. This should replace
2127 examples/msg/actions/actions.c
2128 * Implement support of MPI Datatypes (vectors, hvectors, indexed,
2129 hindexed and structs)
2130 * Implement the exchange of non-contiguous data.
2131 [Khalid Hasanov & Jean-Noel Quintin] Thanks for the patch, guys.
2132 * Correct behavior of smpi/sender_gap and set its default value to 0
2133 * Add option to asynchronously send small messages to allow better
2134 simulation of pt2pt communications. --cfg=smpi/async_small_threshold:value
2135 specifies the size in bytes under which messages will be asynchronously sent.
2136 * Add support of MPI_Iprobe, MPI_Probe, MPI_Testall, MPI_Wtick functions
2137 * SMPI now handles more MPI specific values in input. Closes [#14389] and [#14388]
2140 * New C interface to define a platform: XML is now optional.
2141 For more info, please check include/simgrid/platf.h.
2142 * New interface to define random platforms from the C:
2143 For more info, please check include/simgrid/platf_generator.h and
2144 examples/msg/masterslave/masterslave_platfgen.c
2145 * Export a sg_cmdline dynar containing all the arguments we got from
2149 * Two new tracing options for adding comments to trace file so you
2150 can track your experiments (see --help-tracing for details).
2151 * New option to generate an impoverished trace file (--cfg=tracing/basic:1)
2152 * Adding the SimGrid version that generated the trace file as a comment.
2153 * Instrumenting other MSG functions (MSG_task_isend_with_matching and MSG_task_dsend)
2154 * Fix to avoid key clashes on Paje links
2155 * Other minor fixes related to the Paje specification
2158 * Functions xbt_dict_hash() and xbt_dict_hash_ext() are made public,
2159 and renamed to xbt_str_hash() and xbt_str_hash_ext().
2160 * New function: xbt_os_timer_resume() to restart a timer w/o resetting it.
2161 * Greatly improve the robustness of mmalloc to user errors (such as
2162 using an area after freeing it, or freeing it twice)
2164 -- Thu Oct 25 17:30:06 CEST 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2166 SimGrid-java (3.8.1) stable; urgency=low
2168 * New module: org.simgrid.trace.Trace (SimGrid trace bindings)
2169 Warning: all methods are visible, but only some of them are
2170 implemented so far. Check the source (src/jtrace.c)
2171 for further information.
2172 * New module: org.simgrid.msg.File (SimGrid File management functions)
2173 * New Module: org.simgrid.msg.VM (SimGrid interface to mimick IAAS clouds)
2174 * Change the meaning of Process.restart: now restart the process from
2175 the beginning, like MSG_process_restart in C.
2176 * Add Process.setAutoRestart: handling of process restart when failed
2178 * Add Process.getProperty, Host.getProperty, Host.getProperty: allows
2179 you to retrieve the properties of the processes/hosts
2180 * Deprecate Msg.clean(): you can just forget about it now.
2181 * New function Process.getCount(), that only works when compiling
2182 with the not yet released version 3.9 of the C library.
2184 * New context factory based on Coroutines. It mandates a modified JVM
2185 but then, the simulations run about five times faster, and there is
2186 no limit to the amount of processes (beside of the available memory).
2188 -- 2012-12-04 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2190 SimGrid (3.7.1) stable; urgency=low
2193 * Restore the prototype of MSG_process_create_with_environment() to
2194 the pre-3.7 situation by removing the kill_time argument.
2195 * Add a MSG_process_set_kill_time() function instead.
2198 * Fix weird behaviors when dealing with parallel tasks.
2201 * Simgrid is now built as a dll.
2202 * Simgrid-java now works on Windows.
2203 * Simgrid-Java is now included into Windows package.
2206 * First pre-build package for MacOSX.
2209 * Fix compilation when using MSG_USE_DEPRECATED.
2210 * Fix some compilation issues on Macs and Windows.
2211 * Reduce the number of failing tests on exotic systems, like Debian/Hurd.
2212 * Environment variables CFLAGS and LDFLAGS are now honored by cmake.
2214 We discovered that the Lua console is broken, but we are missing the
2215 manpower to fix it right now. The problem existed in 3.7 too, so we
2216 are not blocking the release for that. Sorry if you depended on this
2217 feature, any help would be really welcome.
2219 -- Thu Jun 7 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2222 SimGrid-java (3.7.1) stable; urgency=low
2224 The "Java aint got to be bloated and slow" release
2227 * Various internal cleanups and performance improvement
2228 Simulations are expected to run up to twice faster or so
2229 * Make Process.kill(process) an instance method, not a static one
2230 * User processes are not java.lang.Thread subclasses.
2231 This breaks the compatibility (sorry), but previous API was
2232 brain-dead, making it impossible to have non-trivial
2233 initializations in the process constructor.
2234 * Require a full constructor per Process sub-class.
2235 Kinda breaks the compatibility (sorry), but this allows a much more
2236 efficient way to launch the processes at simulation startup.
2237 * Do not embeed our version of semaphores, java 1.5 can be considered
2238 as sufficiently prevalent for us to not dupplicate its features.
2242 * Add examples for almost every part of the API
2243 We spotted and fixed a lot of bugs in the process
2245 * New module: asynchronous communication API
2246 * New function: Process.sleep()
2247 It takes milliseconds as argument, just as java.lang.Thread.sleep()
2248 * New module: org.simgrid.msg.Mutex (SimGrid mutexes)
2249 * New module: org.simgrid.msg.RngStream (RngStreams random generators)
2251 -- 2012-06-12 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2253 SimGrid (3.7) stable; urgency=low
2255 The "spring cleanups (before the next Big Project kicks in)" release.
2258 * We can specify the SMPI latency/bandwidth factor with command line
2259 add --cfg=smpi/bw_factor:"threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"
2260 or add --cfg=smpi/lat_factor:"threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"
2261 You can also use the "config tag" from platform file by adding this line
2262 <prop id="smpi/bw_factor" value="threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"></prop>
2263 (see "example/platforms/tag_config.xml" to use "config tag").
2264 Note that the command line supersedes the platform file configuration.
2265 * Change the correction factors used in LMM model, according to
2266 the latest experiments described in INRIA RR-7821.
2267 Accuracy should be improved this way.
2268 * Use the partial invalidation optimization by default for the
2269 network too. Should produce the exact same results, only faster.
2270 * Major cleanup in surf to merge models and split some optimization
2271 mechanisms from the core of the models. As a result you can now
2272 specify which model to use (e.g., --cfg=network/model:LV08
2273 --cfg=cpu/model:Cas01) and which optimization mode to use
2274 (e.g., --cfg=network/optim:lazy --cfg=cpu/optim:TI).
2275 Incompatible combinations should err at initialization. See
2276 --help-models for the list of all models and optimization modes.
2277 * The CLM03 workstation model was dropped for simplicity because it
2278 used the deprecated CM02 network model. Use default instead.
2279 * Rename the TCP_gamma configuration option to network/TCP_gamma
2280 * Rename the coordinates configuration option to
2281 network/coordinates, and document it
2282 * Use now crosstraffic keyword instead of the terribly misleading
2283 fullduplex keyword. It is activated by default now in the current
2284 default model, use --cfg=network/crosstraffic:0 to turn it off.
2285 * Ongoing refactoring the model parsing to make XML files optional
2286 See include/simgrid/platf.h for details (still to be completed)
2289 * Major overhaul of the documentation. Almost instructive now :/
2290 * Deprecate the use of m_channel_t mechanism like MSG_task_{get,put}
2291 functions and friends. This interface was considered as
2292 deprecated since over 2 years, it's time to inform our users that it is.
2293 Switch to MSG_task_{send,recv} instead, or compile SimGrid command line
2294 'cmake -Dcustom_flags="-DMSG_USE_DEPRECATED" .' if you really need to
2295 use these (crappy) functions in your code.
2296 These functions will be removed soon. Stop using them now.
2297 * Deprecate MSG_get_host_{table,number}
2298 Implement MSG_hosts_as_dynar() instead.
2299 * Implement MSG_processes_as_dynar() (Closes gforge #13642)
2300 * Remove the public field msg_host_t->name. Use MSG_host_get_name()
2303 * Stabilize the parallel execution mode of user contexts
2304 * Introduce configuration variables to control parallel execution:
2305 - contexts/synchro: Synchronization mode to use when running
2306 contexts in parallel (either futex, posix or busy_wait)
2307 - contexts/parallel_threshold: Minimal number of user contexts
2308 that must be part of a scheduling round to switch to parallel
2309 execution mode (raw contexts only)
2310 * Fix bugs that prevented to use suspend/resume along with
2311 synchronization structures.
2312 * Fix bugs in process termination that lead to invalid memory access
2313 in very specific conditions.
2316 * Introduce a parallel mode for the models (controlled by surf/nthreads
2317 configuration item). In our tests, running the models in parallel
2318 never lead to any speedups because they are so fast that the gain
2319 of computing each model in parallel does not amortizes the
2320 synchronization costs, even when ultra fast futexes are used.
2321 This is released anyway because YMMV.
2324 * Performance boost by using a swag internally to compute the set of
2325 tasks that are finished and should constitute the return value of
2329 * Enable it by default now that it is considered rather stable.
2332 * Documentation of the tracing functions.
2333 * Performance gains when tracing categorized/uncategorized resource
2334 utilization by avoiding calls to get route when updating resource
2335 variables. LMM constraints are being used instead.
2336 * API changed to set task categories. Use MSG_task_set_category instead
2337 of TRACE_msg_set_task_category, and SD_task_set_category instead
2338 of TRACE_sd_set_task_category. They only work if ENABLE_TRACING is ON.
2339 * Bugfix for graphicator, routes not correctly obtained, memory leaks
2340 * Examples for link user variables added (see at examples/msg/tracing/)
2341 * Deprecated function TRACE_msg_set_process_category completely removed
2342 * Trace header updated according to the latest Paje file format
2343 * Tracing network lazy updates, no longer obligate users to use full updates
2344 * --cfg=tracing/platform:1 also registers power/bandwidth variables
2345 * Experimental: let user code declare/set/push/pop application states for hosts
2346 * API changed to allow the manual creation of graph configuration files
2347 for Triva. See TRACE_get_node_types() and TRACE_get_edge_types().
2350 * Improve the API of Lua MSG bindings, using the Lua spirit.
2351 * Each simulated process now lives in its own Lua world (globals are
2352 automatically duplicated). It helps writing simulators. Will allow
2353 to run Splay programs within SimGrid in the future.
2354 * Add a Chord example in Lua, equivalent to the MSG one.
2357 * Start the implementation of a solution to express temporal
2358 properties, not only local assertions. This is still an
2359 experimental work in progress, stay clear from it to be safe.
2363 - Add new runtime parameters --help-logs and --help-log-categories
2364 to display information about supported logging parameters and
2366 - Old deprecated parameters --{gras,surf,msg,simix,xbt}-log=...
2367 don't exists anymore.
2368 * Mallocators: allow value NULL for the reset function.
2370 - New function xbt_dict_new_homogeneous(void(*)(void*)) to
2371 create homogeneous dictionaries, where all the elements share the
2372 same free function. Non homogeneous dictionaries will be
2373 deprecated in the next release.
2374 - Dicts of scalar elements (xbt_dicti_*) are deprecated.
2375 - Multi-level dictionaries are deprecated.
2377 - new function xbt_dynar_search_or_negative() that is useful when
2378 you have less than 2 million elements in your dynar and don't
2379 want of the extra complexity of catching exceptions when the
2380 element is not found.
2382 - Make xbt_os_thread module (for thread portability) public.
2383 Documentation is still to come, sorry.
2385 - Cleanups and simplifications to make it maintainable again.
2386 - Exotic features (such as memalign and valloc) were removed.
2387 - The metadata were extended and improved so that the
2388 model-checker becomes able to explore and inspect the heaps.
2389 - This may induce a performance drop when enable_model-checking is
2390 ON in cmake (even if it's not used in the simulation), but it is
2391 necessary at this point to get MC working.
2393 Turn model-checking OFF if simulation performance matters to you.
2394 Not enabling it at runtime is not enough, disable it in cmake.
2396 -- Tue May 15 11:30:19 UTC 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2399 SimGrid (3.6.2) stable; urgency=low
2401 The "Not coding new stuff allows to polish old things" release.
2404 * New bindings to the NS3 packet level simulator (experimental)
2405 * Use the raw (efficient) execution contexts instead of the sysv
2406 (portable) ones when possible.
2407 * libpcre is now mandatory in any cases since not using it led to
2408 severe performance loss and possibly other issues
2409 * Update the XML platforms:
2410 - G5K: include the latest machine in Nancy
2411 - GridPP and LCG: new platforms
2412 * Documentation was partially updated, at least (more to come)
2414 Bug fixes, cosmetics and small improvements
2415 * Free terminated processes before the end of the simulation to avoid
2416 exhausting the memory of users having very dynamic amount of
2418 * Bug fix and cosmetics about canceling non-running tasks
2419 * Bug fix about the dot loader's issues when using libcgraph
2422 * Create an installer for windows with nsis (amd64 and win32)
2423 - Add an hello world project to illustrate simgrid project creation.
2424 - Embed libpcre into the Simgrid installer to avoid
2425 its compilation burden
2426 * The raw execution contexts should work on Apple now
2427 * Port to Windows 64 bits
2428 - Sysv contexts now have an implementation for this arch
2429 - GRAS communication features now support this arch
2430 * Drop support for borland compiler on windows
2431 - this code was not maintained, and we kinda depend on gcc nowadays
2432 * Fix portability issues on kfreebsd/gnu: build error about semaphores
2433 * Fix portability issue on unstable ubuntu: linker became picky on
2436 -- Wed Oct 5 15:51:01 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2438 SimGrid (3.6.1) stable; urgency=low
2440 The "Oops, we broke Macs too" release
2443 * Fixed contexts detection so that raw ones are used when possible
2444 * On Mac, do not use Posix Ucontexts with gcc v4.[1-5] since this
2445 leads to a strange error, with user code segfaulting sometimes when
2446 the generated code is not perfectly aligned (which is not
2447 controllable from the user side, depends on the amount of code)
2450 * New macro: CATCH_ANONYMOUS, which is like CATCH(e) but without argument.
2452 -- Mon Jun 27 13:59:03 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2454 SimGrid-java (3.6) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * Split of every thing from simgrid v3.5 into a separate package.
2459 -- 2011-10-05 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2461 SimGrid (3.6) stable; urgency=medium
2463 The Summer Release, also known as the "OMG! They Killed Kenny!" version
2466 * Bindings now constitute their own package, separated from the main one.
2467 Rationale: reduce our maintenance nightmare by reducing the module coupling
2468 They will soon be released on their own on gforge.
2470 svn co svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/simgrid/contrib/trunk/simgrid-java
2471 svn co svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/simgrid/contrib/trunk/simgrid-ruby
2473 GRAS: It is not considered as stable anymore, but experimental. Sorry.
2474 * It's not quite deprecated for now because we have no replacement,
2475 but it may soon become the case.
2478 * New MPI functions supported: MPI_Comm_disconnect, MPI_Comm_get_name
2479 * Fortran: New user-level cache variable to store the rank of the running
2480 process. This improves performance by an order of magnitude.
2481 * C: New coccinelle script to automatically locate and modify global and
2482 local static variables.
2483 * Improved SMPI network model with a sender-side gap to account for multiple
2487 * New function MSG_comm_get_status(). MSG_comm_test() and MSG_comm_testany()
2488 only say if a communication is finished, no matter whether it succeeded or
2489 failed. You can call MSG_comm_get_status() to know the status of a finished
2491 * New function MSG_task_dsend() to send a task and detach it. When a
2492 communication is detached, you are never notified of its success or failure
2493 and the memory is released automatically once it is finished. This function
2494 is useful when you don't care about the end nor the success of a
2496 * Change the prototypes of action replay. Sorry for inconvenience,
2497 but this is really more efficient this way (and to adapt your code,
2498 you just have to fix the initialization, that shouldn't be too long)
2499 * Kill the braindead MSG_task_refcount_dec() function. I guess nobody
2500 ever managed to do anything useful with it.
2501 * New function MSG_comm_testany(). Similarly to MSG_comm_waitany(), it
2502 takes a dynar of communications. It returns immediately and gives the
2503 index of a finished communication (if any).
2504 * New example: a basic implementation of the Chord P2P algorithm.
2507 * New model for multi-core CPUs. You can now use the core attribute to
2508 precise the number of cores of a host. This is a basic model. Every
2509 process running on the host receives at most the power provided in
2510 the DTD (throughput<=power). Total throughput of process cannot exceed
2512 * New peer tag. This peer tag creates a tiny AS comprising a host and a
2513 router linked by an up-link and a down-link (possibly asymmetrical).
2514 This kind of pattern allows to easily build last-mile model style platforms.
2515 Aggregating such patterns in a rule-based AS is thus the technique of
2516 choice for modeling large peer-to-peer/volunteer computing/cloud platforms.
2517 * New model for Vivaldi routing. We transformed the Vivaldi network model
2518 into a Vivaldi routing model (based on the rule-based model). This allows to
2519 combine Vivaldi based latencies with last-mile platforms.
2522 * Added a check for NaN of IEEE754 infinite in the double entries of
2524 * Introduce a new context factory "raw", highly inspirated from the
2525 ucontext factory, but using manually crafted functions in assembly to
2526 do the work in an efficient manner.
2527 * Allow to change the used context factory at run time, not only at
2528 compilation time. Use --cfg=contexts/factory:raw for maximal speed.
2529 * Add an option --cfg=contexts/stacksize:N to set the stack size of the user
2530 contexts at runtime (only with raw contexts or ucontexts).
2531 * Completely rewrote this module to allow parallel execution of user
2532 processes. Use --cfg=contexts/nthreads:N to execute user processes
2533 with N parallel threads (the default is 1, meaning no parallelism).
2534 * Allow to decide dynamically between sequential and parallel modes.
2535 When nthreads > 1, you can use --cfg=contexts/threshold:P to run the user
2536 processes in parallel only when their number is greater than or equal to P
2538 * Added a check for NaN of IEEE754 infinite in the double entries of
2542 * New command line option: if you pass --cfg=verbose-exit:0, SimGrid
2543 won't output the state of processes when interrupted with Ctrl-C
2544 * Add a new function xbt_dynar_to_array that transforms a dynar into a
2545 NULL-terminated array. This may solve backward compatibility issues
2546 due to the change to return type of SD_simulate. See also:
2547 http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/simgrid-user/2010-December/002206.html
2548 * Add new macros with variable number of arguments.
2549 - in xbt/log.h: XBT_DEBUG, XBT_VERB, XBT_INFO, etc.
2550 - in xbt/asserts.h: xbt_assert
2551 - in xbt/cunit.h: xbt_test_{add,fail,assert,log}
2552 - in xbt/ex.h: THROWF and RETHROWF.
2553 Define XBT_USE_DEPRECATED if you want to use the old numbered macros like
2555 * Change xbt_die() to accept a format string with arguments, just like printf.
2556 * New data structure: xbt_lib_t, like a dict but more general and with better
2560 * New configuration options
2561 Options triva/categorized and triva/uncategorized can be used to generate
2562 graph configuration files for Triva visualization tool.
2563 * Configuration option tracing/platform is renamed to tracing/categorized
2564 * XBT logging makes tracing error checks easier, new root log hierarchy: instr
2565 * New TRACE_user_link_variable interface:
2566 User provides the name of the link and the tracing variable to attach to it
2567 * the declaration of tracing categories must be done after the environment
2569 * simpler tracing interface, just one way to declare categories
2570 TRACE_category or TRACE_category_with_color, it is up to you
2571 * links in the trace file are again identified by their names
2572 * trace contains the full platform hierarchy exactly as declared using the ASes
2573 * Options tracing/msg/[task|process]:1 groups the process by hosts
2574 for both cases, tasks and processes must have names that are unique during the simulation
2575 these options generate traces that are suited to gantt-charts, such as the space-time view of Paje
2576 * The experimental option tracing/msg/volume is deprecated
2577 its functionality may be reincorporated if needed
2579 The tracing generates a trace file with unordered timestamped events,
2580 because of the way the core simulator (surf) works. A script available
2581 at the tools directory (fix-paje-trace.sh) can be used to put the events
2582 in order. We have changed the tracing so it can generate ordered timestamped
2583 events in the final trace, but depending on the simulator (and how much time
2584 is simulated) that can lead to a huge memory utilization. It is deactivated
2585 by default, but it can be activated using the --cfg=tracing/buffer:1 switch.
2587 Build Infrastructure
2588 * Define a SIMGRID_VERSION macro in simgrid_config.h.
2589 - We are trying hard to keep the API stable, but it may happen that
2590 some things change (we're a research project after all, not a
2591 nuclear plant operating system). If such things should happen, you
2592 could rely on that macro to adapt.
2593 - current value: 30600 for 3.06.00, aka 3.6
2594 * Define macro MAKE_SIMGRID_VERSION(major, minor, patch) to help building
2595 a number that can be compared with SIMGRID_VERSION.
2596 * Add a build option -Denable_debug (set to ON by default): when set to OFF,
2597 assertions and verbose/debug logging events are disabled at compile time.
2599 -- Tue Jun 21 08:57:43 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2601 SimGrid (3.5) stable; urgency=medium
2604 * New feature to any SimGrid-based simulator: Model-Checking
2605 Check SIN#1 for more details.
2608 * New Model SMPI (three-interval linear regression for correction factors)
2609 See RR-7426, available at http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00527150
2610 * Ability to use FORTRAN MPI code (through f2c, automatically privatized)
2611 * New MPI functions supported: MPI_Get_count(), MPI_Comm_split()
2612 * New: RAM folding (see RR-7426 and examples/smpi/NAS/DT-folding)
2613 * New: execution sampling (see RR-7426 and examples/smpi/NAS/EP-sampling)
2614 * See also src/smpi/README
2619 - Tracing API changes: TRACE_start and TRACE_end should not be called
2620 by user-code. They are automatically called by simulators created
2621 with SimDAG, MSG and SMPI if the toolkit is compiled with
2622 tracing_enabled=ON. Categories declaration and utilization remain the
2623 same for MSG and SimDag.
2624 - A function was added to the tracing API to declare categories with
2626 - TRACE_category_with_color (char *category, char *color)
2627 where color must be in the following format
2628 "%f %f %f", red, green, blue
2629 and red, green, blue are float values in the interval [0, 1]
2630 - User can specify NULL as color parameter, or continue calling
2631 TRACE_category (cat)
2632 On that case, the tracing system will define random colors
2633 - The following command-line options are supported:
2634 --cfg=tracing/filename:msg.trace
2635 --cfg=tracing:1 (activate tracing, needed to use others)
2636 --cfg=tracing/platform:1 (categorized resource use)
2637 --cfg=tracing/uncategorized:1 (uncategorized resource use)
2638 --cfg=tracing/msg/task:1 (task creation)
2639 --cfg=tracing/msg/process:1 (process creation, migration)
2640 --cfg=tracing/msg/volume:1 (volume of MSG send/recv)
2641 --cfg=tracing/smpi:1 (SMPI interface tracing)
2642 --cfg=tracing/simdag:1 (allow SimDAG tasks receive categories)
2643 - examples of examples/msg/tracing updated
2645 - DAXLoader and DOTLoader functions can generate tasks with categories
2646 - A new function to attribute a category to SD tasks:
2647 TRACE_sd_set_task_category (SD_task_t task, char *category)
2648 * Tracing the MPI interface implemented by SMPI
2649 - Collective operations are traced with states
2650 - Point-to-Point operations are traced with states/links
2651 - Tracing activated by a parameter "-trace filename" passed
2652 to smpirun during execution (considering that simgrid
2653 is compiled with tracing enabled)
2654 - To run the simulation with gdb, the simulator
2655 accepts --cfg=tracing/smpi:1 to trace SMPI
2656 - tesh files to check if smpi tracing is ok
2657 - See examples/smpi/NAS/DT-trace
2658 * GTNetS tracing re-worked
2659 - adaptation to the tracing system of GTNets to cope
2660 with modifications regarding the fullduplex mode
2661 - new tesh files to check if gtnets tracing is ok
2664 * Asynchronous communications through the functions:
2665 MSG_task_isend/irecv and MSG_comm_test/wait/waitall
2666 * New function: MSG_load_platform_script()
2667 to make possible using a lua script instead of XML files to set up platforms
2668 * New function: MSG_set_function
2669 to associate functions to processes, used when bypassing the parser
2670 * New functions: MSG_task_set_name(), MSG_task_set_compute_duration()
2672 Platforms: Add some more examples in examples/platforms
2673 * Grid'5000: see www.grid5000.fr
2674 * *_30000_hosts.xml: various huge files [mainly scalability testing]
2677 * Change the XML format. This is a very important modification. SimGrid
2678 3.5 introduces a new hierarchical format based on the notion of
2679 Autonomous Systems. Compatibility with old format is ensured
2680 through the perl script provided in the install bin directory
2681 bin/simgrid_update_xml.
2682 It is now possible to build platforms with specific routing
2683 mechanism (Full/Dijkstra/DijkstraCache/Floyd) and to easily
2684 connect several platforms together. We will try to provide soon
2685 set of realistic platforms exploiting these properties (have a
2686 look at examples/platforms/ for the moment).
2687 * Take the opportunity of the XML format change to be a good XML citizen:
2688 rename link:ctn to link_ctn and similar changes (also dealt with by
2690 * Add a new routing scheme (rule-based) using regular expressions. It
2691 enables to have an extremely low memory footprint when the
2692 underlying routing is simple and can be compactly described. You
2693 need to have libpcre4-dev (perl regular expressions) installed if
2694 you want to use this routing scheme.
2695 * Revive the cluster TAG and allow to easily and efficiently (both in
2696 term of memory and speed) connect clusters together. Have a look
2697 at teshsuite/simdag/platforms/ to see how this can be done. With
2698 this tag, you can create clusters with thousands of tasks at no
2699 cost (have a look at examples/platforms/).
2700 Note: clusters are implemented as ASes, so there is no need for an
2701 enclosing AS tag if you have only one cluster in your platform.
2702 * Add new generic functions in the public interface that allows the user
2703 to call SURF 'create_resource' methods from your code (same
2704 functionality as the XML bypass mechanism but with a much lighter
2706 * Add a new model (enabled through command line --cfg=network/model:SMPI)
2707 that uses a piecewise linear approximation to produce better
2708 results when exchanging small messages.
2709 * Add a new parameter to handle correctly full duplex link and account
2710 for interferences between uplink and downlink communications
2711 (activate with --cfg=fullduplex:1).
2714 * Rename the SD_READY (all dependencies are satisfied and task is
2715 scheduled) state in SD_RUNNABLE and define a new SD_SCHEDULABLE (all
2716 dependencies are satisfied) state.
2717 This prevents a confusion between the notion of "ready to schedule"
2718 (SD_SCHEDULABLE) used in DAG scheduling and that of "ready to be
2719 simulated" (SD_RUNNABLE) used by the simulation kernel.
2720 * Change the way a task is considered as ready. Instead of removing
2721 dependencies when a task is done, a counter is decreased. This way,
2722 it is always possible to reach ancestors thanks to the
2723 SD_taks_get_parents function (even after the end of the simulation.)
2724 * Change the return type of SD_Simulate from (SD_task_t*) into
2725 xbt_dynar_t. This function was in handling a dynar internally and
2726 converted it into a NULL terminated array for historical reasons.
2727 * New function SD_dotload(char*) to load a DAG described in dot
2728 format. This loader and the corresponding examples require the
2729 installation of the graphviz library.
2730 * Fix a bug in the management of tasks of size 0 in the surf network
2731 models. This problem was only visible with SIMDAG and you should
2732 thus disregard results produced with earlier versions if you
2733 relied on this feature (some tasks were blocked because of this).
2734 * Fix a bunch of stuff that prevented to use classical models with SIMDAG
2735 even though your applications were doing only point-to-point
2736 communications and sequential computations. Now you can really use any
2737 model you want (of course, if you create real parallel tasks, which are
2738 not implemented in most models beside ptaskL07, this will abort).
2739 * Add an example that schedules a DAX on an heterogeneous platform
2740 using a Min-Min strategy.
2741 * New function SD_workstation_get_current_task() that returns the kind
2742 of task currently running on a workstation in the sequential access
2744 * Raise some warnings when unexecuted tasks remains at the end of the
2745 simulation. This is usually caused by cycles in the DAG.
2748 * New function: SIMIX_process_set_function() called by MSG_set_function
2749 * Change the underlying waiting queue in semaphores so that a process
2750 can wait on several of them simultaneously (as in waitany).
2751 * Fix the way to handle tokens in semaphores so that all access patterns
2752 work: {acquire, acquire_timeout, waitany} / {release, release_forever}.
2753 * kill the dirty pimple SIMIX_message_sizes_output()
2754 Please use (proper) visualization instead
2757 * New data container: setset (set of sets of elements)
2758 * New module: mmalloc (mapped malloc, allowing to have several
2759 independent segments of malloc)
2760 * New function: xbt_dict_cursor_set_data()
2761 * New functions: xbt_dynar_sort(), xbt_dynar_compare()
2762 * New function: xbt_dynar_is_empty()
2763 * New function: xbt_fifo_get_last_item()
2764 * Fix xbt_dynar_shrink(): use the right element size.
2765 * Fix xbt_dynar_set*(): allow index larger than current size and memset 0
2766 uninitialized areas during expand.
2767 * Fix semaphores: previous implementation was severely broken.
2768 * Use library init/fini functions for our initialization.
2769 - you can use logs and other feature as soon as you want in your
2770 code (even before the xbt_init / MSG_init)
2771 - xbt_exit is now a no-op and produce a warning when used.
2774 * Port GRAS to new SIMIX mechanisms. This allows gras users to
2775 benefit from the latest improvement to the simulation kernel.
2776 * Kill measurement sockets for now. If you rely on them, sorry. This
2777 release is not for you. This feature will be reintroduced in the
2778 future, but we cannot delay the release any further.
2779 * New function: gras_msgtype_get_name().
2780 * Implement gras_agent_spawn in RL too (the prototype changed a bit)
2781 * Fix (at last) the pmm example: it should not randomly fail anymore.
2783 Build chain: bug fixes and overall polishing
2784 * Cmake is now stable enough. Hence, we killed the autotools.
2785 * Port to windows ( TM :)
2786 * Fix the 'make install' target.
2787 No need to use 'make install-simgrid' anymore
2788 * Introduce a 'make dist' target compiling a *source* archive
2789 'make package' compiles a binary archive
2790 * Compile java files only on need
2791 * Add --cd and --setenv command line options to tesh
2792 * Out of source builds are not fully supported yet, but we are close
2793 * Enable supernovae and optimization flags by default for our users
2796 * Add layer to set up environment directly from lua, without XML.
2797 * The effect of gras_stub_generator can be achieved through
2798 lua too (check examples/gras/console/ping_generator.lua)
2800 -- Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:09:23 +0100 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2802 SimGrid (3.4.1) stable; urgency=low
2804 The "Polishing easter eggs is probably a good idea" release.
2805 This is a bug fixes release only.
2809 * Fix a bug preventing the tasks from begin garbage collected.
2812 * Fix a bug occurring when a host involved in a communication fails.
2813 This was not detected properly by the other peer involved in the
2814 communication. Now, it's reported as a network error.
2817 * Warn the user about loop dependencies in data flow of DAX files
2818 * Obey the control-flow dependencies of DAX files
2821 * Add option "enable_smpi" allowing to not compile SMPI.
2822 Probably useful for the (Mac) users experiencing a build error here
2823 * Improve the detection of lua5.1 and ruby1.8
2825 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Tus, 04 May 2010 28 16:11:16 +0100
2827 SimGrid (3.4) stable; urgency=low
2829 The "Easter in Cargese" release. Also known as (major changes):
2831 * the "se habla Java, Ruby 話せます, fala-se Lua (and deaf-friendly)"
2832 ~> bindings were greatly improved
2833 ~> new tracing infrastructure for better visualization introduced
2835 * the "Welcome to configury modernity" release.
2836 ~> we switched from autotools to cmake, and improved our cdash
2839 A more detailled list of changes follow (full detail in svn log).
2841 Java Bindings: Various Cleanups
2842 * (install java-gcj-compat-dev on debian-like to use them)
2843 * Remove put/get: no need to export deprecated interface in Java
2844 Use send/receive instead.
2845 * Cleanup the examples and add a README per directory
2846 * Remove example autoDestination (that's the only way to go now)
2847 * Remove example explicitDestination (was a plain copy of basic)
2848 * Make JniException a runtime exception, so that there is no need to
2849 declare the fact that you may encounter such a beast. I guess that
2850 nobody will ever want to survive such error.
2851 * Create specific errors for each MSG case of failure:
2852 host failure, transfer failure, timeout, task cancelled
2853 * Cleanup the exceptions that may get thrown by each function
2854 * Other internal cleanups in Java bindings. Performance still bad :/
2855 Ruby and Lua Bindings: create them
2856 * (install ruby1.8-dev/liblua5.1-0-dev on debian-like to use them)
2857 * That's new and great, you should try them out.
2858 Same functionalities than Java bindings, only even less polished
2860 * Kill the useless "rate" argument of SD_task_get_execution_time()
2861 Everyone used to provide -1 as a value, it was not used, and the
2862 semantic of a possible use wasn't even clear.
2863 * SD_SCHED_NO_COST: Constant to use as cost in SD_task_schedule()
2864 either as comm costs or compute costs to mean that there is no
2865 such thing for that specific task.
2866 * Add a SD_task_set_name() function
2867 * Fix SD_task_unschedule() on typed tasks
2868 * Fix SD_task_get_execution_time() to return seconds, not flop*sec
2869 * In DAX loader, accept useless 'level' attributes to <job> since
2870 LIGO DAGs have them (seem to be to ease graphical representation).
2872 * Add an example masterslave_mailbox.c using send/receive and not
2873 the deprecated put/get interface.
2874 * Kill the MSG_paje_output() function. It's a noop since 2 years.
2875 * Kill MSG_WARNING and MSG_FATAL return codes: they were not used
2877 * Rename MSG_TIMEOUT_FAILURE into MSG_TIMEOUT for sake of logic
2878 (declare MSG_USE_DEPRECATED to still have the old name)
2879 * Add a MSG_task_set_data() function
2880 * About trace replay (see examples/msg/actions):
2882 - Allow to work with splitted trace files for each process
2883 Give the specific trace file as argument of each process,
2884 and call MSG_action_trace_run(NULL)
2885 You can still have one merged file for all processes.
2886 - Fix implementation of collective operations
2887 * Allow task_execute() on 0-sized tasks (closes #10063)
2889 * This is the first release of SimGrid where SMPI is not considered
2890 beta anymore (even if some corners should still be improved)
2891 * Port over the new SIMIX_network submodule (internal refactoring)
2892 * Basic support to log events as with SMPE (use --cfg=SMPE:1)
2893 * Implement more missing elements of the standard:
2895 - MPI_MAXLOC MPI_MINLOC + all associated datatype MPI_DOUBLE_INT,
2897 - MPI_Address() MPI_Get_count() MPI_Type_free() MPI_Type_extent()
2898 MPI_Scan() MPI_Get_processor_name()
2899 - Added implementation of missing case for Alltoall (warning: it's
2900 *not* the bruck variant from OpenMPI; based on Alltoallv instead)
2901 - SMPI_MPI_Gather() SMPI_MPI_Gatherv() SMPI_MPI_Scatterv()
2902 SMPI_MPI_Reduce_scatter() SMPI_MPI_Allgather()
2903 SMPI_MPI_Allgatherv()
2904 * Bug fixes include:
2905 - MPI_Waitsome() was broken
2906 - Allow relative includes in smpicc
2907 - Command line cfg argument 'reference_speed' was ignored...
2908 - Some functions did not properly lead to auto-benching of user code
2909 - smpicc passes -O2 by default (just like openmpi one)
2911 * add SIMIX_action_suspend() and SIMIX_action_resume() functions
2912 * Bug fixes about timeouts during communications
2913 * add SIMIX_message_sizes_output() as a pimple to write to file the
2914 amount of messages per size. Use gnuplot to get histogram.
2915 Pimple because that's the only user-visible function of simix,
2916 defined directly in xbt.h (irk, sorry)
2918 - Add a SIMIX_sem_get_capacity() function
2919 - Fix interactions with processe resume/suspende
2920 - release_forever() was stupidly broken
2921 - Fix SIMIX_display_process_status() for processes in a semaphore
2922 - Make SIMIX_sem_block_onto() user-visible
2923 * Refactoring context stuff:
2924 - Use pseudo-OOP for better modularity
2925 - reimplement SIMIX_process_kill() without process_schedule() so
2926 that the latter can take as invariant that it is called from
2928 - Merge context_start into context_new for sake of simplicity
2930 * Add a Vivaldi network model, coded live during SUD'10 ;)
2931 * Rename configuration variables to start a hierarchy:
2932 o cpu_model -> cpu/model
2933 o network_model -> network/model
2934 o workstation_model -> workstation/model
2935 * New configuration variables:
2936 o network/bandwidth_factor: correction to bandwidth
2937 o network/latency_factor: correction to latency
2938 o netwotk/weight_S: correction to the weight of competing streams
2939 * Add a long description to the models, that users can see with such
2940 argument on the command line: --cfg=cpu/model:help
2941 * --help-models display the long description of all known models
2943 * config: add the ability to set a default value after registration
2944 Does not override any previously set value (e.g. from cmd line)
2945 * dict: allow to have integer key and data.
2946 When so, you need to use the following functions
2947 void xbt_dicti_set(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key, uintptr_t data);
2948 uintptr_t xbt_dicti_get(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key);
2949 void xbt_dicti_remove(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key);
2950 In contrary to regular dicts, the key is not malloced before copy.
2951 Mixing scalar and regular elements in the same dict is not tested
2953 * Allow to use xbt_dynar_shrink() to expend the dynar instead
2954 Tracing for Visualization:
2955 * SimGrid is now instrumented in order to generate a trace file for
2956 visualization analysis: to use it, need to compile SimGrid with the
2957 "tracing" option enabled, and instrument the program using SimGrid with
2958 TRACE_start, TRACE_category, TRACE_msg_set_task_category and TRACE_end
2959 (among other functions).
2960 * The instrumentation only traces the platform utilization for now
2961 * Documentation to use the tracing functions and how to analyze the
2962 traces with the Triva tool is written.
2963 * More information about: SimGrid FAQ (in the section Tracing Simulations
2966 * We moved to cmake as default build system. Autotools support will
2967 be dropped soon. Check the FAQ for more info about how to use it.
2968 * Greatly improved our cdash/ctest interactions
2969 Check http://cdash.inria.fr/CDash/index.php?project=Simgrid
2970 * Added memory checking tests with valgrind; lot of memleak fixing.
2971 This may be the first release of simgrid with so few memory issues
2972 * Added code coverage tests.
2973 Our coverage is still improvable, but at least we see it on cdash.
2975 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Wed, 28 Apr 2010 28 17:11:16 +0100
2977 SimGrid (3.3.4) stable; urgency=low
2979 The "Desktop Grid needs love too" release (also called Xmas release).
2981 Models improvements:
2982 * Major speedup in the maxmin system solving by using lazy evaluation
2983 Instead of solving completely the maxmin system at each iteration,
2984 only invalidate (and recompute) the modified parts.
2985 This new feature is enabled in default models but you can try to
2986 turn it on with "--cfg:maxmin-selective-update=1" for other models.
2987 * Cas01 IMproved as default CPU model
2988 This CPU model is the same Cas01 model, but it uses the
2989 maxmin-selective-update flag and a heap structure to manage
2990 actions on SURF kernel.
2991 It reduces the complexity to find the next action to finish and,
2992 consequently, it's faster than the old Cas01.
2993 This is the new default CPU model (Cas01).
2994 * Rename the old Cas01 model to Cas01_fullupdate
2995 Keep the old cpu model Cas01 with the new name of Cas01_fullupdate.
2996 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:Cas01_fullupdate" to use the old default CPU model.
2997 * CpuTI (CPU Trace Integration)
2998 A new CPU model whose objective is simulate faster when using
2999 availability trace files.
3000 Instead of using a full featured, over engineered maxmin system for
3001 CPU modeling, this model does the pre-integration of traces files
3002 to calculate the amount of CPU power available, and so, executes
3003 faster than the old CPU models.
3004 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:CpuTI" to change to this CPU model.
3005 * Use LV08 as default network model since it gives better accuracy
3006 for small messages and shouldn't change things for big ones.
3007 Use --cfg=network_model:CM02 to get the previous behavior.
3010 ******************************************
3011 *DO NOT MIX 3.3.4 RESULTS WITH OLDER ONES*
3012 ******************************************
3013 * The new CPU model may changes simulations!
3014 The point is that events occurring at the exact same timestamp
3015 are not scheduled in the same order with the old and new
3016 version. This may be enough to completely change the execution
3017 of simulations in some cases.
3018 * The new network model will change simulations!
3019 This new model is more realistic than the previous one, so you
3020 should consider redoing your old experiments with this model.
3021 Sorry for the inconvenience.
3024 * Introduce the supernovae compilation mode
3025 When compiled that way, the whole SimGrid (or almost) is put in a
3026 single compilation unit and compiled in one shoot.
3027 This is to help gcc which has difficulties to inline stuff from one
3029 The speedup seem to be above 15%, althrough more tests are needed on
3030 amd64 to confirm that gain.
3033 * Port of MSG's mailbox on top of SIMIX network
3034 The put/get mechanism was greatly simplified on the way.
3037 * New SIMIX network module. Provides:
3038 - Mailbox: rendez-vous mechanism to find with who you want to speak
3039 - Synchronous send/recv: easier and hopefully faster since the
3040 logic is handled in the maestro process directly now
3041 - Asynchronous send/recv: you dreamt of it? It's here now
3042 Too bad that nobody cared enough to propagate the change to MSG.
3043 * Add semaphores as SIMIX synchronization mechanism.
3046 * new function SD_daxload(char*) to load a DAX file
3047 (see http://vtcpc.isi.edu/pegasus/index.php/WorkflowGenerator)
3048 * Introduce typed tasks. Specify its kind and cost at creation.
3049 At scheduling, just give where it should be placed, and the cost
3050 for each involved resource is automatically computed.
3051 Existing constructors so far (more to come of course):
3052 - SD_task_create_comm_e2e() for end-to-end communication
3053 - SD_task_create_comp_seq() for sequential computation
3054 Use SD_task_schedulev() / SD_task_schedulel() to schedule them.
3055 * new function SD_task_dump() for debugging display
3056 * new function SD_task_dotty(task,FILE*) writing to file the info
3057 about the task in dotty format
3058 * SD_task_dependency_exists() can now cope with having one of its
3059 arguments NULL. If so, it tests whether the other argument has any
3061 * Add getters on list of preceding/following tasks:
3062 SD_task_get_parents(task) and SD_task_get_children(task)
3063 * Add getters on amount of workstations and list:
3064 SD_task_get_workstation_count(t) and SD_task_get_workstation_list(t)
3065 * Add getter on task kind: SD_task_get_kind(task)
3066 * Update the start_time and finish_time of tasks on completion/failure
3067 * Bugfix: Remove task from state swags when destroyed
3070 * New function: void gras_cpu_burn(double flops) -- a simple CPU burner
3073 * New function: xbt_dynar_dopar(dynar,fun) to map a function over the
3074 dynar with one separate thread per value of the dynar.
3075 * Change the prototype of xbt_thread_create(), sorry.
3076 Added a boolean parameter indicating whether we want to join this
3077 thread (used in SG only for now)
3078 * Implement xbt_thread_join and xbt_thread_yield in SG also.
3081 * GTNetS wrappers should now be usable again (and betterly tested too)
3082 * Fix a major regression from 3.2 where the timeout provided to
3083 MSG_task_put_with_timeout() was used as absolute time before which
3084 the comm should be done.
3085 * Start to fix the <cluster> tag.
3086 - Internal links should be good now (beside of the loopback, which
3087 use the private link instead)
3088 - paths to the external world is still rather broken
3089 - the <route:multi> tag is just broken. Actually that's brain-dead.
3090 We need sth like <route:multi src="myCluster" dst="$*-${myCluster}">
3091 to make it less stupid
3092 ** Check your platform with teshsuite/simdag/platforms/flatifier **
3093 * Fix a source-level compatibility glitch from 3.2: after defining
3094 MSG_USE_DEPRECATED, you can use the old name
3095 MSG_task_put_with_time_out() for MSG_task_put_with_timeout()
3096 * Allow to compile from the SVN with automake 1.11
3097 * Fix some problems when using the "start_time" tag in deployment XMLs.
3098 * Fix #8569: XBT/synchro.h has redundant declarations
3099 * Fix #8563: MSG return values and exceptions
3100 Introduce a MSG_TIMEOUT_FAILURE return code and use it consistently.
3101 * Integrate patch #8636: Obey DESTDIR when installing documentation.
3102 Thanks to Robson Peixoto.
3103 * Fix a vicious bug in dictionaries inducing that some elements were
3104 not freed on xbt_dict_free()
3106 Portability report of this version:
3107 * Main portability targets:
3108 - linux (ubuntu (804/810/910) /debian (4/5/testing) /fedora (core11))
3109 on (amd64/i386/ia64)
3110 - mac leopard on i386
3111 Known problems: http://cdash.inria.fr/CDash/index.php?project=Simgrid
3112 but nothing critical.
3113 * Other platforms: windows, AIX and others were not tested for this release
3115 Timing report of this version:
3116 * Lazy evaluation brings arbitrary speedup (ie, speedup depending on
3117 scenario parameters). From 8h to a few seconds in desktop grid settings.
3118 * Supernovae brings about 25% speedup on i386.
3120 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:07:39 +0100
3122 SimGrid (3.3.3) stable; urgency=low
3124 The "Need for Speed" release.
3126 The timings done to validate the 3.3.2 were faulty.
3127 Instead of being 5% faster, it was 15% slower (compared to 3.3.1).
3129 The problem was a conversion from a manually handled vector to
3130 xbt_dynar_t on the critical path.
3131 xbt_dynar_foreach calls functions, inducing stack management crap.
3133 We inlined these functions and xbt_dynar_foreach is now breath taking.
3134 We also inlined xbt_swag_belong on the way.
3136 Here are some approximate speedup measurements (on master/slaves
3137 simulations lasting between 10s and 20s each):
3138 3.3.1 -> 3.3.2: about same performance
3139 3.3.2 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
3140 3.3.1 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
3141 3.3.1 with inline patch -> 3.3.3: 30% speedup
3143 Our reading is that the refactoring which occurred in 3.3.2 made us
3144 suffer much more from the xbt_dynar_foreach low performance, but
3145 once we solved this, this refactoring proved to be very performance
3146 effective. From the 40% speedup, somehow, 10% are due to the
3147 inlining and 30% to the refactoring.
3149 That's a pitty that gcc cannot inline functions placed in other files
3150 alone. We have to choose between:
3151 - break the encapsulation (by putting private data structures and
3152 accessors in headers files to help gcc)
3153 - live with low performance
3154 - switch to a decent compiler such as icc (not quite possible).
3156 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:21:33 +0200
3158 SimGrid (3.3.2) stable; urgency=low
3160 The "Simplicity does not preceed complexity, but follows it" release.
3162 The main contributors of this release were (lexical order):
3163 Silas De Munck, Stéphane Genaud, Martin Quinson, Cristian Rosa.
3166 * Extract the routing logic into its own object.
3167 (was dupplicated in network.c and workstation_LV07.c;
3168 Allows to implement other ways of storing that info)
3169 => kill now useless network_card concept
3170 - Use dynar to represent routes (instead of void** + int*)
3171 - kill link_set (use surf_network_model->resource_set instead)
3172 - Add a command-line option to choose the routing schema to use
3173 - Add three new models:
3174 * Floyd (shortest path computed at initialization)
3175 * Dijikstra (shortest path recomputed all the time)
3176 * Cached Dijikstra (shortest path computed on need)
3177 All these models where contributed by Silas De Munck, and are
3178 described in his ICCS09 paper.
3180 * Simplify model declaration
3181 (less redirections, less function to write when defining a model)
3182 - Factorize stuff between models:
3185 surf_model_resource_set(model)
3186 surf_model_resource_by_name(model, name)
3187 - Unify the types of models in s_surf_model_t (using an union)
3188 - Embeed fields of common_public directly into s_surf_model_t
3189 - Rename model methods:
3190 action_free ~> action_unref
3191 action_change_state ~> action_state_set
3192 action_get_state ~> action_state_get
3193 - Change model methods into functions:
3194 (model)->common_public->action_use ~> surf_action_ref
3196 * Implement a generic resource; use it as ancestor to specific ones
3197 (allows to kill duplicated code in models)
3198 Drawback: timer command don't need no name nor properties;
3199 workstation_CLM03 don't need no properties
3200 (but I guess we can live with those few bytes wasted)
3202 * Improve the action object model
3203 - implement a constructor avoiding dupplicated code about field
3204 initialization in generic_action part.
3206 * Kill the SDP model: it has an external dependency, is deprecated
3207 in flavor of modern lmm models, and didn't compile since a while
3210 * Relocation of the context module from XBT to SIMIX.
3211 (the context were decoupled from the simix processes, duplicating a lot of code)
3212 => a lot of code was factorized
3213 - less overhead is introduced during scheduling
3214 - simpler API for the context factory
3215 - the logic for process creation,destruction and manipulation was simplified
3216 * Simplification of the s_smx_process_t data structure.
3217 => accesing the simix level data associated to a process is faster now,
3218 and the code is a lot more readable.
3221 * Implement some more MPI primitives:
3222 MPI_Bcast, MPI_Waitany, MPI_Waitall, MPI_Reduce, MPI_Allreduce, MPI_Scatter, MPI_Sendrecv, MPI_Alltoall
3223 -implementation: Bcast: flat or 2-ary tree (default),
3224 Barrier: 4-ary tree,
3226 Allreduce: Reduce then Bcast
3227 Alltoall: "basic_linear" if data per proc < 3Kb, "otherwise pairwise".
3228 Not yet implemented: "Bruck" for data per proc < 200b and comm size > 12
3229 Alltoallv: flat tree, like ompi
3231 * Add support for optimized collectives (Bcast is now binomial by default)
3232 * Port smpirun and smpicc to OS X
3235 * Kill SD_link_get_properties: hard to maintain and makes very little sense
3236 Shout out if you used it.
3239 * Display the list of still queued messages in SG mode when existing
3243 * Add xbt_set_get_by_name_or_null() [Silas De Munck]
3244 * Add xbt_graph_node_get_outedges() [Silas De Munck]
3245 * Add xbt_str_from_file(FILE*)
3246 * Add xbt_dict_get_key achieving a linear reverse search
3247 * Remove the context module
3249 Portability report of this version:
3250 * Main portability targets:
3251 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
3252 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
3253 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
3254 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
3255 On these, we still have the eratic breakages of gras/pmm and
3256 amok/saturate_sg reported in previous version. We still think
3257 that the tests are the cause of the fault, not the tested code.
3259 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
3260 Still false negative in tesh autotesting.
3261 Smpi still fails, but this time because readlink does not accept -f
3262 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
3265 - AIX version 5.3 (only tested contexts this time)
3266 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
3267 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
3269 I managed to compile it for the first time, but several breakages.
3270 Won't delay the release for this exotic platform.
3272 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
3275 Timing report of this version:
3276 This version seem to be more than 5% faster than 3.3.1 (on linux
3277 64bits with contextes). The gain is less than expected, we are
3278 investigating this for next release.
3280 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:07:12 +0200
3282 SimGrid (3.3.1) stable; urgency=low
3285 * Implement a --cfg-help to show existing configuration variables
3286 * Build chain do not require doxygen in maintainer mode
3289 * fix a bug on struct sizeof computation, which prevented the
3290 exchange of arrays of structs in some conditions
3291 - added a regression test about this in datadesc_usage
3292 * Allow the exchange of 0-long dynamic vectors.
3293 - for that, use -1 as indicator of dynamic size instead of 0
3294 - This implied to change any size from unsigned long to long,
3295 reducing a bit communication abilities, but I guess that with
3296 64bits being quite common, this is more than enough.
3297 - This also induce a protocol change, thus bumping network protocol
3298 version from 0 to 1 (if we have external users, we have to get
3299 clean on that point too ;)
3300 - added two regression tests about this in datadesc_usage
3301 * Be more verbose when propagating local exceptions
3302 This helps debugging.
3303 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT in
3307 * Allow to control the simulation from a trace file.
3308 New functions MSG_action_register() and MSG_action_trace_run()
3309 The first one allows to associate a function execution to each
3310 kind of action while the second one parses a trace file and
3311 triggers the corresponding actions within the system.
3312 For now, only a toy example is provided in examples/msg/actions
3313 * Add an example of process migration in examples/msg/migration
3314 * Fix a bug in task exchange which broke MSG_task_get_sender()
3315 Add a teshsuite regression test for that.
3316 [Bug: if MSG_task_get_sender() is called after sender exit,
3318 * Fix a bug which prevented suspend/resume to work properly
3319 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT
3320 This fixes a regression of v3.3. due to the introduction of SIMIX
3321 * Bug fixing in failure management:
3322 - trace could not start by a failure at time 0
3323 - failure during communications were not working
3326 * Add SIMIX_process_set_name() to change the name of the current
3327 process in the log messages.
3328 * Store smx_hosts in a dict since we only retrieve them by name
3329 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
3332 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
3335 * Massive internal cleanups:
3336 - Store internal structures on processes instead of hosts (allows
3337 to have more than one process per host, in addition of being more
3339 - Cleanup the initialization/finalization process
3340 - Kill a whole bunch of unneeded synchronization:
3341 processes run in exclusive manner within the simulator
3342 - Move queues from global tables to process data fields
3344 - now accept -platform and -hostfile arguments
3345 - Pass the right rank value to processes according to the hostfile
3346 * Compile the examples by default, and use them as regression tests
3347 * Implement MPI_Wtime()
3348 * Change the reference speed to a command line option
3351 * TCP_gamma can now be specified as command line option using
3352 --cfg=TCP_gamma:10000000.0
3353 * Change the --surf-path cmd line option into --cfg=path:
3356 * Also include strbuff from xbt.h public header
3357 * xbt_ex_display(): do not free the exception after displaying
3358 This allows to do more with the given exception afterward.
3359 Users should call xbt_ex_free() themselves.
3363 Portability report of this version:
3364 * Main portability targets:
3365 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
3366 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
3367 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
3368 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
3369 These targets fail about 1/10 of times on gras/pmm, but we believe
3370 that this is because of the test, not because of simgrid.
3371 amok/saturate_sg fails even more rarely, and the test may not be
3374 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
3375 The test suite still spits tons of errors because some obscure
3376 force prevents us from removing the temporary directories
3377 arguing that they still contain some metadata I've never heard of.
3378 Smpi fails because seq is not installed.
3379 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
3382 - AIX version 5.3 (both contexts and pthread)
3383 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
3384 XML inclusions seems rosty on AIX.
3386 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
3389 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:14:30 +0200
3391 SimGrid (3.3) stable; urgency=high
3395 * JAVA BINDINGS for MSG (you dreamt of them? We made them)
3396 [Malek Cherier & Mt]
3398 * Introduce the SIMIX module: factorize code between MSG and GRAS.
3401 Until now, GRAS were using MSG as an interface to SURF. It was
3402 quite difficult because both interface have several differences
3403 (MSG channels vs GRAS sockets were the most notable point).
3405 This also opens the gate to SMPI (which should occur soon) and speed
3406 up simulations by to 40% (even if it were not the main goal).
3408 **************************************
3409 *DO NOT MIX 3.2 RESULTS WITH 3.3 ONES* Simix may changes simulations!
3410 **************************************
3411 The point is that events occurring at the exact same timestamp are
3412 not scheduled in the same order with the old and new version. This
3413 may be enough to completely change the execution of simulations in
3414 some cases. Sorry for the inconvenience.
3416 * Cleanup and upgrade the XML format to push further scalability
3417 issues (check http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00256883/ for more info)
3419 * Improve the testing infrastructure with tesh. Now a very large part of
3420 the code is tested not only by being run but also by checking that the
3421 output match an expected output [Mt].
3423 * Move on to FleXML v1.7 for the embeeded XML parsers. This version
3424 is really less memory-demanding, which should allow you to use
3425 larger files in SimGrid [AL].
3427 * Inform valgrind about our contextes, so that it becomes usable
3428 with the default (and more effecient) version of SimGrid
3429 [contributed by Sékou Diakite, many thanks]
3432 * Introduce a listener thread in charge of receiving incoming
3433 messages from the network. It allows to overlap communication and
3434 computation but most notably, it removes some stupid deadlocks due
3435 to the fact that so far, a process could not send and receive at
3436 the same time. This made most non trivial communication schema
3438 * Convert the PIDs from long int to int to match the MSG ones (and
3439 linux ones too) [Mt]
3440 * New function: gras_agent_spawn() to launch a new process on
3441 current host. Only working in simulation for now. [Mt]
3442 * New function: gras_os_hostport() returning a constant form (ie,
3443 not needing to be freed) of "gras_os_hostname():gras_os_myport()"
3446 * Make the backtrace of exceptions more human readable [Mt]
3447 * New module: xbt/str [Mt]
3448 a ton of string utility functions (split, join, printf to a newly
3449 allocated buffer, trim, etc)
3450 * New module: xbt/hash [Mt]
3451 SHA1 hashing algorithm (more to come if needed)
3452 * New module: xbt/synchro [Mt]
3453 synchronization tools (mutex and conditions) working the same way
3454 in simulation and in real life (mainly useful for GRAS, but not
3456 * New module: xbt/queue [Mt]
3457 classical producer/consumer synchronization scheme
3458 * xbt_dynar_new_sync() creates a synchronized dynar. All access
3459 (using the classical functions will get serialized) [Mt]
3460 * Make dictionary internal table dynamic. No need to specify its size
3461 anymore; functions xbt_dict_new_ext() and xbt_dict_hashsize_set()
3463 * Make sure the log channels are organized as a tree under windows
3464 (because of ANSI C compatibility issue, any channel were child of
3465 root directly) [Mt].
3468 * Cleaned many thing in surf and fixed a few bugs [AL].
3469 * Add a nice command line configuration mechanism to compose models [AL].
3470 * Add a new model for parallel tasks (ptask_L07) that is less buggy than
3471 the previous one (KCCFLN05). It relies on something that looks like
3472 a max-min sharing mechanism but cannot be written as such. A new solver
3473 was thus designed [AL].
3474 * Add a new solver to lmm. Based on Lagrange optimization and
3475 gradient-based descent, it enables to efficiently maximise systems s.a
3477 sum f_i(x_i) s.t Ax<= b with A_{i,j}>=0 and f_i a concave function.
3479 This solver enables to propose two new network models for TCP Reno and
3480 TCP Vegas based on Low's work. These models still need to be fully
3481 tested though [Pedro Velho].
3484 * Bug fix in SD_simulate. Now the time bound given as argument is
3486 * Use the new parallel task model (ptask_L07) as default.
3487 * Use the SURF command line configuration mechanism.
3488 * 0-size tasks (for synchronization) should now work.
3490 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sun Apr 12 05:20:36 CEST 2009
3492 SimGrid (3.2) stable; urgency=high
3496 We still experience issues on this platform, but we believe that at
3497 least MSG is usable.
3499 GRAS API BREAKAGE (for simplification purpose, sorry):
3500 * the gras_msgtype_by_name is not used anymore. Instead of
3501 gras_msg_send(toserver, gras_msgtype_by_name("request"), &request);
3502 you can write (and must)
3503 gras_msg_send(toserver, "request", &request);
3504 - If you still want to pass a gras_msgtype_t to the function (to cache
3505 the type and avoid the lookup time), use the gras_msg_send_() variant.
3506 - Impacted functions:
3507 gras_cb_register, gras_cb_unregister, gras_msg_send, gras_msg_wait,
3508 gras_msg_rpccall, gras_msg_rpc_async_call, gras_msg_wait_ext
3509 * The callbacks are now expected to return 0 when everything went well
3510 (just like the main() function)
3512 GRAS new features and improvements:
3513 * New module mechanism where user code can use per process globals [Mt]
3514 This is similar to gras_userdata_*() functions, but for libraries. It
3515 factorize some code developped over and over in the examples and AMOK.
3516 It has still to be documented and used (only amok/peermanagement is
3518 * Fix a vicious bug in the TCP buffering mechanism which leaded to message
3519 loss when they were small enough to fit into the buffer and sent quickly
3520 enough so that they can all get received in one shoot.
3521 * gras_datadesc_by_name and gras_msgtype_by_name: now raise an exception
3522 if not found. Use the *_or_null() variant for the old semantic.
3523 * In gras_msg_handle, do not discard messages without callback.
3524 They are probably messages to be explicitly awaited later (ie, proofs of
3525 mis-synchronization in userland since they are sent before being awaited)
3526 No big deal usually.
3527 * gras_socket_meas_send/recv: semantic changed!
3528 The numerical arguments used to be (1) the total amount of data to send
3529 and (2) msg_size. This was changed to (1) msg_size and (2) amount of
3530 messages. This was need for the fool willing to send more than MAXINT
3531 bytes on quite fat pipes.
3534 * Do really rename the hostmanagement module to peermanagement. [Mt]
3535 Ie, rename functions from amok_hm_* to amok_pm_*. This breaks the API,
3536 but this is rather new and this was documented in the module
3537 documentation (poor excuses, I admit)
3538 * Bandwidth measurement semantic changed! This follows the changes to
3539 gras_socket_meas_send/recv explained above.
3542 * A sequential mode has been added to the workstations. When a workstation
3543 is in sequential mode, it can execute only one task, and the other tasks
3544 are waiting in a FIFO. [Christophe Thiery]
3547 * The KCCFLN05 workstation model now handles parallel tasks. It is the
3548 model for SIMDAG. [Christophe Thiery]
3549 * Bug fix in the maxmin solver: Some values were close to 0 instead of
3550 equal to 0, which caused some bad behaviors in
3551 saturated_constraint_set_update. I now use a threshold mechanism like in
3555 * When running manually src/testall, you select specific units [Mt]
3556 testall is the result of our cunit mechanism, and should replace all
3557 the scripty thingy around since bash don't run easily on billware.
3559 * A mallocator system has been added. [Christophe Thiery]
3560 Mallocators allow you to recycle your unused objects instead of freeing them
3561 and allocating new ones.
3563 Documentation update:
3564 * FAQ reworking + New FAQs:
3565 - "Valgrind spits tons of errors!" [Mt]
3566 - "How to repport bugs" [Mt]
3567 - "Cross-compiling a Windows DLL of SimGrid from Linux" [Mt]
3568 - "What is the difference between MSG, SimDag, and GRAS?" [Mt]
3569 - Communication time measurement within MSG [AL]
3570 - I experience weird communication times when I change the latency [AL]
3571 * GRAS tutorial [Mt]
3573 - an introduction to the framework and to the used communication model
3574 - an initiatic tour introducing the most proheminent features:
3576 . Lesson 0: Installing GRAS
3577 . Lesson 1: Setting up your own project
3578 o Part 2: Message passing
3579 . Lesson 2: Exchanging simple messages
3580 . Lesson 3: Passing arguments to the processes (in SG)
3581 . Lesson 4: Attaching callbacks to messages
3582 . Lesson 5: Using globals in processes
3583 . Lesson 6: Logging information properly
3584 . Lesson 7: Using internal timers
3585 . Lesson 8: Handling errors through exceptions
3586 . Lesson 9: Exchanging simple data
3587 . Lesson 10: Remote Procedure Calling (RPC)
3588 . Lesson 11: Explicitly waiting for messages
3589 . Recapping of message passing features in GRAS
3590 - A HOWTO section containing:
3591 o HOWTO design a GRAS application
3592 More are due, of course. They will come latter. In the meanwhile, you can
3593 check the examples which are still here.
3595 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri Mar 16 21:11:46 CET 2007
3597 SimGrid (3.1) stable; urgency=high
3601 There was a stack corruption somewhere, visible only when optimizing
3602 with these versions. [Vince]
3605 * This is a NEW module! SimDAG (SD for short) is a revival of the old SG
3606 module that enabled to play with Directed Acyclic Graphs. It is built
3607 directly on top of SURF and provides an API rather close to the old
3608 SG. Some old codes using SG are currently under rewrite to check that
3609 all needful functions are provided. [Christophe Thiery]
3612 * Complete rewrite of the KCCFLN05 workstation model. It is now an
3613 extension of the classical CLM03 model that gracefully handles
3614 failures. This is now the default model for MSG and GRAS. It doesn't
3615 handle parallel tasks yet though. [AL]
3616 * Bug fix: Weights were not correctly set in the network part.
3617 WARNING: This may have resulted in incorrect results with simulations
3618 where there are more than one flow on a given link. [AL]
3621 * After a (long ?) discussion on simgrid-devel, we have decided that the
3622 convention we had on units was stupid. That is why it has been decided
3623 to move from (MBits, MFlops, seconds) to (Bits, Flops, seconds).
3624 WARNING: This means that all previous platform files will not work as
3625 such with this version! A warning is issued to ask users to update
3627 A conversion script can be found in the contrib module of the CVS, under
3628 the name contrib/platform_generation/surfxml_update.pl [MQ]
3631 * Bug fix: Processes were started in reverse order, wrt deployment file.
3632 WARNING: if your code relies on this bug, please fix it. [AL]
3633 * Bug fix: Add a test in MSG_task_execute to stop whenever a task is
3634 being executed on two different locations. [AL]
3635 * Bug fix: Failures are now better supported thanks to Derrick's tests
3636 (there was many failure situations I hadn't thought of and that weren't
3637 correctly handled). [AL]
3638 * New function: MSG_host_is_avail indicates you whether a given m_host_t
3642 * New! a real RPC mechanism, as it ought to be since too long. [MQ]
3643 Exception occurring on server-side are propagated back to client (!).
3645 API CHANGE: the callback changed their prototype. Change:
3646 int my_handler(gras_socket_t expeditor, void *payload_data) {
3648 int my_handler(gras_msg_cb_ctx_t ctx , void *payload_data) {
3649 gras_socket_t expeditor=gras_msg_cb_ctx_from(ctx);
3651 * New! function: gras_msg_handleall to deal with all messages arriving
3652 within a given period.
3653 * New! function: gras_socket_server_range to get a server socket in a
3654 range of port numbers (ease to avoid port number conflicts) [MQ]
3655 * New! gras processes display their backtrace when they get a SIGUSR1
3656 or when Ctrl-C is pressed. Use Ctrl-C Ctrl-C to exit.
3657 Sweet to debug RL processes [MQ]
3661 - Do not force experiment sizes to be expressed in kb, or it becomes
3662 impossible to measure the latency this way (needs one byte-long tests)
3663 WARNING: this changes the amok_bw_* function semantic. [MQ]
3664 - Implements the link saturation stuff. [MQ]
3665 * Peer management module:
3666 New! module factorizing code that we wrote over and over [MQ].
3669 * New module: cunit (my jUnit implementation in ansi C) [MQ]
3670 - Test units are placed directly into the library code, they get extracted
3671 automatically and placed into the src/testall binary.
3672 - Convert most of the XBT tests to this system.
3673 * New functions: xbt_dynar_getfirst_as() and xbt_dynar_getlast_as() [MQ]
3674 * XML parsing: rewrote parts of flexml to enable multiple xml parsers to
3675 live in the same C code. This required to change a little bit the API
3676 of surfxml parsing but shouldn't be an issue for end-users. [AL]
3677 * New module: sparse graph structure with basic algorithms (this is work
3678 in progress and the API is not considered to be frozen yet). [AL]
3679 * Display more information on backtraces: source line & function names are
3680 now displayed just like valgrind does (rely on addr2line tool) [MQ]
3681 * New function: xbt_backtrace_display(). Sweet while debugging [MQ]
3682 * Reworked a little bit some #include statements to load only required
3683 headers. Some user code that relied on SimGrid to include stdlib or
3684 stdio may need to include it by themselves. [AL]
3685 * Fixed xbt/log.h. A missing SG_BEGIN_DECL prevented compilation with
3687 * Renamed xbt_host_t into xbt_peer_t since it betterly describes what I
3688 meant. This breaks the API of AMOK and of xbt/config. Sorry about this,
3689 but I guess that almost nobody used those parts. [MQ]
3691 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:32:27 +0200
3693 SimGrid (3.0.1) stable; urgency=low
3696 * Unfortunately, I had missed 5 misnamed functions:
3697 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_newitem(void);
3698 void xbt_fifo_freeitem(xbt_fifo_item_t);
3699 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getFirstItem(xbt_fifo_t l);
3700 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getNextItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
3701 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getPrevItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
3702 They're now deprecated. Please use their new versions:
3703 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_new_item(void);
3704 void xbt_fifo_free_item(xbt_fifo_item_t);
3705 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_first_item(xbt_fifo_t l);
3706 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_next_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
3707 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_prev_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
3709 * Bugfix: really disconnect fifo items which are remove_item()ed [AL]
3710 * Documentation: xbt_log module unmercifully reworked [MQ]
3711 * Bugfix: there was a problem with the ending of contexts with
3712 the pthread backend. It caused some weird deadlock or behavior
3713 depending on the pthread implementation. [AL]
3714 * Bugfix: get the exceptions raised in the simulator repport where
3715 and why they come from when they are not caught in time [AL, MQ]
3718 * Bugfix: Do repport the error when two non-connected hosts try to
3719 exchange data (Thanks to Flavien for stumbling into this one) [AL]
3722 * Add additionnal checkings on communications. Assert that two
3723 communicating hosts are connected by a set of links... [AL]
3726 * Add additionnal checkings on channel values in communication [AL]
3727 * New: MSG_task_get_source to see on which host a task was generated [HC]
3728 * New: int MSG_task_probe_from_host(int channel, m_host_t host): returns
3729 the number of tasks waiting to be received on channel and sent
3731 * New: MSG_error_t MSG_task_get_from_host(m_task_t * task, int channel, m_host_t host);
3732 waits for the first task coming from a given host.. [AL]
3734 GRAS new functionnalities: [MQ]
3735 * Enhance the parsing macro to allow the size of multidimentional objects
3736 to be given thru annotations.
3737 * New example (and documentation): Matrix Multiplication a la RPC
3738 (as when I was young!) and fix a bunch of bugs found on the way.
3740 GRAS performance improvements: [MQ]
3742 * Reduce the amount of cbps creation/destruction by making it static to
3743 datadesc_send/recv() and using a (newly created) cbps_reset (based on
3746 * Change libdata to a set so that we can search for stuff by ID (and thus
3747 reduce the insane amount of dict lookups)
3750 * Actually implement gras_datadesc_copy() so that we don't have to mimick
3751 RL communication on top of SG since it's so uneffective.
3752 It may also be used for inter-thread communication in RL, one day.
3753 * Use gras_datadesc_copy() to exchange messages on top of SG
3755 - improve message exchange performance on top of SG
3756 - deprecate transport_plugin_sg.c:gras_trp_sg_chunk_send() & recv()
3757 * Don't exchange on the network the size of the used part of buffer,
3758 instead, specify the possible buffer size to read().
3760 - reduces the amount of read/write calls (one pair per exchange)
3761 - reduces the amount of exchanged data (the size)
3762 - allows to retrieve all arrived data on receiver side, if we don't need
3763 it right now (subsequent read will peek the buffer)
3764 - allows the receiver to proceed with the beginning of the stream before
3765 everything is arrived
3766 - make it possible to build an iov transport (using readv/writev)
3768 - take care of the data with non-stable storage (like stacked data),
3770 * If possible, TCP send uses vector I/O (when writev() is here)
3771 - Don't use it for receive since we send data sizes and data on the
3772 same stream, so we wouldn't be able to chain large amount of chunks
3773 before having to flush the stuff to read the size.
3774 * Rework the transport plugin mechanism to simplify it and reduce the
3775 amount of pointer dereferencement when searching for the right function
3778 * I guess that now, we do almost as few system calls as possible while
3779 doing as few data copy as possible.
3781 To improve it further, we could try to send all the sizes first and then
3782 all the data (to use iov on receiving size), but it's only a partial
3783 solution: when you have 2 dimensional data, the sizes of the second
3784 dimension is data of the first dimension, so you need 3 streams.
3786 I'm not sure the potential performance gains justify the coding burden.
3788 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:42:20 +0200
3790 SimGrid (3.00) stable; urgency=high
3793 * New! Give the possibility to hijack the surf parser and thus bypass
3794 MSG_create_environment and MSG_launch_application. Have a look at
3795 examples/msg/msg_test_surfxml_bypassed.c to see how it can be done.
3797 -- Arnaud Legrand <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 20 Aug 2005 23:25:25 -0700
3799 SimGrid (2.96) unstable; urgency=low
3804 * New! Exception handling with setjmp or such (code from OSSP ex) [MQ]
3805 This deprecates the xbt_error_t mechanisms.
3806 It modifies (simplifies) all XBT and GRAS API.
3807 MSG API keeps unchanged (exceptions raised by XBT are caught from
3808 within MSG and masked with existing error handling facilities)
3811 * New! Add a FATPIPE model. [AL]
3812 * New! Add a parallel task model. [AL]
3813 * New! Add automatically a loopback interface (in the default
3814 network model) if none was precised.
3817 * Bugfix: MSG_process_resume now works with the current running process.
3819 * New! Add MSG_parallel_task_create and MSG_parallel_task_execute. [AL]
3820 * Modification of MSG_task_get_compute_duration. Once a task has been
3821 processed, the value returned by this function is now equal to 0. [AL]
3822 * New! Add double MSG_task_get_remaining_computation(m_task_t task) and
3823 MSG_error_t MSG_task_cancel(m_task_t task). Add a state
3824 (MSG_TASK_CANCELLED) to MSG_error_t corresponding to the cancelation
3825 of a m_task. For now, MSG_task_cancel only works with computation
3827 * New! Add double MSG_get_host_speed(m_host_t h) that returns the speed
3828 of the processor (in Mflop/s) regardless of the current load on the
3830 * API Change: use proper naming convention for MSG_getClock and
3831 MSG_process_isSuspended: MSG_get_clock and MSG_process_is_suspended.
3833 * New! Add void MSG_task_set_priority(m_task_t task, double priority).
3834 This function changes the priority of a computation task. This priority
3835 doesn't affect the transfer rate. A priority of 2 will make a task
3836 receive two times more cpu power than the other ones. This function
3837 has been added to suit the needs of Nguyen The Loc and hasn't been that
3838 much tested yet. So if it fails, please report it and send me your code.
3840 * API Change: removed all functions and types that were marked "deprecated"
3841 since many months. Renamed MSG_global_init_args to MSG_global_init.
3843 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:58:47 -0700
3845 SimGrid (2.95) unstable; urgency=low
3848 * Steal some nice code to GNU pth to fix context detection and usage [AL]
3849 * Cleanup in the xbt_config API; add configuration callbacks. [MQ]
3850 * Cleanup in the initialization API: the unused "defaultlog" is dead. [MQ]
3853 * Bugfix: Allow absolute paths for platform description files [MQ]
3854 * Bugfix: do free the variables after use. Leads to drastic performance
3856 * Implement max_duration (ie, timeouts) on resources [AL]
3859 * Implement MSG_config to configure MSG at runtime. xbt_cfg test on a real
3861 * Implement MSG_channel_select_from() to help GRAS now that SURF provide
3862 the needed support (timeouts) [AL]
3865 * Implement measurement sockets. You can now get the bandwidth between two
3866 hosts thanks to AMOK (see below). [MQ]
3867 * gras_datadesc_dynar() builds a dynar type descriptor, allowing to send
3868 dynar over the network (yeah) [MQ]
3869 * Real (even if simplistic) implementation of gras_os_myname() on RL [MQ]
3870 * simple/static token-ring example. [Alexandre Colucci and MQ]
3871 * Use MSG_channel_select_from() and remove the *slow* hack we had to put
3872 in place before [MQ]
3875 * Differentiate the types "char[22]" and "unsigned char[22]" in automatic
3876 type parsing. "short" and "long" modifiers were also ignored; other
3877 modifier (such as reference level) are still ignored. [MQ]
3878 * Embeed the buffer size within the buffer itself on SG. [MQ]
3879 That way, send() are atomic and cannot get intermixed anymore (at least
3880 the ones which are less than 100k; bigger messages still have the issue)
3881 * Array size pushed by the field, not by the field type (or each
3882 and every long int will push stuff to the cbps) [MQ]
3883 * use select() to sleep since it allows to portably sleep less than one
3886 GRAS (minor cleanups)
3887 * <project>.Makefile.local (generated from gras_stub_generator) |MQ]:
3890 * Type Callbacks now receive the gras_datadesc_type_t they work on as argument.
3891 * type category 'ignored' killed as it was never used and were difficult
3893 * whether a type can cycle or not is now a flag, leaving room for more
3894 flags (as "ignored", if we feel the need one day ;)
3895 * Rename raw sockets to measurement sockets since "raw" has another
3896 meaning in networking community.
3899 * Advanced Metacomputing Overlay Kit introduction. It is based over GRAS
3900 and offers features not belonging to GRAS but that most applications
3901 need. One day, it may be a set of plugins loadable at runtime.
3902 * New module: bandwidth
3903 bandwidth measurement between arbitrary nodes running this module. [MQ]
3905 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:29:20 -0700
3907 SimGrid (2.94) unstable; urgency=low
3909 The first beta release of SimGrid 3 !
3913 * Update the main page and the FAQ. Adding references to gforge.
3916 * Add a gras_os_getpid function.
3919 * Add MSG_task_get_compute_duration() and MSG_task_get_data_size()
3920 * Extend the logs so that they also print PID, hostname, date, ... if
3922 * Convert the MSG example to the use of xbt_logs instead of PRINT_MESSAGE,
3923 and kill the old version which were in testsuite/
3924 * Rewrite tools/MSG_visualization/colorize.pl for using with logs instead
3928 * Add xbt_os_time(). As the rest of xbt/portability, this is not public
3929 for users. Instead, each programming environment (GRAS, MSG,...) use it
3930 when needed to provide such a feature to users.
3931 Don't shortcut the mechanism or you will also shortcut the virtualization
3932 you need on the simulator.
3936 * Cleanups in configury with regard to compile optimization/warning flags.
3937 Also add -fno-loop-optimize to any powerpc since it's the optimization
3938 killing gcc (< 3.4.0).
3939 * Doxygen cleanups: move MSG examples, kill the second Doxygen phase
3940 needed by MSG examples complications
3941 * Borrow configury beautifications from PHP
3944 * Bugfix: XBT_LOG_NEW_DEFAULT_CATEGORY now compiles without compiler
3945 warning (thanks loris for stumbling into this one).
3946 * Bugfix: stop loading private headers (gras_config.h) from the public
3950 * Change SIMGRID_INSTALL_PATH to GRAS_ROOT in Makefiles generated for user.
3951 * Rename gras_get_my_fqdn to gras_os_myname and implement it in the simulator
3952 RL would imply a DNS resolver, which is *hard* to do in a portable way
3953 (and therefore delayed).
3954 * Implement a real timer mechanism and use it in timing macros. This allows
3955 to avoid rounding errors and get a 0.000005 sec precision in timing
3956 macros. While I was at it, various cleanups:
3957 - allow to declare more than one timed section per file (fix a stupid bug)
3958 - move some private declaration to the right place
3959 - merge conditional execution and timing macros into emulation module
3960 - document the module
3961 - make sure the module cleanups its mess on gras_exit
3962 * Documentation improvements:
3963 - (new) how to compile applications using GRAS
3964 - (new) emulation support (timing macros)
3966 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 13 May 2005 10:49:31 +0200
3968 SimGrid (2.93) unstable; urgency=low
3970 Alpha 4 on the path to SimGrid 3 (aka the "neuf-trois" version)
3973 - Use Paje properly where used. Still to be sanitized properly.
3974 - Portability fix: Add an implementation of the contexts using pthread
3978 - Add xbt_procname(): returns the name of the current process.
3979 Use it to show the current process's name in all logging.
3981 - fix detection of older flex version and the reaction, since we do
3982 depend on modern ones (we use lex_destroy)
3983 - Better separation of SG and RL in the libs: remove all simulation code
3984 from libgras. As a result, this lib is now only 200k when stripped.
3985 Some of the xbt modules may also be duplicated (two sets and such) and
3986 should be cleaned/killed before SG3.
3987 - Insist on using xlC on AIX because of weird problems involving gcc there.
3988 - Cleanup the make remote stuff. This is now done by scripts
3989 tools/graspe-{master,slave} (GRAS Platform Expender). This is still
3990 mainly for our private use, but we're working on changing them to user
3993 - Bugfix: flush the socket on close only if there is some *output*.
3994 - Bugfix: flush idempotent when there's nothing to send (don't send size=0)
3996 - Add MSG_task_get_name. The task names are mainly for debugging purpose,
3999 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:32:37 -0800
4001 SimGrid (2.92) unstable; urgency=low
4003 Alpha 3 on the path to SimGrid 3
4007 - New! First try of benchmarking macros.
4008 - New! First try so that gras_stub_generator generate deployment and
4009 remote compilation helpers.
4011 - Bugfix: Initialization fix in msg_test.
4015 - Bugfix: applied patch to lexer so that it doesn't need a huge heap.
4017 - Bugfix: let dicts work with NULL content (_foreach didn't) and cleanups
4019 - API Change: gras_os_sleep to take the amount of seconds as a double.
4020 Accepting an int was error prone since it was the only location where
4021 seconds were coded as such. It leaded to damn rounding errors.
4022 - Bugfix: Hard to belive that timers ever worked before this.
4024 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:09:21 +0100
4026 SimGrid (2.91) unstable; urgency=low
4028 Alpha 2 on the path to SimGrid 3
4032 - Bug fix in the lmm_solver.
4034 - New! Interface to Paje (see http://www-id.imag.fr/Logiciels/paje/)
4035 through the function MSG_paje_output.
4036 - New! Introducing two new functions MSG_process_kill() and MSG_process_killall().
4037 - It is possible to bound the rate of a communication in MSG with
4038 MSG_task_put_bounded() (was already in the previous version but I had forgotten
4039 to write it in the changelog).
4040 - Bug fix to let GRAS run on top of MSG until we move it directly on top
4045 - Various cleanups to the autotools stuff
4046 - Begin to move Gras examples to examples/gras/
4047 - Let make distcheck work again (yeah!)
4049 - documentation overhauled using doxygen.
4050 gtk-doc-tools is dead in SimGrid now.
4051 - Automatically extract all existing logging categories, and add the list
4052 to the documentation (long standing one, to say the less)
4054 - Cleanup the known architecture table. Reorder the entries to group what
4055 should be, and use a more consistent naming scheme.
4056 (some of the test dataset are still to be regenerated)
4057 - New! Allow library to register globals on each process just as userdata
4059 This is implemented using a xbt_dict and not a xbt_set, so we loose the
4060 lookup time (for now).
4061 Use it in msg and trp.
4062 This cleans a lot the internals and helps enforcing privacy of the
4063 headers between the gras components.
4064 - New! Add a timer mechanism, not unlike cron(8) and at(1).
4065 - Bugfix: gras_os_time was delirious in RL.
4066 - Bugfix: gras_trp_select/RL don't run into the wall when asked to select
4068 - Reenable GRAS now that it works.
4070 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:02:13 -0800
4072 SimGrid (2.90) unstable; urgency=low
4074 Alpha 1 on the path to SimGrid 3
4076 * It is a long time since the last release of SimGrid. I'm sorry about
4077 that but as I had told you, I was rewriting a lot of things. I apologize
4078 to those who had been reporting bugs to me and that I had not answered.
4079 If your bug is still in the new version, please tell me. Here is a
4080 summary of the main changes.
4082 * REVOLUTION 1: The SimGrid project has merged with the GRAS project
4083 lead by Martin Quinson. As a consequence SimGrid gains a lot in
4084 portability, speed, and a lot more but you'll figure it out later.
4085 SimGrid now comprises 3 different projects: MSG, GRAS and SMPI.
4086 I wanted to release the new MSG as soon as possible and I have
4087 broken GRAS, which is the reason why, for now, only MSG is fully
4088 functional. A laconic description of these projects is available
4089 in the documentation.
4091 * REVOLUTION 2: I have removed SG and I am now using a new simulation
4092 kernel optimized for our needs (called SURF but only the developers
4093 should use it). Hence, MSG is now roughly 30 times faster and I think
4094 that by rewriting a little bit MSG, I could event speed it up a little
4095 bit more. Beside the gain in speed, it is also much easier to encode a
4096 new platform model with SURF than it was with SG. More to come...
4098 * REVOLUTION 3: I have tried to change a little as possible the API of
4099 MSG but a few things really had to disappear. The main differences
4100 with the previous version are:
4101 1) no more m_links_t and the corresponding functions. Platforms are
4102 directly read from an XML description and cannot be hard-coded
4103 anymore. The same format is used for application deployment
4104 description. The new format is described in the documentation.
4105 Have a look in tools/platform_generation. There is a tiny script
4106 that converts from the old platform format to the new one. Concerning
4107 the application deployment format, parsing the old one is tricky.
4108 I think most of you should however be able to convert your files. If
4109 it is really an issue, I can write a C code that does the conversion.
4111 2) the toolbox tbx does not exist anymore. We now have a library
4112 with much more data-structures but without the hash-tables (we have
4113 dictionaries that are much faster).
4115 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:45:53 -0800
4117 *****************************************************************************
4118 * Follows the old GRAS changelog. It does not follow the same syntax, but I *
4119 * don't feel like converting the oldies. (Mt) *
4120 *****************************************************************************
4123 Version 2.90: "the long awaited one"
4124 - Finished rewriting and debugging MSG. Rewrote the documentation.
4125 - disable GRAS for now since it needs to be ported to the newest SG
4128 - Finish the port to windows (using mingw32 for cross-compile)
4131 - Main loop and datastructures of SURF. A cpu resource object is
4132 functional. Surf can thus be used to create cpu's with variable
4133 performance on which you can execute some actions.
4135 2004-11-15 Martin Quinson
4136 - Port to ARM. Simply added the alignment and size descriptions. Should
4137 work, but the ARM machines are so slow that I didn't had the opportunity
4138 to 'make check' over there yet.
4140 2004-11-15 Arnaud Legrand
4141 - Trace manager now written. It uses a heap structure and is therefore
4142 expected to be efficient. It may however be speeded up (particularly
4143 when many events occur at the same date) by using red and black
4144 trees. One day maybe...
4145 - Max-min linear system solver written. It uses a sparse matrix
4146 structure taking advantage of its expected use. Most operations are
4147 O(1) and free/calloc are called as few as possible. The computation of
4148 the minimum could however be improved by using a red and black tree
4151 2004-11-03 Arnaud Legrand
4152 - Rename every gras_* function that was in xbt/ to its xbt_
4154 - Add a heap and a doubly-linked list to xbt
4155 - Added a dichotomy to the dictionaries. make check works as well before
4156 so I assume that the patch is correct. I do not know however if things
4157 run effectively faster than before now. :)
4159 Inclusion of the SimGrid tree in the GRAS one. The archive is renamed to
4160 SimGrid, and the version number is bumped to 2.x
4162 2004-10-29 Martin Quinson
4163 - Introduction of the remote errors.
4164 They are the result of a RMI/RPC on the remote machine.
4165 ErrCodes being scalar values, you can't get the host on which those
4166 errors did happen. Extending the error mechanism as in Gnome is possible.
4167 No idea yet whether it is a good idea.
4169 2004-10-28 Martin Quinson
4170 - Interface revolution: the Starred Structure Eradication.
4171 I used to do typedef struct {} toto_t; and then handle *toto_t.
4172 Arnaud (and Oli) didn't like it, and I surrendered. Now, you have:
4173 - ???_t is a valid type (builded with typedef)
4174 - s_toto_t is a structure (access to fields with .)
4175 - s_toto is a structure needing 'struct' keyword to be used
4176 - e_toto_t is an enum
4177 - toto_t is an 'object' (struct*)
4179 typedef struct s_toto {} s_toto_t, *toto_t;
4180 typedef enum {} e_toto_t;
4181 Moreover, only toto_t (and e_toto_t) are public. The rest (mainly
4182 s_toto_t) is private.
4184 - While I was at it, all gras_<obj>_free() functions want a gras_<obj>_t*
4185 so that it can set the variable to NULL. It was so for dicts and sets,
4186 it changed for dynars.
4188 - Fix a bunch of memleaks in dict_remove
4189 - Fix a bug in sg/server_socket opening: it failed all the time.
4191 2004-10-07 Martin Quinson
4192 - Speed up dynar lookup operation a bit.
4194 gras_dynar_get is dead.
4196 Now, you can choose between gras_dynar_get_cpy (the old gras_dynar_get
4197 but should be avoided for efficiency reasons) and gras_dynar_get_ptr
4198 (which gives you the address of the stored data).
4200 gras_dynar_get_as is an helpful macro which allows you to retrieve a
4201 copy of the data using an affectation to do the job and not a memcpy.
4203 int toto = gras_dynar_get_as(dyn,0,int); rewrites itself to
4204 int toto = *(int*)gras_dynar_get_ptr(dyn,0);
4206 It does not really speedup the dynar test because they are
4207 setting elements all the time (and look them seldom). But the dict does
4208 far more lookup than setting.
4210 So, this brings the dict_crash test from ~33s to ~25s (200000 elms).
4212 2004-10-05 Martin Quinson
4213 - Allow to (en/dis)able the cycle detection at run time.
4215 Whether we should check for cycle or not is now a property of each
4216 datatype. When you think there may be some cycle, use datadesc_cycle_set.
4217 datadesc_cycle_unset allow to remove this property when previously set.
4219 Note that the cycle detection is off by default since it impacts the
4220 performance. Watch the data you feed GRAS with ;)
4222 This property is hereditary. Any element embedded in a structure having it
4223 set have it set for the time of this data exchange.
4225 You should set it both on sender and receiver side. If you don't set it on
4226 sender side, it will enter an endless loop. If you forget on receiver
4227 side, the cycles won't be recreated after communication.
4229 - Header reorganization.
4230 Kill gras_private.h, each submodule must load the headers it needs.
4232 2004-10-04 Martin Quinson
4233 - Interface revolution: do not try to survive to malloc failure.
4235 Now, gras_malloc and friends call gras_abort() on failure.
4236 As a conclusion, malloc_error is not a valid error anymore, and all
4237 functions for which it was the only gras_error_t return value are
4238 changed. They now return void, or there result directly.
4239 This simplify the API a lot.
4241 2004-09-29 Martin Quinson
4242 - Re-enable raw sockets.
4243 Created by gras_socket_{client,server}_ext;
4244 Used with gras_raw_{send,recv}
4247 It should allow to kill the last bits of gras first version soon.
4249 This is not completely satisfactory yet (duplicate code with
4250 chunk_{send,recv}; a bit out of the plugin mechanism), but it should
4253 - Simplify transport plugin (internal) interface by not passing any
4254 argument to _server and _client, but embedding them in the socket
4257 2004-09-28 Martin Quinson
4258 - Finish the port to AIX.
4259 autoconf was my problem (segfault within the malloc replacement
4260 function. No idea why)
4262 2004-09-16 Martin Quinson
4263 - Fix some size_t madness on 64bit architectures.
4265 2004-09-08 Martin Quinson
4266 - Reduce the number of system headers loaded, overload some more system
4267 calls (such as malloc to cast the result of the system one, and work
4269 - Fix and reintroduce the config support
4271 2004-09-07 Martin Quinson
4272 - Source code reorganization to allow Arnaud to surf all over there.
4273 - Allow to document the logging categories.
4274 - Remove all uppercase from logging categories and useless cleanup in names.
4276 2004-08-18 Martin Quinson
4277 Version 0.6.2 (protocol not changed; API changed)
4278 - Interface cleanup: gras_msgtype_by_name returns the type (instead of a
4279 gras_error_t), and NULL when not found. Functions expecting a msgtype
4280 as argument (msg_wait; msg_send) deal with NULL argument by providing a
4281 hopefully usefull message.
4282 - Portability to prehistoric sparcs again
4284 2004-08-17 Martin Quinson
4285 Version 0.6.1 (protocol not changed; ABI not changed)
4286 - prealloc some buffers to speed things up
4288 2004-08-11 Martin Quinson
4289 Version 0.6 (protocol not changed; ABI expended)
4290 - The parsing macro can deal with the references, provided that you add
4291 the relevant annotations (using GRAS_ANNOTE(size,field_name))
4293 2004-08-09 Martin Quinson
4294 Version 0.5 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
4295 - Allow to off turn the cycle detection code in data exchange at
4296 compilation time. It should be at run time, but I'm short of time (and
4297 the config stuff is still broken). That way, we keep dict out of the
4298 critical path, which is good because the performance is poor:
4299 - search not dichotomial yet
4300 - dynar give no way to access their content and memcpy everytime
4301 - In composed data description (struct, ref and so on), stop foolness of
4302 keeping the subtype's ID, but store the type itself. This keeps sets out
4303 of the critical path, which is good since they rely on dynar and
4304 dictionaries. The only loose of that is that we cannot detect the
4305 redeclaration of a structure/union with another content (but I'm not sure
4306 the code detected well this error before anyway). We still can detect
4307 the redefinition discrepancy for the other types.
4308 - Use a whole bunch of optimisation flags (plus -fno-strict-aliasing since
4309 it breaks the code because of type-punning used all over the place).
4310 This breaks on all non-gcc architectures (for now).
4312 All those changes (plus the buffer of last time) allow me to gain 2 order
4313 of magnitude on cruel tests consisting of 800000 array of integers on two
4314 level of a hierarchical structure (200 secondes -> 4 secondes)
4317 - the selector of reference must now return the type it points to, not
4318 the ID of this type.
4320 2004-08-06 Martin Quinson
4321 Version 0.4 (protocol changed; ABI not changed)
4322 - Allow to pass --gras-log argument to processes in simulation mode. Really.
4323 - New debugging level: trace (under debug) to see effect of GRAS_IN/OUT
4324 - Implement a buffer transport, and use it by default (it relies on tcp in
4325 real life and on sg in simulation).
4326 That's a bit hackish since I had a new field to the structure to store
4327 its data without interfering with the subtype ones. Inheritance
4328 is tricky in C. And that's a kind of reverse inheritance with one class
4329 derivating two classes. Or maybe a game with java interfaces. Anyway,
4330 that's damn hard in C (at least).
4331 Moreover, I got tired while trying to ensure plugin separation and
4332 genericity in SG mode. MSG wants me to do weird things, so let's go for
4333 cruel hacks (temporarily of course ;).
4334 See comment in transport_private.h:71
4335 - do not include all the _interface headers in private but in the files
4336 which really need them (to cut the compilation time when they are
4339 2004-07-26 Martin Quinson
4340 Version 0.3 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
4341 - Major overhault of the datadesc interface to simplify it:
4342 - shorted the function names:
4343 s/gras_datadesc_declare_struct/gras_datadesc_struct/ and so on
4344 - add a trivial way to push/pop integers into the cbps without malloc.
4345 This allows to make really generic sub_type description, which simply
4346 pop their size of the stack.
4347 - add a function gras_datadesc_ref_pop_arr() which does what users want
4348 most of the time: Declare a dynamic array (which pops its size of the
4349 stack) and declare a reference to it. Poor name, but anyway.
4350 - kill the post-send callback, add a post-receive one
4352 2004-07-23 Martin Quinson
4353 Version 0.2 (protocol changed; ABI changed)
4354 - add some testing for cpbs in the test cases, and fix some more bugs.
4355 This invalidate again the little64 data file, since I cannot regenerate
4357 - remove an awfull optimization in the logging stuff, allowing me to:
4358 - understand it again
4359 - learn gcc how to check that the argument match the provided format
4360 - fix all errors revealed by gcc after that
4361 - internal keys of dict are not \0 terminated. Deal with it properly in
4362 loggings instead of segfaulting when the user want to see the logs :-/
4364 2004-07-22 Martin Quinson
4365 - Fix some stupid bug preventing cbps (callback postit) from working
4367 2004-07-21 Martin Quinson
4368 - Some documentation cleanups
4369 - remove the useless last argument of msgtype_declare
4370 - rename the Virtu functions to fit into the 'os' namespace
4371 - move headers src/include -> src/include/gras/ and stop fooling with
4372 gras -> . symbolic link
4373 - make distcheck is now successful
4375 2004-07-19 Martin Quinson
4377 - Build shared library also
4378 - Install html doc to the right location
4379 - stop removing maintainer files in make clean
4380 - build tests only on make check
4382 2004-07-13 Martin Quinson
4384 - No major issue in previous version => change versioning schema
4385 - Re-enable little64 convertion test now that Abdou kindly regenerated the
4386 corresponding dataset.
4388 2004-07-11 Martin Quinson
4390 - Get it working with any kind of structure (we can compute the padding
4391 bytes remotely for all the architectures I have access to)
4392 - Implement the structure parsing macro (still not quite robust/complete)
4393 - Improvement to the remote testing toysuite
4395 2004-07-10 Martin Quinson
4396 [autoconf mechanism]
4397 - get ride of a bunch of deprecated macros
4398 - actually run the test for two-compliment, not only compile it :-/
4399 - test whether the structures get packed (and bail out if yes. Damn.
4400 Alignment is a serious matter)
4401 - test whether the structures get compacted (but respecting the alignment
4402 constraints of each types)
4403 - test whether the array fields of structures can straddle alignment boundaries
4405 - Damnit, double are bigger than float (typo in creation of 'double' datadesc)
4406 (took me 2 hours to find that bug, looking at the wrong place)
4407 - Add gras_datadesc_declare_{union,struct}_close(). They must be used
4408 before sending/receiving and are used to compute the offsets of fields
4409 - Given that padding size depend even on compiler options, keep track of
4410 alignment and aligned_size only for the current architecture. Not a big
4411 deal since we send structure fields one after the other (seems
4413 - Add the datastructure used for IEEE paper by the PBIO guys to the test
4414 program, let it work on linux/gcc/little32. portability todo.
4416 2004-07-08 Martin Quinson
4417 - import and improve remote compilation support from FAST
4418 - make sure make check works on half a dozen of machines out there
4420 2004-07-07 Martin Quinson
4421 Let's say it's version 0.0.3 ;)
4422 - Implement conversions (yuhu!)
4423 - Let it work on solaris (beside conversion, of course)
4424 - Stupid me, using rand() to generate the conversion datatests in not wise.
4426 2004-07-06 Martin Quinson
4427 - Let make dist work, since I'm gonna need it to compile on remote hosts
4428 - Let Tests/datadesc_usage write the architecture on which the file was
4429 generated as first byte.
4430 - Add PowerPC (being also IRIX64), SPARC (also power4) and ALPHA
4431 architecture descriptions.
4432 - Add datadesc_usage.{i386,ppc,sparc} files being the result of execution
4433 on those architectures.
4434 - Optimization: send/recv array of scalar in one shoot
4436 2004-07-05 Martin Quinson
4437 - YEAH! GRAS/SG and GRAS/RL are both able to run the ping example !
4439 - Plug a whole bunch of memleaks
4440 - each process now have to call gras_{init,exit}. One day, their log
4441 settings will be separated
4442 - Continue the code factorisation between SG, RL and common in Transport.
4444 2004-07-04 Martin Quinson
4446 - Redistribution between SG and RL.
4447 We wanna have to accept in SG, so move accepted related parts of RL in
4448 the common part. (more precisely, the dynar of all known sockets is no
4449 more a static in transport.c, but part of the process_data)
4451 [gras_stub_generator]
4452 - Bug fix: Do call gras_process_init from gras_init (wasnt called in RL).
4454 2004-07-03 Martin Quinson
4455 - Create a new log channel tbx containing dict, set, log, dynar (to shut
4456 them all up in one shot)
4458 - Fix the ugly case of reference to dynamic array.
4459 - New (semi-public) function gras_datadesc_size to allow the messaging
4460 layer to malloc the needed space for the buffer.
4462 - gras_socket_close now expect the socket to close (and not its address to
4463 put NULL in it after it). This is because the socket passed to handlers
4464 is one of their argument (=> not writable).
4466 - propagate the interface cleanup from last week in datadesc, ie remove a
4467 superfluous level of indirection. User pass adress of variable
4468 containing data (both when sending and receiving), and not of a variable
4469 being a pointer to the data. Let's say that I like it better ;)
4470 The price for that is constructs like "int msg=*(int*)payload" in
4471 handlers, but it's a fine price, IMHO.
4473 - Let it work in RL (yuhu)
4475 2004-06-21 Martin Quinson
4477 - porting SG plugin and SG select to new standards (works almost).
4478 - plug memleaks and fix bugs around.
4481 - cleanup the prototype of data recv and force users to specify when they
4482 want to handle references to objects. Test case working even for cycles.
4483 - plug memleaks. Valgrind is perfectly ok with this.
4485 2004-06-12 Martin Quinson
4487 - cleanup the separation between plugin and main code in plugin creation
4489 2004-06-11 Martin Quinson
4491 - Reput hook for raw sockets, needed for BW experiments
4492 - kill a few lines of dead code
4493 [Data description] Interface cleanup
4494 - gras_datadesc_by_name returns the searched type or NULL.
4495 That way, no variable is needed to use a type desc once, which makes
4497 - gras_datadesc_declare_[struct|union]_append_name is removed. The last
4498 two parameters were strings (field name, type name), leading to
4500 [Dicos] Interface cleanup
4501 - gras_dico_retrieve -> gras_dico_get ; gras_dico_insert -> gras_dico_set
4502 This is consistant with the dynar API.
4504 2004-04-21 Martin Quinson
4506 - Porting to new standards.
4508 - interface cleanup.
4509 There is no bag anymore, no need to take extra provision to mask the
4510 pointers behind "ID".
4511 Better splitup of functions between files create/exchange/convert.
4512 This is still a bit artificial since convert and receive are so
4513 interleaved, but anyway.
4515 - add a queued message list to procdata (the ones not matching criteria
4517 - factorize some more code between SG and RL wrt procdata
4519 - use gras_exit in example to track memleaks
4520 - get rid of gs_example now that GS is properly integrated into gras
4521 - update run_test to integrate the latest tests (datadesc)
4523 - rename WARNINGn macros to WARNn since it prooved error-prone
4525 2004-04-19 Martin Quinson
4527 - register init/exit functions within gras module mechanism
4528 - send/receive function.
4529 Convertion is not implemented, but short-cutted if not needed.
4530 struct/array elements are sent one by one (instead of block-wise), but
4531 nobody really cares (yet). Get a prototype before optimizing.
4532 - tests (using a file socket) for DD send/receive on:
4533 - base types: int, float
4534 - array: fixed size, string (ie ref to dynamic string)
4535 - structure: homogeneous, heterogeneous
4536 - chained list, graph with cycle
4537 Believe it or not, valgrind is not too unhappy with the results. The
4538 cycle happily segfaults, but the others are ok. And I'm sick of pointers
4542 - Bugfix when using a filename explicitly (instead of '-')
4544 2004-04-09 Martin Quinson
4546 - factorize more code between RL and SG in socket creation
4547 - Complete the implementation and tests of:
4549 o file (only in RL, and mainly for debugging)
4551 I lost 3 days to design a portable address resolver, and then decided
4552 that the prototype mainly have to run on my box.
4553 Addressing portability too early may be like optimizing too early :-/
4555 - use gras_init in the Tests instead of the crappy parse_log_opt
4556 (the latter function is removed)
4557 [Conditional execution]
4558 - New functions: gras_if_RL/gras_if_SG (basic support for this)
4559 [Code reorganisation]
4560 - Get rid of libgrasutils.a since it makes more trouble than it solves.
4561 Build examples against the RL library, since there is no way to disable
4562 its creation for now.
4564 For information, the beginning of coding on GRAS was back in june
4565 2003. I guess that every line has been rewritten at least twice since