1 SimGrid (3.5) unstable; urgency=low
4 * New data container: setset (set of sets of elements)
5 * New module: mmalloc (mapped malloc)
6 * New function: xbt_dict_cursor_set_data()
7 * New function: xbt_fifo_get_last_item()
8 * Bug fix in xbt_dynar_shrink(): use the right element size
9 * Use library init/fini functions for our initialization.
10 - you can use logs and other feature as soon as you want in your
11 code (even before the xbt_init / MSG_init)
12 - xbt_exit is now a no-op and produce a warning when used.
14 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
16 SimGrid (3.4.1) stable; urgency=low
18 The "Polishing easter eggs is probably a good idea" release.
19 This is a bug fixes release only.
23 * Fix a bug preventing the tasks from begin garbage collected.
26 * Fix a bug occuring when a host involved in a communication fails.
27 This was not detected properly by the other peer involved in the
28 communication. Now, it's reported as a network error.
31 * Warn the user about loop dependencies in data flow of DAX files
32 * Obey the control-flow dependencies of DAX files
35 * Add option "enable_smpi" allowing to not compile SMPI.
36 Probably useful for the (Mac) users experiencing a build error here
37 * Improve the detection of lua5.1 and ruby1.8
39 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Tus, 04 May 2010 28 16:11:16 +0100
41 SimGrid (3.4) stable; urgency=low
43 The "Easter in Cargese" release. Also known as (major changes):
45 * the "se habla Java, Ruby 話せます, fala-se Lua (and deaf-friendly)"
46 ~> bindings were greatly improved
47 ~> new tracing infrastructure for better visualization introduced
49 * the "Welcome to configury modernity" release.
50 ~> we switched from autotools to cmake, and improved our cdash
53 A more detailled list of changes follow (full detail in svn log).
55 Java Bindings: Various Cleanups
56 * (install java-gcj-compat-dev on debian-like to use them)
57 * Remove put/get: no need to export deprecated interface in Java
58 Use send/receive instead.
59 * Cleanup the examples and add a README per directory
60 * Remove example autoDestination (that's the only way to go now)
61 * Remove example explicitDestination (was a plain copy of basic)
62 * Make JniException a runtime exception, so that there is no need to
63 declare the fact that you may encounter such a beast. I guess that
64 nobody will ever want to survive such error.
65 * Create specific errors for each MSG case of failure:
66 host failure, transfer failure, timeout, task cancelled
67 * Cleanup the exceptions that may get thrown by each function
68 * Other internal cleanups in Java bindings. Performance still bad :/
69 Ruby and Lua Bindings: create them
70 * (install ruby1.8-dev/liblua5.1-0-dev on debian-like to use them)
71 * That's new and great, you should try them out.
72 Same functionalities than Java bindings, only even less polished
74 * Kill the useless "rate" argument of SD_task_get_execution_time()
75 Everyone used to provide -1 as a value, it was not used, and the
76 semantic of a possible use wasn't even clear.
77 * SD_SCHED_NO_COST: Constant to use as cost in SD_task_schedule()
78 either as comm costs or compute costs to mean that there is no
79 such thing for that specific task.
80 * Add a SD_task_set_name() function
81 * Fix SD_task_unschedule() on typed tasks
82 * Fix SD_task_get_execution_time() to return seconds, not flop*sec
83 * In DAX loader, accept useless 'level' attributes to <job> since
84 LIGO DAGs have them (seem to be to ease graphical representation).
86 * Add an example masterslave_mailbox.c using send/receive and not
87 the deprecated put/get interface.
88 * Kill the MSG_paje_output() function. It's a noop since 2 years.
89 * Kill MSG_WARNING and MSG_FATAL return codes: they were not used
91 * Rename MSG_TIMEOUT_FAILURE into MSG_TIMEOUT for sake of logic
92 (declare MSG_USE_DEPRECATED to still have the old name)
93 * Add a MSG_task_set_data() function
94 * About trace replay (see examples/msg/actions):
96 - Allow to work with splitted trace files for each process
97 Give the specific trace file as argument of each process,
98 and call MSG_action_trace_run(NULL)
99 You can still have one merged file for all processes.
100 - Fix implementation of collective operations
101 * Allow task_execute() on 0-sized tasks (closes #10063)
103 * This is the first release of SimGrid where SMPI is not considered
104 beta anymore (even if some corners should still be improved)
105 * Port over the new SIMIX_network submodule (internal refactoring)
106 * Basic support to log events as with SMPE (use --cfg=SMPE:1)
107 * Implement more missing elements of the standard:
109 - MPI_MAXLOC MPI_MINLOC + all associated datatype MPI_DOUBLE_INT,
111 - MPI_Address() MPI_Get_count() MPI_Type_free() MPI_Type_extent()
112 MPI_Scan() MPI_Get_processor_name()
113 - Added implementation of missing case for Alltoall (warning: it's
114 *not* the bruck variant from OpenMPI; based on Alltoallv instead)
115 - SMPI_MPI_Gather() SMPI_MPI_Gatherv() SMPI_MPI_Scatterv()
116 SMPI_MPI_Reduce_scatter() SMPI_MPI_Allgather()
117 SMPI_MPI_Allgatherv()
119 - MPI_Waitsome() was broken
120 - Allow relative includes in smpicc
121 - Command line cfg argument 'reference_speed' was ignored...
122 - Some functions did not properly lead to auto-benching of user code
123 - smpicc passes -O2 by default (just like openmpi one)
125 * add SIMIX_action_suspend() and SIMIX_action_resume() functions
126 * Bug fixes about timeouts during communications
127 * add SIMIX_message_sizes_output() as a pimple to write to file the
128 amount of messages per size. Use gnuplot to get histogram.
129 Pimple because that's the only user-visible function of simix,
130 defined directly in xbt.h (irk, sorry)
132 - Add a SIMIX_sem_get_capacity() function
133 - Fix interactions with processe resume/suspende
134 - release_forever() was stupidly broken
135 - Fix SIMIX_display_process_status() for processes in a semaphore
136 - Make SIMIX_sem_block_onto() user-visible
137 * Refactoring context stuff:
138 - Use pseudo-OOP for better modularity
139 - reimplement SIMIX_process_kill() without process_schedule() so
140 that the latter can take as invariant that it is called from
142 - Merge context_start into context_new for sake of simplicity
144 * Add a Vivaldi network model, coded live during SUD'10 ;)
145 * Rename configuration variables to start a hierarchy:
146 o cpu_model -> cpu/model
147 o network_model -> network/model
148 o workstation_model -> workstation/model
149 * New configuration variables:
150 o network/bandwidth_factor: correction to bandwith
151 o network/latency_factor: correction to latency
152 o netwotk/weight_S: correction to the weight of competing streams
153 * Add a long description to the models, that users can see with such
154 argument on the command line: --cfg=cpu/model:help
155 * --help-models display the long description of all known models
157 * config: add the ability to set a default value after registration
158 Does not override any previously set value (e.g. from cmd line)
159 * dict: allow to have integer key and data.
160 When so, you need to use the following functions
161 void xbt_dicti_set(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key, uintptr_t data);
162 uintptr_t xbt_dicti_get(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key);
163 void xbt_dicti_remove(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key);
164 In contrary to regular dicts, the key is not malloced before copy.
165 Mixing scalar and regular elements in the same dict is not tested
167 * Allow to use xbt_dynar_shrink() to expend the dynar instead
168 Tracing for Visualization:
169 * SimGrid is now instrumented in order to generate a trace file for
170 visualization analysis: to use it, need to compile SimGrid with the
171 "tracing" option enabled, and instrument the program using SimGrid with
172 TRACE_start, TRACE_category, TRACE_msg_set_task_category and TRACE_end
173 (among other functions).
174 * The instrumentation only traces the platform utilization for now
175 * Documentation to use the tracing functions and how to analyze the
176 traces with the Triva tool is written.
177 * More information about: SimGrid FAQ (in the section Tracing Simulations
180 * We moved to cmake as default build system. Autotools support will
181 be dropped soon. Check the FAQ for more info about how to use it.
182 * Greatly improved our cdash/ctest interactions
183 Check http://cdash.inria.fr/CDash/index.php?project=Simgrid
184 * Added memory checking tests with valgrind; lot of memleak fixing.
185 This may be the first release of simgrid with so few memory issues
186 * Added code coverage tests.
187 Our coverage is still improvable, but at least we see it on cdash.
189 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Wed, 28 Apr 2010 28 17:11:16 +0100
191 SimGrid (3.3.4) stable; urgency=low
193 The "Desktop Grid needs love too" release (also called Xmas release).
196 * Major speedup in the maxmin system solving by using lazy evaluation
197 Instead of solving completely the maxmin system at each iteration,
198 only invalidate (and recompute) the modified parts.
199 This new feature is enabled in default models but you can try to
200 turn it on with "--cfg:maxmin-selective-update=1" for other models.
201 * Cas01 IMproved as default CPU model
202 This CPU model is the same Cas01 model, but it uses the
203 maxmin-selective-update flag and a heap structure to manage
204 actions on SURF kernel.
205 It reduces the complexity to find the next action to finish and,
206 consequently, it's faster than the old Cas01.
207 This is the new default CPU model (Cas01).
208 * Rename the old Cas01 model to Cas01_fullupdate
209 Keep the old cpu model Cas01 with the new name of Cas01_fullupdate.
210 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:Cas01_fullupdate" to use the old default CPU model.
211 * CpuTI (CPU Trace Integration)
212 A new CPU model whose objective is simulate faster when using
213 availability trace files.
214 Instead of using a full featured, over engineered maxmin system for
215 CPU modeling, this model does the pre-integration of traces files
216 to calculate the amount of CPU power available, and so, executes
217 faster than the old CPU models.
218 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:CpuTI" to change to this CPU model.
219 * Use LV08 as default network model since it gives better accuracy
220 for small messages and shouldn't change things for big ones.
221 Use --cfg=network_model:CM02 to get the previous behavior.
224 ******************************************
225 *DO NOT MIX 3.3.4 RESULTS WITH OLDER ONES*
226 ******************************************
227 * The new CPU model may changes simulations!
228 The point is that events occurring at the exact same timestamp
229 are not scheduled in the same order with the old and new
230 version. This may be enough to completely change the execution
231 of simulations in some cases.
232 * The new network model will change simulations!
233 This new model is more realistic than the previous one, so you
234 should consider redoing your old experiments with this model.
235 Sorry for the inconvenience.
238 * Introduce the supernovae compilation mode
239 When compiled that way, the whole SimGrid (or almost) is put in a
240 single compilation unit and compiled in one shoot.
241 This is to help gcc which has difficulties to inline stuff from one
243 The speedup seem to be above 15%, althrough more tests are needed on
244 amd64 to confirm that gain.
247 * Port of MSG's mailbox on top of SIMIX network
248 The put/get mechanism was greatly simplified on the way.
251 * New SIMIX network module. Provides:
252 - Mailbox: rendez-vous mecanism to find with who you want to speak
253 - Synchronous send/recv: easier and hopefully faster since the
254 logic is handled in the maestro process directly now
255 - Asynchronous send/recv: you dreamt of it? It's here now
256 Too bad that nobody cared enough to propagate the change to MSG.
257 * Add semaphores as SIMIX synchronization mechanism.
260 * new function SD_daxload(char*) to load a DAX file
261 (see http://vtcpc.isi.edu/pegasus/index.php/WorkflowGenerator)
262 * Introduce typed tasks. Specify its kind and cost at creation.
263 At scheduling, just give where it should be placed, and the cost
264 for each involved resource is automatically computed.
265 Existing constructors so far (more to come of course):
266 - SD_task_create_comm_e2e() for end-to-end communication
267 - SD_task_create_comp_seq() for sequential computation
268 Use SD_task_schedulev() / SD_task_schedulel() to schedule them.
269 * new function SD_task_dump() for debuging display
270 * new function SD_task_dotty(task,FILE*) writing to file the info
271 about the task in dotty format
272 * SD_task_dependency_exists() can now cope with having one of its
273 arguments NULL. If so, it tests whether the other argument has any
275 * Add getters on list of preceding/following tasks:
276 SD_task_get_parents(task) and SD_task_get_children(task)
277 * Add getters on amount of workstations and list:
278 SD_task_get_workstation_count(t) and SD_task_get_workstation_list(t)
279 * Add getter on task kind: SD_task_get_kind(task)
280 * Update the start_time and finish_time of tasks on completion/failure
281 * Bugfix: Remove task from state swags when destroyed
284 * New function: void gras_cpu_burn(double flops) -- a simple CPU burner
287 * New function: xbt_dynar_dopar(dynar,fun) to map a function over the
288 dynar with one separate thread per value of the dynar.
289 * Change the prototype of xbt_thread_create(), sorry.
290 Added a boolean parameter indicating whether we want to join this
291 thread (used in SG only for now)
292 * Implement xbt_thread_join and xbt_thread_yield in SG also.
295 * GTNetS wrappers should now be usable again (and betterly tested too)
296 * Fix a major regression from 3.2 where the timeout provided to
297 MSG_task_put_with_timeout() was used as absolute time before which
298 the comm should be done.
299 * Start to fix the <cluster> tag.
300 - Internal links should be good now (beside of the loopback, which
301 use the private link instead)
302 - paths to the external world is still rather broken
303 - the <route:multi> tag is just broken. Actually that's brain-dead.
304 We need sth like <route:multi src="myCluster" dst="$*-${myCluster}">
305 to make it less stupid
306 ** Check your platform with teshsuite/simdag/platforms/flatifier **
307 * Fix a source-level compatibility glitch from 3.2: after defining
308 MSG_USE_DEPRECATED, you can use the old name
309 MSG_task_put_with_time_out() for MSG_task_put_with_timeout()
310 * Allow to compile from the SVN with automake 1.11
311 * Fix some problems when using the "start_time" tag in deployment XMLs.
312 * Fix #8569: XBT/synchro.h has redundant declarations
313 * Fix #8563: MSG return values and exceptions
314 Introduce a MSG_TIMEOUT_FAILURE return code and use it consistently.
315 * Integrate patch #8636: Obey DESTDIR when installing documentation.
316 Thanks to Robson Peixoto.
317 * Fix a vicious bug in dictionaries inducing that some elements were
318 not freed on xbt_dict_free()
320 Portability report of this version:
321 * Main portability targets:
322 - linux (ubuntu (804/810/910) /debian (4/5/testing) /fedora (core11))
324 - mac leopard on i386
325 Known problems: http://cdash.inria.fr/CDash/index.php?project=Simgrid
326 but nothing critical.
327 * Other platforms: windows, AIX and others were not tested for this release
329 Timing report of this version:
330 * Lazy evaluation brings arbitrary speedup (ie, speedup depending on
331 scenario parameters). From 8h to a few seconds in desktop grid settings.
332 * Supernovae brings about 25% speedup on i386.
334 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:07:39 +0100
336 SimGrid (3.3.3) stable; urgency=low
338 The "Need for Speed" release.
340 The timings done to validate the 3.3.2 were faulty.
341 Instead of being 5% faster, it was 15% slower (compared to 3.3.1).
343 The problem was a conversion from a manually handled vector to
344 xbt_dynar_t on the critical path.
345 xbt_dynar_foreach calls functions, inducing stack management crap.
347 We inlined these functions and xbt_dynar_foreach is now breath taking.
348 We also inlined xbt_swag_belong on the way.
350 Here are some approximate speedup measurements (on master/slaves
351 simulations lasting between 10s and 20s each):
352 3.3.1 -> 3.3.2: about same performance
353 3.3.2 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
354 3.3.1 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
355 3.3.1 with inline patch -> 3.3.3: 30% speedup
357 Our reading is that the refactoring which occurred in 3.3.2 made us
358 suffer much more from the xbt_dynar_foreach low performance, but
359 once we solved this, this refactoring proved to be very performance
360 effective. From the 40% speedup, somehow, 10% are due to the
361 inlining and 30% to the refactoring.
363 That's a pitty that gcc cannot inline functions placed in other files
364 alone. We have to choose between:
365 - break the encapsulation (by putting private data structures and
366 accessors in headers files to help gcc)
367 - live with low performance
368 - switch to a decent compiler such as icc (not quite possible).
370 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:21:33 +0200
372 SimGrid (3.3.2) stable; urgency=low
374 The "Simplicity does not preceed complexity, but follows it" release.
376 The main contributors of this release were (lexical order):
377 Silas De Munck, Stéphane Genaud, Martin Quinson, Cristian Rosa.
380 * Extract the routing logic into its own object.
381 (was dupplicated in network.c and workstation_LV07.c;
382 Allows to implement other ways of storing that info)
383 => kill now useless network_card concept
384 - Use dynar to represent routes (instead of void** + int*)
385 - kill link_set (use surf_network_model->resource_set instead)
386 - Add a command-line option to choose the routing schema to use
387 - Add three new models:
388 * Floyd (shortest path computed at initialization)
389 * Dijikstra (shortest path recomputed all the time)
390 * Cached Dijikstra (shortest path computed on need)
391 All these models where contributed by Silas De Munck, and are
392 described in his ICCS09 paper.
394 * Simplify model declaration
395 (less redirections, less function to write when defining a model)
396 - Factorize stuff between models:
399 surf_model_resource_set(model)
400 surf_model_resource_by_name(model, name)
401 - Unify the types of models in s_surf_model_t (using an union)
402 - Embeed fields of common_public directly into s_surf_model_t
403 - Rename model methods:
404 action_free ~> action_unref
405 action_change_state ~> action_state_set
406 action_get_state ~> action_state_get
407 - Change model methods into functions :
408 (model)->common_public->action_use ~> surf_action_ref
410 * Implement a generic resource; use it as ancestor to specific ones
411 (allows to kill duplicated code in models)
412 Drawback: timer command don't need no name nor properties;
413 workstation_CLM03 don't need no properties
414 (but I guess we can live with those few bytes wasted)
416 * Improve the action object model
417 - implement a constructor avoiding dupplicated code about field
418 initialization in generic_action part.
420 * Kill the SDP model: it has an external dependency, is deprecated
421 in flavor of modern lmm models, and didn't compile since a while
424 * Relocation of the context module from XBT to SIMIX.
425 (the context were decoupled from the simix processes, duplicating a lot of code)
426 => a lot of code was factorized
427 - less overhead is introduced during scheduling
428 - simpler API for the context factory
429 - the logic for process creation,destruction and manipulation was simplified
430 * Simplification of the s_smx_process_t data structure.
431 => accesing the simix level data associated to a process is faster now,
432 and the code is a lot more readable.
435 * Implement some more MPI primitives:
436 MPI_Bcast, MPI_Waitany, MPI_Waitall, MPI_Reduce, MPI_Allreduce, MPI_Scatter, MPI_Sendrecv, MPI_Alltoall
437 -implementation: Bcast: flat or 2-ary tree (default),
440 Allreduce: Reduce then Bcast
441 Alltoall: "basic_linear" if data per proc < 3Kb, "otherwise pairwise".
442 Not yet implemented: "Bruck" for data per proc < 200b and comm size > 12
443 Alltoallv: flat tree, like ompi
445 * Add support for optimized collectives (Bcast is now binomial by default)
446 * Port smpirun and smpicc to OS X
449 * Kill SD_link_get_properties: hard to maintain and makes very little sense
450 Shout out if you used it.
453 * Display the list of still queued messages in SG mode when existing
457 * Add xbt_set_get_by_name_or_null() [Silas De Munck]
458 * Add xbt_graph_node_get_outedges() [Silas De Munck]
459 * Add xbt_str_from_file(FILE*)
460 * Add xbt_dict_get_key achieving a linear reverse search
461 * Remove the context module
463 Portability report of this version:
464 * Main portability targets:
465 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
466 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
467 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
468 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
469 On these, we still have the eratic breakages of gras/pmm and
470 amok/saturate_sg reported in previous version. We still think
471 that the tests are the cause of the fault, not the tested code.
473 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
474 Still false negative in tesh autotesting.
475 Smpi still fails, but this time because readlink does not accept -f
476 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
479 - AIX version 5.3 (only tested contexts this time)
480 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
481 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
483 I managed to compile it for the first time, but several breakages.
484 Won't delay the release for this exotic platform.
486 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
489 Timing report of this version:
490 This version seem to be more than 5% faster than 3.3.1 (on linux
491 64bits with contextes). The gain is less than expected, we are
492 investigating this for next release.
494 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:07:12 +0200
496 SimGrid (3.3.1) stable; urgency=low
499 * Implement a --cfg-help to show existing configuration variables
500 * Build chain do not require doxygen in maintainer mode
503 * fix a bug on struct sizeof computation, which prevented the
504 exchange of arrays of structs in some conditions
505 - added a regression test about this in datadesc_usage
506 * Allow the exchange of 0-long dynamic vectors.
507 - for that, use -1 as indicator of dynamic size instead of 0
508 - This implied to change any size from unsigned long to long,
509 reducing a bit communication abilities, but I guess that with
510 64bits being quite common, this is more than enough.
511 - This also induce a protocol change, thus bumping network protocol
512 version from 0 to 1 (if we have external users, we have to get
513 clean on that point too ;)
514 - added two regression tests about this in datadesc_usage
515 * Be more verbose when propagating local exceptions
516 This helps debugging.
517 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT in
521 * Allow to control the simulation from a trace file.
522 New functions MSG_action_register() and MSG_action_trace_run()
523 The first one allows to associate a function execution to each
524 kind of action while the second one parses a trace file and
525 triggers the corresponding actions within the system.
526 For now, only a toy example is provided in examples/msg/actions
527 * Add an exemple of process migration in examples/msg/migration
528 * Fix a bug in task exchange which broke MSG_task_get_sender()
529 Add a teshsuite regression test for that.
530 [Bug: if MSG_task_get_sender() is called after sender exit,
532 * Fix a bug which prevented suspend/resume to work properly
533 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT
534 This fixes a regression of v3.3. due to the introduction of SIMIX
535 * Bug fixing in failure management:
536 - trace could not start by a failure at time 0
537 - failure during communications were not working
540 * Add SIMIX_process_set_name() to change the name of the current
541 process in the log messages.
542 * Store smx_hosts in a dict since we only retrieve them by name
543 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
546 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
549 * Massive internal cleanups:
550 - Store internal structures on processes instead of hosts (allows
551 to have more than one process per host, in addition of being more
553 - Cleanup the initialization/finalization process
554 - Kill a whole bunch of unneeded synchronization:
555 processes run in exclusive manner within the simulator
556 - Move queues from global tables to process data fields
558 - now accept -platform and -hostfile arguments
559 - Pass the right rank value to processes according to the hostfile
560 * Compile the examples by default, and use them as regression tests
561 * Implement MPI_Wtime()
562 * Change the reference speed to a command line option
565 * TCP_gamma can now be specified as command line option using
566 --cfg=TCP_gamma:10000000.0
567 * Change the --surf-path cmd line option into --cfg=path:
570 * Also include strbuff from xbt.h public header
571 * xbt_ex_display(): do not free the exception after displaying
572 This allows to do more with the given exception afterward.
573 Users should call xbt_ex_free() themselves.
577 Portability report of this version:
578 * Main portability targets:
579 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
580 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
581 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
582 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
583 These targets fail about 1/10 of times on gras/pmm, but we believe
584 that this is because of the test, not because of simgrid.
585 amok/saturate_sg fails even more rarely, and the test may not be
588 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
589 The test suite still spits tons of errors because some obscure
590 force prevents us from removing the temporary directories
591 arguing that they still contain some metadata I've never heard of.
592 Smpi fails because seq is not installed.
593 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
596 - AIX version 5.3 (both contexts and pthread)
597 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
598 XML inclusions seems rosty on AIX.
600 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
603 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:14:30 +0200
605 SimGrid (3.3) stable; urgency=high
609 * JAVA BINDINGS for MSG (you dreamt of them? We made them)
612 * Introduce the SIMIX module: factorize code between MSG and GRAS.
615 Until now, GRAS were using MSG as an interface to SURF. It was
616 quite difficult because both interface have several differences
617 (MSG channels vs GRAS sockets were the most notable point).
619 This also opens the gate to SMPI (which should occur soon) and speed
620 up simulations by to 40% (even if it were not the main goal).
622 **************************************
623 *DO NOT MIX 3.2 RESULTS WITH 3.3 ONES* Simix may changes simulations!
624 **************************************
625 The point is that events occuring at the exact same timestamp are
626 not scheduled in the same order with the old and new version. This
627 may be enough to completely change the execution of simulations in
628 some cases. Sorry for the inconvenience.
630 * Cleanup and upgrade the XML format to push further scalability
631 issues (check http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00256883/ for more info)
633 * Improve the testing infrastructure with tesh. Now a very large part of
634 the code is tested not only by being run but also by checking that the
635 output match an expected output [Mt].
637 * Move on to FleXML v1.7 for the embeeded XML parsers. This version
638 is really less memory-demanding, which should allow you to use
639 larger files in SimGrid [AL].
641 * Inform valgrind about our contextes, so that it becomes usable
642 with the default (and more effecient) version of SimGrid
643 [contributed by Sékou Diakite, many thanks]
646 * Introduce a listener thread in charge of receiving incomming
647 messages from the network. It allows to overlap communication and
648 computation but most notably, it removes some stupid deadlocks due
649 to the fact that so far, a process could not send and receive at
650 the same time. This made most non trivial communication schema
652 * Convert the PIDs from long int to int to match the MSG ones (and
654 * New function: gras_agent_spawn() to launch a new process on
655 current host. Only working in simulation for now. [Mt]
656 * New function: gras_os_hostport() returning a constant form (ie,
657 not needing to be freed) of "gras_os_hostname():gras_os_myport()"
660 * Make the backtrace of exceptions more human readable [Mt]
661 * New module: xbt/str [Mt]
662 a ton of string utility functions (split, join, printf to a newly
663 allocated buffer, trim, etc)
664 * New module: xbt/hash [Mt]
665 SHA1 hashing algorithm (more to come if needed)
666 * New module: xbt/synchro [Mt]
667 synchronization tools (mutex and conditions) working the same way
668 in simulation and in real life (mainly useful for GRAS, but not
670 * New module: xbt/queue [Mt]
671 classical producer/consumer synchronization scheme
672 * xbt_dynar_new_sync() creates a synchronized dynar. All access
673 (using the classical functions will get serialized) [Mt]
674 * Make dictionary internal table dynamic. No need to specify its size
675 anymore; functions xbt_dict_new_ext() and xbt_dict_hashsize_set()
677 * Make sure the log channels are organized as a tree under windows
678 (because of ANSI C compatibility issue, any channel were child of
682 * Cleaned many thing in surf and fixed a few bugs [AL].
683 * Add a nice command line configuration mechanism to compose models [AL].
684 * Add a new model for parallel tasks (ptask_L07) that is less buggy than
685 the previous one (KCCFLN05). It relies on something that looks like
686 a max-min sharing mechanism but cannot be written as such. A new solver
687 was thus designed [AL].
688 * Add a new solver to lmm. Based on Lagrange optimization and
689 gradient-based descent, it enables to efficiently maximise systems s.a
691 sum f_i(x_i) s.t Ax<= b with A_{i,j}>=0 and f_i a concave function.
693 This solver enables to propose two new network models for TCP Reno and
694 TCP Vegas based on Low's work. These models still need to be fully
695 tested though [Pedro Velho].
698 * Bug fix in SD_simulate. Now the time bound given as argument is
700 * Use the new parallel task model (ptask_L07) as default.
701 * Use the SURF command line configuration mechanism.
702 * 0-size tasks (for synchronization) should now work.
704 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sun Apr 12 05:20:36 CEST 2009
706 SimGrid (3.2) stable; urgency=high
710 We still experience issues on this platform, but we believe that at
713 GRAS API BREAKAGE (for simplification purpose, sorry):
714 * the gras_msgtype_by_name is not used anymore. Instead of
715 gras_msg_send(toserver, gras_msgtype_by_name("request"), &request);
716 you can write (and must)
717 gras_msg_send(toserver, "request", &request);
718 - If you still want to pass a gras_msgtype_t to the function (to cache
719 the type and avoid the lookup time), use the gras_msg_send_() variant.
720 - Impacted functions:
721 gras_cb_register, gras_cb_unregister, gras_msg_send, gras_msg_wait,
722 gras_msg_rpccall, gras_msg_rpc_async_call, gras_msg_wait_ext
723 * The callbacks are now expected to return 0 when everything went well
724 (just like the main() function)
726 GRAS new features and improvements:
727 * New module mecanism where user code can use per process globals [Mt]
728 This is similar to gras_userdata_*() functions, but for libraries. It
729 factorize some code developped over and over in the examples and AMOK.
730 It has still to be documented and used (only amok/peermanagement is
732 * Fix a vicious bug in the TCP buffering mecanism which leaded to message
733 loss when they were small enough to fit into the buffer and sent quickly
734 enough so that they can all get received in one shoot.
735 * gras_datadesc_by_name and gras_msgtype_by_name: now raise an exception
736 if not found. Use the *_or_null() variant for the old semantic.
737 * In gras_msg_handle, do not discard messages without callback.
738 They are probably messages to be explicitly awaited later (ie, proofs of
739 mis-synchronization in userland since they are sent before being awaited)
741 * gras_socket_meas_send/recv: semantic changed!
742 The numerical arguments used to be (1) the total amount of data to send
743 and (2) msg_size. This was changed to (1) msg_size and (2) amount of
744 messages. This was need for the fool willing to send more than MAXINT
745 bytes on quite fat pipes.
748 * Do really rename the hostmanagement module to peermanagement. [Mt]
749 Ie, rename functions from amok_hm_* to amok_pm_*. This breaks the API,
750 but this is rather new and this was documented in the module
751 documentation (poor excuses, I admit)
752 * Bandwidth measurement semantic changed! This follows the changes to
753 gras_socket_meas_send/recv explained above.
756 * A sequential mode has been added to the workstations. When a workstation
757 is in sequential mode, it can execute only one task, and the other tasks
758 are waiting in a FIFO. [Christophe Thiery]
761 * The KCCFLN05 workstation model now handles parallel tasks. It is the
762 model for SIMDAG. [Christophe Thiery]
763 * Bug fix in the maxmin solver: Some values were close to 0 instead of
764 equal to 0, which caused some bad behaviors in
765 saturated_constraint_set_update. I now use a threshold mechanism like in
769 * When running manually src/testall, you select specific units [Mt]
770 testall is the result of our cunit mecanism, and should replace all
771 the scripty thingy around since bash don't run easily on billware.
773 * A mallocator system has been added. [Christophe Thiery]
774 Mallocators allow you to recycle your unused objects instead of freeing them
775 and allocating new ones.
777 Documentation update:
778 * FAQ reworking + New FAQs:
779 - "Valgrind spits tons of errors!" [Mt]
780 - "How to repport bugs" [Mt]
781 - "Cross-compiling a Windows DLL of SimGrid from Linux" [Mt]
782 - "What is the difference between MSG, SimDag, and GRAS?" [Mt]
783 - Communication time measurement within MSG [AL]
784 - I experience weird communication times when I change the latency [AL]
787 - an introduction to the framework and to the used communication model
788 - an initiatic tour introducing the most proheminent features:
790 . Lesson 0: Installing GRAS
791 . Lesson 1: Setting up your own project
792 o Part 2: Message passing
793 . Lesson 2: Exchanging simple messages
794 . Lesson 3: Passing arguments to the processes (in SG)
795 . Lesson 4: Attaching callbacks to messages
796 . Lesson 5: Using globals in processes
797 . Lesson 6: Logging informations properly
798 . Lesson 7: Using internal timers
799 . Lesson 8: Handling errors through exceptions
800 . Lesson 9: Exchanging simple data
801 . Lesson 10: Remote Procedure Calling (RPC)
802 . Lesson 11: Explicitely waiting for messages
803 . Recapping of message passing features in GRAS
804 - A HOWTO section containing:
805 o HOWTO design a GRAS application
806 More are due, of course. They will come latter. In the meanwhile, you can
807 check the examples which are still here.
809 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri Mar 16 21:11:46 CET 2007
811 SimGrid (3.1) stable; urgency=high
815 There was a stack corruption somewhere, visible only when optimizing
816 with these versions. [Vince]
819 * This is a NEW module! SimDAG (SD for short) is a revival of the old SG
820 module that enabled to play with Directed Acyclic Graphs. It is built
821 directly on top of SURF and provides an API rather close to the old
822 SG. Some old codes using SG are currently under rewrite to check that
823 all needful functions are provided. [Christophe Thiery]
826 * Complete rewrite of the KCCFLN05 workstation model. It is now an
827 extension of the classical CLM03 model that gracefully handles
828 failures. This is now the default model for MSG and GRAS. It doesn't
829 handle parallel tasks yet though. [AL]
830 * Bug fix: Weights were not correctly set in the network part.
831 WARNING: This may have resulted in incorrect results with simulations
832 where there are more than one flow on a given link. [AL]
835 * After a (long ?) discussion on simgrid-devel, we have decided that the
836 convention we had on units was stupid. That is why it has been decided
837 to move from (MBits, MFlops, seconds) to (Bits, Flops, seconds).
838 WARNING : This means that all previous platform files will not work as
839 such with this version! A warning is issued to ask users to update
841 A conversion script can be found in the contrib module of the CVS, under
842 the name contrib/platform_generation/surfxml_update.pl [MQ]
845 * Bug fix: Processes were started in reverse order, wrt deployment file.
846 WARNING: if your code relies on this bug, please fix it. [AL]
847 * Bug fix: Add a test in MSG_task_execute to stop whenever a task is
848 being executed on two different locations. [AL]
849 * Bug fix: Failures are now better supported thanks to Derrick's tests
850 (there was many failure situations I hadn't thought of and that weren't
851 correctly handled). [AL]
852 * New function: MSG_host_is_avail indicates you whether a given m_host_t
856 * New! a real RPC mecanism, as it ought to be since too long. [MQ]
857 Exception occurring on server-side are propagated back to client (!).
859 API CHANGE: the callback changed their prototype. Change:
860 int my_handler(gras_socket_t expeditor, void *payload_data) {
862 int my_handler(gras_msg_cb_ctx_t ctx , void *payload_data) {
863 gras_socket_t expeditor=gras_msg_cb_ctx_from(ctx);
865 * New! function: gras_msg_handleall to deal with all messages arriving
866 within a given period.
867 * New! function: gras_socket_server_range to get a server socket in a
868 range of port numbers (ease to avoid port number conflicts) [MQ]
869 * New! gras processes display their backtrace when they get a SIGUSR1
870 or when Ctrl-C is pressed. Use Ctrl-C Ctrl-C to exit.
871 Sweet to debug RL processes [MQ]
875 - Do not force experiment sizes to be expressed in kb, or it becomes
876 impossible to measure the latency this way (needs one byte-long tests)
877 WARNING: this changes the amok_bw_* function semantic. [MQ]
878 - Implements the link saturation stuff. [MQ]
879 * Peer management module:
880 New! module factorizing code that we wrote over and over [MQ].
883 * New module: cunit (my jUnit implementation in ansi C) [MQ]
884 - Test units are placed directly into the library code, they get extracted
885 automatically and placed into the src/testall binary.
886 - Convert most of the XBT tests to this system.
887 * New functions: xbt_dynar_getfirst_as() and xbt_dynar_getlast_as() [MQ]
888 * XML parsing: rewrote parts of flexml to enable multiple xml parsers to
889 live in the same C code. This required to change a little bit the API
890 of surfxml parsing but shouldn't be an issue for end-users. [AL]
891 * New module: sparse graph structure with basic algorithms (this is work
892 in progress and the API is not considered to be frozen yet). [AL]
893 * Display more information on backtraces: source line & function names are
894 now displayed just like valgrind does (rely on addr2line tool) [MQ]
895 * New function: xbt_backtrace_display(). Sweet while debuging [MQ]
896 * Reworked a little bit some #include statements to load only required
897 headers. Some user code that relied on SimGrid to include stdlib or
898 stdio may need to include it by themselves. [AL]
899 * Fixed xbt/log.h. A missing SG_BEGIN_DECL prevented compilation with
901 * Renamed xbt_host_t into xbt_peer_t since it betterly describes what I
902 meant. This breaks the API of AMOK and of xbt/config. Sorry about this,
903 but I guess that almost nobody used those parts. [MQ]
905 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:32:27 +0200
907 SimGrid (3.0.1) stable; urgency=low
910 * Unfortunately, I had missed 5 misnamed functions:
911 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_newitem(void);
912 void xbt_fifo_freeitem(xbt_fifo_item_t);
913 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getFirstItem(xbt_fifo_t l);
914 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getNextItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
915 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getPrevItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
916 They're now deprecated. Please use their new versions:
917 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_new_item(void);
918 void xbt_fifo_free_item(xbt_fifo_item_t);
919 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_first_item(xbt_fifo_t l);
920 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_next_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
921 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_prev_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
923 * Bugfix: really disconnect fifo items which are remove_item()ed [AL]
924 * Documentation: xbt_log module unmercifully reworked [MQ]
925 * Bugfix: there was a problem with the ending of contexts with
926 the pthread backend. It caused some weird deadlock or behavior
927 depending on the pthread implementation. [AL]
928 * Bugfix: get the exceptions raised in the simulator repport where
929 and why they come from when they are not catched in time [AL, MQ]
932 * Bugfix: Do repport the error when two non-connected hosts try to
933 exchange data (Thanks to Flavien for stumbling into this one) [AL]
936 * Add additionnal checkings on communications. Assert that two
937 communicating hosts are connected by a set of links... [AL]
940 * Add additionnal checkings on channel values in communication [AL]
941 * New: MSG_task_get_source to see on which host a task was generated [HC]
942 * New: int MSG_task_probe_from_host(int channel, m_host_t host): returns
943 the number of tasks waiting to be received on channel and sent
945 * New: MSG_error_t MSG_task_get_from_host(m_task_t * task, int channel, m_host_t host);
946 waits for the first task coming from a given host.. [AL]
948 GRAS new functionnalities: [MQ]
949 * Enhance the parsing macro to allow the size of multidimentional objects
950 to be given thru annotations.
951 * New example (and documentation): Matrix Multiplication a la RPC
952 (as when I was young!) and fix a bunch of bugs found on the way.
954 GRAS performance improvements: [MQ]
956 * Reduce the amount of cbps creation/destruction by making it static to
957 datadesc_send/recv() and using a (newly created) cbps_reset (based on
960 * Change libdata to a set so that we can search for stuff by ID (and thus
961 reduce the insane amount of dict lookups)
964 * Actually implement gras_datadesc_copy() so that we don't have to mimick
965 RL communication on top of SG since it's so uneffective.
966 It may also be used for inter-thread communication in RL, one day.
967 * Use gras_datadesc_copy() to exchange messages on top of SG
969 - improve message exchange performance on top of SG
970 - deprecate transport_plugin_sg.c:gras_trp_sg_chunk_send() & recv()
971 * Don't exchange on the network the size of the used part of buffer,
972 instead, specify the possible buffer size to read().
974 - reduces the amount of read/write calls (one pair per exchange)
975 - reduces the amount of exchanged data (the size)
976 - allows to retrieve all arrived data on receiver side, if we don't need
977 it right now (subsequent read will peek the buffer)
978 - allows the receiver to proceed with the begining of the stream before
979 everything is arrived
980 - make it possible to build an iov transport (using readv/writev)
982 - take care of the data with non-stable storage (like stacked data),
984 * If possible, TCP send uses vector I/O (when writev() is here)
985 - Don't use it for receive since we send data sizes and data on the
986 same stream, so we wouldn't be able to chain large amount of chunks
987 before having to flush the stuff to read the size.
988 * Rework the transport plugin mecanism to simplify it and reduce the
989 amount of pointer dereferencement when searching for the right function
992 * I guess that now, we do almost as few system calls as possible while
993 doing as few data copy as possible.
995 To improve it further, we could try to send all the sizes first and then
996 all the data (to use iov on receiving size), but it's only a partial
997 solution: when you have 2 dimensional data, the sizes of the second
998 dimension is data of the first dimension, so you need 3 streams.
1000 I'm not sure the potential performance gains justify the coding burden.
1002 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:42:20 +0200
1004 SimGrid (3.00) stable; urgency=high
1007 * New! Give the possibility to hijack the surf parser and thus bypass
1008 MSG_create_environment and MSG_launch_application. Have a look at
1009 examples/msg/msg_test_surfxml_bypassed.c to see how it can be done.
1011 -- Arnaud Legrand <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 20 Aug 2005 23:25:25 -0700
1013 SimGrid (2.96) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * New! Exception handling with setjmp or such (code from OSSP ex) [MQ]
1019 This deprecates the xbt_error_t mecanisms.
1020 It modifies (simplifies) all XBT and GRAS API.
1021 MSG API keeps unchanged (exceptions raised by XBT are catched from
1022 within MSG and masked with existing error handling facilities)
1025 * New! Add a FATPIPE model. [AL]
1026 * New! Add a parallel task model. [AL]
1027 * New! Add automatically a loopback interface (in the default
1028 network model) if none was precised.
1031 * Bugfix: MSG_process_resume now works with the current running process.
1033 * New! Add MSG_parallel_task_create and MSG_parallel_task_execute. [AL]
1034 * Modification of MSG_task_get_compute_duration. Once a task has been
1035 processed, the value returned by this function is now equal to 0. [AL]
1036 * New! Add double MSG_task_get_remaining_computation(m_task_t task) and
1037 MSG_error_t MSG_task_cancel(m_task_t task). Add a state
1038 (MSG_TASK_CANCELLED) to MSG_error_t corresponding to the cancelation
1039 of a m_task. For now, MSG_task_cancel only works with computation
1041 * New! Add double MSG_get_host_speed(m_host_t h) that returns the speed
1042 of the processor (in Mflop/s) regardless of the current load on the
1044 * API Change: use proper naming convention for MSG_getClock and
1045 MSG_process_isSuspended: MSG_get_clock and MSG_process_is_suspended.
1047 * New! Add void MSG_task_set_priority(m_task_t task, double priority).
1048 This function changes the priority of a computation task. This priority
1049 doesn't affect the transfer rate. A priority of 2 will make a task
1050 receive two times more cpu power than the other ones. This function
1051 has been added to suit the needs of Nguyen The Loc and hasn't been that
1052 much tested yet. So if it fails, please report it and send me your code.
1054 * API Change: removed all functions and types that were marked "deprecated"
1055 since many months. Renamed MSG_global_init_args to MSG_global_init.
1057 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:58:47 -0700
1059 SimGrid (2.95) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * Steal some nice code to GNU pth to fix context detection and usage [AL]
1063 * Cleanup in the xbt_config API; add configuration callbacks. [MQ]
1064 * Cleanup in the initialization API: the unused "defaultlog" is dead. [MQ]
1067 * Bugfix: Allow absolute paths for platform description files [MQ]
1068 * Bugfix: do free the variables after use. Leads to drastic performance
1070 * Implement max_duration (ie, timeouts) on resources [AL]
1073 * Implement MSG_config to configure MSG at runtime. xbt_cfg test on a real
1075 * Implement MSG_channel_select_from() to help GRAS now that SURF provide
1076 the needed support (timeouts) [AL]
1079 * Implement measurement sockets. You can now get the bandwidth between two
1080 hosts thanks to AMOK (see below). [MQ]
1081 * gras_datadesc_dynar() builds a dynar type descriptor, allowing to send
1082 dynar over the network (yeah) [MQ]
1083 * Real (even if simplistic) implementation of gras_os_myname() on RL [MQ]
1084 * simple/static token-ring example. [Alexandre Colucci and MQ]
1085 * Use MSG_channel_select_from() and remove the *slow* hack we had to put
1086 in place before [MQ]
1089 * Differentiate the types "char[22]" and "unsigned char[22]" in automatic
1090 type parsing. "short" and "long" modifiers were also ignored; other
1091 modifier (such as reference level) are still ignored. [MQ]
1092 * Embeed the buffer size within the buffer itself on SG. [MQ]
1093 That way, send() are atomic and cannot get intermixed anymore (at least
1094 the ones which are less than 100k; bigger messages still have the issue)
1095 * Array size pushed by the field, not by the field type (or each
1096 and every long int will push stuff to the cbps) [MQ]
1097 * use select() to sleep since it allows to portably sleep less than one
1100 GRAS (minor cleanups)
1101 * <project>.Makefile.local (generated from gras_stub_generator) |MQ]:
1104 * Type Callbacks now receive the gras_datadesc_type_t they work on as argument.
1105 * type category 'ignored' killed as it was never used and were difficult
1107 * whether a type can cycle or not is now a flag, leaving room for more
1108 flags (as "ignored", if we feel the need one day ;)
1109 * Rename raw sockets to measurement sockets since "raw" has another
1110 meaning in networking community.
1113 * Advanced Metacomputing Overlay Kit introduction. It is based over GRAS
1114 and offers features not belonging to GRAS but that most applications
1115 need. One day, it may be a set of plugins loadable at runtime.
1116 * New module: bandwidth
1117 bandwidth measurement between arbitrary nodes running this module. [MQ]
1119 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:29:20 -0700
1121 SimGrid (2.94) unstable; urgency=low
1123 The first beta release of SimGrid 3 !
1127 * Update the main page and the FAQ. Adding references to gforge.
1130 * Add a gras_os_getpid function.
1133 * Add MSG_task_get_compute_duration() and MSG_task_get_data_size()
1134 * Extend the logs so that they also print PID, hostname, date, ... if
1136 * Convert the MSG example to the use of xbt_logs instead of PRINT_MESSAGE,
1137 and kill the old version which were in testsuite/
1138 * Rewrite tools/MSG_visualization/colorize.pl for using with logs instead
1142 * Add xbt_os_time(). As the rest of xbt/portability, this is not public
1143 for users. Instead, each programming environment (GRAS, MSG,...) use it
1144 when needed to provide such a feature to users.
1145 Don't shortcut the mecanism or you will also shortcut the virtualization
1146 you need on the simulator.
1150 * Cleanups in configury with regard to compile optimization/warning flags.
1151 Also add -fno-loop-optimize to any powerpc since it's the optimization
1152 killing gcc (< 3.4.0).
1153 * Doxygen cleanups: move MSG examples, kill the second Doxygen phase
1154 needed by MSG examples complications
1155 * Borrow configury beautifications from PHP
1158 * Bugfix: XBT_LOG_NEW_DEFAULT_CATEGORY now compiles without compiler
1159 warning (thanks loris for stumbling into this one).
1160 * Bugfix: stop loading private headers (gras_config.h) from the public
1164 * Change SIMGRID_INSTALL_PATH to GRAS_ROOT in Makefiles generated for user.
1165 * Rename gras_get_my_fqdn to gras_os_myname and implement it in the simulator
1166 RL would imply a DNS resolver, which is *hard* to do in a portable way
1167 (and therefore delayed).
1168 * Implement a real timer mecanism and use it in timing macros. This allows
1169 to avoid rounding errors and get a 0.000005 sec precision in timing
1170 macros. While I was at it, various cleanups:
1171 - allow to declare more than one timed section per file (fix a stupid bug)
1172 - move some private declaration to the right place
1173 - merge conditional execution and timing macros into emulation module
1174 - document the module
1175 - make sure the module cleanups its mess on gras_exit
1176 * Documentation improvements:
1177 - (new) how to compile applications using GRAS
1178 - (new) emulation support (timing macros)
1180 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 13 May 2005 10:49:31 +0200
1182 SimGrid (2.93) unstable; urgency=low
1184 Alpha 4 on the path to SimGrid 3 (aka the "neuf-trois" version)
1187 - Use Paje properly where used. Still to be sanitized properly.
1188 - Portability fix: Add an implementation of the contexts using pthread
1192 - Add xbt_procname(): returns the name of the current process.
1193 Use it to show the current process's name in all logging.
1195 - fix detection of older flex version and the reaction, since we do
1196 depend on modern ones (we use lex_destroy)
1197 - Better separation of SG and RL in the libs: remove all simulation code
1198 from libgras. As a result, this lib is now only 200k when stripped.
1199 Some of the xbt modules may also be duplicated (two sets and such) and
1200 should be cleaned/killed before SG3.
1201 - Insist on using xlC on AIX because of weird problems involving gcc there.
1202 - Cleanup the make remote stuff. This is now done by scripts
1203 tools/graspe-{master,slave} (GRAS Platform Expender). This is still
1204 mainly for our private use, but we're working on changing them to user
1207 - Bugfix: flush the socket on close only if there is some *output*.
1208 - Bugfix: flush idempotent when there's nothing to send (don't send size=0)
1210 - Add MSG_task_get_name. The task names are mainly for debugging purpose,
1213 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:32:37 -0800
1215 SimGrid (2.92) unstable; urgency=low
1217 Alpha 3 on the path to SimGrid 3
1221 - New! First try of benchmarking macros.
1222 - New! First try so that gras_stub_generator generate deployment and
1223 remote compilation helpers.
1225 - Bugfix: Initialization fix in msg_test.
1229 - Bugfix: applied patch to lexer so that it doesn't need a huge heap.
1231 - Bugfix: let dicts work with NULL content (_foreach didn't) and cleanups
1233 - API Change: gras_os_sleep to take the amount of seconds as a double.
1234 Accepting an int was error prone since it was the only location where
1235 seconds were coded as such. It leaded to damn rounding errors.
1236 - Bugfix: Hard to belive that timers ever worked before this.
1238 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:09:21 +0100
1240 SimGrid (2.91) unstable; urgency=low
1242 Alpha 2 on the path to SimGrid 3
1246 - Bug fix in the lmm_solver.
1248 - New! Interface to Paje (see http://www-id.imag.fr/Logiciels/paje/)
1249 through the function MSG_paje_output.
1250 - New! Introducing two new functions MSG_process_kill() and MSG_process_killall().
1251 - It is possible to bound the rate of a communication in MSG with
1252 MSG_task_put_bounded() (was already in the previous version but I had forgotten
1253 to write it in the changelog).
1254 - Bug fix to let GRAS run on top of MSG until we move it directly on top
1259 - Various cleanups to the autotools stuff
1260 - Begin to move Gras examples to examples/gras/
1261 - Let make distcheck work again (yeah!)
1263 - documentation overhauled using doxygen.
1264 gtk-doc-tools is dead in SimGrid now.
1265 - Automatically extract all existing logging categories, and add the list
1266 to the documentation (long standing one, to say the less)
1268 - Cleanup the known architecture table. Reorder the entries to group what
1269 should be, and use a more consistent naming scheme.
1270 (some of the test dataset are still to be regenerated)
1271 - New! Allow library to register globals on each process just as userdata
1273 This is implemented using a xbt_dict and not a xbt_set, so we loose the
1274 lookup time (for now).
1275 Use it in msg and trp.
1276 This cleans a lot the internals and helps enforcing privacy of the
1277 headers between the gras components.
1278 - New! Add a timer mechanism, not unlike cron(8) and at(1).
1279 - Bugfix: gras_os_time was delirious in RL.
1280 - Bugfix: gras_trp_select/RL don't run into the wall when asked to select
1282 - Reenable GRAS now that it works.
1284 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:02:13 -0800
1286 SimGrid (2.90) unstable; urgency=low
1288 Alpha 1 on the path to SimGrid 3
1290 * It is a long time since the last release of SimGrid. I'm sorry about
1291 that but as I had told you, I was rewriting a lot of things. I apologize
1292 to those who had been reporting bugs to me and that I had not answered.
1293 If your bug is still in the new version, please tell me. Here is a
1294 summary of the main changes.
1296 * REVOLUTION 1: The SimGrid project has merged with the GRAS project
1297 lead by Martin Quinson. As a consequence SimGrid gains a lot in
1298 portability, speed, and a lot more but you'll figure it out later.
1299 SimGrid now comprises 3 different projects : MSG, GRAS and SMPI.
1300 I wanted to release the new MSG as soon as possible and I have
1301 broken GRAS, which is the reason why, for now, only MSG is fully
1302 functional. A laconic description of these projects is available
1303 in the documentation.
1305 * REVOLUTION 2: I have removed SG and I am now using a new simulation
1306 kernel optimized for our needs (called SURF but only the developers
1307 should use it). Hence, MSG is now roughly 30 times faster and I think
1308 that by rewriting a little bit MSG, I could event speed it up a little
1309 bit more. Beside the gain in speed, it is also much easier to encode a
1310 new platform model with SURF than it was with SG. More to come...
1312 * REVOLUTION 3: I have tried to change a little as possible the API of
1313 MSG but a few things really had to disappear. The main differences
1314 with the previous version are :
1315 1) no more m_links_t and the corresponding functions. Platforms are
1316 directly read from a XML description and cannot be hard-coded
1317 anymore. The same format is used for application deployment
1318 description. The new format is described in the documentation.
1319 Have a look in tools/platform_generation. There is a tiny script
1320 that converts from the old platform format to the new one. Concerning
1321 the application deployment format, parsing the old one is tricky.
1322 I think most of you should however be able to convert your files. If
1323 it is really an issue, I can write a C code that does the conversion.
1325 2) the toolbox tbx does not exist anymore. We now have a library
1326 with much more data-structures but without the hash-tables (we have
1327 dictionaries that are much faster).
1329 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:45:53 -0800
1331 *****************************************************************************
1332 * Follows the old GRAS changelog. It does not follow the same syntax, but I *
1333 * don't feel like converting the oldies. (Mt) *
1334 *****************************************************************************
1337 Version 2.90: "the long awaited one"
1338 - Finished rewriting and debugging MSG. Rewrote the documentation.
1339 - disable GRAS for now since it needs to be ported to the newest SG
1342 - Finish the port to windows (using mingw32 for cross-compile)
1345 - Main loop and datastructures of SURF. A cpu resource object is
1346 functional. Surf can thus be used to create cpu's with variable
1347 performance on which you can execute some actions.
1349 2004-11-15 Martin Quinson
1350 - Port to ARM. Simply added the alignment and size descriptions. Should
1351 work, but the ARM machines are so slow that I didn't had the opportunity
1352 to 'make check' over there yet.
1354 2004-11-15 Arnaud Legrand
1355 - Trace manager now written. It uses a heap structure and is therefore
1356 expected to be efficient. It may however be speeded up (particularly
1357 when many events occur at the same date) by using red and black
1358 trees. One day maybe...
1359 - Max-min linear system solver written. It uses a sparse matrix
1360 structure taking advantage of its expected use. Most operations are
1361 O(1) and free/calloc are called as few as possible. The computation of
1362 the minimum could however be improved by using a red and black tree
1365 2004-11-03 Arnaud Legrand
1366 - Rename every gras_* function that was in xbt/ to its xbt_
1368 - Add a heap and a doubly-linked list to xbt
1369 - Added a dichotomy to the dictionaries. make check works as well before
1370 so I assume that the patch is correct. I do not know however if things
1371 run effectively faster than before now. :)
1373 Inclusion of the SimGrid tree in the GRAS one. The archive is renamed to
1374 SimGrid, and the version number is bumped to 2.x
1376 2004-10-29 Martin Quinson
1377 - Introduction of the remote errors.
1378 They are the result of a RMI/RPC on the remote machine.
1379 ErrCodes being scalar values, you can't get the host on which those
1380 errors did happen. Extending the error mechanism as in Gnome is possible.
1381 No idea yet whether it is a good idea.
1383 2004-10-28 Martin Quinson
1384 - Interface revolution: the Starred Structure Eradication.
1385 I used to do typedef struct {} toto_t; and then handle *toto_t.
1386 Arnaud (and Oli) didn't like it, and I surrendered. Now, you have:
1387 - ???_t is a valid type (builded with typedef)
1388 - s_toto_t is a structure (access to fields with .)
1389 - s_toto is a structure needing 'struct' keyword to be used
1390 - e_toto_t is an enum
1391 - toto_t is an 'object' (struct*)
1393 typedef struct s_toto {} s_toto_t, *toto_t;
1394 typedef enum {} e_toto_t;
1395 Moreover, only toto_t (and e_toto_t) are public. The rest (mainly
1396 s_toto_t) is private.
1398 - While I was at it, all gras_<obj>_free() functions want a gras_<obj>_t*
1399 so that it can set the variable to NULL. It was so for dicts and sets,
1400 it changed for dynars.
1402 - Fix a bunch of memleaks in dict_remove
1403 - Fix a bug in sg/server_socket opening: it failed all the time.
1405 2004-10-07 Martin Quinson
1406 - Speed up dynar lookup operation a bit.
1408 gras_dynar_get is dead.
1410 Now, you can choose between gras_dynar_get_cpy (the old gras_dynar_get
1411 but should be avoided for efficiency reasons) and gras_dynar_get_ptr
1412 (which gives you the address of the stored data).
1414 gras_dynar_get_as is an helpful macro which allows you to retrieve a
1415 copy of the data using an affectation to do the job and not a memcpy.
1417 int toto = gras_dynar_get_as(dyn,0,int); rewrites itself to
1418 int toto = *(int*)gras_dynar_get_ptr(dyn,0);
1420 It does not really speedup the dynar test because they are
1421 setting elements all the time (and look them seldom). But the dict does
1422 far more lookup than setting.
1424 So, this brings the dict_crash test from ~33s to ~25s (200000 elms).
1426 2004-10-05 Martin Quinson
1427 - Allow to (en/dis)able the cycle detection at run time.
1429 Whether we should check for cycle or not is now a property of each
1430 datatype. When you think there may be some cycle, use datadesc_cycle_set.
1431 datadesc_cycle_unset allow to remove this property when previously set.
1433 Note that the cycle detection is off by default since it impacts the
1434 performance. Watch the data you feed GRAS with ;)
1436 This property is hereditary. Any element embedded in a structure having it
1437 set have it set for the time of this data exchange.
1439 You should set it both on sender and receiver side. If you don't set it on
1440 sender side, it will enter an endless loop. If you forget on receiver
1441 side, the cycles won't be recreated after communication.
1443 - Header reorganization.
1444 Kill gras_private.h, each submodule must load the headers it needs.
1446 2004-10-04 Martin Quinson
1447 - Interface revolution: do not try to survive to malloc failure.
1449 Now, gras_malloc and friends call gras_abort() on failure.
1450 As a conclusion, malloc_error is not a valid error anymore, and all
1451 functions for which it was the only gras_error_t return value are
1452 changed. They now return void, or there result directly.
1453 This simplify the API a lot.
1455 2004-09-29 Martin Quinson
1456 - Re-enable raw sockets.
1457 Created by gras_socket_{client,server}_ext;
1458 Used with gras_raw_{send,recv}
1461 It should allow to kill the last bits of gras first version soon.
1463 This is not completely satisfactory yet (duplicate code with
1464 chunk_{send,recv}; a bit out of the plugin mechanism), but it should
1467 - Simplify transport plugin (internal) interface by not passing any
1468 argument to _server and _client, but embedding them in the socket
1471 2004-09-28 Martin Quinson
1472 - Finish the port to AIX.
1473 autoconf was my problem (segfault within the malloc replacement
1474 function. No idea why)
1476 2004-09-16 Martin Quinson
1477 - Fix some size_t madness on 64bit architectures.
1479 2004-09-08 Martin Quinson
1480 - Reduce the number of system headers loaded, overload some more system
1481 calls (such as malloc to cast the result of the system one, and work
1483 - Fix and reintroduce the config support
1485 2004-09-07 Martin Quinson
1486 - Source code reorganization to allow Arnaud to surf all over there.
1487 - Allow to document the logging categories.
1488 - Remove all uppercase from logging categories and useless cleanup in names.
1490 2004-08-18 Martin Quinson
1491 Version 0.6.2 (protocol not changed; API changed)
1492 - Interface cleanup: gras_msgtype_by_name returns the type (instead of a
1493 gras_error_t), and NULL when not found. Functions expecting a msgtype
1494 as argument (msg_wait; msg_send) deal with NULL argument by providing a
1495 hopefully usefull message.
1496 - Portability to prehistoric sparcs again
1498 2004-08-17 Martin Quinson
1499 Version 0.6.1 (protocol not changed; ABI not changed)
1500 - prealloc some buffers to speed things up
1502 2004-08-11 Martin Quinson
1503 Version 0.6 (protocol not changed; ABI expended)
1504 - The parsing macro can deal with the references, provided that you add
1505 the relevant annotations (using GRAS_ANNOTE(size,field_name))
1507 2004-08-09 Martin Quinson
1508 Version 0.5 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
1509 - Allow to off turn the cycle detection code in data exchange at
1510 compilation time. It should be at run time, but I'm short of time (and
1511 the config stuff is still broken). That way, we keep dict out of the
1512 critical path, which is good because the performance is poor:
1513 - search not dichotomial yet
1514 - dynar give no way to access their content and memcpy everytime
1515 - In composed data description (struct, ref and so on), stop foolness of
1516 keeping the subtype's ID, but store the type itself. This keeps sets out
1517 of the critical path, which is good since they rely on dynar and
1518 dictionnaries. The only loose of that is that we cannot detect the
1519 redeclaration of a structure/union with another content (but I'm not sure
1520 the code detected well this error before anyway). We still can detect
1521 the redefinition discrepancy for the other types.
1522 - Use a whole bunch of optimisation flags (plus -fno-strict-aliasing since
1523 it breaks the code because of type-punning used all over the place).
1524 This breaks on all non-gcc architectures (for now).
1526 All those changes (plus the buffer of last time) allow me to gain 2 order
1527 of magnitude on cruel tests consisting of 800000 array of integers on two
1528 level of a hierarchical structure (200 secondes -> 4 secondes)
1531 - the selector of reference must now return the type it points to, not
1532 the ID of this type.
1534 2004-08-06 Martin Quinson
1535 Version 0.4 (protocol changed; ABI not changed)
1536 - Allow to pass --gras-log argument to processes in simulation mode. Really.
1537 - New debugging level: trace (under debug) to see effect of GRAS_IN/OUT
1538 - Implement a buffer transport, and use it by default (it relies on tcp in
1539 real life and on sg in simulation).
1540 That's a bit hackish since I had a new field to the structure to store
1541 its data without interfering with the subtype ones. Inheritance
1542 is tricky in C. And that's a kind of reverse inheritance with one class
1543 derivating two classes. Or maybe a game with java interfaces. Anyway,
1544 that's damn hard in C (at least).
1545 Moreover, I got tired while trying to ensure plugin separation and
1546 genericity in SG mode. MSG wants me to do weird things, so let's go for
1547 cruel hacks (temporarily of course ;).
1548 See comment in transport_private.h:71
1549 - do not include all the _interface headers in private but in the files
1550 which really need them (to cut the compilation time when they are
1553 2004-07-26 Martin Quinson
1554 Version 0.3 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
1555 - Major overhault of the datadesc interface to simplify it:
1556 - shorted the function names:
1557 s/gras_datadesc_declare_struct/gras_datadesc_struct/ and so on
1558 - add a trivial way to push/pop integers into the cbps without malloc.
1559 This allows to make really generic sub_type description, which simply
1560 pop their size of the stack.
1561 - add a function gras_datadesc_ref_pop_arr() which does what users want
1562 most of the time: Declare a dynamic array (which pops its size of the
1563 stack) and declare a reference to it. Poor name, but anyway.
1564 - kill the post-send callback, add a post-receive one
1566 2004-07-23 Martin Quinson
1567 Version 0.2 (protocol changed; ABI changed)
1568 - add some testing for cpbs in the test cases, and fix some more bugs.
1569 This invalidate again the little64 data file, since I cannot regenerate
1571 - remove an awfull optimization in the logging stuff, allowing me to:
1572 - understand it again
1573 - learn gcc how to check that the argument match the provided format
1574 - fix all errors revealed by gcc after that
1575 - internal keys of dict are not \0 terminated. Deal with it properly in
1576 loggings instead of segfaulting when the user want to see the logs :-/
1578 2004-07-22 Martin Quinson
1579 - Fix some stupid bug preventing cbps (callback postit) from working
1581 2004-07-21 Martin Quinson
1582 - Some documentation cleanups
1583 - remove the useless last argument of msgtype_declare
1584 - rename the Virtu functions to fit into the 'os' namespace
1585 - move headers src/include -> src/include/gras/ and stop fooling with
1586 gras -> . symbolic link
1587 - make distcheck is now successful
1589 2004-07-19 Martin Quinson
1591 - Build shared library also
1592 - Install html doc to the right location
1593 - stop removing maintainer files in make clean
1594 - build tests only on make check
1596 2004-07-13 Martin Quinson
1598 - No major issue in previous version => change versionning schema
1599 - Re-enable little64 convertion test now that Abdou kindly regenerated the
1600 corresponding dataset.
1602 2004-07-11 Martin Quinson
1604 - Get it working with any kind of structure (we can compute the padding
1605 bytes remotely for all the architectures I have access to)
1606 - Implement the structure parsing macro (still not quite robust/complete)
1607 - Improvement to the remote testing toysuite
1609 2004-07-10 Martin Quinson
1610 [autoconf mechanism]
1611 - get ride of a bunch of deprecated macros
1612 - actually run the test for two-compliment, not only compile it :-/
1613 - test whether the structures get packed (and bail out if yes. Damn.
1614 Alignment is a serious matter)
1615 - test whether the structures get compacted (but respecting the alignment
1616 constraints of each types)
1617 - test whether the array fields of structures can straddle alignment boundaries
1619 - Damnit, double are bigger than float (typo in creation of 'double' datadesc)
1620 (took me 2 hours to find that bug, looking at the wrong place)
1621 - Add gras_datadesc_declare_{union,struct}_close(). They must be used
1622 before sending/receiving and are used to compute the offsets of fields
1623 - Given that padding size depend even on compiler options, keep track of
1624 alignment and aligned_size only for the current architecture. Not a big
1625 deal since we send structure fields one after the other (seems
1627 - Add the datastructure used for IEEE paper by the PBIO guys to the test
1628 program, let it work on linux/gcc/little32. portability todo.
1630 2004-07-08 Martin Quinson
1631 - import and improve remote compilation support from FAST
1632 - make sure make check works on half a dozen of machines out there
1634 2004-07-07 Martin Quinson
1635 Let's say it's version 0.0.3 ;)
1636 - Implement conversions (yuhu!)
1637 - Let it work on solaris (beside conversion, of course)
1638 - Stupid me, using rand() to generate the conversion datatests in not wise.
1640 2004-07-06 Martin Quinson
1641 - Let make dist work, since I'm gonna need it to compile on remote hosts
1642 - Let Tests/datadesc_usage write the architecture on which the file was
1643 generated as first byte.
1644 - Add PowerPC (being also IRIX64), SPARC (also power4) and ALPHA
1645 architecture descriptions.
1646 - Add datadesc_usage.{i386,ppc,sparc} files being the result of execution
1647 on those architectures.
1648 - Optimization: send/recv array of scalar in one shoot
1650 2004-07-05 Martin Quinson
1651 - YEAH! GRAS/SG and GRAS/RL are both able to run the ping example !
1653 - Plug a whole bunch of memleaks
1654 - each process now have to call gras_{init,exit}. One day, their log
1655 settings will be separated
1656 - Continue the code factorisation between SG, RL and common in Transport.
1658 2004-07-04 Martin Quinson
1660 - Redistribution between SG and RL.
1661 We wanna have to accept in SG, so move accepted related parts of RL in
1662 the common part. (more precisely, the dynar of all known sockets is no
1663 more a static in transport.c, but part of the process_data)
1665 [gras_stub_generator]
1666 - Bug fix: Do call gras_process_init from gras_init (wasnt called in RL).
1668 2004-07-03 Martin Quinson
1669 - Create a new log channel tbx containing dict, set, log, dynar (to shut
1670 them all up in one shot)
1672 - Fix the ugly case of reference to dynamic array.
1673 - New (semi-public) function gras_datadesc_size to allow the messaging
1674 layer to malloc the needed space for the buffer.
1676 - gras_socket_close now expect the socket to close (and not its address to
1677 put NULL in it after it). This is because the socket passed to handlers
1678 is one of their argument (=> not writable).
1680 - propagate the interface cleanup from last week in datadesc, ie remove a
1681 superfluous level of indirection. User pass adress of variable
1682 containing data (both when sending and receiving), and not of a variable
1683 being a pointer to the data. Let's say that I like it better ;)
1684 The price for that is constructs like "int msg=*(int*)payload" in
1685 handlers, but it's a fine price, IMHO.
1687 - Let it work in RL (yuhu)
1689 2004-06-21 Martin Quinson
1691 - porting SG plugin and SG select to new standards (works almost).
1692 - plug memleaks and fix bugs around.
1695 - cleanup the prototype of data recv and force users to specify when they
1696 want to handle references to objects. Test case working even for cycles.
1697 - plug memleaks. Valgrind is perfectly ok with this.
1699 2004-06-12 Martin Quinson
1701 - cleanup the separation between plugin and main code in plugin creation
1703 2004-06-11 Martin Quinson
1705 - Reput hook for raw sockets, needed for BW experiments
1706 - kill a few lines of dead code
1707 [Data description] Interface cleanup
1708 - gras_datadesc_by_name returns the searched type or NULL.
1709 That way, no variable is needed to use a type desc once, which makes
1711 - gras_datadesc_declare_[struct|union]_append_name is removed. The last
1712 two parameters were strings (field name, type name), leading to
1714 [Dicos] Interface cleanup
1715 - gras_dico_retrieve -> gras_dico_get ; gras_dico_insert -> gras_dico_set
1716 This is consistant with the dynar API.
1718 2004-04-21 Martin Quinson
1720 - Porting to new standards.
1722 - interface cleanup.
1723 There is no bag anymore, no need to take extra provision to mask the
1724 pointers behind "ID".
1725 Better splitup of functions between files create/exchange/convert.
1726 This is still a bit artificial since convert and receive are so
1727 interleaved, but anyway.
1729 - add a queued message list to procdata (the ones not matching criteria
1731 - factorize some more code between SG and RL wrt procdata
1733 - use gras_exit in example to track memleaks
1734 - get rid of gs_example now that GS is properly integrated into gras
1735 - update run_test to integrate the lastest tests (datadesc)
1737 - rename WARNINGn macros to WARNn since it prooved error-prone
1739 2004-04-19 Martin Quinson
1741 - register init/exit functions within gras module mechanism
1742 - send/receive function.
1743 Convertion is not implemented, but short-cutted if not needed.
1744 struct/array elements are sent one by one (instead of block-wise), but
1745 nobody really cares (yet). Get a prototype before optimizing.
1746 - tests (using a file socket) for DD send/receive on:
1747 - base types: int, float
1748 - array: fixed size, string (ie ref to dynamic string)
1749 - structure: homogeneous, heterogeneous
1750 - chained list, graph with cycle
1751 Believe it or not, valgrind is not too unhappy with the results. The
1752 cycle happily segfaults, but the others are ok. And I'm sick of pointers
1756 - Bugfix when using a filename explicitely (instead of '-')
1758 2004-04-09 Martin Quinson
1760 - factorize more code between RL and SG in socket creation
1761 - Complete the implementation and tests of:
1763 o file (only in RL, and mainly for debugging)
1765 I lost 3 days to design a portable address resolver, and then decided
1766 that the prototype mainly have to run on my box.
1767 Addressing portability too early may be like optimizing too early :-/
1769 - use gras_init in the Tests instead of the crappy parse_log_opt
1770 (the latter function is removed)
1771 [Conditional execution]
1772 - New functions: gras_if_RL/gras_if_SG (basic support for this)
1773 [Code reorganisation]
1774 - Get rid of libgrasutils.a since it makes more trouble than it solves.
1775 Build examples against the RL library, since there is no way to disable
1776 its creation for now.
1778 For information, the beginning of coding on GRAS was back in june
1779 2003. I guess that every line has been rewritten at least twice since