1 SimGrid (3.32.1) not released yet (target december 22)
4 - SimGrid now requires a compiler with C++17 support for public headers too.
5 Sibling projects should upgrade their FindSimGrid.cmake
6 - Remove the MSG API: its EOL was scheduled for 2020.
7 - Remove the Java bindings: they were limited to the MSG interface.
8 - On Windows, you now need to install WSL2 as the native builds are now disabled.
9 It was not really working anyway.
10 - Support for 32bits architecture is not tested anymore on our CI infrastructure.
11 It may break in the future, but we think that nobody's using SimGrid on 32 bits.
12 - Remove the surf module. It was replaced by the kernel/models module, and that
13 refactoring took almost 10 years to properly complete.
16 - Activity::set_remaining() is not public anymore. Use for example
17 Comm::set_payload_size() to change the size of the simulated data.
18 - New function: Engine::flatify_platform(), to get a fully detailed vision of the
20 - Full simDAG integration: Activity::start() actually starts only when all dependencies
21 are fullfiled. If it cannot be started right away, it will start as soon as it becomes
23 - Allow to set a concurrency limit on disks and hosts, as it was already the case for links.
24 - Rename Link::get_usage() to Link::get_load() for consistency with Host::
27 - Operations are designed to represent workflows, i.e, graphs of repeatable Activities.
28 - Documentation: https://simgrid.frama.io/simgrid/Plugins.html#operation
29 - Examples: examples/cpp/operation-*
32 - Enable the management of batteries on hosts.
33 - Documentation: https://simgrid.frama.io/simgrid/Plugins.html#battery
34 - Examples: examples/cpp/battery-*
37 - optimize an internal datastructure (use a set instead of a list for ongoing activities),
38 leading to a potentially big performance gain, in particular with many detached comms.
41 - New option smpi/barrier-collectives to add a barrier to some collectives
42 to detect dangerous code that /may/ work on some MPI implems.
43 - New function SMPI_app_instance_start() to easily start a MPI instance in your S4U simulation.
46 - Write the section of the manual about models, at least.
47 - WiFi: the total capacity of a link depends on the amout of flows on that link.
48 - Use the nonlinear callback feature of LMM to reflect this.
49 - Calibration values can be changed to match different MCS configurations
50 - See the example teshsuite/models/wifi_usage_decay/wifi_usage_decay.cpp
51 - See also "A Flow-Level Wi-Fi Model for Large Scale Network Simulation"
52 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03777726
53 - Merge parameters network/bandwidth-factor and smpi/bw-factor that serve the same purpose.
54 - Same for the latency
55 - Rewrite the corresponding documentation.
56 - Allow to disable the TCP windowing modeling by setting network/TCP-gamma to 0.
57 - Finally kill the 'compound' host model. You can change the CPU or network model
58 with the default host model, as it should.
59 - Rename option "surf/precision" to "precision/timing" for clarity.
60 - Rename option "maxmin/precision" to "precision/work-amount" for clarity.
61 - New function: Engine::flatify_platform() to debug your platform.
64 - Implement pthread_join in MC mode.
65 - Implement semaphore functions in sthread.
66 - Add an intricated way to verify the access to non-reentrant data structures
67 It requires code annotation, as shown in examples/sthread/stdobject/stdobject.cpp
70 - Synchronize the MBI tests with upstream.
71 - Show the full actor bactraces when replaying a MC trace (with model-check/replay)
72 and the status of all actors on deadlocks in MC mode.
73 - The safety/stateless aspects of the MC are now enabled by default in all simgrid builds.
74 Liveness and stateful aspects are still controled by the enabling_model-checking
76 - Stateless model-checking is now usable on any system, including Mac OSX and ARM processors.
79 - simgrid::xbt::cmdline and simgrid::xbt::binary_name are gone.
80 Please use simgrid::s4u::Engine::get_cmdline() instead.
83 - New section in the user guide on the provided performance models.
84 - New section presenting some technical good practices for (potential) contributors.
85 - Add a section on errors and exceptions to the API documentation.
86 - Move the s4u examples to a section on their own to ease navigation.
88 Fixed bugs (FG#.. -> FramaGit bugs; FG!.. -> FG merge requests)
89 (FG: issues on Framagit; GH: issues on GitHub)
90 - FG#18: Java bindings should be redone or removed
91 - FG!118: Wi-Fi callback mechanism
92 - FG!119: SMPI: add option to inject a barrier before every collective call
93 - GH#383: Segfault when adding a disk after load_platform(xml)
95 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
97 SimGrid (3.32) October 3. 2022.
99 The Wiedervereinigung release. Germany was reunited 32 years ago.
102 - SimGrid now requires a compiler with C++17 support to compile the lib.
103 Our public headers still allow the user code to be compiled in C++14.
104 - Support graphviz v3 and ns-3 v3.36 (older versions are still supported).
105 - Tested with clang (v11, v13, v14 and v16), gcc (v7 to v13) and IntelCC v2022.2
109 - kill signal Comm::on_completion that was not working anyway.
110 - Expose signals Activity::on_suspend and Activity::on_resume
111 - New macro xbt_enforce(): similar to xbt_assert(), but throws an AssertionError
112 instead of calling abort().
113 - New: s4u::Exec::get_thread_count()
114 - Various cleanups around virtual machines:
115 - host_by_name() and friends now only return hosts. VMs are now excluded.
116 - It is now impossible to search a VM by name globally.
117 You can only search VM by name on a given PM, so either you know
118 the PM on which your VM runs and you can search by name, or you need
119 to manually iterate over all PMs to search this VM.
120 - The s4u::VirtualMachine constructor is now deprecated.
121 Please use s4u::Host::create_vm() instead.
122 - Rename s4u::VirtualMachine::on_creation() to on_vm_creation() to
123 avoid confusion with s4u:Host::on_creation() that is inherited.
124 Also s4u::VirtualMachine::on_destruction -> on_vm_destruction().
126 - One-sided communications (Comm::sendto) can now be detached,
127 and should now be more resilient to network and host faults.
130 - Added the following bindings / examples:
131 - Comm (now 100% covers the C++ interface):
132 - Comm.dst_data_size, Comm.mailbox, Comm.sender, Comm.start_time, Comm.finish_time
133 - Comm.state_str [examples: examples/python/comm-failure/, examples/python/comm-host2host/]
134 - Comm.remaining [examples: examples/python/comm-host2host/, examples/python/comm-suspend/]
135 - Comm.set_payload_size [example: examples/python/comm-host2host/]
136 - Comm.set_rate [example: examples/python/comm-throttling/]
137 - Comm.sendto, Comm.sendto_init, Comm.sendto_async [example: examples/python/comm-host2host/]
138 - Comm.start, Comm.suspend, Comm.resume [example: examples/python/comm-host2host/]
139 - Comm.test_any [example: examples/python/comm-testany/]
140 - Comm.wait_until [example: examples/python/comm-waituntil/]
142 - Engine.host_by_name [example: examples/python/comm-host2host/]
143 - Engine.mailbox_by_name_or_create [example: examples/python/comm-pingpong/]
145 - Mailbox: Mailbox.ready [example: examples/python/comm-ready/]
146 - Ptask [example: examples/python/exec-ptask/]:
147 - this_actor.exec_init
148 - this_actor.parallel_execute
151 - Added an AssertionError exception that may be thrown in case of error.
152 For instance, creating two hosts with the same name will now throw this exception
153 instead of killing the interpreter.
156 - Implement MPI_File_get_type_extent(), MPI_File_s/get_atomicity() and
157 MPI_File_get_byte_offset()
158 - Intercept getpid() calls to return the simulated ones.
159 - Fix various bugs in MPI IO.
161 Platform description & visualization:
162 - More robust sanity checks for platforms, to reject forbidden topologies with
163 a proper error message.
164 - New platform example: supernode.cpp and supernode.py.
165 The Python version generates a nice graphical representation of the platform.
166 - Bug fixes around fat-tree topologies.
167 - Allow to dump the platform topology as a CSV file representing the graph edges
168 with platform_graph_export_csv() (similar to the DOT export).
169 - Fix graphicator for "cluster" topologies (e.g. fat-tree, dragonfly).
172 - Fix a bug when using ptasks with multicores (FG!111).
175 - First bits of sthread, that intercepts pthread operations at runtime.
176 The intend is to use it together with simgrid-mc, but it is TBD.
177 - Sync MBI generators with upstream changes.
178 - Various cosmetics, small bug fixes and inner refactorings
180 Fixed bugs (FG#.. -> FramaGit bugs; FG!.. -> FG merge requests)
181 (FG: issues on Framagit; GH: issues on GitHub)
182 - FG#105: "Variable penalty should not be negative!" with in-flight messages and bandwidth profiles
183 - FG#109: Application time reported by --cfg=smpi/display-timing:yes is wrong
184 - FG#110: Wait_any does not trigger new model solve when host events occur
185 - FG#111: Wrong execution time in rare cases when using multicore
186 - FG!98: Re-enable the tests for legacy stochastic profiles
187 - FG!109: Trigger new engine solve upon host events such as host on/off
188 - FG!116: SMPI/replay: Fix issue with recv of size =0
190 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
192 SimGrid (3.31) March 22. 2022.
194 The ненасильство release. We stand against war.
196 Against the agression by a sick system that forces peoples to take arms against each other.
199 - Rework the internals, for simpler and modern code. This shall unlock many future improvements.
200 - You can now define plugins onto the DFS explorer (previously called SafetyChecker), using the
201 declared signals. See CommunicationDeterminism for an example.
202 - Support mutex, semaphore and barrier in DPOR reduction
203 - Seems to work on Arm64 architectures too.
204 - Display a nice error message when ptrace is not usable.
205 - New test suite, imported from the MPI Bugs Initiative (MBI). Not all MBI generators are integrated yet.
206 - Remove the ISP test suite: it's not free software, and it's superseeded by MBI.
209 - fix for FG#100 by ensuring small asynchronous messages never overtake larger
210 ones, conforming to the standard.
211 - replay: fix waitall behaviour to avoid forgetting requests and leaking
213 - tracing: ensure that we dump the TI traces continuously during execution and
214 not just at the end, reducing memory cost and performance hit.
215 - Update OpenMPI collectives selection logic to match current one (4.1.2)
216 - Add a coherence check for collective operation order and root/MPI_Op
217 coherence. Potentially costly so not activated unless smpi:pendantic is set
218 or -analyze is given.
221 - New signal: Engine::on_simulation_start_cb()
222 - Introduce a new execution mode with this_actor::thread_execute(). This simulate
223 the execution of a certain amount of flops by multiple threads ran by a host. Each
224 thread executes the same number of flops, given as argument. An example of this new
225 function can be found in examples/cpp/exec-threads.
226 - Reimplementation of barriers natively.
227 Previously, they were implemented on top of s4u::Mutex and s4u::ConditionVariable.
228 The new version should be faster (and can be used in the model-checker).
229 - Actor::get_restart_count(): Returns the number of reboots that this actor did.
232 - MSG_barrier_destroy now expects a non-const msg_barrier parameter.
234 New plugin: the Chaos Monkey (killing actors at any time)
235 - Along with the new simgrid-monkey script, it tests whether your simulation
236 resists resource failures at any possible timestamp in your simulation.
237 - It is mostly intended to test the simgrid core in extreme conditions,
238 but some users may find it interesting too.
241 - New solver for parallel task: BMF.
242 - More realistic sharing of heterogeneous resources compared to the fair
243 bottleneck solver used by ptask_L07.
244 - Implement the BMF (Bottleneck max fairness) fairness.
245 - Improved resource sharing for parallel tasks with sub-flows (parallel
246 communications between same source and destination inside the ptask).
248 - "--cfg=host/model:ptask_L07 --cfg=host/solver:bmf": enable the ptask
249 model with BMF solver.
250 - "--cfg=bmf/max-iterations: <N>": maximum number of iterations performed
251 by BMF solver (default: 1000).
252 - "--cfg=bmf/precision: <N>": numerical precision used when computing
253 resource sharing (default: 1e-12).
254 - This model requires Eigen3 library. Make sure Eigen3 is installed to use BMF.
257 - Modifications of the Profile mechanism, with some impact on users
258 - Addition of a new (S4U) method to init profiles from generic functions to improve versatility
259 - Fix initial behaviour of state_profiles
260 - Modify periodicity to behave like a period, and not like a loop delay
263 - Drop xbt_dynar_shrink().
266 - Made the following bindings static (previously member functions):
267 - Actor: Actor.kill_all(), Actor.by_pid()
268 - Host: Host.by_name(), Host.current(), Host.on_creation_cb()
269 - Mailbox: Mailbox.by_name()
270 - Added the following bindings:
271 - this_actor.warning()
272 - Mailbox.put_init() [example: examples/python/comm-waitallfor/]
273 - Comm.detach() [example: examples/python/comm-waitallfor/]
274 - Comm.wait_for() [example: examples/python/comm-waitfor/]
275 - Comm.wait_any_for()
276 - Comm.wait_all_for() [example: examples/python/comm-waitallfor/]
277 - Mutex [example: examples/python/synchro-mutex/]
278 - Barrier [example: examples/python/synchro-barrier/]
279 - Semaphore [example: examples/python/synchro-semaphore/]
282 - Remove target "make uninstall" which was incomplete and no longer maintained.
284 Fixed bugs (FG#.. -> FramaGit bugs; FG!.. -> FG merge requests)
285 (FG: issues on Framagit; GH: issues on GitHub)
286 - FG#57: Mc SimGrid should test whether ptrace is usable
287 - FG#87: Smpi scripts fail with spaces in paths
288 - FG#100: [SMPI] Order of the message matching is not guaranteed
289 - FG#101: LGPL 2.1 is deprecated license
290 - FG#104: "make uninstall" not up-to-date
291 - GH#151: Missing mutexes for DPOR.
293 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
295 SimGrid (3.30) January 30. 2022.
297 The Sunday Bloody Sunday release.
299 Main user-visible changes:
300 - The SimDag API for the simulation of the scheduling of Directed Acyclic
301 Graphs has been dropped. It was marked as deprecated for a couple of years.
302 We finally complete the implementation of what has been called SimDag++
303 internally, i.e., porting the different features of SimDag on top of S4U.
304 The new way to simulate the execution of dependent activities directly by
305 maestro (without any other actor) is details in the examples/cpp/dag-* series
307 - The removal of SimDag led us to also remove the export to Jedule files that
308 was tightly coupled to SimDag. The instrumentation of DAG simulation is still
309 possible through the regular instrumentation API based on the Paje format.
310 - We also dropped the old and clumsy Lua bindings to create platforms in a
311 programmatic way. It can be done in C++ in a much cleaner way now, which
312 motivates this suppression.
315 - Introduce on_X_cb() functions for all signals, to attach a new
316 callback to the signal X. The signal variables are now hidden and
317 only these functions should be used.
318 Rationale: this enables the usual deprecation scheme where functions
319 remain for 4 releases if we need to modify the signals, while the
320 current code with the signal variables directly visible prevents any
322 - New function: Engine::run_until(date), to split the simulation.
323 - New signal: Activity::on_veto, to detect when an activity fails to start.
324 - Signal change: Comm::on_start(Comm&, bool) has been replaced by
325 Comm::on_send and Comm::recv. These two signals respectively correspond to
326 when the sending or receiving side of a Comm is ready. They are raised at
327 the same locations as the former Comm::on_start signal.
328 - New function: Engine::track_vetoed_activities() to interrupt run()
329 when an activity fails to start, and to keep track of such activities.
330 Please see the corresponding example for more info.
331 - New functions: s4u::Comm::{sendto_init, set_source, set_destination} to enable
332 the use of vetoers with direct host-to-host communications. Both source and
333 destination have to set for a comm to start. Each call to these setters check
334 if all vetoes are satisfied. When it is the case, the comm starts. A use case of
335 these functions is given in examples/cpp/dag-scheduling.
336 - New functions: {Exec, Io}::update_priority allow you to modify the priority of
337 these kinds of activities during their execution. Behavior is detailed in
338 examples/cpp/io-priority/.
341 - Dynamic costs for MPI operations: New API to allow users to dynamically
342 change injected costs for MPI_Recv, MPI_Send and MPI_Isend operations.
343 Alternative for smpi/or, smpi/os and smpi/ois configuration options.
344 - Fix some issues with the replay mechanism.
347 - Function xbt::Extendable::get_data() is now templated with the type of the
348 pointee. Untyped function is deprecated. Use get_data<void>() if you still
349 want to retrieve void*.
352 - New section: "SimGrid MPI calibration of a Grid5000 cluster"
353 presenting how to properly calibrate MPI communications in SimGrid.
354 - Complete and reword the platform section, which is now completed.
357 - Thread contexts are used by default with Python bindings. Other kinds of
358 contexts revealed unstable, specially starting with pybind11 v2.8.0.
360 Fixed bugs (FG#.. -> FramaGit bugs; FG!.. -> FG merge requests)
361 (FG: issues on Framagit; GH: issues on GitHub)
362 - FG#95: Wrong computation time for multicore execution after pstate change
363 - FG#97: Wrong computation time for ptask+multicore+pstates
364 - FG#98: SMPI offline simulation is inconsistent with the online simulation
365 (deadlocks / message truncation)
366 - FG#99: Weird segfault when not sealing an host
368 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
370 SimGrid (3.29) October 7. 2021
372 The "Ask a stupid question" release.
374 We wish that every user ask one question about SimGrid to celebrate.
375 On Mattermost, Stack Overflow or using the issues tracker.
377 New modeling features:
378 - Non-linear resource sharing, modeling resources whose performance heavily degrades with contention:
379 - The total capacity may be updated dynamically through a callback
380 and depends mainly on the number of concurrent flows.
381 - Examples (both cpp and python): io-degradation, network-nonlinear, exec-cpu-nonlinear
383 - Dynamic factors: model variability in the speed of activities
384 - Each action can now have a factor that affects its progression.
385 This multiplicative factor is applied when updating the amount of work
386 remaining, thereby an activity with factor=0.5 only uses half of the
387 instantaneous power/bandwidth it is allocated and will appear twice
388 slower than what it actually consumes.
389 - This can be used to model a overhead (e.g., there is a 20 bytes
390 header in a 480 bytes TCP packet so the factor 0.9583) but the novelty
391 is this factor can now easily be adjusted depending on activity's and
392 resources characteristics.
393 - This existed for network (e.g., the effective bandwidth depends
394 on the message in SMPI piecewise-linear network model) but it is now
395 more general (the factor may depend on the source and destination and
396 thus account to different behaviors for intra-node communications and
397 extra-node communications) and is available for CPUs (e.g., if you
398 want to model an affinity as in the "Unrelated Machines" problem in
399 scheduling) and disks (e.g., if you want to model a stochastic
401 - For that, resources can be provided with a callback that computes
402 the activity factor when creating the action.
403 - Example: examples/cpp/exec-cpu-factors
404 - The same mechanism is also available for the latency, which
405 allows to easily introduce complex variability patterns.
408 - Added support to programmatic platform creation in Python.
409 Example: examples/python/clusters-multicpu
412 - Disk and Host now have a set_sharing_policy() too, for non-linear sharing.
413 This can only be set through the API, not through XML files.
417 - Multiple fixes to ensure reproducibility of tracing
418 - scan/excan can now be replayed
419 - wait action now uses ranks and not pid, as the other ones.
420 - smpi/init and smpi/finalization-barrier are now valid for replays.
421 - exit() is now intercepted by SMPI to avoid premature shutdown of
422 simulation. First non 0 return codes is returned as simulation return
426 * New section "Release Notes" documenting recent and current developments.
427 * New section "Modeling I/O: the realistic way" presenting how to properly model disks in SimGrid.
428 * Improvements in API Reference for C++ and Python interfaces.
431 - Make wifi creation compatible with ns-3 version 3.34 too.
433 Fixed bugs (FG#.. -> FramaGit bugs; FG!.. -> FG merge requests)
434 (FG: issues on Framagit; GH: issues on GitHub)
435 - FG#77: Search feature of doc is broken (update sphinx theme version)
436 - FG#78: Multiple fixes for SMPI replay:
437 - TI tracing of allotallv/w was outputting wrong values
438 - MPI_LOGICAL in fortran is actually 32 bits wide, and not 8.
440 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
442 SimGrid (3.28) July 14. 2021
444 The Victoriadagarna Release.
447 - C++ platform interface: Users can now describe their platform directly in C++.
448 This provides greatly flexibility and performance improvement for complex
449 platforms. Main features:
450 - Fat-Tree/DragonFly/Torus composing: allows you to create clusters of
451 "zones", instead of single hosts. This feature enables the description
452 of clusters with complex hosts, composed of several CPUs, GPUs, etc.
453 - StarZone: new zone with a Star-like topology. The routes are defined
454 as a set of links used to communicate from node to everybody (node<->ALL).
455 - Split-Duplex links: auxiliary method to create split-duplex links in
456 the platform, easing its utilisation. It automatically creates both UP
457 and DOWN links (similarly as done in XML).
458 - Please refer to the documentation and the examples included:
459 e.g. examples/cpp/clusters-multicpu/ and examples/platforms/*.cpp.
460 - New plugin: Producer-Consumer with monitor. Just requires to include the
461 include/simgrid/plugins/ProducerConsumer.hpp header to be used. See the
462 associated example (examples/cpp/plugin-prodcons).
465 - New: s4u::Comm::wait_all_for() (like s4u::Comm::wait_all, but with a timeout),
466 s4u::Io::wait_any(), s4u::Io::wait_any_for().
467 - Methods test_all/test_any/wait_all/wait_any in s4u now take their vector
468 parameter by reference, instead of a pointer.
469 - Fixed a bug where Activity::wait_for() killed the activity on timeout.
470 Explicitly cancel the activity to get back to previous behavior.
471 - New: Link::set_concurrency_limit() to limit the amount of concurrent flows.
474 - The default SMPI compiler flags are no more taken from the environment.
475 They can be explicitly set through cmake parameters SMPI_C_FLAGS,
476 SMPI_CXX_FLAGS, or SMPI_Fortran_FLAGS.
478 --cfg=smpi/finalization-barrier: which can be used to add
479 a barrier inside MPI_Finalize. This can help for some codes which cleanup
480 data attached to a process, but still used in other SMPI processes.
481 --cfg=smpi/errors-are-fatal: True by default, behaves like if MPI_ERRORS_RETURN
482 is active when set to false, to keep going after a small error
483 --cfg=smpi/pedantic: True by default. Do not report some harmless MPI errors
484 which may or may not be problematic in the end.
486 - fix behaviour, as maximum iteration count could be ignored
487 - add SMPI_SAMPLE_LOCAL_TAG and SMPI_SAMPLE_GLOBAL_TAG macros, to allow user to
488 use sampling when the same kernel is called with a different set of parameters
489 which have an impact on the timing.
490 - realloc is now intercepted, to be coherent, as malloc/calloc/free were already.
491 It should now work with smpi/auto-shared-malloc-thresh.
492 - Improve error handling and reporting in multiple places
493 - Improve correctness checks on the MPI code.(MPI_Op and MPI_Datatype
494 validity checks, truncated messages are now an error, return errors
495 when explicitely deleted handles are reused, ...)
496 - RMA: multiple fixes and stability improvements.
497 - analysis (-analyze flag in smpirun):
498 - SMPI can now report buffer leaks as well as MPI handles leaks,
499 if code was compiled without SMPI_NO_OVERRIDE_MALLOC.
500 - if -trace-call-location is used when compiling, SMPI can report
501 origin of leaked handles/buffers
502 - group leaks by type/origin in output message if possible
503 - New implemented MPI calls: MPI_Comm_test_inter
506 - Changed internal implementation of bandwidth factors in network models.
507 Models affected: CM02, LV08 (default), SMPI, IB.
508 Configuration affected: "network/bandwidth-factors" and "smpi/bw-factors".
509 Bandwidth factors are applied to communications to describe that users
510 cannot use 100% of the available bandwidth. For example, the default network model,
511 LV08, applies a factor of 0.97 to the bandwidth. In older versions, this
512 behavior was implemented by limiting the bandwidth available in the LMM
513 system for this flow. This may give the false impression that there is
514 bandwidth available for other flows due to its underutilization, especially
515 for the dynamic bandwidth factors used in SMPI models.
516 To avoid this, we have modified the implementation so that each flow uses the
517 maximum physical bandwidth according to the LMM system.
518 However, the actual throughput of the flow seen by the user is defined by
519 the physical bandwidth multiplied by the bandwidth factor.
520 This change impacts on the simulation results for all network models on
521 which we have bandwidth factors configured.
522 *****************************************
523 *DO NOT MIX 3.28 RESULTS WITH OLDER ONES*
524 *****************************************
525 This change may impact on the timing of your simulation results.
526 Take care when comparing simulations from different SimGrid's
527 versions. Sorry for the inconvenience.
528 - Dynamic network factors: users can configure a callback to define
529 the network factors dynamically. This API is available at
530 simgrid::kernel::resource::NetworkModelIntf.
531 - Users have access to complete information about the current communication
532 to decide which factor to apply. This includes: message size, source and
533 destination hosts, links and zones traversed.
534 - Dynamic factors for both latency and bandwidth.
535 - For more details, see the example in (examples/cpp/network-factors).
536 - Plugin host_energy: the "watt_off" and "watt_per_state" host properties,
537 deprecated since version 3.24, are no longer supported. Instead, use
538 "wattage_off" and "wattage_per_state".
541 - xbt_assert is not disabled anymore, even when built with enable_debug=off.
544 - New tutorial: Model-checking and formal assessment
545 - New sections: "Demystifying the routing" and "C++ platforms"
546 - Update and improve the part on visualization in MPI and Algo tutorials.
547 - Improve the section on routing: how to define it, how it's used internally
548 - Fix many issues, broken links and missing references in doxygen and Sphinx
551 - Lua platform files are deprecated. Their support will be dropped after v3.31.
554 - Legacy functions deprecated in this release: SIMIX_get_clock(), SIMIX_run().
556 Fixed bugs (FG#.. -> FramaGit bugs; FG!.. -> FG merge requests)
557 (FG: issues on Framagit; GH: issues on GitHub)
558 - FG#47: Complete and fix tests from teshuite/s4u/activity-lifecycle
559 - FG#64: Configuring smpi/IB-penalty-factors
560 - FG#67: Running computation concurrently with MPI_Iallreduce
561 - FG#69: Tutorial misleading users of pre-v3.26 versions of SimGrid
562 - FG#71: Segmentation fault on invalid gw_src/gw_dst
563 - GH#322: Issue when an actor kills his host vm
565 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
567 SimGrid (3.27) March 29. 2021
569 The Ragnar Release (anniversary of the siege of Paris by Vikings in 845)
571 Main user-visible changes:
572 - All functions marked as deprecated for one year were removed.
573 - Removed all that was related to the "Storage" type in all APIs and bindings.
574 "Disks" have been introduced more than a year ago to replace them for the better.
575 It's time to finish this replacement.
576 - SMPI ABI breaks from previous version: MPI global handles (predefined datatypes,
577 ops, COMM_WORLD) are now defined differently, and can be used in initializers,
578 avoiding "initializer element is not constant" errors with some codes. Please be
579 careful to recompile your MPI codes if switching to this new SimGrid version.
580 - Network model ns-3 now requires version ns-3.28 or higher.
581 - Removed some option aliases that were deprecated since v3.23 (June 2019)
582 - 'verbose-exit' is now 'debug/verbose-exit'
583 - 'simix/breakpoint' is now 'debug/breakpoint'
584 - 'clean-atexit' is now 'debug/clean-atexit'
587 - New functions: Comm::sendto_{init,async} to initiate a communication
588 on between two (possibly remote) hosts.
589 - Define new template functions Mailbox::get_unique(), returning a std::unique_ptr.
590 - Functions Mailbox::get() and Mailbox::get_async() are now templated with the
591 type of the pointee. Untyped functions are deprecated. Use Mailbox::get<void>()
592 or Mailbox::get_async<void>() if you really want to play with void*.
593 - Unify the interface of Activity::on_{start/activity}
594 - New function: Comm::get_dst_data()
595 - New function: Comm::set_payload_size() to set the amount of bytes to simulate.
598 - ptask should now work better with multicore hosts (FG#37).
599 - Internal cleanups and refactoring around activities, to prepare for SimDAG++.
600 - Internal cleanups and refactoring around models, to prepare for programmatic
602 - Modernize our tests of the performance models
606 - New section: Configuring the logs from the command line.
607 - New section: Programming API of logs.
608 - New section: Getting realistic results
609 - New section: Examples of SMPI Usage
610 - New part: SimGrid's Internals, with a section on Design goals
611 - Move back to the classical Breathe tool chain, and fix many small glitches.
614 - Handle leak checking: SMPI will now display a message if MPI handles are still
615 present at the end of a simulation. Option smpi/list-leaks:n will display the n
616 first leaked pointers and their types.
617 - smpi/display-allocs option : Display Memory allocations analysis, with hints
618 about the largest allocations. This only works for allocations with malloc/calloc
619 and not compiled with SMPI_NO_OVERRIDE_MALLOC
620 - "-analyze" option in smpirun will activate smpi/display-allocs and smpi/display-timing
621 - New implemented MPI calls: MPI_File_set_size, MPI_Aint_add, MPI_Aint_diff,
622 MPI_Type_get_extent_x, MPI_Type_get_true_extent_x, MPI_Status_set_elements_x
623 - Support for MPI C++ datatypes (MPI_CXX_BOOL, MPI_CXX_FLOAT_COMPLEX,
624 MPI_CXX_DOUBLE_COMPLEX, MPI_CXX_LONG_DOUBLE_COMPLEX)
625 - Replay now opens and parses the trace file only once for all ranks when possible.
627 - better handling of MPI_PROC_NULL
628 - MPI_Group_incl was broken in some cases
629 - PAPI tracing now fixed
630 - MPI_Errhandlers are properly handled for MPI_COMM_WORLD
631 - SMPI will now fail properly when receive size < sent size, instead of
632 just setting MPI_ERR_TRUNCATE and keep going.
633 - Proxy Apps ( https://framagit.org/simgrid/SMPI-proxy-apps ):
634 - Remove useless build patches and split build/run patches on the page
635 - Build in parallel when possible
636 - Test on yum-based systems
637 - New nightly tested Proxy-apps:
638 - OpenMPI mpi-test-suite
639 - Coral MCB, LSMS, Qbox, CLOMP
640 - ECP/Mantevo Cloverleaf3D, Ember
641 - Codevault bhtree_mpi
644 - Only initialize the Dwarf parser when needed, saving 10 seconds in most cases.
645 - Start to overhaul the implementation to modernize it (still ongoing).
648 - Drop simgrid::xbt::demangle(). Please use boost::core::demangle() instead.
649 - Drop xbt_dynar_cursor_rm(), xbt_dynar_search_or_negative(),
650 xbt_str_split_quoted(), xbt_str_split_quoted_in_place().
651 - Deprecate xbt_dynar_to_array().
652 - When an exception occurs in kernel mode, display both the actor and kernel stacks.
654 C binding and interface:
655 - Rename (lowercase) functions sg_actor_get_PID, sg_actor_get_PPID, sg_actor_by_PID.
656 - Constness requirement has been lowered for parameter argv of sg_actor_start()
657 and sg_actor_create() It's now (char* const*). The previous version is still
658 available as sg_actor_start_() and sg_actor_create_().
660 Fixed bugs (FG#.. -> FramaGit bugs; FG!.. -> FG merge requests)
661 (FG: issues on Framagit; GH: issues on GitHub)
662 - FG#37: Parallel tasks are limited to 1 core per host
663 - FG#62: Running "smpirun -replay" on large networks
664 - FG!46: Fix a few potential memory leaks in SMPI colls
665 - GH#343: Wrong consumed energy when an exec timeouts
667 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
669 SimGrid (3.26) December 15. 2020
671 The Release release (the French lockdown was eased today).
673 Important user-visible changes:
674 - SimGrid now requires a compiler with C++14 support.
675 Sibling projects should upgrade their FindSimGrid.cmake
676 - Surf precision default value is now 1e-9, instead of 1e-5. This was changed as
677 several users had difficulties to understand issues when using high bandwidth or
678 small latency events. The new value was already the default for SMPI and
679 should not cause too much performance hit. It can change some simulation
680 timings if simulation was skipping a lot of small events (which was actually
681 an issue per see). The old value can be restored with --cfg=surf/precision:1e-5.
682 - On some network models (L07, CM02, LV08), an implicit loopback link is created
683 for local communication. Default bandwidth was 500MBps and latency was 15µs,
684 which was rather bad. Default values have been changed to 10GBps and 0 latency.
685 Options network/loopback-lat and network/loopback-bw have been added to adapt
686 these values if needed. Network and routing models already providing separate
687 loopbacks (clusters and such) are not impacted by this change.
688 - SMPI now adds 16 bytes of header to each message sent, in order to simulate
689 metadata that are added to each MPI message by MPI libraries (tag,
690 src/dest, and communicator information). This may change simulation times
691 for very small message sizes, but should be more realistic.
694 - New routing 'WiFi' that makes it easier to specify a wifi network zone.
695 - New plugins: wifi_energy and link_load. See the associated examples.
696 - New examples: wifi networks, and communication suspend.
699 - LTO is now enabled for Intel/clang compilers.
700 - LTO behavior on GCC can be parameterized using LTO_EXTRA_FLAG in cmake.
701 Setting it to "auto" will use all available cores, while setting it to n will
702 use n cores to speedup link step (usage: cmake -DLTO_EXTRA_FLAG=4).
703 - Remove obsolete runtime option 'contexts/parallel-threshold'.
704 - Runtime option 'tracing/msg/process' renamed to 'tracing/actor'. The old name
705 has been kept for compatibility.
706 - Finally remove obsolete snake_case() aliases for runtime options.
707 - Further improve the documentation.
710 - the on_exit() of each actor is also executed when the simulation deadlocks.
711 - New functions: s4u::Activity:: suspend(), resume() and is_suspended()
712 An example is provided for s4u::Comm but it should work with Exec and Io.
715 - Update proxy apps coverage of new ECP apps: 60+ apps now tested nightly on
716 https://framagit.org/simgrid/SMPI-proxy-apps
717 - MPI/IO: supports names starting with "./"
718 - Fortran: many MPI/IO bindings, support for MPI_UB/LB, C MPI_INT/FLOAT/DOUBLE
720 - smpicc/cxx/ff/f90 now will actually perform definition checks at link time. When
721 building shared libraries, this may cause issues, so environment variable
722 SMPI_NO_UNDEFINED_CHECK can be added to disable this.
723 - most temporary files should now be created in /tmp dir (or equivalent).
724 If this one does not allow execution of code (noexec flag), this may cause issues.
725 Please use another tmp directory (using TMPDIR or equivalent system variable)
729 - A large refactoring is ongoing, but this should be transparent for users so far.
732 - Drop xbt_str_split().
734 C binding and interface:
735 - The return type of the sg_actor_on_exit() callbacks is now 'void'
736 (int value was previously ignored)
737 - Many C functions were renamed to follow a common naming style
738 (sg_object_get_something and sg_object_set_something). As usual, the deprecated
739 names are kept until version 3.30.
740 - Many MSG tests were converted to the new S4U's interface in C, that
741 was extended for that.
743 Fixed bugs (FG#.. -> FramaGit bugs; FG!.. -> FG merge requests)
744 (FG: issues on Framagit; GF: issues on GForge; GH: issues on GitHub)
745 - FG#41: Add sg_actor_create C interface
746 - FG#43: xbt::random needs some care
747 - FG#48: The Impossible Did Happen (yet again)
748 - FG#50: Suspending an actor executed at the current timestamp fails
749 - FG#52: Zero-seconds timeout : "That's in the past already"
750 - FG#53: Crash while using ns-3 network model
751 - FG#54: How to suspend a comm?
752 - FG!22: Stochastic Profiles
753 - FG!24: Documentation and fix for xbt/random
754 - FG!35: Add a modeling hint for parallel links in doc
755 - FG!36: [xbt/random] Read/Write the state of the RNG
756 - FG!42: Link cumulated load plugin
757 - FG!44: Test condition variable wait_until+notify_all
758 - GF#18137: Allow different stack sizes?
759 - GH#128: Parallelization of simulation with --cfg=contexts/nthreads
760 - GH#139: Allow pthread creation in SMPI
761 - GH#336: Packet-level simulation using SMPI?
762 - GH#345: Error in the LMM while migrating a VM
763 - GH#346: [SMPI] error while loading shared libraries: libsimgrid.so
764 - GH#352: pip install / python setup.py install fail to find pybind11
765 - GH!337: Fix link_energy plugin for wifi platforms
766 - GH!339: Add Mailbox set_receiver method to python binding
767 - GH!344: Cast hugepages macros parameters to int64
769 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
771 SimGrid (3.25) February 2. 2020 (aka 02 02 2020)
773 The Palindrom Day Release.
775 Important user-visible changes:
776 - Improve the Python usability (stability and documentation).
777 - A nasty synchronization bug was ironed out, see also below.
778 - Python's doc was organized as a separate tree, now integrated with C++.
779 - C bindings of S4U were not part of the doc.
780 - The C++ doc was also improved as methods are now split by theme.
781 - Further deprecate MSG: you now have to pass -Denable_msg=ON to cmake.
782 - This is mandatory to use the Java bindings.
783 - OFF by default; The plan is to completely remove MSG by 2020Q4 or 2021Q1.
784 - SimDAG++: Automatic dependencies on S4U activities (experimental)
785 - Some features are already implemented but not all of them
786 - Cannot block an activity until it's scheduled on a resource
787 - No heterogeneous wait_any() that would mix Exec/Comm/Io activities.
788 - See examples/s4u/{io,exec,comm}-dependent for what's already there.
791 - Upgrade documented Java dependency to Java 8 (earlier versions don't work).
792 - Drop support for Viva/Triva (old visualization tools), hence removed
793 TRACE_get_node_types() and TRACE_get_edge_types() functions.
796 - Require pybind11 version 2.4.
797 - Greatly improve locking during context switches with Python.
798 - Declaring Python callbacks to this_actor::on_exit is now working.
799 - No more tests are failing currently, even on win32.
802 - Actor: Merge signals on_migration_start/end into on_host_change
803 - Actor: Rename migrate() into set_host()
804 - Disk: Allow users to get the read and write nominal bandwidth values
805 - Exec: Implement wait_for(timeout)
806 - Io: Implement wait_for(timeout)
809 - Parse errors now raise a simgrid::ParseError that you may want to catch.
812 - In simgrid::kernel::resource::Model, the methods next_occuring_event*() have
813 been renamed to fix a spelling error. As usual, the previous definitions are
814 kept with a deprecation warning. However, to avoid runtime errors, it is now
815 forbidden to override these deprecated methods in a derived class. Please use
816 the new names immediately if you need to override them.
819 - Remove unused parameter 'free_ctn' for xbt_dict_set() and xbt_dict_set_ext().
820 - Drop unused functions for dicts and dynars: xbt_dict_cursor_get_elm,
821 xbt_dict_get, xbt_dict_get_elm, xbt_dict_get_ext, xbt_dict_get_key,
822 xbt_dict_remove, xbt_dict_reset, xbt_dynar_compare, xbt_dynar_dump,
823 xbt_dynar_foreach_ptr, xbt_dynar_free_data, xbt_dynar_free_voidp,
824 xbt_dynar_init, xbt_dynar_insert_at_as, xbt_dynar_merge,
825 xbt_dynar_remove_n_at, xbt_dynar_replace, xbt_dynar_search, xbt_dynar_set.
826 - New module: random, providing classical random numbers generators.
829 - New option : "smpi/auto-shared-malloc-thresh" which sets a value for
830 allocations' size above which they are considered "shared" by default (as if
831 they were performed through SMPI_SHARED_MALLOC macros).
832 Default = 0 = disabled feature.
833 Note : malloc, calloc and free are now overridden by smpicc/cxx by default.
834 This can cause some troubles if codes are already overriding these. If this
835 is the case, defining SMPI_NO_OVERRIDE_MALLOC in the compilation flags can
836 help, but will make this feature unusable.
837 - Input check is now performed much more consistently and outputs precise
838 warnings for each error found
839 - New supported calls : MPI_File_set_view, MPI_File_get_view
840 - MPI I/O now only supports disks, as storage is discontinued.
841 - MPI I/O allows opening files without specifying absolute path
842 - Note : SMPI configuration options are now initialized by smpi_init_options()
843 call, which should be called if SMPI is not being used through smpirun.
845 Fixed bugs (FG#.. -> framagit bugs; FG!.. -> framagit merge requests):
846 - FG#9: Python bindings crashing
847 - FG#39: Missing s4u::Comm::wait_any_for example
848 - FG#42: Add support for ThreadSanitizer (TSan)
849 - FG!19: Removing RngStream
850 - FG!20: A module for RNG calls
851 - FG!21: Choice between ad-hoc and standard distributions implementations
853 - FG!25: Fix link in Mutex doc
854 - FG!26: Fix links in SMPI interface doc
855 - GH#31: [MC] please provide an option to make MPI_Send asynchronous
856 - GH#305: Unscheduled tasks are still excuted
857 - GH#313: smpirun: manual outdated w.r.t. --help
858 - GH#321: [S4U] Get task remaining work ratio
859 - GH#323: Crash when an actor turn off his physical host
860 - GH#335: Missing links on dragonfly example svg
861 - https://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/simgrid-user/2019-November/004653.html:
862 MPI_Cart_sub was not working properly. Kudos to Jonathan Borne for the report.
864 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
866 SimGrid (3.24) October 9. 2019
868 The Clean Disk Release.
871 - Introduce a s4u::Disk interface to manage the newly introduced <disk>
872 tag. s4u::Disk is called to supplant s4u::Storage in a near future. It
873 thus becomes the default resource to execute I/O operations. Examples
874 and the file system plugin have been modified to use disks instead of
875 storage elements. Storage can still be used but is doomed to disappear.
876 Users are thus adviced to update their simulators accordingly.
877 - Barrier::wait returns SG_BARRIER_SERIAL_THREAD for (only) one actor
878 for consistency with pthread_barrier_wait()
879 - Host::get_englobing_zone() returns the englobing netzone
880 - Actor::on_destruction is now called in the destructor
881 Actor::on_termination new signal called when the actor terminates
883 - Global signals are now part of the Engine:
884 - on_platform_creation: after config settings, before the XML parsing
885 - on_platform_created: right after the XML parsing
886 - on_time_advance: each time the clock advances
887 - on_simulation_end: after simulation, before cleanups
888 - on_deadlock: as the name implies.
890 - sg_{actor,host,link}_{data,data_set}() now all exist.
891 Use them to attach user data to the object and retrieve it.
894 - Introduce an experimental Wifi model. It sounds reasonable
895 according to the state of the art, but it still has to be properly
896 validated, at least against ns-3 if not against reality.
897 - Improved the usability of ns-3. Several bugs were ironed out.
898 - host_energy: Wattage was expressed as 'idle:oneCore:allCores'.
899 It is now expressed as 'idle:epsilon:allCores' to properly model the
900 consumption of non-whole tasks on mono-core hosts. More info in the doc.
903 - convert a new set of functions to the S4U C interface and move the old MSG
904 versions to legacy (MSG_process_self*, MSG_process_{un}ref, ...)
907 - Fortran bindings for DVFS have been removed.
908 - Add support for MPI_Irsend, MPI_Rsend, MPI_Rsend_init, MPI_Bsend,
909 MPI_Ibsend, MPI_Bsend_init, MPI_Buffer_attach, MPI_Buffer_detach
910 - SMPI can now be selected by cmake's find_module(MPI) with
911 MPI_C_COMPILER, MPI_CXX_COMPILER, MPI_Fortran_COMPILER variables.
912 - Add support for MPI Errhandlers in Comm, File or Win. Default errhandler is now
913 MPI_ERRORS_ARE_FATAL, so codes which were sending warnings may start failing.
914 - trace-call-location can be used with TI traces, and replayed, and is compatible
915 with smpi/comp-adjustment-file.
916 - sleep events are now correctly traced/replayed.
917 - Default for trace-call-location is now to use file names and not full paths.
918 To revert to previous behavior (in case of collision of filenames), option
919 "smpi/trace-call-use-absolute-path" can be set to yes.
922 - Use the included xxHash as an hash implem when C++14 is usable.
923 - Option model-checker/hash was removed. This is always activated now.
924 - New option smpi/buffering controls the MPI buffering in MC mode.
925 - MPI calls now MC_assert() that no MPI_ERR_* code is returned.
926 This is useful to check for MPI compliance.
929 - New section on plugins: how to define a new one, and existing ones.
932 - xbt_mutex_t and xbt_cond_t are now marked as deprecated, a new C interface
933 on S4U is already available to replace them by sg_mutex_t and sg_cond_t.
936 - Introduce the <disk> tag as a replacement of the <storage>, <storage_type>,
937 and <mount> tags. The rationale is finish to decouple what should be handle
938 by SimGrid kernel (i.e., resources and activities) from plugins built in
939 user space (e.g., the file system plugin). This new tag currently accepts
940 only three attributes (id, read_bw, and write_bw). All the other information
941 that was declared with the storage related tags now has to be expressed as
942 properties. An example of platform using this new tag is available at
943 examples/platforms/hosts_with_disks.xml
946 - 'expect signal' can now accept more than one potential signal.
948 Fixed bugs (FG#.. -> framagit bugs; FG!.. -> framagit merge requests):
949 - FG#28: add sg_actor_self (and other wrappers on this_actor methods)
950 - FG#29 and FG#33: provide a new C API to mutexes and condition variables
951 - FG#30: convert MSG_process_{un}ref to sg_actor_{un}ref
952 - FG#31: per-actor data
953 - FG#34: SG_BARRIER_SERIAL_THREAD?
954 - FG#35: model-checker does not like buster-produced binaries
955 - FG!13: MC: complete workaround in the error msg seen on modern systems
956 - FG!15: execute_flops now logs compute
957 - FG!16: Fix the ns-3 bindings when several flows are simultaneously finishing
958 - FG!17: ns-3: unblock the right number of communications + others issues
959 - FG!18: Improving the performance of the ns-3 bindings
960 - GH#189: Energy consumption of parallel tasks
961 - GH#219: Error in the throughput of TCP transfer
962 - GH!330: Minor polishing of English: Configuring_Simgrid
963 - GH!331: Fix a doc error about actors (Tutorial_algorithms)
964 - GH!332: Add '-O0' flag for: cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug
965 - GH!334: Rework energy plugin, again
967 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
969 SimGrid (3.23.2) July 8. 2019
972 - Nicer introduction page.
973 - Migrate the "Deploy your application" page to the new doc.
974 - Move Java as a subtree of MSG.
977 - Rename simgrid::TimeoutError to simgrid::TimeoutException.
980 - Drop xbt_dynar_sort_strings().
983 - Really fix FG#26: Turning off a link should raise NetworkFailureException
984 - FG#27: Wrong exception thrown to wait_any when link is turned off
985 - GH#328: Java: Canceling multiple tasks in a single vm/host
987 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
989 SimGrid (3.23) June 25. 2019
991 The Exotic Solstice Release.
994 - SunOS and Haiku OS support. Because exotic platforms are fun.
995 - Stop setting random seed with srand48() at initialization.
996 - Use addr2line as a fallback for stacktraces when backtrace is not available.
997 - Build option -Denable_documentation is now OFF by default.
998 - Network model 'NS3' was renamed into 'ns-3'.
1001 - Simgrid can now hopefully be installed with pip.
1004 - wait_any can now be used for asynchronous executions too.
1007 - New log appenders: stdout and stderr. Use stdout for xbt_help.
1008 - Drop xbt_dict_dump.
1011 - 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
1012 - MPI/IO is now supported over the Storage API (no files are written or read, storage is simulated). Supported calls are all synchronous ones.
1013 - MPI interface is now const correct for input parameters
1014 - MPI_Ireduce, MPI_Iallreduce, MPI_Iscan, MPI_Iexscan, MPI_Ireduce_scatter, MPI_Ireduce_scatter_block support
1015 - Fortran bindings for async collectives.
1016 - MPI_Comm_get_name, MPI_Comm_set_name, MPI_Count support.
1019 - Remove option 'model-check/record': Paths are recorded in any cases now.
1020 - Remove option 'model-check/sparse-checkpoint': Checkpoints are now
1021 always sparse. That's an immense gain in memory, and can even be
1022 faster because of cache effects. So there is no need to clutter the
1023 code to allow the user to go for the unefficient mode.
1026 - Remove the lagrange-based models (Reno/Reno2/Vegas). The regular
1027 models proved to be more accurate than these old experiments.
1029 Fixed bugs (FG=FramaGit; GH=GitHub -- Please prefer framagit for new bugs)
1030 - FG#1: Broken link in error messages
1031 - FG#2: missing installation documentation
1032 - FG#3: missing documentation in smpirun
1033 - FG#6: Python bindings not available on PyPI
1034 - FG#7: simple cmake call requires doxygen
1035 - FG#8: make python bindings an optional dependency
1036 - FG#10: Can not use MSG_process_set_data from SMPI any more
1037 - FG#11: Auto-restart actors forget their on_exit behavior
1038 - FG#12: -Denable_lto=OFF doesn't disable LTO
1039 - FG#13: Installs unstripped file 'bin/graphicator'
1040 - FG#14: Installs the empty directory 'doc/simgrid/html'
1041 - FG#15: Setting -Denable_python=OFF doesn't disable the search for pybind11
1042 - FG#17: Dead link in doc (pls_ns3)
1043 - FG#20: 'tesh --help' should return 0
1044 - FG#21: Documentation link on http://simgrid.org/ broken
1045 - FG#22: Debian installation instruction are broken
1046 - FG#26: Turning off a link should raise NetworkFailureException exceptions
1047 - GH#133: Java: a process can run on a VM even if its host is off
1048 - GH#320: Stacktrace: Avoid the backtrace variant of Boost.Stacktrace?
1049 - GH#326: Valgrind-detected error for join() when energy plugin is activated
1051 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1053 SimGrid (3.22) April 1. 2019
1055 The Easter Christmas Release (this one is somewhat late).
1058 - We are excited to introduce the SimGrid/S4U interface to your neighborhood
1059 - Not complete yet: asynchronous activities (amongst others) are still missing
1060 - Still ongoing: the interface may change in the future. We need more
1061 testers! Please report any glitches.
1062 - No new project using Java should start now. Please switch to Python.
1065 - Some of the internal cleanups may lead to speed improvements:
1066 - The hard limitation on the amount of simulated actors with
1067 Java+Mac was removed. Now, the available memory is the only limit.
1068 - Our refcounting was tidyied, leading to 10% speedups in some cases.
1069 - We are still working on making our code robust to the actor kills
1070 and hosts' churn. Things are improving, but it's not perfect yet.
1071 - Replaced our own code to display a backtrace (that was forking addr2line)
1072 with the Boost.Stacktrace library.
1073 You won't see your backtraces without this optional dependency.
1074 - Bump cmake dependency to 3.5 (provided by Ubuntu 16.04).
1075 - Stop setting random seed with srand() at initialization.
1078 - In <host> and <peer>, 'availability_file' is now 'speed_file'.
1079 XML file version remains 4.2 since old files are still compatible.
1082 - Process termination which was broken at version 3.21 has been repaired.
1083 - Expose host load plugin: loadInit, getCurrentLoad, getComputedFlops, getAvgLoad
1084 - Hide the examples into examples/deprecated. New users should use Python.
1087 - Drop MSG_process_create_from_stdfunc() from the API.
1088 This C++ function was a pimple in the C API, made necessary at some
1089 point by the Java bindings. This is fixed now.
1090 - Hide the examples into examples/deprecated. New users should use S4U.
1091 - MSG_process_create and MSG_process_attach now crash if the host used
1092 to run this process is off.
1093 - Fix the protype of MSG_process_on_exit()
1094 Now use (int,void*) callbacks instead of (void*,void*) ones.
1095 The implementation was ways too messy to actually work, I guess.
1098 - Change the way SMPI_SAMPLE_* macros work to avoid invalidating cache
1099 too often and provide more accurate timings.
1100 - Add -gdb, -lldb, and -vgdb shortcuts to help debug MPI codes with smpirun
1101 - MPI_Alltoallw support
1102 - Partial MPI nonblocking collectives implementation: MPI_Ibcast, MPI_Ibarrier,
1103 MPI_Iallgather, MPI_Iallgatherv, MPI_Ialltoall, MPI_Ialltoallv, MPI_Igather,
1104 MPI_Igatherv, MPI_Iscatter, MPI_Iscatterv, MPI_Ialltoallw.
1105 - MPI_Request_get_status, MPI_Status_set_cancelled, MPI_Status_set_elements
1107 - Basic implementation of generalized requests (SMPI doesn't
1108 allow MPI_THREAD_MULTIPLE) : MPI_Grequest_complete, MPI_Grequest_start
1111 - Drop sg_cmdline. Please use xbt_cmdline instead.
1112 - Drop the C xbt_os_mutex_t; Use the C++11 std::mutex.
1113 - Drop the C xbt_os_sem_t; Use the C++ xbt::OsSemaphore.
1114 OsSemaphore is implemented in a portable way with C++11 threads.
1115 This should allow much more threads to be created at the same time,
1116 allowing Mac and Java users to simulate many more actors.
1117 - Implement the 'thread' factory with std::thread instead of xbt ones.
1118 It is not possible to set the stack size with threads anymore, but
1119 -fsplit-stack is the way to go nowadays when using threads.
1120 - Drop the xbt_os_thread_t module (now unused)
1121 - Drop xbt_ex_display(), use simgrid::xbt::log_exception() instead.
1122 - Drop xbt_str_join_array().
1123 - Drop cunit, use Catch2 instead.
1126 - Many cleanups in the kernel::activity namespace. This was long
1127 overdue, and shall open the path to many future endeavors.
1130 - #132: Java: a process can not shut down its own host
1131 - #220: S4U: detached send causes exception if sender terminates soon after sending
1132 - #261: Document the parameters of parallel execution's constructor
1133 - #300: [s4u] BarrierPtr is missing
1134 - #314: SMPI args internal cleanup
1135 - #316: Fix a bug related to the CPU utilization of multi-core VM
1136 - #318: Invalid trace file when using option --cfg=tracing/smpi/display-sizes:yes
1137 - #324: S4U: Attempting to create an actor on turned off host segfaults instead of throwing
1138 - #325: Turning off a host has different behavior on sleeping actors and computing actors
1140 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1142 SimGrid (3.21) October 3. 2018
1144 The Restarting Documentation (TRD) Release.
1147 - Convert the user manual to Sphinx for improved usability.
1148 Unstable version now hosted on https://simgrid.frama.io/simgrid
1149 Many glitches remain; stay tuned.
1150 - Restrict the Doxygen reference API to the installed header files.
1151 (documenting all internals this way is overkill + doxygen scales badly)
1152 - New tutorial on S4U (highly inspired from the old MSG one, but with
1153 a git repository to fork as a starting point, and a docker image)
1154 - Started but not finished an SMPI tutorial inspired from the JLPC'14 one.
1155 - The Developper manual is still to be converted (not compiled until then)
1156 - Some parts are still missing in this conversion (such as the
1157 platform and deployment sections) while others were blindly converted
1158 and would need more love (such as the configuration flags).
1159 Things will certainly further improve in the future releases.
1162 - Fully reimplement auto_restart mechanism that was utterly broken
1163 (fix #22, #131 and #281 that were all very related)
1164 - Implement semaphores (fix #303 and #291)
1165 - When creating an actor from a function and its parameters,
1166 move-only parameters are not allowed anymore, as it would prevent
1167 the actor to be restartable if its parameters are consumed on run.
1168 - s4u::Io: IOs go asynchronous as activities. New methods in s4u::Storage:
1169 - io_init(sg_size_t, s4u::Io::OpType) to create a READ or WRITE asynchronous
1170 IO operations that can be started, waited for, or canceled as a regular
1172 - read_async(sg_size_t) and write_async(sg_size_t) which are wrappers on
1176 - Rename 'power' and 'power_used' variables into 'speed' and 'speed_used'
1177 - New host variable: 'core_count'
1180 - Remove xbt_os_thread_specific features
1181 - Remove portability wrapper to condition variables
1182 - Remove xbt_os_thread_yield()
1185 - MPICH collective selector now mimics MPICH 3.3b
1186 - OpenMPI collective selector now mimics OpenMPI 3.1.2 (default "tuned" setting)
1187 - MPI_Init(NULL,NULL) is now allowed
1188 - smpi/wtime option now injects time in gettimeofday or clock_gettime calls
1189 - Command-line arguments should now be handled properly in Fortran simulations
1190 - MPI Attributes and related callbacks should work in Fortran
1191 - Apps using C + Fortran should now work
1192 - MPI_* calls now check for non MPI_SUCCESS return values and emit warnings
1193 - Support MPI_Error_String
1196 - Due to an internal bug, Msg.run() must now be your last line.
1197 We hope to fix it in a future release, and we are sorry for the inconvenience.
1200 - #22: Process autorestart seem to only work with CAS01 cpus
1201 - #56: Feature request: dynamic SMPI replay
1202 - #93: simgrid should not eat --help
1203 - #111: How to change the loopback link characteristics?
1204 - #116: Platform cluster radical
1205 - #117: Platform cluster/host order
1206 - #129: Replay_multiple on steroid
1207 - #131: Java : autostart does not work
1208 - #143: Setting a breakpoint at a given time
1209 - #235: Network energy models should be integrated
1210 - #264: Add ptask L07 resource tracing
1211 - #271: Dynamic and manual replay of SMPI traces
1212 - #279: Breakpoints option uses time deltas instead of absolute time
1213 - #281: Daemonized actor no longer daemonized after an auto-restart
1214 - #282: TIT convertor erase traces when using absolute path in the trace list file
1215 - #285: segfault when a s4u actor kills itself with msg process tracing activated
1216 - #286: Pajé traces are not exposing the number of cores
1217 - #287: Command-line parsing should stop when encountering '--'
1218 - #288: MPI_Init(NULL, NULL)
1219 - #289: Improve documentation of Actor::on_destruction and this_actor::on_exit()
1220 - #290: Method to check if a mailbox has a message ready to be consumed
1221 - #291: [s4u] semaphores do not seem available yet
1222 - #294: Alltoall collective implementation of mpich
1223 - #295: Starting a Host as OFF is not supported
1224 - #296: DTD too permissive
1225 - #299: Add a s4u barrier example
1227 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1229 SimGrid (3.20) Released June 24. 2018
1231 The proxy snake_case() release.
1234 - The whole API is now using snake_case() instead of mixing it with camelCase.
1235 Compatibility wrappers in place for one year.
1236 - We took the opportunity to increase the consistency of the API.
1237 Please report any remaining glitches.
1238 - New function simgrid::s4u::Host::get_actor_count:
1239 Returns the number of actors running on a specific host.
1242 - SMPI is now tested with ~45 proxy apps from various sources, with none or
1243 only minor patching needed: check https://github.com/simgrid/SMPI-proxy-apps
1244 - Replay: The replay file has been re-written in C++.
1245 - Replay: Tags used for messages sent via MPI_Send / MPI_Recv are now
1246 supported. They are stored in the trace and used when replayed.
1247 - Basic support of MPI_Cancel. Robustness not guaranteed.
1248 - Support of MPI_Win_allocate_shared, MPI_Win_shared_query, MPI_Comm_split_type
1249 (only for MPI_COMM_TYPE_SHARED).
1250 - New option: smpi/privatize-libs, to add external shared libs to be privatized
1251 by SMPI. They will be copied locally and loaded separately by each process.
1252 Example --cfg=smpi/privatize-libs:"libgfortran.so.3;libscalapack.so".
1253 - Tracing: add tracing for MPI_Start, Startall, Testall, Testany
1254 - Interception of getopt, getopt_long and getopt_long_only calls to avoid issues
1255 with internal index optind with multiple processes. Only works if MPI_Init has
1256 already been called.
1257 - Fortran: SMPI builds a mpi.mod file which should allow use of "use mpi"
1258 syntax without preprocessing tricks.
1261 - Change --cfg=tracing/msg/vm to --cfg=tracing/vm as virtual machine
1262 behavior tracing is no longer limited to MSG
1263 - TIT (Time Independent Traces): We finally support tags. Unfortunately,
1264 this means that traces now need to be updated or re-obtained; both Irecv
1265 and Isend lines in your traces have now in total 5 mandatory fields:
1266 <rankid> <command> <to/from rankid> <tag> <size>
1267 To update your traces, it suffices to add a 0 for the tag here.
1268 - TIT now also supports waiting for a distinct request via MPI_Wait.
1269 Wait/Test now wait for a specific request, not just the last one that was
1270 issued. This unfortunately means another update, because we need to
1271 identify which request you want to wait for. We do this via the
1272 triplet (sender, receiver, tag), which needs to be added:
1273 <rankid> <command> <sender> <receiver> <tag>
1274 - Actions are now in lower case (e.g., "allReduce" becomes "allreduce").
1275 New script simgrid_convert_TI_traces.py: upgrade your TI traces.
1278 - The deprecation of MSG is ongoing (but this should not impact you).
1279 Many MSG functions are now simple wrappers on the C API of S4U. If
1280 you wish to convert your code to S4U, find the S4U counterparts of
1281 your MSG calls in src/msg/msg_legacy.cpp.
1282 - MSG can still be used, but won't evolve anymore.
1285 - Allow to run the Link energy plugin from the command line with
1286 --cfg=plugin:link_energy
1287 - Rename Energy plugin into host_energy
1288 - Rename Load plugin into host_load
1291 - Add parameter --cfg=simix/breakpoint to raise a SIGTRAP at given time.
1292 - kill simix::onDeadlock() that was somewhat dupplicating s4u::on_deadlock()
1293 - Improve performance when handling timeouts of simix synchros.
1296 - Config: the C API is now deprecated (will be removed in 3.23), and
1297 the C++ API has been slightly improved.
1300 - Fix several build issues on OSX.
1301 - Move simgrid_config.h to simgrid/config.h (old header still working)
1304 - #143: Setting a breakpoint at a given time
1305 - #150: Inconsistent event names in SMPI replay
1306 - #258: daemonized actors hang after all non-daemonized actors have completed
1307 - #267: Linker error on unit_tmgr
1308 - #269: SMPI: tracing of MPI_Wait/all/any broken
1309 - SMPI: Fix various crashes with combined use of MPI_PROC_NULL and MPI_IGNORE_STATUS
1311 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1313 SimGrid (3.19.1) Released March 22 2018
1315 The Fixed ABI Release.
1317 As you may know, we are currently refactoring SimGrid in deep.
1318 Upcoming SimGrid4 will be really different from SimGrid3: modular,
1319 standard and extensible vs. layered, homegrown and rigid. C++ vs. C.
1321 Our goal is to smooth this transition, with backward compatibility
1322 and automatic update paths, while still progressing toward SimGrid4.
1324 SimGrid remains open during works: The last pure SimGrid3 release was
1325 v3.12 while all subsequent versions are usable alpha versions of
1326 SimGrid4: Existing interfaces remain unchanged, but the new S4U
1327 interface is budding and the internals are deeply reorganized.
1329 Since 2015, we work hard to reduce the changes to public APIs. When
1330 we need to rename a public library symbol in S4U, we let your
1331 compiler issue an explicative warning when you use the deprecated
1332 function. These messages remain for four releases, i.e. for one full
1333 year, before turning into an error. Starting with v3.15, your can
1334 also adapt to API changes with the SIMGRID_VERSION macro, that is
1335 defined to 31500 for v3.15, to 31901 for v3.19.1 and so on.
1337 Starting with this v3.19.1, our commitment to reduce the changes to
1338 the public interfaces is extended from the API to the ABI: a program
1339 using only MSG or SimDag and compiled against a given version of
1340 simgrid can probably be used with a later version of SimGrid without
1341 recompilation. We will do our best... but don't expect too much of
1342 it, that's a really difficult goal during such profund refactoring.
1344 The difference between v3.19 and v3.19.1 is that the former was
1345 accidentally breaking the ABI of MSG, while the later is restoring
1348 S4U and kernel APIs will still evolve until SimGrid4, with one-year
1349 deprecation warnings as currently. In fact, cleaning up these
1350 interfaces and converting them to snake_case() is one release goal of
1351 v3.20. But don't worry, we are working to smooth this upgrade path.
1353 In summary, new projects should start with S4U to benefit of the
1354 future, but old MSG projects should still be usable with no change.
1356 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1358 SimGrid (3.19) Released March 20 2018
1360 The Moscovitly-cold Spring release.
1362 SMPI user-visible improvements:
1363 - Support of MPI_Type_create_subarray
1364 - Unimplemented MPI calls now abort (instead of issuing a warning)
1365 Some harmless calls around errhandlers still only issue a warning.
1366 - MPI_Sendrecv was behaving badly when MPI_PROC_NULL was sender or receiver.
1367 - Starting MPI ranks (or even MSG/S4U actors) once the simulation started
1368 is now possible (mmap privatization was refactored to this end).
1369 Adding new SMPI instances should also be technically doable now.
1371 SMPI internal cleanups:
1372 - Removed index notion from SMPI -- no more "getPid() - 1"!
1373 In tracing files, actors are called rank-<PROCESS-ID> but these are
1374 NOT the real ranks (tracing several communicators is not supported yet).
1375 - Deprecate smpi_process_index() (will be removed in 3.22)
1376 - Better testing on classical proxy apps, through an external project:
1377 https://github.com/simgrid/SMPI-proxy-apps/
1380 - Use a graphical TOC to make it easier to find the documentation you need
1381 - Revamp the MSG tutorial
1384 - Fix MSG_task_get_remaining_work_ratio(): return 1.0 for unstarted tasks.
1385 - Remove parameter of MSG_process_killall().
1386 Resetting the PID was bogus anyway (several actors could have the same PID).
1389 - Execution->setHost() can be called after start(), to migrate it.
1390 - Comm::test_any() is now implemented.
1391 - s4u::Actor now has onCreation() and onDestruction() signals.
1392 - Install some kernel header files for the users' plugins and more.
1393 Warning, their API is really not stable yet.
1394 include/simgrid/kernel/resource/{Action,Resource,Model}.hpp
1395 include/simgrid/kernel/routing/*Zone.hpp
1398 - SD_task_dependency_add(): remove unused parameters 'name' and 'data'.
1400 Build System and other cleanups:
1401 - Remove unused run-time parameter "tracing/onelink-only".
1402 - SimGrid now works with intel compilers (MC still buggy)
1403 - Remove XBT_LOG_CONNECT, it should be useless nowadays.
1404 - tesh kills subprocesses on timeout (but not on windows)
1407 - Rename FULLDUPLEX into SPLITDUPLEX (old name still accepted)
1410 - #194: Feature request: simgrid::s4u::Comm::test_any()
1411 - #245: migrating an actor does not migrate its execution
1412 - #253: Feature Request: expose clusters as objects
1413 - #254: Something seems wrong with s4u::Actor::kill(aid_t)
1414 - #255: Tesh broken on Windows
1415 - #256: Modernize FindSimGrid.cmake
1416 - #257: Fix (ab)use of CMake install
1418 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1420 SimGrid (3.18) Released December 24 2017
1422 The "Ho Ho Ho! SimGrid 4 beta is coming to town" release.
1424 MSG IS NOW DEPRECATED. Please use S4U for new projects.
1425 - Support for MSG should not be removed from SimGrid before 2020,
1426 but future evolutions will be limited to the integration of
1427 user-provided patches.
1430 - s4u::onDeadlock() signal, run before stopping the simulation.
1431 - s4u::Exec: asynchronous executions (abstraction of background
1433 - s4u::Host->getLoad() returns the achieved speed in flops/s
1436 - Link::name() is deprecated and will be removed in v3.21, use
1437 Link::getCname() instead.
1438 - Mailbox::getName() changed to return a std::string, use
1439 Mailbox::getCname() instead to get a char*.
1440 - Storage::getName() changed to return a std::string, use
1441 Storage::getCname() instead to get a char*.
1442 - s4u::allStorages() becomes s4u::getStorageList(whereTo)
1443 to have both allocation and deallocation of the map in user space.
1446 - Forbid the use of MSG_task_get_flops_amount() on parallel tasks:
1447 The amount of flops remaining to do is a vector, not a scalar.
1448 - Introduce MSG_task_get_remaining_work_ratio(), which does what its
1449 name implies on both sequential and parallel tasks.
1450 - Both changes fix GitHub's #223 using PR #237 as a basis.
1451 Thanks Michael Mercier.
1452 - Most examples were converted to S4U and hidden elsewhere at tests.
1453 Rationale: we still want MSG to work; we want newcomers to use S4U.
1456 - LMM stuff moved to its own namespace: simgrid::kernel::lmm.
1457 - Renamed LMM classes (e.g. s_lmm_system_t -> System).
1460 - Switch to the faster dlopen privatization mechanism by default
1461 - Documentation improvments
1464 - Live migration is getting moved to a plugin. Dirty page tracking is
1465 the first part of this plugin. This imply that VM migration is now
1466 only possible if one this function is called:
1467 - C/MSG: MSG_vm_live_migration_plugin_init()
1468 - C/C++: sg_vm_live_migration_plugin_init()
1469 - Java: Msg.liveMigrationInit()
1470 For C and C++, "simgrid/plugins/live_migration.h" also has to be
1474 - Define class simgrid::xbt::Path to manage file names.
1475 - Removed unused functions:
1476 - xbt/file.h: xbt_basename(), xbt_dirname(), xbt_getline()
1477 - xbt/graph.h: xbt_graph_edge_get_length(), xbt_graph_edge_set_length,
1478 xbt_graph_export_graphviz()
1479 - xbt/str.h: xbt_str_join()
1480 - Remove unused datatypes:
1481 - xbt/heap.h: use std::priority_queue or boost::heap instead
1482 - xbt/swag.h: use boost::intrusive::list instead
1485 - New link_energy plugin for the consumption of the links.
1486 - All of the operations on files and storage contents have been
1487 packaged into a plugin (src/plugins/file_system). The current
1488 public interface can be found in
1489 include/simgrid/plugins/file_system.h
1490 To use these functions you now have to initialize the plugin by
1491 calling MSG_storage_file_system_init() just after calling
1492 MSG_init() or sg_storage_file_system_init() just after creating
1496 - Remove the undocumented/untested tag <include>
1499 - Remove viva specific tracing as the tool is no longer maintained
1502 - #248: Kill of finished processes leads to segfault
1503 - #240: xbt_cond_wait_timeout should gracefully return for C apps
1504 - #239: please implement signal s4u::onDeadlock()
1505 - #230: segfaults when exit() without run()
1506 - #225: s4u::Actor::kill() doesn not really kill victims in a join()
1507 - #223: MSG_task_get_flops_amount() not working with parallel tasks
1508 - #222: Actor::kill() doesn't really kill and segfaults
1509 - #221: odd LMM warning when killing an actor
1510 - #120: Memory leak when the processes are forcefully killed
1512 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1514 SimGrid (3.17) Released October 8 2017
1516 The Drained Leaks release: (almost) no known leaks despite the tests.
1518 Even very long simulations will preserve your memory: our testsuite
1519 stresses SimGrid for over 45mn on fast machines for a coverage of
1520 over 80%, and there is only one single known leak, of about 4kb.
1524 - Comm.detach(): start and forget about asynchronous emission. A cleanup
1525 handler may be given to free resources if the comm cannot be completed.
1526 - this_actor::send(mailbox) is now mailbox->put()
1527 - New: simgrid::s4u::Comm::wait_all()
1528 - New: Host.execute() for remote executions.
1531 - Unused option network/sender-gap is removed.
1534 - Deprecate MSG_task_isend_with_matching(): This unused feature
1535 really complicates our internals. Will be removed in v3.20.
1538 - Improved context termination. It is now possible to free resources, even
1539 when a process is forcibly killed.
1540 - ContextBoost: add support for Boost versions above 1.61.
1543 - Bring back run-time option --cfg=exception/cutpath to remove exception
1545 - Removed unused functions:
1546 - xbt/str.h: xbt_str_split_str(), xbt_str_subst(), xbt_str_ltrim(),
1547 xbt_str_rtrim(), xbt_str_trim().
1548 - xbt/xbt_os_thread.h: xbt_os_thread_cancel(), xbt_os_thread_detach().
1551 - Removed header files obsolete since SimGrid 3.12:
1552 msg/datatypes.h, msg/msg.h, simdag/datatypes.h, simdag/simdag.h.
1554 - #3: SD_exit should be made optional
1555 - #120: Memory leak when the processes are forcefully killed
1556 - #159: Threading test regression in Actor refcounting
1557 - #170: simgrid::s4u::Comm::wait_any() returns too many comms
1558 - #185: simgrid::s4u::Engine::instance()->shutdown() segfaults
1559 - #186: Actor::killAll() segfaults if some process is blocked on wait()
1560 - #191: VM migration and pstate
1561 - #192: Updating the energy consumptions of all hosts crashes with VMs
1562 - #195: All actors have PID=0 in the logs
1563 - #204: Sometimes segfault with thread contexts and mmap privatization
1564 - #222: Actor::kill() doesn't really kill and segfaults
1565 - #225: Actor::kill() doesn't really kill when victims are doing a join()
1567 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1569 SimGrid (3.16) Released June 22. 2017.
1571 The Blooming Spring Release: developments are budding.
1574 - FreeBSD: Disable SMPI mmap privatization, switch automatically to dlopen.
1575 - Mac, BSD: dlopen+thread broken, switch automatically to raw contexts.
1576 - Java JAR file should be finally fully working on Mac OSX too.
1578 XML platforms: Switch to platform v4.1 format.
1579 * This is (mainly) a backward compatible change: v4 are valid v4.1 files
1580 - <zone> can be used as a synonym for the now deprecated <as>
1581 - <zoneRoute> can be used as a synonym for the now deprecated <asroute>
1582 - <bypassZoneRoute> can be used as a synonym for the now deprecated <bypassAsRoute>
1583 - <actor> can be used as a synonym for the now deprecated <process>
1584 - state_file and avail_file periodicity is now easier to express
1585 (check the documentation) the old behavior should still work.
1586 * Storage: not backward compatible, but it seems that nobody ever used it
1587 - Remove attribute 'content_type' of <storage_type>: was never used
1588 - Make attribute 'model' of <storage_type> optional: for future usage
1589 - Remove Bconnection model property: was never (in)validated. Replaced by
1590 the maximum of the read and write bandwidth as a resource constraint.
1593 - New and Backwards Compatibility break:
1594 SD_simulate_with_update (double how_long, xbt_dynar_t changed_tasks_dynar)
1595 When one wants to get the list of tasks whose states have changed during a
1596 simulation round, s/he has to allocate and free a dynar and use it as
1597 argument to this function. The former SD_simulate (double how_long)
1601 - Allow multicore VMs, with the correct sharing (unless you overcommit)
1602 BUG: vCPU overcommitting still leads to buggy sharing, though. WIP.
1605 - New function to update the consumption of all hosts at once.
1606 - Fix the model for multi-core hosts, linear in the amount of busy
1607 cores with an abnormality for pIdle (see paper).
1608 BUG: Still not satisfactory for ptask on mono-cores.
1611 - The netzone are now available from the MSG API.
1612 The old names still work, but are now deprecated.
1615 - New algorithm to privatize globals: dlopen, with dynamic loading tricks
1616 - New option: smpi/keep-temps to not cleanup temp files
1617 - New option: smpi/shared-malloc-blocksize . Relevant only when global shared
1618 mallocs mode is used, allows to change the size of the fake file used
1619 (default 1MB), to potentially limit the number of mappings for large runs.
1620 - Support for sparse privatized malloc with SMPI_PARTIAL_SHARED_MALLOC()
1621 - Fortran ifort and flang compilers support
1622 - New RMA calls supported (experimental):
1623 - MPI_Win_allocate, MPI_Win_create_dynamic, MPI_Win_attach
1624 - MPI_Win_detach, MPI_Win_set_info, MPI_Win_get_info
1625 - MPI_Win_lock_all, MPI_Win_unlock_all, MPI_Win_flush
1626 - MPI_Win_flush_local, MPI_Win_flush_all, MPI_Win_flush_local_all
1627 - MPI_Op_commutative, MPI_Fetch_and_Op, MPI_Compare_and_swap
1628 - MPI_Rput, MPI_Rget, MPI_Raccumulate, MPI_Rget_accumulate
1631 - New: this_actor::isMaestro() returns whether we are in kernel mode.
1632 - Behind the scene, ActivityImpl are now automatically refcounted.
1633 Removing this nasty bottleneck will greatly simplify our internals.
1636 - Replay: New function xbt_replay_action_get():
1637 Retrieve the function previously associated to an event type.
1638 - DROPPED FUNCTION: xbt_str_varsubst()
1639 - DROPPED MODULE: strbuff. We don't need it anymore.
1640 - DROPPED MODULE: matrix. We don't need it anymore.
1641 - DROPPED MODULE: lib. We don't need it anymore.
1643 -- Thu Jun 22 22:48:12 CEST 2017 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1645 SimGrid (3.15) Released March 22. 2017
1647 The Spring Release: continuous integration servers become green
1648 We fixed even the transient bugs on all target architectures:
1649 Linux (CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora), Mac OSX (Mavericks, El Capitan)
1650 Windows, FreeBSD, NetBSD.
1652 - Rename NetCards to NetPoints.
1653 This was intended to help NS3 users, but that's not a netcard.
1654 That's a point in the routing algorithm, let's avoid wrong simplifications.
1657 - New: MSG_process_yield(). Stop and yield to other processes.
1658 - New: MSG_process_daemon(). Daemon processes are automatically killed
1659 when the last non-daemon process terminates
1660 - New: MSG_process_ref/unref(). Fiddle with the process refcounting.
1661 - Renamed MSG_energy_plugin_init() -> MSG_host_energy_plugin_init()
1662 to make room for the upcoming network energy plugin.
1663 - Drop MSG_host_get_current_power_peak: duplicates MSG_host_get_speed
1666 - Ensure that an actor can kill itself with Process::exit()
1667 - Kill the obscure NativeException. Nobody want to survive the issues
1668 it denotes, so use JniException that is a RuntimeException (not to
1669 be caught explicitly).
1670 - Partial bug fix in initialization. SimGrid flags on command line were
1671 consumed at C level but stayed in the original Java String[] args.
1672 This could mess users' args[i] if SG flags were not put at the end of
1674 The SimGrid flags are now removed from the Java arguments. However,
1675 the number of arguments REMAINS UNCHANGED. It is then UNSAFE to test
1676 if args.length is greater than the number of YOUR OWN ARGUMENTS.
1677 It might be if you have --log or --cfg flags in the command line.
1678 - Fix numerous memleaks all around the place. In particular, around VMs.
1682 - s4u::onPlatformCreated: right before the simulation starts
1683 - s4u::onSimulationEnd: right after the main simulation loop
1684 - s4u::onTimeAdvance: right after a clock change (time is discrete)
1685 - s4u::Host::onSpeedChange: when the pstate is changed, or when an
1686 event from the availability_file changes the avail speed.
1687 - Links are now usable from s4u
1688 - New: Engine::hostList() and Engine::hostCount(). Still clumsy.
1689 - New: Actor::suspend(), Actor::resume(), and Actor::migrate(new_host)
1690 - New examples: The conversion of MSG examples to S4U has begun
1691 - Actors: create, kill, migration, and suspend
1692 - Applications: master-worker and token-ring
1693 - Action replay: communications and storage
1694 - Drop Host::getPstateSpeedCurrent() which duplicates Host::speed()
1697 - Backwards Compatibility breaks
1698 - The SD_route_get_list and SD_route_get_size functions have been removed.
1699 They are replaced by the unique
1700 void sg_host_route(sg_host_t src, sg_host_t dst, xbt_dynar_t links)
1701 The route from src to dst is built in the links dynar whose size can
1702 be obtained with xbt_dynar_length.
1703 - The SD_route_bandwidth and SD_route_latency functions have been replaced by
1704 sg_host_route_bandwidth and sg_host_route_latency.
1705 Macros ensure the backwards compatibility, but you should fix your code
1708 - Major C++ rewrite ongoing (SMPI used to be C compiled in C++).
1709 This can break codes using SMPI internals (from private.h instead of the public smpi.h).
1710 - Bump our claim of support from MPI 1.1 to MPI 2.2.
1711 We don't support 100% of it, but it should be enough. Contact us if not.
1712 - MPI_Win_lock/unlock, MPI_Get_accumulate support added (as for all RMA, implementation is
1713 naive and probably inaccurate)
1714 - New algorithm for SMPI_SHARED_MALLOC: global, where all blocks are
1715 mapped onto a unique small file using some system magic.
1716 - Bugfix: smpirun was sometimes misusing hostfile when wrongly terminated
1717 - Fortran: cleanups, fixes, support of user-added operations
1718 - RMA: MPI_Accumulate are applied in correct order.
1719 - RMA: MPI_Win_{complete/post} shouldn't miss messages anymore.
1720 - Better support for MPI_IN_PLACE
1721 - Support for MPI_Win attrs and keyvals.
1722 - Support MPI_Comm_group_create, MPI_Type_size_x
1723 - MPI ops should be properly applied to all allowed types
1724 - Replace implementation of MPI_Bcast "scatter followed by rdb allgather"
1725 algorithm by a non failing one from mpich.
1728 - Kill the fifo data container: we don't use it anymore.
1731 - A <cluster> can now be created with different speed values to represent pstates.
1732 see examples/platforms/energy_cluster.xml for an example.
1734 SimGrid (3.14.159) Released December 28. 2016
1736 The previous release was only a crude approximation of a Pi release;
1737 this one should be a bit better.
1739 - Revert a last minute change that broke on Mac OSX.
1740 - Fix the changelog and NEWS files.
1741 - Improve the documentation, in particular of the routing module.
1742 - Integrate some patches flying around in Debian.
1744 SimGrid (3.14) Released December 24. 2016
1747 * The whole documentation was reworked and reorganized. There is
1748 still much room for improvement here, but we're on it.
1751 * We now need python3 for our testing infrastructure.
1752 * Model checking needs libevent
1755 * Now works on FreeBSD
1758 * Privatization now works on FreeBSD
1760 * Privatization is now activated by default in smpirun
1761 You can turn it off with -no-privatize if something goes wrong.
1763 * Call-location tracing for SMPI.
1764 You can add the exact location (filename / linenumber) of an MPI call to
1765 your trace files and slow down or speed up the simulation between two
1766 consecutive calls by using an adjustment file (see the documentation).
1768 * Fixed computation of timings for MPI_Send, MPI_Recv & possibly also others
1769 We've found a bug that prevented SMPI to account for MPI_Send, MPI_Recv
1770 and others (in some cases) in a correct way. That is, the smpi/os, smpi/or
1771 values were ignored in some cases. The timings of these functions can now
1772 be significantly different.
1774 * smpi/cpu-threshold:-1 should become smpi/simulate-computation:no
1775 smpi/running-power is renamed to smpi/host-speed
1777 * smpi/grow-injected-times option to enable or disable multiplication of the
1778 timings injected in MPI_Iprobe, or MPI_Test. Enabled by default, which can
1779 make simulation less precise (but also much faster).
1781 * smpirun script should be (much) faster for large deployments.
1783 * SMPI tracing: fixed issue with poor matching of send/receives.
1785 * Replay: Fix broken waitall
1787 New functions and features
1788 * MSG_parallel_task_execute_with_timeout, to timeout computations.
1790 Dropped / renamed functions and features
1791 * msg_mailbox_t and associated functions. Use s4u::Mailbox instead.
1792 - MSG_mailbox_is_empty() -> Mailbox::empty()
1793 - MSG_mailbox_front() -> Mailbox::front()
1794 - MSG_mailbox_get_by_alias() -> simgrid::s4u::Mailbox::byName(name)
1795 - MSG_mailbox_get_task_ext() -> MSG_task_receive_ext()
1796 - MSG_mailbox_get_task_ext_bounded -> MSG_task_receive_ext_bounded
1797 - MSG_host_(get/set)_params -> MSG_vm_(get/set)_params
1798 * Don't pass the free_f parameter to property related functions:
1799 - MSG_host_set_property_value()
1800 - MSG_as_router_set_property_value()
1801 - MSG_storage_set_property_value()
1802 * VM properties. Since msg_vm_t are msg_host_t, just use
1803 MSG_host_get_property_value() and friends
1804 * VM I/O related things:
1805 - Ignored parameter of vm_create: core_nb, disk_path and disk_size.
1806 - Unimplemented save/restore methods
1807 * MSG_as_router_get_property_value() was redundant with
1808 MSG_environment_as_get_property_value().
1809 - Removed MSG_as_router_*propert*() functions
1810 - Added MSG_environment_as_set_property_value() for consistency
1811 * xbt heterogeneous dictionaries (created with xbt_dict_new()).
1812 Well, they are still there for now, but deprecated with a warning.
1813 Please switch to xbt_dict_new_homogeneous() before this is removed
1815 * Task affinity. Its intended behavior (that was very badly tested
1816 and probably not really working) was deceiving what most users
1817 would have hoped here.
1818 * xbt_os_sem_get_value: unused internally, deprecated on OS X El Capitan
1819 * Option network/coordinates is now useless and should be dropped.
1822 * Added option storage/max_file_descriptors to allow more than 1024 files opened
1825 * Added option maxmin/concurrency_limit to allow more than 100 processes per host
1826 * Added Dragonfly topology support
1829 * Add Exa- and Peta- units such as EiB, EB, Eib, Eb for size, and
1830 EiBps, EBps, Eibps, Ebps for bandwidth.
1831 They may become useful to some lucky ones.
1834 * New functions: msg.Comm.waitAll() and msg.Comm.waitAny()
1835 * ex/app_tokenring: new example, very similar to the MSG Token Ring
1836 * ex/async_waitAll: new example, on asynchronous communications
1839 * Memory usage should be decreased for simulations with a large number
1840 of processes. This also helps for SMPI.
1842 SimGrid (3.13) stable; urgency=low
1844 The Half Release, a.k.a. the Zealous Easter Trim.
1846 - We removed half of the lines, that were mostly experimental cruft.
1847 v3.12 lasted 286000 lines of code, v3.13 is only 142000 lines
1848 (not counting blanks and comments -- according to openhub.net)
1849 - The internals are now compiled in C++ (and will soon be clean C++)
1850 - We removed 75 klines of XML, 12 klines of Java, 5 klines of cmake,
1851 59 klines of C, etc. We added only 29 klines of C++ in replacement.
1853 * Backwards Compatibility breaks
1854 - Removed Lua simulation bindings (switch to C or Java for that).
1855 Lua can still be used to describe platforms
1856 - Removed Java kernel plug-ins.
1857 Will be reintroduced after the ongoing major internals reorg.
1859 - the following functions were removed.
1860 They were too specific and should be reimplemented in a generic
1861 way, with filter function.
1862 - MSG_task_listen_from_host
1863 - MSG_mailbox_get_count_host_waiting_tasks
1864 - MSG_mailbox_put_with_timeout was removed.
1865 Please use MSG_task_send_with_timeout instead.
1867 - the SD_application_reinit function was removed. It has been a noop for a while.
1868 - The ACCESS_MODE of SD_workstation has been removed. This feature was not really usable and should soon be
1869 replaced by a more flexible mechanism.
1870 - The following functions thus do not exist anymore
1871 - SD_workstation_get_access_mode
1872 - SD_workstation_set_access_mode
1873 - SD_workstation_get_current_task
1874 - Basic estimation functions have been removed but can easily be replaced
1875 - SD_route_get_communication_time => SG_route_get_latency() + amount / SD_route_get_bandwidth()
1876 - SD_workstation_get_computation_time => amount / sg_host_speed()
1878 - VM.setBound(int load) is now VM.setBound(double bound) to meet the MSG semantics.
1879 Use VM.getSpeed()*load/100 for the legacy behavior.
1881 - option enable_tracing was removed. It was not doing anything for a while.
1882 - In the ModelChecker:
1883 - the model-checker now ptraces the model-checked process which means
1884 you cannot use a debugger on the latter anymore (we might make this
1885 optional in the feature);
1886 - removed soft-dirty page tracking;
1887 - remove model-checked side snapshot management,
1888 MC_snapshot() and MC_compare_snapshot();
1889 - keep the MC_cut() function as a stub (it was not really working
1890 in the previous release).
1893 * All options are consistently in kebab-case. Old names are kept as alias.
1896 * Switch to platform v4 format.
1897 - Rename from 'power' to 'speed' the attributes describing the amount of
1898 flops that a <host>, <peer>, <cluster> or <cabinet> can deliver per second.
1899 - In <trace_connect>, attribute kind="POWER" is now kind="SPEED".
1900 - In <host> and <link>, attributes availability and state are gone.
1901 It was redundant with state and availability traces, and with peak values.
1902 - In <cluster>, attributes availability_file and state_file are gone.
1903 It was too complex and unused.
1904 - Kill <gpu>. Was not doing anything.
1905 - The DOCTYPE points to the right URL:
1906 http://simgrid.gforge.inria.fr/simgrid/simgrid.dtd
1907 (the file at this address now documents the changelog since its v1)
1908 - A warning is emitted for unit-less values (they are still accepted).
1909 - speed. Default: 'f' or 'flops'. Also defined:
1910 'Yf', 'Zf', 'Ef', 'Pf', 'Tf', 'Gf', 'Mf', 'kf'
1911 'yottaflops', 'zettaflops', 'exaflops', 'petaflops', 'teraflops', 'gigaflops', 'megaflops', 'kiloflops'
1912 - bandwidth. Default: 'Bps' bytes per second (or 'bps' for bits but 1 Bps = 8 bps)
1913 Also defined in bytes: 'TiBps', 'GiBps', 'MiBps', 'KiBps', 'TBps', 'GBps', 'MBps', 'kBps', 'Bps'
1914 And the same in bits: 'Tibps', 'Gibps', 'Mibps', 'Kibps', 'Tbps', 'Gbps', 'Mbps', 'kbps', 'bps'
1915 - latency. Default: 's' second. Also defined:
1916 'w' week, 'd' day, 'h' hour, 'm' minute, 'ms' millisecond, 'us' microsecond, 'ns' nanosecond, 'ps' picosecond
1918 * bin/simgrid_update_xml can upgrade your files automatically (won't convert unit-less values)
1919 tools/sg_xml_unit_converter.py may help (but it's just a warning and will probably ever be).
1922 * s4u::Host is now the preferred public interface to the Host features.
1923 sg_host_* functions are C bindings to the exact same behavior
1924 MSG_host_* and SD_workstation_* are #define to the sg_host_* ones
1927 * The examples were completely reorganized (in C and Java), for your browsing pleasure.
1928 * Kill all deprecated functions (the ones you had when declaring MSG_DEPRECATED).
1929 They were deprecated since a few years, and probably did not even compile anymore.
1932 * The API has been profoundly modified to directly use the core objects instead of redefining its own.
1933 SD_Workstation_t and SD_link_t are now sg_host_t and sg_link_t respectively.
1934 Some functions have also been renamed for consistency. Backward compatibility is maintained, but users are
1935 encouraged to update their codes. A list of the modified functions can be found at the end of
1936 include/simgrid/simdag.h
1939 * simgrid::simix::kernelImmediate() is the closure callback. It ensures that
1940 the lambda or closure passed as a parameter will run in kernel mode.
1941 All the callback functions should be rewritten to that interface at some point.
1944 * Reorganizing and cleaning the internals all around the place.
1947 * Remove old default barrier/bcast buggy algorithms (see #18407)
1948 * Various bug fixes to handle more codes
1949 * Remove the need for the --foreground option of smpirun (it is still
1950 accepted for backward compatibility).
1953 * Kill the setset data container: MC don't use it anymore.
1954 * Kill the queue data container: it made more sense with GRAS.
1955 * Kill the xbt_peer_t data type: it's useless without GRAS.
1956 * Kill rm_cb feature of config sets: it was never useful.
1957 * Kill graphxml parsing feature. It was not used.
1958 * Kill the deprecated code protected by XBT_USE_DEPRECATED
1960 - xbt_dynar_sort_strings(), when the content is char*
1961 - xbt_str_parse_int / xbt_str_parse_double, wrapping strtol/strtod
1962 They throw exceptions on invalid input;
1963 * C++ support for declaring CLI flags (simgrid::config::Flag);
1964 * class for abstracting different signal backends (simgrid::xbt::signal).
1965 with no external dependencies (we need very simple signals).
1968 * refactoring and cleanup of the code;
1969 * ongoing process to cleanly separate the model-checking algorithms
1970 from the code model-checking support.
1972 -- Wed Apr 27 21:00:53 CEST 2016 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1974 SimGrid (3.12) stable; urgency=low
1976 The Facelift Release.
1979 * Require g++ v4.7 at least to not speak prehistorical C++.
1980 * Require Boost 1.48 (for signal2 component).
1981 * Java must be version 7 at least when activated.
1982 * Builds on Windows again (including Java bindings).
1983 * Tracing is now always enabled (no way to turn it out)
1984 * Remove GTNetS. It was not working anyway.
1985 * Various cleanups in the cmake scripts.
1986 * Move headers around to sort them out on installed systems:
1987 - instr/instr.h -> simgrid/instr.h
1988 - instr/jedule/* -> simgrid/jedule
1989 - simdag/datatypes.h was removed
1990 - simdag/simdag.h -> simgrid/simdag.h
1991 - msg/datatypes.h was removed
1992 - msg/msg.h -> simgrid/msg.h
1995 * Interface improvement:
1996 - Rename MSG_host_is_avail(h) to MSG_host_is_on(h)
1997 - Sanitize the interface in MSG_task_ module:
1998 - Merge two functions that were close enough but misleading:
1999 set_compute_duration(t) -> set_flops_amount(t)
2000 get_remaining_computation(t) -> get_flops_amount(t)
2001 - set_data_size(t) -> set_bytes_amount(t)
2002 get_data_size(t) -> get_bytes_amount(t)
2003 - Massive cleanups in the functions related to the energy
2004 - MSG_host_get_pstate_number() -> MSG_host_get_nb_pstates()
2005 - New: MSG_host_get_pstate()
2007 - msg/energy/onoff: switching hosts on and off
2009 * Interface improvement:
2010 - Rename Host.isAvail() to Host.isOn()
2011 - Rename Process.currentProcess() to Process.getCurrentProcess()
2012 - Rename Task.setDataSize() to Task.setBytesAmount()
2013 - Merge Task.getRemainingDuration() and Task.getComputeDuration() into Task.getFlopsAmount()
2015 - #18874: Actually allows the GC to reclaim tasks
2019 - SIMIX_process_throw: raises an exception in a remote process
2020 * Refactoring: Separate sub-modules
2021 - libsmx: the public interface, as libc in a real system
2022 - popping: the strange dance that converts a user request into a kernel handling
2023 - smx_context_*: the virtualization mechanisms that embed the user code
2024 - smx_*: the handling of each simcalls
2025 * Interface cleanup:
2026 - simcall_host_set_power_peak_at -> simcall_host_set_pstate
2027 * Rename smx_action_t into smx_synchro_t, making explicit that these
2028 things are used to synchronize processes with their environment.
2029 For example, a communication is a sort of synchronization involving
2030 the communicating processes (that may block until the exchange) and
2031 the platform. The same can be said from computations, etc.
2033 - #18888: segfault when a process ends before its kill_time
2037 - 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.
2038 - MPI_Keyval*, MPI_Attr* functions, as well as MPI_Comm_attr*, MPI_Type_attr* variants (C only, no Fortran support yet)
2039 - MPI_Type_set_name, MPI_Type_get_name
2040 - MPI_*_c2f and MPI_*_f2c functions
2041 - MPI_Info_* functions (beware, get_nthkey may not follow the insertion order)
2042 - MPI_Pack, MPI_Unpack and MPI_Pack_size functions
2043 - Activate a lot of new tests from the mpich 3 testsuite
2045 - Constant times can be injected inside MPI_Wtime and MPI_Test through options smpi/wtime and smpi/test
2046 - InfiniBand network model added: Based on the works of Jerome Vienne
2047 http://mescal.imag.fr/membres/jean-marc.vincent/index.html/PhD/Vienne.pdf
2048 - When smpi/display_timing is set, also display global simulation time and application times
2049 - Have smpirun, smpicc and friends display the simgrid git hash version on --git-version
2050 * Collective communications
2051 - 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
2052 - 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/).
2053 - Support for Rabenseifner Reduce/Allreduce algorithms (https://fs.hlrs.de/projects/par/mpi//myreduce.html)
2055 - Replay now uses algorithms from wanted collective selector
2056 - Replay can be used with SMP-aware algorithms
2057 - Memory occupation of replay should now be contained (temporary buffers allocated in collective algorithms should be shared between processes)
2058 - 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.
2060 - [#17799]: have mpi_group_range_incl and mpi_group_range_excl better test some corner cases
2061 - Correctly use loopback on fat-tree clusters
2062 - Asynchronous small messages shouldn't trigger deadlocks anymore
2063 * Energy/DVFS cleanup and improvement
2064 - smpi_set_host_power_peak_at() -> smpi_set_host_pstate()
2065 - new: smpi_get_host_pstate()
2068 - "Full" network optimization flag was broken since Surf++
2069 - Better handling of precision flags in maxmin
2070 - Fix bug causing sometimes "Impossible" errors
2071 - Properly pass cluster properties to included hosts
2072 * Improvement of the Energy plugin.
2073 - Always update the consumption before returning that value
2074 - New property: watt_off to denote the dissipation when the host is off
2075 - New functions getWattMinAt and getWattMaxAt to retrieve the
2076 dissipation of pstates that we are not currently at.
2077 * Java: class NetworkLink renamed to Link
2078 * New function: simcall_process_get_kill_time()
2079 * Massive rename s/workstation/host/
2080 - That's intrusive, but that's good for the project consistency. Sorry.
2081 - Change config option "workstation/model" into "host/model"
2084 - Add a xbt_heap_update function, to avoid costly xbt_heap_remove+xbt_heap_insert use
2085 - Add a xbt wrapper for simcall_mutex_trylock (asked in [#17878])
2086 - Add two new log appenders: rollfile and splitfile. Patch by Fabien Chaix.
2087 - xbt_dirname and xbt_basename for non-POSIX systems
2089 * The model checker now runs as a separate process.
2090 * The model checker runs must now be launched with the new simgrid-mc program.
2091 * Record/Replay: the MC can display a textual representation of a path in the
2092 execution graph. It can then be replayed outside of the model checker.
2094 -- Mon Oct 12 06:02:41 CEST 2015 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2096 SimGrid (3.11) stable; urgency=low
2101 * Normalizing pointers addresses tool for better diff between logs
2104 * Add cloud examples using new VMs
2105 - examples/msg/cloud/two_tasks_vm.tesh
2106 - examples/msg/cloud/simple_vm.tesh
2107 - examples/java/cloud/cloud.tesh
2108 - examples/java/cloud/migration/migration.tesh
2109 * Add java surf examples:
2110 - examples/java/surfPlugin/surf_plugin.tesh
2111 - examples/java/reservationSurfPlugin/reservation_surf_plugin.tes
2112 - examples/java/surfCpuModel/surf_cpu_model.tesh
2113 * Add SMPI+MSG example:
2114 - examples/smpi/smpi_msg_masterslave/
2119 - msg task destroy cancel test
2120 - msg_host on/off test
2121 * Move all tests in testsuite to teshsuite (adding tesh files)
2122 * Restructure teshsuites
2123 - one folder for each kind of test
2124 * Restructure AddTests.cmake
2126 - structure the order of tests (with sections)
2129 * Add virtual machine
2130 - creation of a VM on a PM
2131 - migration of a VM from a PM to another PM
2133 - MSG_process_join(msg_process_t process, double timeout)
2134 - msg_bar_t MSG_barrier_init(unsigned int count)
2135 - int MSG_barrier_wait(msg_bar_t barrier)
2136 - void MSG_barrier_destroy(msg_bar_t barrier)
2137 - msg_as_t MSG_environment_as_get_by_name(const char * name)
2138 * New option "msg/debug_multiple_use" to help debugging when a task is used
2141 - Improvements and finalization of MSG_storage, MSG_file APIs and their
2143 - Increase code coverage in test suites
2147 * Protect context stacks against stack overflow. The number of protected memory
2148 pages allocated on the top of each stack (1 by default) can be configured
2149 with the new command line option --cfg=contexts/guard_size:<value>.
2150 * Simcalls are now generated by a python script that
2151 - generates files included by SimGrid
2152 - checks that all the functions exist, and proposes prototypes
2154 - remove sem_destroy, file_set_data, comm_destroy, vm_set_state,
2155 host_set_data, host_get_data
2157 - simcall_process_join(smx_process_t process, double timeout)
2158 * Fix bug where sleeping processing could not be suspended.
2161 * Translate surf models from C to C++
2162 - Generic classes for all models: Model, Resource, Action
2163 - A generic interface for each kind of model (CPU, Network, Storage
2164 Workstation, WorkstationVM)
2166 * Translate surf routings from C to C++
2167 * Add callbacks using sigc++ or boost::signals2
2168 - Add callback functions for resource creation/destruction
2169 - Add callback functions for action state change
2170 - Handle Energy as a plugin
2171 * Replace swag by boost::intrusive
2172 * Add new routing models for clusters. For documentation, see
2173 http://simgrid.gforge.inria.fr/simgrid/latest/doc/platform.html#pf_cluster
2174 - tori, with topology="TORUS" and topo_parameters="ndim1,ndim2,...,ndimn"
2175 parameters for cluster tag
2176 - Fat trees, with topology="FAT_TREE" and
2177 topo_parameters="h;m1,...,mh;w1,...,wh;p1,...,ph" parameters for cluster tag
2178 - see examples/platforms/torus_cluster.xml and
2179 examples/platforms/fat_tree_cluster.xml
2180 * More documentation
2183 * Hostfiles support host:nb_processes construct to deploy several processes on
2185 * Collective communication algorithms should not crash if used with
2186 improper number of nodes and report the error.
2187 * SMPI now partially supports MPI_Topologies: MPI_Cart_create, MPI_Cart_shift,
2188 MPI_Cart_rank, MPI_Cart_get, MPI_Cart_coords, MPI_Cartdim_get,
2189 MPI_Dims_create, MPI_Cart_sub are supported.
2190 * New interface to use SMPI programmatically (still depends on MSG for
2191 some parts, see examples/smpi/smpi_msg_masterslave):
2192 - SMPI_app_instance_register(const char *name, xbt_main_func_t code,
2196 * Global variables privatization in MPI executables is now performed at runtime
2197 with the option smpi/privatize_global_variables (default:no).
2198 Limitations: Linux/BSD only, with mmap enabled. Global variables inside
2199 dynamic libraries loaded by the application are not privatized (static
2200 linking with these libraries is advised in this case)
2203 * Options defined in XML work correctly now.
2206 * New cmake option, enable_lib_in_jar, to control whether native libraries are
2207 copied into simgrid.jar or not (ON by default). Use this option if you want
2208 to reduce the size of the installed simgrid.jar, *and* the native libraries
2209 are kept installed elsewhere.
2210 * Surf binding with SWIG (code generated in maintainer mode only):
2211 - plugin to handle callbacks
2212 - CPU model only for the moment
2215 * Supernovae build mode is definitively removed. It was used to improve
2216 inlining and inter-module optimizations. It is nowadays superseded by
2217 link-time optimizations commonly available in compilers.
2218 * Update ns-3 find lib. Bindings for ns-3 should work again now.
2219 * Add boost dependency for surf++
2220 * Add new macro for tests
2221 - ADD_TESH(name <tesh_args>)
2222 - ADD_TESH_FACTORIES(name "thread;ucontext;raw" <tesh_args>)
2226 - xbt_bar_t XBT_barrier_init(unsigned int count)
2227 - int XBT_barrier_wait(xbt_bar_t barrier)
2228 - void XBT_barrier_destroy(xbt_bar_t barrier)
2229 * Make the xbt_os_time module public
2231 -- Sat May 31 22:39:38 CEST 2014 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2233 SimGrid (3.10) stable; urgency=low
2235 The Clean Diaper Release, a.k.a. SimGrid is leak-free.
2238 * Reintegrate Java to the main archive as desynchronizing these
2239 package is not acceptable anymore (Java is now considered stable)
2240 * Add explicit synchronization facilities through semaphores
2241 * Bug fix: Task.setDataSize() only changed the C world, not the value
2242 cached in the Java world
2245 * Dramatically change the way files are handled. API and internals changed, but
2246 this part of MSG was not considered as production grade either.
2247 * Add explicit synchronization facilities through semaphores
2248 * Add a new function MSG_host_get_process_list()
2249 * Preliminary DVFS support (see examples/msg/energy/ for details)
2252 * SMPI is now included directly in the libsimgrid as the windows
2253 linker doesn't force us on splitting it anymore.
2254 * Improvements of the SMPI replay tool:
2255 - Most of the collective communications are now rooted in the same process as
2256 in the original application.
2257 - Traces now rely on the same MPI data type as the application (MPI_BYTE was
2258 used until now). Multiple data types can now be used in a trace.
2259 - The replay tool now supports traces produce either by TAU or a modified
2261 - Bug Fix: the compute part of the reduce action is now taken into account.
2262 - Gatherv collective is now supported
2263 - SimGrid (SMPI for now) can generate replay traces as well. Option -trace-ti
2264 of smpirun outputs time independent traces for the current run. One file
2265 is created per process. If too many processes are simulated, this behavior
2266 can be changed to one file for all processes by using the
2267 tracing/smpi/format/ti_one_file flag
2268 * smpirun generates the host file if needed (with given host count and platform)
2269 * Integration of more than 100 STAR-MPI, MPICH, OpenMPI collective algorithms
2270 - allows to select one in particular with --cfg=smpi/coll_name:algorithm
2271 - allows to use the decision logic of OpenMPI(1.7) or MPICH(3.0.4) by setting
2272 --cfg=smpi/coll_selector:(mpich/ompi)
2273 * Support for new functions: MPI_Issend, MPI_Ssend, Commutative operations in
2275 * Add a --cfg:tracing/smpi/internals option, to trace internal communications
2276 happening inside a collective SMPI call.
2277 * Fix the behavior of complex data types handling.
2278 * Make MPI_Wtime another synchronization point to take computations into
2280 * Replace MPICH-1 test suite by the one from MPICH 3.0.4. Can be built using
2281 enable_smpi_MPICH3_testsuite flag in cmake. Run with ctest.
2282 * Add all missing Fortran bindings, SMPI should work with Fortran 90
2283 (no privatization of global variables yet)
2284 * Preliminary DVFS support (see examples/smpi/energy/ for details)
2287 * Verification of liveness properties is now available for SMPI applications
2288 (in addition to MSG applications)
2289 * Bugged examples using SMPI in examples/smpi/mc/
2290 * Add --cfg=model-check/visited option. Allows the verification of infinite
2291 programs. Detection of loops in the execution thanks to the system state
2292 comparison and reduction of the state space to explore. Can be combined with
2293 DPOR for safety properties.
2296 * Allow to change SimGrid configuration (see --help) within the code
2297 thanks to SD_config() as it can be done in MSG.
2298 * Add a new function SD_task_set_amount() upon user request.
2301 * Handle units for values (10ms, 10kiloflops, 10Bps, 1GB, ...)
2302 * Remove rule based routing (no more PCRE dependency)
2303 * Add a limiter_link option to cluster tag, to specify a maximum reachable
2304 bandwidth in fullduplex mode when it is less than twice the nominal bandwidth.
2305 * Add a loopback_bw and loopback_lat options to cluster tag.
2306 * Fix the peer tag that could not be mixed with other AS within a Vivaldi
2307 routing. Now peers are encapsulated in an AS and have their own private
2308 router but this is transparent.
2311 * Our own implementation of getline is renamed xbt_getline, and gets
2312 used even if the OS provide a getline(). This should reduce the
2313 configuration complexity by using the same code on all platforms.
2314 * New type: xbt_cfg_elm_boolean.
2315 * Allow to use yes/no for boolean configuration options in the command line.
2316 * Allow to disable SimGrid cleanups at exit from command line option.
2317 There are situations where one may want a simulation to end with an exit.
2318 Unfortunately, calling exit may cause SimGrid to segfault, which is quite
2319 annoying when scripting around the simulator. Adding a
2320 --cfg=clean_atexit:no allows to circumvent this issue.
2323 * Lots of memory leaks were corrected in this release.
2324 There is no known memory leaks anymore, in all of our 600+ tests.
2325 * New command line option --version, to get SimGrid version information.
2326 Packagers may want to add extra words to SIMGRID_VERSION_EXTRA defined in
2328 * Supernovae builds are deprecated, and expected to be removed in the next
2331 -- Sun Nov 17 00:26:44 CET 2013 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2333 SimGrid (3.9) stable; urgency=low
2335 The Grasgory release: GRAS is really dead now.
2337 * Complete overhaul of the internal host structures scheme.
2340 * If you use GRAS, you should stay at SimGrid 3.5 (at most) since it
2341 was considered as experimental and badly maintained since then.
2342 * Keeping it was thus a trap to our potential users, that could take
2343 it instead of MSG or SMPI by mistake despite is pity state.
2344 * GRAS seems to have very few users (if any), and no one volunteered
2345 to maintain it further. It also induces a lot of XBT code (for
2346 portability sake), that must be maintained too.
2347 * For all these reasons, we killed GRAS. If someone wants to revive it
2348 in the future, don't cry, our git history still remembers of GRAS.
2351 * Major overhaul. Merge our documentation again as time proved that
2352 splitting it was really not helping our users.
2353 * Further improve the developer documentation to help newcomers
2354 hacking on SimGrid itself. The user documentation (and in
2355 particular, the beginner documentation) is still in a sorry state.
2358 * Now works on Windows too!
2359 * Much more extensive test suite, from MPICH
2362 * Add a new loader (SD_PTG_dotload) that creates a parallel task graph
2363 (i.e., a DAG whose nodes are parallel tasks) from a dot file. Creates a
2364 dynar of SD_TASK_COMP_PAR_AMDAHL and SD_TASK_COMM_MXN_1D_BLOCK tasks.
2365 * Bug fix: let task be scheduled when the last dependency to be solved is
2366 a control dependency.
2367 * Remove SD_load_environment_script function.
2368 Use the C sg_platf function if you want to declare a platform
2372 * New function: MSG_process_get_number()
2373 * Old function documented: MSG_config()
2374 * Remove MSG_load_platform_script function
2375 Use the C sg_platf function if you want to declare a platform
2379 * Change the default value of the TCP_gamma constant (maximal size of TCP
2380 congestion window) to a more realistic 4MiB value. If you notice changes in
2381 your simulation results, you can fall back to the previous 20k tiny window
2382 by adding --cfg=network/TCP_gamma:20000 on command line.
2383 * (Hopefully) fix a bug wrt periodic availability and state traces
2384 * Bug fix: use default values at start when first event in availability/state
2385 trace is not at time 0.
2388 * remove the "new_" part of function name sg_platf_new_trace_connect
2389 (resulting in sg_platf_trace_connect), since it does not create
2393 * Kill synchronized dynars, and xbt_dynar_dopar(). We cannot think of a
2394 use case where it's really mandatory, and maintaining it was a pain in
2396 * New: xbt_fifo_search(), search an item with a user-provided
2397 comparison function instead of dumb pointer comparison.
2400 * Fix the lua deployment:
2401 Use `simgrid.init_application()` before deployment instead of
2402 `simgrid.msg_register_application()` after.
2405 * Transfer the tracing files into the corresponding modules.
2407 -- Tue Feb 5 11:31:43 CET 2013 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2409 SimGrid (3.8.1) stable; urgency=low
2411 The "we are told that some people want to also *install* the simgrid
2414 * Add missing file "tesh.1" to the archive.
2416 -- Sat Oct 27 16:12:11 CEST 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2418 SimGrid (3.8) stable; urgency=low
2420 The Psssshiiiit release: SimGrid jumps into the Cloud.
2423 * Add an experimental interface to manipulate VMs. They are mainly
2424 process groups with very few intrinsic semantic, but they should
2425 allow you to build the semantic you want easily.
2426 * New function: MSG_host_set_property_value()
2427 * New function: MSG_process_on_exit(). To clean memory in all cases.
2428 * Bug fixes that made the host (and link) failures unusable.
2429 * Add a way to auto-restart process when the host in which they are
2430 executing comes back (ON_FAILURE="RESTART" on deployment file,
2431 MSG_process_auto_restart_set).
2432 * Use the "msg_" prefix for all datatypes (instead of m_, msg_ and MSG_),
2433 please stop using the old ones, they are DEPRECATED.
2435 * Deprecate functions MSG_global_init() / MSG_global_init_args()
2436 Please use MSG_init() instead. (reducing the amount of entry
2437 points in the library helps us).
2438 * Make it impossible to link against the wrong version of the lib
2439 * Deprecate MSG_clean(). No need to call it anymore.
2440 * Function MSG_get_host_number() is not deprecated anymore.
2443 * Split the doc into a user guide and a reference guide.
2444 * Start a developper guide to help people hacking on SimGrid.
2447 * Enable tracing by default. This modules rocks you should use it.
2448 * Remove option custom_flags. Now use environment variables CFLAGS
2450 * Use default cmake things to detect lua instead of home grown ones.
2451 * New option "enable_mallocators" to disable mallocators, for debugging
2452 purpose ("on" by default).
2455 * Bug fixes around the resource failures: don't let the processes
2456 survive the host they are running onto.
2457 * Add an interface to auto-restart processes when the host in which they are
2458 executing comes back.
2459 * Ensures that SIMIX_clean is called automatically. It's not part of
2460 the public interface anymore (bindings should be updated).
2463 * Bug fix for when SD_Simulate is called with a positive value: be careful
2464 when comparing doubles. Sometimes they are different for non significant
2466 * New types of typed tasks. SD_TASK_COMP_PAR_AMDAHL represents a
2467 parallel task whose initial work is distributed among host according
2468 to the Amdahl's law. Such tasks are created with a parameter alpha
2469 that corresponds to the non-parallelizable part of the computation.
2470 SD_TASK_COMM_PAR_MXN_1D_BLOCK represents a complex data redistribution
2471 between two sets of workstations assuming a 1D block distribution (each
2472 workstation owns a similar share of data) on both sides.
2474 These tasks can be scheduled with SD_task_schedulel or SD_task_schedulev.
2475 Data redistribution will be automatically scheduled once parent and child
2476 are both scheduled. The filling of computation_amount and
2477 communication_amount structures is now done seamlessly thanks to the chosen
2479 * New function SD_workstation_dump to display various information
2480 * New function SD_task_set_rate to throttle the bandwidth allowed to be used
2481 by a SD_TASK_COMM_E2E typed task. This rate depends on both the nominal
2482 bandwidth on the route onto which the task is scheduled and the amount of
2484 To divide the nominal bandwidth by 2, the rate then has to be:
2485 rate = bandwidth/(2*amount)
2486 * Compute tasks that have failed can now be rescheduled and executed again
2487 (from their beginning)
2488 * Increasing source code coverage (src/simdag is now covered at 95.8%
2492 * Re-implement time-independent trace replay using SMPI (at the
2493 smpi_smp_* level) instead of MSG. This should replace
2494 examples/msg/actions/actions.c
2495 * Implement support of MPI Datatypes (vectors, hvectors, indexed,
2496 hindexed and structs)
2497 * Implement the exchange of non-contiguous data.
2498 [Khalid Hasanov & Jean-Noel Quintin] Thanks for the patch, guys.
2499 * Correct behavior of smpi/sender_gap and set its default value to 0
2500 * Add option to asynchronously send small messages to allow better
2501 simulation of pt2pt communications. --cfg=smpi/async_small_threshold:value
2502 specifies the size in bytes under which messages will be asynchronously sent.
2503 * Add support of MPI_Iprobe, MPI_Probe, MPI_Testall, MPI_Wtick functions
2504 * SMPI now handles more MPI specific values in input. Closes [#14389] and [#14388]
2507 * New C interface to define a platform: XML is now optional.
2508 For more info, please check include/simgrid/platf.h.
2509 * New interface to define random platforms from the C:
2510 For more info, please check include/simgrid/platf_generator.h and
2511 examples/msg/masterslave/masterslave_platfgen.c
2512 * Export a sg_cmdline dynar containing all the arguments we got from
2516 * Two new tracing options for adding comments to trace file so you
2517 can track your experiments (see --help-tracing for details).
2518 * New option to generate an impoverished trace file (--cfg=tracing/basic:1)
2519 * Adding the SimGrid version that generated the trace file as a comment.
2520 * Instrumenting other MSG functions (MSG_task_isend_with_matching and MSG_task_dsend)
2521 * Fix to avoid key clashes on Paje links
2522 * Other minor fixes related to the Paje specification
2525 * Functions xbt_dict_hash() and xbt_dict_hash_ext() are made public,
2526 and renamed to xbt_str_hash() and xbt_str_hash_ext().
2527 * New function: xbt_os_timer_resume() to restart a timer w/o resetting it.
2528 * Greatly improve the robustness of mmalloc to user errors (such as
2529 using an area after freeing it, or freeing it twice)
2531 -- Thu Oct 25 17:30:06 CEST 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2533 SimGrid-java (3.8.1) stable; urgency=low
2535 * New module: org.simgrid.trace.Trace (SimGrid trace bindings)
2536 Warning: all methods are visible, but only some of them are
2537 implemented so far. Check the source (src/jtrace.c)
2538 for further information.
2539 * New module: org.simgrid.msg.File (SimGrid File management functions)
2540 * New Module: org.simgrid.msg.VM (SimGrid interface to mimick IAAS clouds)
2541 * Change the meaning of Process.restart: now restart the process from
2542 the beginning, like MSG_process_restart in C.
2543 * Add Process.setAutoRestart: handling of process restart when failed
2545 * Add Process.getProperty, Host.getProperty, Host.getProperty: allows
2546 you to retrieve the properties of the processes/hosts
2547 * Deprecate Msg.clean(): you can just forget about it now.
2548 * New function Process.getCount(), that only works when compiling
2549 with the not yet released version 3.9 of the C library.
2551 * New context factory based on Coroutines. It mandates a modified JVM
2552 but then, the simulations run about five times faster, and there is
2553 no limit to the amount of processes (beside of the available memory).
2555 -- 2012-12-04 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2557 SimGrid (3.7.1) stable; urgency=low
2560 * Restore the prototype of MSG_process_create_with_environment() to
2561 the pre-3.7 situation by removing the kill_time argument.
2562 * Add a MSG_process_set_kill_time() function instead.
2565 * Fix weird behaviors when dealing with parallel tasks.
2568 * Simgrid is now built as a dll.
2569 * Simgrid-java now works on Windows.
2570 * Simgrid-Java is now included into Windows package.
2573 * First pre-build package for MacOSX.
2576 * Fix compilation when using MSG_USE_DEPRECATED.
2577 * Fix some compilation issues on Macs and Windows.
2578 * Reduce the number of failing tests on exotic systems, like Debian/Hurd.
2579 * Environment variables CFLAGS and LDFLAGS are now honored by cmake.
2581 We discovered that the Lua console is broken, but we are missing the
2582 manpower to fix it right now. The problem existed in 3.7 too, so we
2583 are not blocking the release for that. Sorry if you depended on this
2584 feature, any help would be really welcome.
2586 -- Thu Jun 7 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2589 SimGrid-java (3.7.1) stable; urgency=low
2591 The "Java aint got to be bloated and slow" release
2594 * Various internal cleanups and performance improvement
2595 Simulations are expected to run up to twice faster or so
2596 * Make Process.kill(process) an instance method, not a static one
2597 * User processes are not java.lang.Thread subclasses.
2598 This breaks the compatibility (sorry), but previous API was
2599 brain-dead, making it impossible to have non-trivial
2600 initializations in the process constructor.
2601 * Require a full constructor per Process sub-class.
2602 Kinda breaks the compatibility (sorry), but this allows a much more
2603 efficient way to launch the processes at simulation startup.
2604 * Do not embeed our version of semaphores, java 1.5 can be considered
2605 as sufficiently prevalent for us to not dupplicate its features.
2609 * Add examples for almost every part of the API
2610 We spotted and fixed a lot of bugs in the process
2612 * New module: asynchronous communication API
2613 * New function: Process.sleep()
2614 It takes milliseconds as argument, just as java.lang.Thread.sleep()
2615 * New module: org.simgrid.msg.Mutex (SimGrid mutexes)
2616 * New module: org.simgrid.msg.RngStream (RngStreams random generators)
2618 -- 2012-06-12 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2620 SimGrid (3.7) stable; urgency=low
2622 The "spring cleanups (before the next Big Project kicks in)" release.
2625 * We can specify the SMPI latency/bandwidth factor with command line
2626 add --cfg=smpi/bw_factor:"threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"
2627 or add --cfg=smpi/lat_factor:"threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"
2628 You can also use the "config tag" from platform file by adding this line
2629 <prop id="smpi/bw_factor" value="threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"></prop>
2630 (see "example/platforms/tag_config.xml" to use "config tag").
2631 Note that the command line supersedes the platform file configuration.
2632 * Change the correction factors used in LMM model, according to
2633 the latest experiments described in INRIA RR-7821.
2634 Accuracy should be improved this way.
2635 * Use the partial invalidation optimization by default for the
2636 network too. Should produce the exact same results, only faster.
2637 * Major cleanup in surf to merge models and split some optimization
2638 mechanisms from the core of the models. As a result you can now
2639 specify which model to use (e.g., --cfg=network/model:LV08
2640 --cfg=cpu/model:Cas01) and which optimization mode to use
2641 (e.g., --cfg=network/optim:lazy --cfg=cpu/optim:TI).
2642 Incompatible combinations should err at initialization. See
2643 --help-models for the list of all models and optimization modes.
2644 * The CLM03 workstation model was dropped for simplicity because it
2645 used the deprecated CM02 network model. Use default instead.
2646 * Rename the TCP_gamma configuration option to network/TCP_gamma
2647 * Rename the coordinates configuration option to
2648 network/coordinates, and document it
2649 * Use now crosstraffic keyword instead of the terribly misleading
2650 fullduplex keyword. It is activated by default now in the current
2651 default model, use --cfg=network/crosstraffic:0 to turn it off.
2652 * Ongoing refactoring the model parsing to make XML files optional
2653 See include/simgrid/platf.h for details (still to be completed)
2656 * Major overhaul of the documentation. Almost instructive now :/
2657 * Deprecate the use of m_channel_t mechanism like MSG_task_{get,put}
2658 functions and friends. This interface was considered as
2659 deprecated since over 2 years, it's time to inform our users that it is.
2660 Switch to MSG_task_{send,recv} instead, or compile SimGrid command line
2661 'cmake -Dcustom_flags="-DMSG_USE_DEPRECATED" .' if you really need to
2662 use these (crappy) functions in your code.
2663 These functions will be removed soon. Stop using them now.
2664 * Deprecate MSG_get_host_{table,number}
2665 Implement MSG_hosts_as_dynar() instead.
2666 * Implement MSG_processes_as_dynar() (Closes gforge #13642)
2667 * Remove the public field msg_host_t->name. Use MSG_host_get_name()
2670 * Stabilize the parallel execution mode of user contexts
2671 * Introduce configuration variables to control parallel execution:
2672 - contexts/synchro: Synchronization mode to use when running
2673 contexts in parallel (either futex, posix or busy_wait)
2674 - contexts/parallel_threshold: Minimal number of user contexts
2675 that must be part of a scheduling round to switch to parallel
2676 execution mode (raw contexts only)
2677 * Fix bugs that prevented to use suspend/resume along with
2678 synchronization structures.
2679 * Fix bugs in process termination that lead to invalid memory access
2680 in very specific conditions.
2683 * Introduce a parallel mode for the models (controlled by surf/nthreads
2684 configuration item). In our tests, running the models in parallel
2685 never lead to any speedups because they are so fast that the gain
2686 of computing each model in parallel does not amortizes the
2687 synchronization costs, even when ultra fast futexes are used.
2688 This is released anyway because YMMV.
2691 * Performance boost by using a swag internally to compute the set of
2692 tasks that are finished and should constitute the return value of
2696 * Enable it by default now that it is considered rather stable.
2699 * Documentation of the tracing functions.
2700 * Performance gains when tracing categorized/uncategorized resource
2701 utilization by avoiding calls to get route when updating resource
2702 variables. LMM constraints are being used instead.
2703 * API changed to set task categories. Use MSG_task_set_category instead
2704 of TRACE_msg_set_task_category, and SD_task_set_category instead
2705 of TRACE_sd_set_task_category. They only work if ENABLE_TRACING is ON.
2706 * Bugfix for graphicator, routes not correctly obtained, memory leaks
2707 * Examples for link user variables added (see at examples/msg/tracing/)
2708 * Deprecated function TRACE_msg_set_process_category completely removed
2709 * Trace header updated according to the latest Paje file format
2710 * Tracing network lazy updates, no longer obligate users to use full updates
2711 * --cfg=tracing/platform:1 also registers power/bandwidth variables
2712 * Experimental: let user code declare/set/push/pop application states for hosts
2713 * API changed to allow the manual creation of graph configuration files
2714 for Triva. See TRACE_get_node_types() and TRACE_get_edge_types().
2717 * Improve the API of Lua MSG bindings, using the Lua spirit.
2718 * Each simulated process now lives in its own Lua world (globals are
2719 automatically duplicated). It helps writing simulators. Will allow
2720 to run Splay programs within SimGrid in the future.
2721 * Add a Chord example in Lua, equivalent to the MSG one.
2724 * Start the implementation of a solution to express temporal
2725 properties, not only local assertions. This is still an
2726 experimental work in progress, stay clear from it to be safe.
2730 - Add new runtime parameters --help-logs and --help-log-categories
2731 to display information about supported logging parameters and
2733 - Old deprecated parameters --{gras,surf,msg,simix,xbt}-log=...
2734 don't exists anymore.
2735 * Mallocators: allow value NULL for the reset function.
2737 - New function xbt_dict_new_homogeneous(void(*)(void*)) to
2738 create homogeneous dictionaries, where all the elements share the
2739 same free function. Non homogeneous dictionaries will be
2740 deprecated in the next release.
2741 - Dicts of scalar elements (xbt_dicti_*) are deprecated.
2742 - Multi-level dictionaries are deprecated.
2744 - new function xbt_dynar_search_or_negative() that is useful when
2745 you have less than 2 million elements in your dynar and don't
2746 want of the extra complexity of catching exceptions when the
2747 element is not found.
2749 - Make xbt_os_thread module (for thread portability) public.
2750 Documentation is still to come, sorry.
2752 - Cleanups and simplifications to make it maintainable again.
2753 - Exotic features (such as memalign and valloc) were removed.
2754 - The metadata were extended and improved so that the
2755 model-checker becomes able to explore and inspect the heaps.
2756 - This may induce a performance drop when enable_model-checking is
2757 ON in cmake (even if it's not used in the simulation), but it is
2758 necessary at this point to get MC working.
2760 Turn model-checking OFF if simulation performance matters to you.
2761 Not enabling it at runtime is not enough, disable it in cmake.
2763 -- Tue May 15 11:30:19 UTC 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2766 SimGrid (3.6.2) stable; urgency=low
2768 The "Not coding new stuff allows to polish old things" release.
2771 * New bindings to the NS3 packet level simulator (experimental)
2772 * Use the raw (efficient) execution contexts instead of the sysv
2773 (portable) ones when possible.
2774 * libpcre is now mandatory in any cases since not using it led to
2775 severe performance loss and possibly other issues
2776 * Update the XML platforms:
2777 - G5K: include the latest machine in Nancy
2778 - GridPP and LCG: new platforms
2779 * Documentation was partially updated, at least (more to come)
2781 Bug fixes, cosmetics and small improvements
2782 * Free terminated processes before the end of the simulation to avoid
2783 exhausting the memory of users having very dynamic amount of
2785 * Bug fix and cosmetics about canceling non-running tasks
2786 * Bug fix about the dot loader's issues when using libcgraph
2789 * Create an installer for windows with nsis (amd64 and win32)
2790 - Add an hello world project to illustrate simgrid project creation.
2791 - Embed libpcre into the Simgrid installer to avoid
2792 its compilation burden
2793 * The raw execution contexts should work on Apple now
2794 * Port to Windows 64 bits
2795 - Sysv contexts now have an implementation for this arch
2796 - GRAS communication features now support this arch
2797 * Drop support for borland compiler on windows
2798 - this code was not maintained, and we kinda depend on gcc nowadays
2799 * Fix portability issues on kfreebsd/gnu: build error about semaphores
2800 * Fix portability issue on unstable ubuntu: linker became picky on
2803 -- Wed Oct 5 15:51:01 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2805 SimGrid (3.6.1) stable; urgency=low
2807 The "Oops, we broke Macs too" release
2810 * Fixed contexts detection so that raw ones are used when possible
2811 * On Mac, do not use Posix Ucontexts with gcc v4.[1-5] since this
2812 leads to a strange error, with user code segfaulting sometimes when
2813 the generated code is not perfectly aligned (which is not
2814 controllable from the user side, depends on the amount of code)
2817 * New macro: CATCH_ANONYMOUS, which is like CATCH(e) but without argument.
2819 -- Mon Jun 27 13:59:03 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2821 SimGrid-java (3.6) unstable; urgency=low
2824 * Split of every thing from simgrid v3.5 into a separate package.
2826 -- 2011-10-05 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2828 SimGrid (3.6) stable; urgency=medium
2830 The Summer Release, also known as the "OMG! They Killed Kenny!" version
2833 * Bindings now constitute their own package, separated from the main one.
2834 Rationale: reduce our maintenance nightmare by reducing the module coupling
2835 They will soon be released on their own on gforge.
2837 svn co svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/simgrid/contrib/trunk/simgrid-java
2838 svn co svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/simgrid/contrib/trunk/simgrid-ruby
2840 GRAS: It is not considered as stable anymore, but experimental. Sorry.
2841 * It's not quite deprecated for now because we have no replacement,
2842 but it may soon become the case.
2845 * New MPI functions supported: MPI_Comm_disconnect, MPI_Comm_get_name
2846 * Fortran: New user-level cache variable to store the rank of the running
2847 process. This improves performance by an order of magnitude.
2848 * C: New coccinelle script to automatically locate and modify global and
2849 local static variables.
2850 * Improved SMPI network model with a sender-side gap to account for multiple
2854 * New function MSG_comm_get_status(). MSG_comm_test() and MSG_comm_testany()
2855 only say if a communication is finished, no matter whether it succeeded or
2856 failed. You can call MSG_comm_get_status() to know the status of a finished
2858 * New function MSG_task_dsend() to send a task and detach it. When a
2859 communication is detached, you are never notified of its success or failure
2860 and the memory is released automatically once it is finished. This function
2861 is useful when you don't care about the end nor the success of a
2863 * Change the prototypes of action replay. Sorry for inconvenience,
2864 but this is really more efficient this way (and to adapt your code,
2865 you just have to fix the initialization, that shouldn't be too long)
2866 * Kill the braindead MSG_task_refcount_dec() function. I guess nobody
2867 ever managed to do anything useful with it.
2868 * New function MSG_comm_testany(). Similarly to MSG_comm_waitany(), it
2869 takes a dynar of communications. It returns immediately and gives the
2870 index of a finished communication (if any).
2871 * New example: a basic implementation of the Chord P2P algorithm.
2874 * New model for multi-core CPUs. You can now use the core attribute to
2875 precise the number of cores of a host. This is a basic model. Every
2876 process running on the host receives at most the power provided in
2877 the DTD (throughput<=power). Total throughput of process cannot exceed
2879 * New peer tag. This peer tag creates a tiny AS comprising a host and a
2880 router linked by an up-link and a down-link (possibly asymmetrical).
2881 This kind of pattern allows to easily build last-mile model style platforms.
2882 Aggregating such patterns in a rule-based AS is thus the technique of
2883 choice for modeling large peer-to-peer/volunteer computing/cloud platforms.
2884 * New model for Vivaldi routing. We transformed the Vivaldi network model
2885 into a Vivaldi routing model (based on the rule-based model). This allows to
2886 combine Vivaldi based latencies with last-mile platforms.
2889 * Added a check for NaN of IEEE754 infinite in the double entries of
2891 * Introduce a new context factory "raw", highly inspirated from the
2892 ucontext factory, but using manually crafted functions in assembly to
2893 do the work in an efficient manner.
2894 * Allow to change the used context factory at run time, not only at
2895 compilation time. Use --cfg=contexts/factory:raw for maximal speed.
2896 * Add an option --cfg=contexts/stacksize:N to set the stack size of the user
2897 contexts at runtime (only with raw contexts or ucontexts).
2898 * Completely rewrote this module to allow parallel execution of user
2899 processes. Use --cfg=contexts/nthreads:N to execute user processes
2900 with N parallel threads (the default is 1, meaning no parallelism).
2901 * Allow to decide dynamically between sequential and parallel modes.
2902 When nthreads > 1, you can use --cfg=contexts/threshold:P to run the user
2903 processes in parallel only when their number is greater than or equal to P
2905 * Added a check for NaN of IEEE754 infinite in the double entries of
2909 * New command line option: if you pass --cfg=verbose-exit:0, SimGrid
2910 won't output the state of processes when interrupted with Ctrl-C
2911 * Add a new function xbt_dynar_to_array that transforms a dynar into a
2912 NULL-terminated array. This may solve backward compatibility issues
2913 due to the change to return type of SD_simulate. See also:
2914 http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/simgrid-user/2010-December/002206.html
2915 * Add new macros with variable number of arguments.
2916 - in xbt/log.h: XBT_DEBUG, XBT_VERB, XBT_INFO, etc.
2917 - in xbt/asserts.h: xbt_assert
2918 - in xbt/cunit.h: xbt_test_{add,fail,assert,log}
2919 - in xbt/ex.h: THROWF and RETHROWF.
2920 Define XBT_USE_DEPRECATED if you want to use the old numbered macros like
2922 * Change xbt_die() to accept a format string with arguments, just like printf.
2923 * New data structure: xbt_lib_t, like a dict but more general and with better
2927 * New configuration options
2928 Options triva/categorized and triva/uncategorized can be used to generate
2929 graph configuration files for Triva visualization tool.
2930 * Configuration option tracing/platform is renamed to tracing/categorized
2931 * XBT logging makes tracing error checks easier, new root log hierarchy: instr
2932 * New TRACE_user_link_variable interface:
2933 User provides the name of the link and the tracing variable to attach to it
2934 * the declaration of tracing categories must be done after the environment
2936 * simpler tracing interface, just one way to declare categories
2937 TRACE_category or TRACE_category_with_color, it is up to you
2938 * links in the trace file are again identified by their names
2939 * trace contains the full platform hierarchy exactly as declared using the ASes
2940 * Options tracing/msg/[task|process]:1 groups the process by hosts
2941 for both cases, tasks and processes must have names that are unique during the simulation
2942 these options generate traces that are suited to gantt-charts, such as the space-time view of Paje
2943 * The experimental option tracing/msg/volume is deprecated
2944 its functionality may be reincorporated if needed
2946 The tracing generates a trace file with unordered timestamped events,
2947 because of the way the core simulator (surf) works. A script available
2948 at the tools directory (fix-paje-trace.sh) can be used to put the events
2949 in order. We have changed the tracing so it can generate ordered timestamped
2950 events in the final trace, but depending on the simulator (and how much time
2951 is simulated) that can lead to a huge memory utilization. It is deactivated
2952 by default, but it can be activated using the --cfg=tracing/buffer:1 switch.
2954 Build Infrastructure
2955 * Define a SIMGRID_VERSION macro in simgrid_config.h.
2956 - We are trying hard to keep the API stable, but it may happen that
2957 some things change (we're a research project after all, not a
2958 nuclear plant operating system). If such things should happen, you
2959 could rely on that macro to adapt.
2960 - current value: 30600 for 3.06.00, aka 3.6
2961 * Define macro MAKE_SIMGRID_VERSION(major, minor, patch) to help building
2962 a number that can be compared with SIMGRID_VERSION.
2963 * Add a build option -Denable_debug (set to ON by default): when set to OFF,
2964 assertions and verbose/debug logging events are disabled at compile time.
2966 -- Tue Jun 21 08:57:43 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2968 SimGrid (3.5) stable; urgency=medium
2971 * New feature to any SimGrid-based simulator: Model-Checking
2972 Check SIN#1 for more details.
2975 * New Model SMPI (three-interval linear regression for correction factors)
2976 See RR-7426, available at http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00527150
2977 * Ability to use FORTRAN MPI code (through f2c, automatically privatized)
2978 * New MPI functions supported: MPI_Get_count(), MPI_Comm_split()
2979 * New: RAM folding (see RR-7426 and examples/smpi/NAS/DT-folding)
2980 * New: execution sampling (see RR-7426 and examples/smpi/NAS/EP-sampling)
2981 * See also src/smpi/README
2986 - Tracing API changes: TRACE_start and TRACE_end should not be called
2987 by user-code. They are automatically called by simulators created
2988 with SimDAG, MSG and SMPI if the toolkit is compiled with
2989 tracing_enabled=ON. Categories declaration and utilization remain the
2990 same for MSG and SimDag.
2991 - A function was added to the tracing API to declare categories with
2993 - TRACE_category_with_color (char *category, char *color)
2994 where color must be in the following format
2995 "%f %f %f", red, green, blue
2996 and red, green, blue are float values in the interval [0, 1]
2997 - User can specify NULL as color parameter, or continue calling
2998 TRACE_category (cat)
2999 On that case, the tracing system will define random colors
3000 - The following command-line options are supported:
3001 --cfg=tracing/filename:msg.trace
3002 --cfg=tracing:1 (activate tracing, needed to use others)
3003 --cfg=tracing/platform:1 (categorized resource use)
3004 --cfg=tracing/uncategorized:1 (uncategorized resource use)
3005 --cfg=tracing/msg/task:1 (task creation)
3006 --cfg=tracing/msg/process:1 (process creation, migration)
3007 --cfg=tracing/msg/volume:1 (volume of MSG send/recv)
3008 --cfg=tracing/smpi:1 (SMPI interface tracing)
3009 --cfg=tracing/simdag:1 (allow SimDAG tasks receive categories)
3010 - examples of examples/msg/tracing updated
3012 - DAXLoader and DOTLoader functions can generate tasks with categories
3013 - A new function to attribute a category to SD tasks:
3014 TRACE_sd_set_task_category (SD_task_t task, char *category)
3015 * Tracing the MPI interface implemented by SMPI
3016 - Collective operations are traced with states
3017 - Point-to-Point operations are traced with states/links
3018 - Tracing activated by a parameter "-trace filename" passed
3019 to smpirun during execution (considering that simgrid
3020 is compiled with tracing enabled)
3021 - To run the simulation with gdb, the simulator
3022 accepts --cfg=tracing/smpi:1 to trace SMPI
3023 - tesh files to check if smpi tracing is ok
3024 - See examples/smpi/NAS/DT-trace
3025 * GTNetS tracing re-worked
3026 - adaptation to the tracing system of GTNets to cope
3027 with modifications regarding the fullduplex mode
3028 - new tesh files to check if gtnets tracing is ok
3031 * Asynchronous communications through the functions:
3032 MSG_task_isend/irecv and MSG_comm_test/wait/waitall
3033 * New function: MSG_load_platform_script()
3034 to make possible using a lua script instead of XML files to set up platforms
3035 * New function: MSG_set_function
3036 to associate functions to processes, used when bypassing the parser
3037 * New functions: MSG_task_set_name(), MSG_task_set_compute_duration()
3039 Platforms: Add some more examples in examples/platforms
3040 * Grid'5000: see www.grid5000.fr
3041 * *_30000_hosts.xml: various huge files [mainly scalability testing]
3044 * Change the XML format. This is a very important modification. SimGrid
3045 3.5 introduces a new hierarchical format based on the notion of
3046 Autonomous Systems. Compatibility with old format is ensured
3047 through the perl script provided in the install bin directory
3048 bin/simgrid_update_xml.
3049 It is now possible to build platforms with specific routing
3050 mechanism (Full/Dijkstra/DijkstraCache/Floyd) and to easily
3051 connect several platforms together. We will try to provide soon
3052 set of realistic platforms exploiting these properties (have a
3053 look at examples/platforms/ for the moment).
3054 * Take the opportunity of the XML format change to be a good XML citizen:
3055 rename link:ctn to link_ctn and similar changes (also dealt with by
3057 * Add a new routing scheme (rule-based) using regular expressions. It
3058 enables to have an extremely low memory footprint when the
3059 underlying routing is simple and can be compactly described. You
3060 need to have libpcre4-dev (perl regular expressions) installed if
3061 you want to use this routing scheme.
3062 * Revive the cluster TAG and allow to easily and efficiently (both in
3063 term of memory and speed) connect clusters together. Have a look
3064 at teshsuite/simdag/platforms/ to see how this can be done. With
3065 this tag, you can create clusters with thousands of tasks at no
3066 cost (have a look at examples/platforms/).
3067 Note: clusters are implemented as ASes, so there is no need for an
3068 enclosing AS tag if you have only one cluster in your platform.
3069 * Add new generic functions in the public interface that allows the user
3070 to call SURF 'create_resource' methods from your code (same
3071 functionality as the XML bypass mechanism but with a much lighter
3073 * Add a new model (enabled through command line --cfg=network/model:SMPI)
3074 that uses a piecewise linear approximation to produce better
3075 results when exchanging small messages.
3076 * Add a new parameter to handle correctly full duplex link and account
3077 for interferences between uplink and downlink communications
3078 (activate with --cfg=fullduplex:1).
3081 * Rename the SD_READY (all dependencies are satisfied and task is
3082 scheduled) state in SD_RUNNABLE and define a new SD_SCHEDULABLE (all
3083 dependencies are satisfied) state.
3084 This prevents a confusion between the notion of "ready to schedule"
3085 (SD_SCHEDULABLE) used in DAG scheduling and that of "ready to be
3086 simulated" (SD_RUNNABLE) used by the simulation kernel.
3087 * Change the way a task is considered as ready. Instead of removing
3088 dependencies when a task is done, a counter is decreased. This way,
3089 it is always possible to reach ancestors thanks to the
3090 SD_taks_get_parents function (even after the end of the simulation.)
3091 * Change the return type of SD_Simulate from (SD_task_t*) into
3092 xbt_dynar_t. This function was in handling a dynar internally and
3093 converted it into a NULL terminated array for historical reasons.
3094 * New function SD_dotload(char*) to load a DAG described in dot
3095 format. This loader and the corresponding examples require the
3096 installation of the graphviz library.
3097 * Fix a bug in the management of tasks of size 0 in the surf network
3098 models. This problem was only visible with SIMDAG and you should
3099 thus disregard results produced with earlier versions if you
3100 relied on this feature (some tasks were blocked because of this).
3101 * Fix a bunch of stuff that prevented to use classical models with SIMDAG
3102 even though your applications were doing only point-to-point
3103 communications and sequential computations. Now you can really use any
3104 model you want (of course, if you create real parallel tasks, which are
3105 not implemented in most models beside ptaskL07, this will abort).
3106 * Add an example that schedules a DAX on an heterogeneous platform
3107 using a Min-Min strategy.
3108 * New function SD_workstation_get_current_task() that returns the kind
3109 of task currently running on a workstation in the sequential access
3111 * Raise some warnings when unexecuted tasks remains at the end of the
3112 simulation. This is usually caused by cycles in the DAG.
3115 * New function: SIMIX_process_set_function() called by MSG_set_function
3116 * Change the underlying waiting queue in semaphores so that a process
3117 can wait on several of them simultaneously (as in waitany).
3118 * Fix the way to handle tokens in semaphores so that all access patterns
3119 work: {acquire, acquire_timeout, waitany} / {release, release_forever}.
3120 * kill the dirty pimple SIMIX_message_sizes_output()
3121 Please use (proper) visualization instead
3124 * New data container: setset (set of sets of elements)
3125 * New module: mmalloc (mapped malloc, allowing to have several
3126 independent segments of malloc)
3127 * New function: xbt_dict_cursor_set_data()
3128 * New functions: xbt_dynar_sort(), xbt_dynar_compare()
3129 * New function: xbt_dynar_is_empty()
3130 * New function: xbt_fifo_get_last_item()
3131 * Fix xbt_dynar_shrink(): use the right element size.
3132 * Fix xbt_dynar_set*(): allow index larger than current size and memset 0
3133 uninitialized areas during expand.
3134 * Fix semaphores: previous implementation was severely broken.
3135 * Use library init/fini functions for our initialization.
3136 - you can use logs and other feature as soon as you want in your
3137 code (even before the xbt_init / MSG_init)
3138 - xbt_exit is now a no-op and produce a warning when used.
3141 * Port GRAS to new SIMIX mechanisms. This allows gras users to
3142 benefit from the latest improvement to the simulation kernel.
3143 * Kill measurement sockets for now. If you rely on them, sorry. This
3144 release is not for you. This feature will be reintroduced in the
3145 future, but we cannot delay the release any further.
3146 * New function: gras_msgtype_get_name().
3147 * Implement gras_agent_spawn in RL too (the prototype changed a bit)
3148 * Fix (at last) the pmm example: it should not randomly fail anymore.
3150 Build chain: bug fixes and overall polishing
3151 * Cmake is now stable enough. Hence, we killed the autotools.
3152 * Port to windows ( TM :)
3153 * Fix the 'make install' target.
3154 No need to use 'make install-simgrid' anymore
3155 * Introduce a 'make dist' target compiling a *source* archive
3156 'make package' compiles a binary archive
3157 * Compile java files only on need
3158 * Add --cd and --setenv command line options to tesh
3159 * Out of source builds are not fully supported yet, but we are close
3160 * Enable supernovae and optimization flags by default for our users
3163 * Add layer to set up environment directly from lua, without XML.
3164 * The effect of gras_stub_generator can be achieved through
3165 lua too (check examples/gras/console/ping_generator.lua)
3167 -- Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:09:23 +0100 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
3169 SimGrid (3.4.1) stable; urgency=low
3171 The "Polishing easter eggs is probably a good idea" release.
3172 This is a bug fixes release only.
3176 * Fix a bug preventing the tasks from begin garbage collected.
3179 * Fix a bug occurring when a host involved in a communication fails.
3180 This was not detected properly by the other peer involved in the
3181 communication. Now, it's reported as a network error.
3184 * Warn the user about loop dependencies in data flow of DAX files
3185 * Obey the control-flow dependencies of DAX files
3188 * Add option "enable_smpi" allowing to not compile SMPI.
3189 Probably useful for the (Mac) users experiencing a build error here
3190 * Improve the detection of lua5.1 and ruby1.8
3192 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Tus, 04 May 2010 28 16:11:16 +0100
3194 SimGrid (3.4) stable; urgency=low
3196 The "Easter in Cargese" release. Also known as (major changes):
3198 * the "se habla Java, Ruby 話せます, fala-se Lua (and deaf-friendly)"
3199 ~> bindings were greatly improved
3200 ~> new tracing infrastructure for better visualization introduced
3202 * the "Welcome to configury modernity" release.
3203 ~> we switched from autotools to cmake, and improved our cdash
3206 A more detailled list of changes follow (full detail in svn log).
3208 Java Bindings: Various Cleanups
3209 * (install java-gcj-compat-dev on debian-like to use them)
3210 * Remove put/get: no need to export deprecated interface in Java
3211 Use send/receive instead.
3212 * Cleanup the examples and add a README per directory
3213 * Remove example autoDestination (that's the only way to go now)
3214 * Remove example explicitDestination (was a plain copy of basic)
3215 * Make JniException a runtime exception, so that there is no need to
3216 declare the fact that you may encounter such a beast. I guess that
3217 nobody will ever want to survive such error.
3218 * Create specific errors for each MSG case of failure:
3219 host failure, transfer failure, timeout, task cancelled
3220 * Cleanup the exceptions that may get thrown by each function
3221 * Other internal cleanups in Java bindings. Performance still bad :/
3222 Ruby and Lua Bindings: create them
3223 * (install ruby1.8-dev/liblua5.1-0-dev on debian-like to use them)
3224 * That's new and great, you should try them out.
3225 Same functionalities than Java bindings, only even less polished
3227 * Kill the useless "rate" argument of SD_task_get_execution_time()
3228 Everyone used to provide -1 as a value, it was not used, and the
3229 semantic of a possible use wasn't even clear.
3230 * SD_SCHED_NO_COST: Constant to use as cost in SD_task_schedule()
3231 either as comm costs or compute costs to mean that there is no
3232 such thing for that specific task.
3233 * Add a SD_task_set_name() function
3234 * Fix SD_task_unschedule() on typed tasks
3235 * Fix SD_task_get_execution_time() to return seconds, not flop*sec
3236 * In DAX loader, accept useless 'level' attributes to <job> since
3237 LIGO DAGs have them (seem to be to ease graphical representation).
3239 * Add an example masterslave_mailbox.c using send/receive and not
3240 the deprecated put/get interface.
3241 * Kill the MSG_paje_output() function. It's a noop since 2 years.
3242 * Kill MSG_WARNING and MSG_FATAL return codes: they were not used
3244 * Rename MSG_TIMEOUT_FAILURE into MSG_TIMEOUT for sake of logic
3245 (declare MSG_USE_DEPRECATED to still have the old name)
3246 * Add a MSG_task_set_data() function
3247 * About trace replay (see examples/msg/actions):
3249 - Allow to work with splitted trace files for each process
3250 Give the specific trace file as argument of each process,
3251 and call MSG_action_trace_run(NULL)
3252 You can still have one merged file for all processes.
3253 - Fix implementation of collective operations
3254 * Allow task_execute() on 0-sized tasks (closes #10063)
3256 * This is the first release of SimGrid where SMPI is not considered
3257 beta anymore (even if some corners should still be improved)
3258 * Port over the new SIMIX_network submodule (internal refactoring)
3259 * Basic support to log events as with SMPE (use --cfg=SMPE:1)
3260 * Implement more missing elements of the standard:
3262 - MPI_MAXLOC MPI_MINLOC + all associated datatype MPI_DOUBLE_INT,
3264 - MPI_Address() MPI_Get_count() MPI_Type_free() MPI_Type_extent()
3265 MPI_Scan() MPI_Get_processor_name()
3266 - Added implementation of missing case for Alltoall (warning: it's
3267 *not* the bruck variant from OpenMPI; based on Alltoallv instead)
3268 - SMPI_MPI_Gather() SMPI_MPI_Gatherv() SMPI_MPI_Scatterv()
3269 SMPI_MPI_Reduce_scatter() SMPI_MPI_Allgather()
3270 SMPI_MPI_Allgatherv()
3271 * Bug fixes include:
3272 - MPI_Waitsome() was broken
3273 - Allow relative includes in smpicc
3274 - Command line cfg argument 'reference_speed' was ignored...
3275 - Some functions did not properly lead to auto-benching of user code
3276 - smpicc passes -O2 by default (just like openmpi one)
3278 * add SIMIX_action_suspend() and SIMIX_action_resume() functions
3279 * Bug fixes about timeouts during communications
3280 * add SIMIX_message_sizes_output() as a pimple to write to file the
3281 amount of messages per size. Use gnuplot to get histogram.
3282 Pimple because that's the only user-visible function of simix,
3283 defined directly in xbt.h (irk, sorry)
3285 - Add a SIMIX_sem_get_capacity() function
3286 - Fix interactions with processe resume/suspende
3287 - release_forever() was stupidly broken
3288 - Fix SIMIX_display_process_status() for processes in a semaphore
3289 - Make SIMIX_sem_block_onto() user-visible
3290 * Refactoring context stuff:
3291 - Use pseudo-OOP for better modularity
3292 - reimplement SIMIX_process_kill() without process_schedule() so
3293 that the latter can take as invariant that it is called from
3295 - Merge context_start into context_new for sake of simplicity
3297 * Add a Vivaldi network model, coded live during SUD'10 ;)
3298 * Rename configuration variables to start a hierarchy:
3299 o cpu_model -> cpu/model
3300 o network_model -> network/model
3301 o workstation_model -> workstation/model
3302 * New configuration variables:
3303 o network/bandwidth_factor: correction to bandwidth
3304 o network/latency_factor: correction to latency
3305 o netwotk/weight_S: correction to the weight of competing streams
3306 * Add a long description to the models, that users can see with such
3307 argument on the command line: --cfg=cpu/model:help
3308 * --help-models display the long description of all known models
3310 * config: add the ability to set a default value after registration
3311 Does not override any previously set value (e.g. from cmd line)
3312 * dict: allow to have integer key and data.
3313 When so, you need to use the following functions
3314 void xbt_dicti_set(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key, uintptr_t data);
3315 uintptr_t xbt_dicti_get(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key);
3316 void xbt_dicti_remove(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key);
3317 In contrary to regular dicts, the key is not malloced before copy.
3318 Mixing scalar and regular elements in the same dict is not tested
3320 * Allow to use xbt_dynar_shrink() to expend the dynar instead
3321 Tracing for Visualization:
3322 * SimGrid is now instrumented in order to generate a trace file for
3323 visualization analysis: to use it, need to compile SimGrid with the
3324 "tracing" option enabled, and instrument the program using SimGrid with
3325 TRACE_start, TRACE_category, TRACE_msg_set_task_category and TRACE_end
3326 (among other functions).
3327 * The instrumentation only traces the platform utilization for now
3328 * Documentation to use the tracing functions and how to analyze the
3329 traces with the Triva tool is written.
3330 * More information about: SimGrid FAQ (in the section Tracing Simulations
3333 * We moved to cmake as default build system. Autotools support will
3334 be dropped soon. Check the FAQ for more info about how to use it.
3335 * Greatly improved our cdash/ctest interactions
3336 Check http://cdash.inria.fr/CDash/index.php?project=Simgrid
3337 * Added memory checking tests with valgrind; lot of memleak fixing.
3338 This may be the first release of simgrid with so few memory issues
3339 * Added code coverage tests.
3340 Our coverage is still improvable, but at least we see it on cdash.
3342 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Wed, 28 Apr 2010 28 17:11:16 +0100
3344 SimGrid (3.3.4) stable; urgency=low
3346 The "Desktop Grid needs love too" release (also called Xmas release).
3348 Models improvements:
3349 * Major speedup in the maxmin system solving by using lazy evaluation
3350 Instead of solving completely the maxmin system at each iteration,
3351 only invalidate (and recompute) the modified parts.
3352 This new feature is enabled in default models but you can try to
3353 turn it on with "--cfg:maxmin-selective-update=1" for other models.
3354 * Cas01 IMproved as default CPU model
3355 This CPU model is the same Cas01 model, but it uses the
3356 maxmin-selective-update flag and a heap structure to manage
3357 actions on SURF kernel.
3358 It reduces the complexity to find the next action to finish and,
3359 consequently, it's faster than the old Cas01.
3360 This is the new default CPU model (Cas01).
3361 * Rename the old Cas01 model to Cas01_fullupdate
3362 Keep the old cpu model Cas01 with the new name of Cas01_fullupdate.
3363 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:Cas01_fullupdate" to use the old default CPU model.
3364 * CpuTI (CPU Trace Integration)
3365 A new CPU model whose objective is simulate faster when using
3366 availability trace files.
3367 Instead of using a full featured, over engineered maxmin system for
3368 CPU modeling, this model does the pre-integration of traces files
3369 to calculate the amount of CPU power available, and so, executes
3370 faster than the old CPU models.
3371 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:CpuTI" to change to this CPU model.
3372 * Use LV08 as default network model since it gives better accuracy
3373 for small messages and shouldn't change things for big ones.
3374 Use --cfg=network_model:CM02 to get the previous behavior.
3377 ******************************************
3378 *DO NOT MIX 3.3.4 RESULTS WITH OLDER ONES*
3379 ******************************************
3380 * The new CPU model may changes simulations!
3381 The point is that events occurring at the exact same timestamp
3382 are not scheduled in the same order with the old and new
3383 version. This may be enough to completely change the execution
3384 of simulations in some cases.
3385 * The new network model will change simulations!
3386 This new model is more realistic than the previous one, so you
3387 should consider redoing your old experiments with this model.
3388 Sorry for the inconvenience.
3391 * Introduce the supernovae compilation mode
3392 When compiled that way, the whole SimGrid (or almost) is put in a
3393 single compilation unit and compiled in one shoot.
3394 This is to help gcc which has difficulties to inline stuff from one
3396 The speedup seem to be above 15%, althrough more tests are needed on
3397 amd64 to confirm that gain.
3400 * Port of MSG's mailbox on top of SIMIX network
3401 The put/get mechanism was greatly simplified on the way.
3404 * New SIMIX network module. Provides:
3405 - Mailbox: rendez-vous mechanism to find with who you want to speak
3406 - Synchronous send/recv: easier and hopefully faster since the
3407 logic is handled in the maestro process directly now
3408 - Asynchronous send/recv: you dreamt of it? It's here now
3409 Too bad that nobody cared enough to propagate the change to MSG.
3410 * Add semaphores as SIMIX synchronization mechanism.
3413 * new function SD_daxload(char*) to load a DAX file
3414 (see http://vtcpc.isi.edu/pegasus/index.php/WorkflowGenerator)
3415 * Introduce typed tasks. Specify its kind and cost at creation.
3416 At scheduling, just give where it should be placed, and the cost
3417 for each involved resource is automatically computed.
3418 Existing constructors so far (more to come of course):
3419 - SD_task_create_comm_e2e() for end-to-end communication
3420 - SD_task_create_comp_seq() for sequential computation
3421 Use SD_task_schedulev() / SD_task_schedulel() to schedule them.
3422 * new function SD_task_dump() for debugging display
3423 * new function SD_task_dotty(task,FILE*) writing to file the info
3424 about the task in dotty format
3425 * SD_task_dependency_exists() can now cope with having one of its
3426 arguments NULL. If so, it tests whether the other argument has any
3428 * Add getters on list of preceding/following tasks:
3429 SD_task_get_parents(task) and SD_task_get_children(task)
3430 * Add getters on amount of workstations and list:
3431 SD_task_get_workstation_count(t) and SD_task_get_workstation_list(t)
3432 * Add getter on task kind: SD_task_get_kind(task)
3433 * Update the start_time and finish_time of tasks on completion/failure
3434 * Bugfix: Remove task from state swags when destroyed
3437 * New function: void gras_cpu_burn(double flops) -- a simple CPU burner
3440 * New function: xbt_dynar_dopar(dynar,fun) to map a function over the
3441 dynar with one separate thread per value of the dynar.
3442 * Change the prototype of xbt_thread_create(), sorry.
3443 Added a boolean parameter indicating whether we want to join this
3444 thread (used in SG only for now)
3445 * Implement xbt_thread_join and xbt_thread_yield in SG also.
3448 * GTNetS wrappers should now be usable again (and betterly tested too)
3449 * Fix a major regression from 3.2 where the timeout provided to
3450 MSG_task_put_with_timeout() was used as absolute time before which
3451 the comm should be done.
3452 * Start to fix the <cluster> tag.
3453 - Internal links should be good now (beside of the loopback, which
3454 use the private link instead)
3455 - paths to the external world is still rather broken
3456 - the <route:multi> tag is just broken. Actually that's brain-dead.
3457 We need sth like <route:multi src="myCluster" dst="$*-${myCluster}">
3458 to make it less stupid
3459 ** Check your platform with teshsuite/simdag/platforms/flatifier **
3460 * Fix a source-level compatibility glitch from 3.2: after defining
3461 MSG_USE_DEPRECATED, you can use the old name
3462 MSG_task_put_with_time_out() for MSG_task_put_with_timeout()
3463 * Allow to compile from the SVN with automake 1.11
3464 * Fix some problems when using the "start_time" tag in deployment XMLs.
3465 * Fix #8569: XBT/synchro.h has redundant declarations
3466 * Fix #8563: MSG return values and exceptions
3467 Introduce a MSG_TIMEOUT_FAILURE return code and use it consistently.
3468 * Integrate patch #8636: Obey DESTDIR when installing documentation.
3469 Thanks to Robson Peixoto.
3470 * Fix a vicious bug in dictionaries inducing that some elements were
3471 not freed on xbt_dict_free()
3473 Portability report of this version:
3474 * Main portability targets:
3475 - linux (ubuntu (804/810/910) /debian (4/5/testing) /fedora (core11))
3476 on (amd64/i386/ia64)
3477 - mac leopard on i386
3478 Known problems: http://cdash.inria.fr/CDash/index.php?project=Simgrid
3479 but nothing critical.
3480 * Other platforms: windows, AIX and others were not tested for this release
3482 Timing report of this version:
3483 * Lazy evaluation brings arbitrary speedup (ie, speedup depending on
3484 scenario parameters). From 8h to a few seconds in desktop grid settings.
3485 * Supernovae brings about 25% speedup on i386.
3487 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:07:39 +0100
3489 SimGrid (3.3.3) stable; urgency=low
3491 The "Need for Speed" release.
3493 The timings done to validate the 3.3.2 were faulty.
3494 Instead of being 5% faster, it was 15% slower (compared to 3.3.1).
3496 The problem was a conversion from a manually handled vector to
3497 xbt_dynar_t on the critical path.
3498 xbt_dynar_foreach calls functions, inducing stack management crap.
3500 We inlined these functions and xbt_dynar_foreach is now breath taking.
3501 We also inlined xbt_swag_belong on the way.
3503 Here are some approximate speedup measurements (on master/slaves
3504 simulations lasting between 10s and 20s each):
3505 3.3.1 -> 3.3.2: about same performance
3506 3.3.2 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
3507 3.3.1 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
3508 3.3.1 with inline patch -> 3.3.3: 30% speedup
3510 Our reading is that the refactoring which occurred in 3.3.2 made us
3511 suffer much more from the xbt_dynar_foreach low performance, but
3512 once we solved this, this refactoring proved to be very performance
3513 effective. From the 40% speedup, somehow, 10% are due to the
3514 inlining and 30% to the refactoring.
3516 That's a pitty that gcc cannot inline functions placed in other files
3517 alone. We have to choose between:
3518 - break the encapsulation (by putting private data structures and
3519 accessors in headers files to help gcc)
3520 - live with low performance
3521 - switch to a decent compiler such as icc (not quite possible).
3523 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:21:33 +0200
3525 SimGrid (3.3.2) stable; urgency=low
3527 The "Simplicity does not preceed complexity, but follows it" release.
3529 The main contributors of this release were (lexical order):
3530 Silas De Munck, Stéphane Genaud, Martin Quinson, Cristian Rosa.
3533 * Extract the routing logic into its own object.
3534 (was dupplicated in network.c and workstation_LV07.c;
3535 Allows to implement other ways of storing that info)
3536 => kill now useless network_card concept
3537 - Use dynar to represent routes (instead of void** + int*)
3538 - kill link_set (use surf_network_model->resource_set instead)
3539 - Add a command-line option to choose the routing schema to use
3540 - Add three new models:
3541 * Floyd (shortest path computed at initialization)
3542 * Dijikstra (shortest path recomputed all the time)
3543 * Cached Dijikstra (shortest path computed on need)
3544 All these models where contributed by Silas De Munck, and are
3545 described in his ICCS09 paper.
3547 * Simplify model declaration
3548 (less redirections, less function to write when defining a model)
3549 - Factorize stuff between models:
3552 surf_model_resource_set(model)
3553 surf_model_resource_by_name(model, name)
3554 - Unify the types of models in s_surf_model_t (using an union)
3555 - Embeed fields of common_public directly into s_surf_model_t
3556 - Rename model methods:
3557 action_free ~> action_unref
3558 action_change_state ~> action_state_set
3559 action_get_state ~> action_state_get
3560 - Change model methods into functions:
3561 (model)->common_public->action_use ~> surf_action_ref
3563 * Implement a generic resource; use it as ancestor to specific ones
3564 (allows to kill duplicated code in models)
3565 Drawback: timer command don't need no name nor properties;
3566 workstation_CLM03 don't need no properties
3567 (but I guess we can live with those few bytes wasted)
3569 * Improve the action object model
3570 - implement a constructor avoiding dupplicated code about field
3571 initialization in generic_action part.
3573 * Kill the SDP model: it has an external dependency, is deprecated
3574 in flavor of modern lmm models, and didn't compile since a while
3577 * Relocation of the context module from XBT to SIMIX.
3578 (the context were decoupled from the simix processes, duplicating a lot of code)
3579 => a lot of code was factorized
3580 - less overhead is introduced during scheduling
3581 - simpler API for the context factory
3582 - the logic for process creation,destruction and manipulation was simplified
3583 * Simplification of the s_smx_process_t data structure.
3584 => accesing the simix level data associated to a process is faster now,
3585 and the code is a lot more readable.
3588 * Implement some more MPI primitives:
3589 MPI_Bcast, MPI_Waitany, MPI_Waitall, MPI_Reduce, MPI_Allreduce, MPI_Scatter, MPI_Sendrecv, MPI_Alltoall
3590 -implementation: Bcast: flat or 2-ary tree (default),
3591 Barrier: 4-ary tree,
3593 Allreduce: Reduce then Bcast
3594 Alltoall: "basic_linear" if data per proc < 3Kb, "otherwise pairwise".
3595 Not yet implemented: "Bruck" for data per proc < 200b and comm size > 12
3596 Alltoallv: flat tree, like ompi
3598 * Add support for optimized collectives (Bcast is now binomial by default)
3599 * Port smpirun and smpicc to OS X
3602 * Kill SD_link_get_properties: hard to maintain and makes very little sense
3603 Shout out if you used it.
3606 * Display the list of still queued messages in SG mode when existing
3610 * Add xbt_set_get_by_name_or_null() [Silas De Munck]
3611 * Add xbt_graph_node_get_outedges() [Silas De Munck]
3612 * Add xbt_str_from_file(FILE*)
3613 * Add xbt_dict_get_key achieving a linear reverse search
3614 * Remove the context module
3616 Portability report of this version:
3617 * Main portability targets:
3618 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
3619 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
3620 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
3621 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
3622 On these, we still have the eratic breakages of gras/pmm and
3623 amok/saturate_sg reported in previous version. We still think
3624 that the tests are the cause of the fault, not the tested code.
3626 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
3627 Still false negative in tesh autotesting.
3628 Smpi still fails, but this time because readlink does not accept -f
3629 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
3632 - AIX version 5.3 (only tested contexts this time)
3633 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
3634 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
3636 I managed to compile it for the first time, but several breakages.
3637 Won't delay the release for this exotic platform.
3639 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
3642 Timing report of this version:
3643 This version seem to be more than 5% faster than 3.3.1 (on linux
3644 64bits with contextes). The gain is less than expected, we are
3645 investigating this for next release.
3647 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:07:12 +0200
3649 SimGrid (3.3.1) stable; urgency=low
3652 * Implement a --cfg-help to show existing configuration variables
3653 * Build chain do not require doxygen in maintainer mode
3656 * fix a bug on struct sizeof computation, which prevented the
3657 exchange of arrays of structs in some conditions
3658 - added a regression test about this in datadesc_usage
3659 * Allow the exchange of 0-long dynamic vectors.
3660 - for that, use -1 as indicator of dynamic size instead of 0
3661 - This implied to change any size from unsigned long to long,
3662 reducing a bit communication abilities, but I guess that with
3663 64bits being quite common, this is more than enough.
3664 - This also induce a protocol change, thus bumping network protocol
3665 version from 0 to 1 (if we have external users, we have to get
3666 clean on that point too ;)
3667 - added two regression tests about this in datadesc_usage
3668 * Be more verbose when propagating local exceptions
3669 This helps debugging.
3670 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT in
3674 * Allow to control the simulation from a trace file.
3675 New functions MSG_action_register() and MSG_action_trace_run()
3676 The first one allows to associate a function execution to each
3677 kind of action while the second one parses a trace file and
3678 triggers the corresponding actions within the system.
3679 For now, only a toy example is provided in examples/msg/actions
3680 * Add an example of process migration in examples/msg/migration
3681 * Fix a bug in task exchange which broke MSG_task_get_sender()
3682 Add a teshsuite regression test for that.
3683 [Bug: if MSG_task_get_sender() is called after sender exit,
3685 * Fix a bug which prevented suspend/resume to work properly
3686 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT
3687 This fixes a regression of v3.3. due to the introduction of SIMIX
3688 * Bug fixing in failure management:
3689 - trace could not start by a failure at time 0
3690 - failure during communications were not working
3693 * Add SIMIX_process_set_name() to change the name of the current
3694 process in the log messages.
3695 * Store smx_hosts in a dict since we only retrieve them by name
3696 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
3699 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
3702 * Massive internal cleanups:
3703 - Store internal structures on processes instead of hosts (allows
3704 to have more than one process per host, in addition of being more
3706 - Cleanup the initialization/finalization process
3707 - Kill a whole bunch of unneeded synchronization:
3708 processes run in exclusive manner within the simulator
3709 - Move queues from global tables to process data fields
3711 - now accept -platform and -hostfile arguments
3712 - Pass the right rank value to processes according to the hostfile
3713 * Compile the examples by default, and use them as regression tests
3714 * Implement MPI_Wtime()
3715 * Change the reference speed to a command line option
3718 * TCP_gamma can now be specified as command line option using
3719 --cfg=TCP_gamma:10000000.0
3720 * Change the --surf-path cmd line option into --cfg=path:
3723 * Also include strbuff from xbt.h public header
3724 * xbt_ex_display(): do not free the exception after displaying
3725 This allows to do more with the given exception afterward.
3726 Users should call xbt_ex_free() themselves.
3730 Portability report of this version:
3731 * Main portability targets:
3732 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
3733 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
3734 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
3735 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
3736 These targets fail about 1/10 of times on gras/pmm, but we believe
3737 that this is because of the test, not because of simgrid.
3738 amok/saturate_sg fails even more rarely, and the test may not be
3741 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
3742 The test suite still spits tons of errors because some obscure
3743 force prevents us from removing the temporary directories
3744 arguing that they still contain some metadata I've never heard of.
3745 Smpi fails because seq is not installed.
3746 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
3749 - AIX version 5.3 (both contexts and pthread)
3750 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
3751 XML inclusions seems rosty on AIX.
3753 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
3756 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:14:30 +0200
3758 SimGrid (3.3) stable; urgency=high
3762 * JAVA BINDINGS for MSG (you dreamt of them? We made them)
3763 [Malek Cherier & Mt]
3765 * Introduce the SIMIX module: factorize code between MSG and GRAS.
3768 Until now, GRAS were using MSG as an interface to SURF. It was
3769 quite difficult because both interface have several differences
3770 (MSG channels vs GRAS sockets were the most notable point).
3772 This also opens the gate to SMPI (which should occur soon) and speed
3773 up simulations by to 40% (even if it were not the main goal).
3775 **************************************
3776 *DO NOT MIX 3.2 RESULTS WITH 3.3 ONES* Simix may changes simulations!
3777 **************************************
3778 The point is that events occurring at the exact same timestamp are
3779 not scheduled in the same order with the old and new version. This
3780 may be enough to completely change the execution of simulations in
3781 some cases. Sorry for the inconvenience.
3783 * Cleanup and upgrade the XML format to push further scalability
3784 issues (check http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00256883/ for more info)
3786 * Improve the testing infrastructure with tesh. Now a very large part of
3787 the code is tested not only by being run but also by checking that the
3788 output match an expected output [Mt].
3790 * Move on to FleXML v1.7 for the embeeded XML parsers. This version
3791 is really less memory-demanding, which should allow you to use
3792 larger files in SimGrid [AL].
3794 * Inform valgrind about our contextes, so that it becomes usable
3795 with the default (and more effecient) version of SimGrid
3796 [contributed by Sékou Diakite, many thanks]
3799 * Introduce a listener thread in charge of receiving incoming
3800 messages from the network. It allows to overlap communication and
3801 computation but most notably, it removes some stupid deadlocks due
3802 to the fact that so far, a process could not send and receive at
3803 the same time. This made most non trivial communication schema
3805 * Convert the PIDs from long int to int to match the MSG ones (and
3806 linux ones too) [Mt]
3807 * New function: gras_agent_spawn() to launch a new process on
3808 current host. Only working in simulation for now. [Mt]
3809 * New function: gras_os_hostport() returning a constant form (ie,
3810 not needing to be freed) of "gras_os_hostname():gras_os_myport()"
3813 * Make the backtrace of exceptions more human readable [Mt]
3814 * New module: xbt/str [Mt]
3815 a ton of string utility functions (split, join, printf to a newly
3816 allocated buffer, trim, etc)
3817 * New module: xbt/hash [Mt]
3818 SHA1 hashing algorithm (more to come if needed)
3819 * New module: xbt/synchro [Mt]
3820 synchronization tools (mutex and conditions) working the same way
3821 in simulation and in real life (mainly useful for GRAS, but not
3823 * New module: xbt/queue [Mt]
3824 classical producer/consumer synchronization scheme
3825 * xbt_dynar_new_sync() creates a synchronized dynar. All access
3826 (using the classical functions will get serialized) [Mt]
3827 * Make dictionary internal table dynamic. No need to specify its size
3828 anymore; functions xbt_dict_new_ext() and xbt_dict_hashsize_set()
3830 * Make sure the log channels are organized as a tree under windows
3831 (because of ANSI C compatibility issue, any channel were child of
3832 root directly) [Mt].
3835 * Cleaned many thing in surf and fixed a few bugs [AL].
3836 * Add a nice command line configuration mechanism to compose models [AL].
3837 * Add a new model for parallel tasks (ptask_L07) that is less buggy than
3838 the previous one (KCCFLN05). It relies on something that looks like
3839 a max-min sharing mechanism but cannot be written as such. A new solver
3840 was thus designed [AL].
3841 * Add a new solver to lmm. Based on Lagrange optimization and
3842 gradient-based descent, it enables to efficiently maximise systems s.a
3844 sum f_i(x_i) s.t Ax<= b with A_{i,j}>=0 and f_i a concave function.
3846 This solver enables to propose two new network models for TCP Reno and
3847 TCP Vegas based on Low's work. These models still need to be fully
3848 tested though [Pedro Velho].
3851 * Bug fix in SD_simulate. Now the time bound given as argument is
3853 * Use the new parallel task model (ptask_L07) as default.
3854 * Use the SURF command line configuration mechanism.
3855 * 0-size tasks (for synchronization) should now work.
3857 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sun Apr 12 05:20:36 CEST 2009
3859 SimGrid (3.2) stable; urgency=high
3863 We still experience issues on this platform, but we believe that at
3864 least MSG is usable.
3866 GRAS API BREAKAGE (for simplification purpose, sorry):
3867 * the gras_msgtype_by_name is not used anymore. Instead of
3868 gras_msg_send(toserver, gras_msgtype_by_name("request"), &request);
3869 you can write (and must)
3870 gras_msg_send(toserver, "request", &request);
3871 - If you still want to pass a gras_msgtype_t to the function (to cache
3872 the type and avoid the lookup time), use the gras_msg_send_() variant.
3873 - Impacted functions:
3874 gras_cb_register, gras_cb_unregister, gras_msg_send, gras_msg_wait,
3875 gras_msg_rpccall, gras_msg_rpc_async_call, gras_msg_wait_ext
3876 * The callbacks are now expected to return 0 when everything went well
3877 (just like the main() function)
3879 GRAS new features and improvements:
3880 * New module mechanism where user code can use per process globals [Mt]
3881 This is similar to gras_userdata_*() functions, but for libraries. It
3882 factorize some code developped over and over in the examples and AMOK.
3883 It has still to be documented and used (only amok/peermanagement is
3885 * Fix a vicious bug in the TCP buffering mechanism which leaded to message
3886 loss when they were small enough to fit into the buffer and sent quickly
3887 enough so that they can all get received in one shoot.
3888 * gras_datadesc_by_name and gras_msgtype_by_name: now raise an exception
3889 if not found. Use the *_or_null() variant for the old semantic.
3890 * In gras_msg_handle, do not discard messages without callback.
3891 They are probably messages to be explicitly awaited later (ie, proofs of
3892 mis-synchronization in userland since they are sent before being awaited)
3893 No big deal usually.
3894 * gras_socket_meas_send/recv: semantic changed!
3895 The numerical arguments used to be (1) the total amount of data to send
3896 and (2) msg_size. This was changed to (1) msg_size and (2) amount of
3897 messages. This was need for the fool willing to send more than MAXINT
3898 bytes on quite fat pipes.
3901 * Do really rename the hostmanagement module to peermanagement. [Mt]
3902 Ie, rename functions from amok_hm_* to amok_pm_*. This breaks the API,
3903 but this is rather new and this was documented in the module
3904 documentation (poor excuses, I admit)
3905 * Bandwidth measurement semantic changed! This follows the changes to
3906 gras_socket_meas_send/recv explained above.
3909 * A sequential mode has been added to the workstations. When a workstation
3910 is in sequential mode, it can execute only one task, and the other tasks
3911 are waiting in a FIFO. [Christophe Thiery]
3914 * The KCCFLN05 workstation model now handles parallel tasks. It is the
3915 model for SIMDAG. [Christophe Thiery]
3916 * Bug fix in the maxmin solver: Some values were close to 0 instead of
3917 equal to 0, which caused some bad behaviors in
3918 saturated_constraint_set_update. I now use a threshold mechanism like in
3922 * When running manually src/testall, you select specific units [Mt]
3923 testall is the result of our cunit mechanism, and should replace all
3924 the scripty thingy around since bash don't run easily on billware.
3926 * A mallocator system has been added. [Christophe Thiery]
3927 Mallocators allow you to recycle your unused objects instead of freeing them
3928 and allocating new ones.
3930 Documentation update:
3931 * FAQ reworking + New FAQs:
3932 - "Valgrind spits tons of errors!" [Mt]
3933 - "How to repport bugs" [Mt]
3934 - "Cross-compiling a Windows DLL of SimGrid from Linux" [Mt]
3935 - "What is the difference between MSG, SimDag, and GRAS?" [Mt]
3936 - Communication time measurement within MSG [AL]
3937 - I experience weird communication times when I change the latency [AL]
3938 * GRAS tutorial [Mt]
3940 - an introduction to the framework and to the used communication model
3941 - an initiatic tour introducing the most proheminent features:
3943 . Lesson 0: Installing GRAS
3944 . Lesson 1: Setting up your own project
3945 o Part 2: Message passing
3946 . Lesson 2: Exchanging simple messages
3947 . Lesson 3: Passing arguments to the processes (in SG)
3948 . Lesson 4: Attaching callbacks to messages
3949 . Lesson 5: Using globals in processes
3950 . Lesson 6: Logging information properly
3951 . Lesson 7: Using internal timers
3952 . Lesson 8: Handling errors through exceptions
3953 . Lesson 9: Exchanging simple data
3954 . Lesson 10: Remote Procedure Calling (RPC)
3955 . Lesson 11: Explicitly waiting for messages
3956 . Recapping of message passing features in GRAS
3957 - A HOWTO section containing:
3958 o HOWTO design a GRAS application
3959 More are due, of course. They will come latter. In the meanwhile, you can
3960 check the examples which are still here.
3962 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri Mar 16 21:11:46 CET 2007
3964 SimGrid (3.1) stable; urgency=high
3968 There was a stack corruption somewhere, visible only when optimizing
3969 with these versions. [Vince]
3972 * This is a NEW module! SimDAG (SD for short) is a revival of the old SG
3973 module that enabled to play with Directed Acyclic Graphs. It is built
3974 directly on top of SURF and provides an API rather close to the old
3975 SG. Some old codes using SG are currently under rewrite to check that
3976 all needful functions are provided. [Christophe Thiery]
3979 * Complete rewrite of the KCCFLN05 workstation model. It is now an
3980 extension of the classical CLM03 model that gracefully handles
3981 failures. This is now the default model for MSG and GRAS. It doesn't
3982 handle parallel tasks yet though. [AL]
3983 * Bug fix: Weights were not correctly set in the network part.
3984 WARNING: This may have resulted in incorrect results with simulations
3985 where there are more than one flow on a given link. [AL]
3988 * After a (long ?) discussion on simgrid-devel, we have decided that the
3989 convention we had on units was stupid. That is why it has been decided
3990 to move from (MBits, MFlops, seconds) to (Bits, Flops, seconds).
3991 WARNING: This means that all previous platform files will not work as
3992 such with this version! A warning is issued to ask users to update
3994 A conversion script can be found in the contrib module of the CVS, under
3995 the name contrib/platform_generation/surfxml_update.pl [MQ]
3998 * Bug fix: Processes were started in reverse order, wrt deployment file.
3999 WARNING: if your code relies on this bug, please fix it. [AL]
4000 * Bug fix: Add a test in MSG_task_execute to stop whenever a task is
4001 being executed on two different locations. [AL]
4002 * Bug fix: Failures are now better supported thanks to Derrick's tests
4003 (there was many failure situations I hadn't thought of and that weren't
4004 correctly handled). [AL]
4005 * New function: MSG_host_is_avail indicates you whether a given m_host_t
4009 * New! a real RPC mechanism, as it ought to be since too long. [MQ]
4010 Exception occurring on server-side are propagated back to client (!).
4012 API CHANGE: the callback changed their prototype. Change:
4013 int my_handler(gras_socket_t expeditor, void *payload_data) {
4015 int my_handler(gras_msg_cb_ctx_t ctx , void *payload_data) {
4016 gras_socket_t expeditor=gras_msg_cb_ctx_from(ctx);
4018 * New! function: gras_msg_handleall to deal with all messages arriving
4019 within a given period.
4020 * New! function: gras_socket_server_range to get a server socket in a
4021 range of port numbers (ease to avoid port number conflicts) [MQ]
4022 * New! gras processes display their backtrace when they get a SIGUSR1
4023 or when Ctrl-C is pressed. Use Ctrl-C Ctrl-C to exit.
4024 Sweet to debug RL processes [MQ]
4028 - Do not force experiment sizes to be expressed in kb, or it becomes
4029 impossible to measure the latency this way (needs one byte-long tests)
4030 WARNING: this changes the amok_bw_* function semantic. [MQ]
4031 - Implements the link saturation stuff. [MQ]
4032 * Peer management module:
4033 New! module factorizing code that we wrote over and over [MQ].
4036 * New module: cunit (my jUnit implementation in ansi C) [MQ]
4037 - Test units are placed directly into the library code, they get extracted
4038 automatically and placed into the src/testall binary.
4039 - Convert most of the XBT tests to this system.
4040 * New functions: xbt_dynar_getfirst_as() and xbt_dynar_getlast_as() [MQ]
4041 * XML parsing: rewrote parts of flexml to enable multiple xml parsers to
4042 live in the same C code. This required to change a little bit the API
4043 of surfxml parsing but shouldn't be an issue for end-users. [AL]
4044 * New module: sparse graph structure with basic algorithms (this is work
4045 in progress and the API is not considered to be frozen yet). [AL]
4046 * Display more information on backtraces: source line & function names are
4047 now displayed just like valgrind does (rely on addr2line tool) [MQ]
4048 * New function: xbt_backtrace_display(). Sweet while debugging [MQ]
4049 * Reworked a little bit some #include statements to load only required
4050 headers. Some user code that relied on SimGrid to include stdlib or
4051 stdio may need to include it by themselves. [AL]
4052 * Fixed xbt/log.h. A missing SG_BEGIN_DECL prevented compilation with
4054 * Renamed xbt_host_t into xbt_peer_t since it betterly describes what I
4055 meant. This breaks the API of AMOK and of xbt/config. Sorry about this,
4056 but I guess that almost nobody used those parts. [MQ]
4058 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:32:27 +0200
4060 SimGrid (3.0.1) stable; urgency=low
4063 * Unfortunately, I had missed 5 misnamed functions:
4064 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_newitem(void);
4065 void xbt_fifo_freeitem(xbt_fifo_item_t);
4066 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getFirstItem(xbt_fifo_t l);
4067 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getNextItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
4068 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getPrevItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
4069 They're now deprecated. Please use their new versions:
4070 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_new_item(void);
4071 void xbt_fifo_free_item(xbt_fifo_item_t);
4072 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_first_item(xbt_fifo_t l);
4073 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_next_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
4074 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_prev_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
4076 * Bugfix: really disconnect fifo items which are remove_item()ed [AL]
4077 * Documentation: xbt_log module unmercifully reworked [MQ]
4078 * Bugfix: there was a problem with the ending of contexts with
4079 the pthread backend. It caused some weird deadlock or behavior
4080 depending on the pthread implementation. [AL]
4081 * Bugfix: get the exceptions raised in the simulator repport where
4082 and why they come from when they are not caught in time [AL, MQ]
4085 * Bugfix: Do repport the error when two non-connected hosts try to
4086 exchange data (Thanks to Flavien for stumbling into this one) [AL]
4089 * Add additionnal checkings on communications. Assert that two
4090 communicating hosts are connected by a set of links... [AL]
4093 * Add additionnal checkings on channel values in communication [AL]
4094 * New: MSG_task_get_source to see on which host a task was generated [HC]
4095 * New: int MSG_task_probe_from_host(int channel, m_host_t host): returns
4096 the number of tasks waiting to be received on channel and sent
4098 * New: MSG_error_t MSG_task_get_from_host(m_task_t * task, int channel, m_host_t host);
4099 waits for the first task coming from a given host.. [AL]
4101 GRAS new functionnalities: [MQ]
4102 * Enhance the parsing macro to allow the size of multidimentional objects
4103 to be given thru annotations.
4104 * New example (and documentation): Matrix Multiplication a la RPC
4105 (as when I was young!) and fix a bunch of bugs found on the way.
4107 GRAS performance improvements: [MQ]
4109 * Reduce the amount of cbps creation/destruction by making it static to
4110 datadesc_send/recv() and using a (newly created) cbps_reset (based on
4113 * Change libdata to a set so that we can search for stuff by ID (and thus
4114 reduce the insane amount of dict lookups)
4117 * Actually implement gras_datadesc_copy() so that we don't have to mimick
4118 RL communication on top of SG since it's so uneffective.
4119 It may also be used for inter-thread communication in RL, one day.
4120 * Use gras_datadesc_copy() to exchange messages on top of SG
4122 - improve message exchange performance on top of SG
4123 - deprecate transport_plugin_sg.c:gras_trp_sg_chunk_send() & recv()
4124 * Don't exchange on the network the size of the used part of buffer,
4125 instead, specify the possible buffer size to read().
4127 - reduces the amount of read/write calls (one pair per exchange)
4128 - reduces the amount of exchanged data (the size)
4129 - allows to retrieve all arrived data on receiver side, if we don't need
4130 it right now (subsequent read will peek the buffer)
4131 - allows the receiver to proceed with the beginning of the stream before
4132 everything is arrived
4133 - make it possible to build an iov transport (using readv/writev)
4135 - take care of the data with non-stable storage (like stacked data),
4137 * If possible, TCP send uses vector I/O (when writev() is here)
4138 - Don't use it for receive since we send data sizes and data on the
4139 same stream, so we wouldn't be able to chain large amount of chunks
4140 before having to flush the stuff to read the size.
4141 * Rework the transport plugin mechanism to simplify it and reduce the
4142 amount of pointer dereferencement when searching for the right function
4145 * I guess that now, we do almost as few system calls as possible while
4146 doing as few data copy as possible.
4148 To improve it further, we could try to send all the sizes first and then
4149 all the data (to use iov on receiving size), but it's only a partial
4150 solution: when you have 2 dimensional data, the sizes of the second
4151 dimension is data of the first dimension, so you need 3 streams.
4153 I'm not sure the potential performance gains justify the coding burden.
4155 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:42:20 +0200
4157 SimGrid (3.00) stable; urgency=high
4160 * New! Give the possibility to hijack the surf parser and thus bypass
4161 MSG_create_environment and MSG_launch_application. Have a look at
4162 examples/msg/msg_test_surfxml_bypassed.c to see how it can be done.
4164 -- Arnaud Legrand <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 20 Aug 2005 23:25:25 -0700
4166 SimGrid (2.96) unstable; urgency=low
4171 * New! Exception handling with setjmp or such (code from OSSP ex) [MQ]
4172 This deprecates the xbt_error_t mechanisms.
4173 It modifies (simplifies) all XBT and GRAS API.
4174 MSG API keeps unchanged (exceptions raised by XBT are caught from
4175 within MSG and masked with existing error handling facilities)
4178 * New! Add a FATPIPE model. [AL]
4179 * New! Add a parallel task model. [AL]
4180 * New! Add automatically a loopback interface (in the default
4181 network model) if none was precised.
4184 * Bugfix: MSG_process_resume now works with the current running process.
4186 * New! Add MSG_parallel_task_create and MSG_parallel_task_execute. [AL]
4187 * Modification of MSG_task_get_compute_duration. Once a task has been
4188 processed, the value returned by this function is now equal to 0. [AL]
4189 * New! Add double MSG_task_get_remaining_computation(m_task_t task) and
4190 MSG_error_t MSG_task_cancel(m_task_t task). Add a state
4191 (MSG_TASK_CANCELLED) to MSG_error_t corresponding to the cancelation
4192 of a m_task. For now, MSG_task_cancel only works with computation
4194 * New! Add double MSG_get_host_speed(m_host_t h) that returns the speed
4195 of the processor (in Mflop/s) regardless of the current load on the
4197 * API Change: use proper naming convention for MSG_getClock and
4198 MSG_process_isSuspended: MSG_get_clock and MSG_process_is_suspended.
4200 * New! Add void MSG_task_set_priority(m_task_t task, double priority).
4201 This function changes the priority of a computation task. This priority
4202 doesn't affect the transfer rate. A priority of 2 will make a task
4203 receive two times more cpu power than the other ones. This function
4204 has been added to suit the needs of Nguyen The Loc and hasn't been that
4205 much tested yet. So if it fails, please report it and send me your code.
4207 * API Change: removed all functions and types that were marked "deprecated"
4208 since many months. Renamed MSG_global_init_args to MSG_global_init.
4210 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:58:47 -0700
4212 SimGrid (2.95) unstable; urgency=low
4215 * Steal some nice code to GNU pth to fix context detection and usage [AL]
4216 * Cleanup in the xbt_config API; add configuration callbacks. [MQ]
4217 * Cleanup in the initialization API: the unused "defaultlog" is dead. [MQ]
4220 * Bugfix: Allow absolute paths for platform description files [MQ]
4221 * Bugfix: do free the variables after use. Leads to drastic performance
4223 * Implement max_duration (ie, timeouts) on resources [AL]
4226 * Implement MSG_config to configure MSG at runtime. xbt_cfg test on a real
4228 * Implement MSG_channel_select_from() to help GRAS now that SURF provide
4229 the needed support (timeouts) [AL]
4232 * Implement measurement sockets. You can now get the bandwidth between two
4233 hosts thanks to AMOK (see below). [MQ]
4234 * gras_datadesc_dynar() builds a dynar type descriptor, allowing to send
4235 dynar over the network (yeah) [MQ]
4236 * Real (even if simplistic) implementation of gras_os_myname() on RL [MQ]
4237 * simple/static token-ring example. [Alexandre Colucci and MQ]
4238 * Use MSG_channel_select_from() and remove the *slow* hack we had to put
4239 in place before [MQ]
4242 * Differentiate the types "char[22]" and "unsigned char[22]" in automatic
4243 type parsing. "short" and "long" modifiers were also ignored; other
4244 modifier (such as reference level) are still ignored. [MQ]
4245 * Embeed the buffer size within the buffer itself on SG. [MQ]
4246 That way, send() are atomic and cannot get intermixed anymore (at least
4247 the ones which are less than 100k; bigger messages still have the issue)
4248 * Array size pushed by the field, not by the field type (or each
4249 and every long int will push stuff to the cbps) [MQ]
4250 * use select() to sleep since it allows to portably sleep less than one
4253 GRAS (minor cleanups)
4254 * <project>.Makefile.local (generated from gras_stub_generator) |MQ]:
4257 * Type Callbacks now receive the gras_datadesc_type_t they work on as argument.
4258 * type category 'ignored' killed as it was never used and were difficult
4260 * whether a type can cycle or not is now a flag, leaving room for more
4261 flags (as "ignored", if we feel the need one day ;)
4262 * Rename raw sockets to measurement sockets since "raw" has another
4263 meaning in networking community.
4266 * Advanced Metacomputing Overlay Kit introduction. It is based over GRAS
4267 and offers features not belonging to GRAS but that most applications
4268 need. One day, it may be a set of plugins loadable at runtime.
4269 * New module: bandwidth
4270 bandwidth measurement between arbitrary nodes running this module. [MQ]
4272 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:29:20 -0700
4274 SimGrid (2.94) unstable; urgency=low
4276 The first beta release of SimGrid 3 !
4280 * Update the main page and the FAQ. Adding references to gforge.
4283 * Add a gras_os_getpid function.
4286 * Add MSG_task_get_compute_duration() and MSG_task_get_data_size()
4287 * Extend the logs so that they also print PID, hostname, date, ... if
4289 * Convert the MSG example to the use of xbt_logs instead of PRINT_MESSAGE,
4290 and kill the old version which were in testsuite/
4291 * Rewrite tools/MSG_visualization/colorize.pl for using with logs instead
4295 * Add xbt_os_time(). As the rest of xbt/portability, this is not public
4296 for users. Instead, each programming environment (GRAS, MSG,...) use it
4297 when needed to provide such a feature to users.
4298 Don't shortcut the mechanism or you will also shortcut the virtualization
4299 you need on the simulator.
4303 * Cleanups in configury with regard to compile optimization/warning flags.
4304 Also add -fno-loop-optimize to any powerpc since it's the optimization
4305 killing gcc (< 3.4.0).
4306 * Doxygen cleanups: move MSG examples, kill the second Doxygen phase
4307 needed by MSG examples complications
4308 * Borrow configury beautifications from PHP
4311 * Bugfix: XBT_LOG_NEW_DEFAULT_CATEGORY now compiles without compiler
4312 warning (thanks loris for stumbling into this one).
4313 * Bugfix: stop loading private headers (gras_config.h) from the public
4317 * Change SIMGRID_INSTALL_PATH to GRAS_ROOT in Makefiles generated for user.
4318 * Rename gras_get_my_fqdn to gras_os_myname and implement it in the simulator
4319 RL would imply a DNS resolver, which is *hard* to do in a portable way
4320 (and therefore delayed).
4321 * Implement a real timer mechanism and use it in timing macros. This allows
4322 to avoid rounding errors and get a 0.000005 sec precision in timing
4323 macros. While I was at it, various cleanups:
4324 - allow to declare more than one timed section per file (fix a stupid bug)
4325 - move some private declaration to the right place
4326 - merge conditional execution and timing macros into emulation module
4327 - document the module
4328 - make sure the module cleanups its mess on gras_exit
4329 * Documentation improvements:
4330 - (new) how to compile applications using GRAS
4331 - (new) emulation support (timing macros)
4333 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 13 May 2005 10:49:31 +0200
4335 SimGrid (2.93) unstable; urgency=low
4337 Alpha 4 on the path to SimGrid 3 (aka the "neuf-trois" version)
4340 - Use Paje properly where used. Still to be sanitized properly.
4341 - Portability fix: Add an implementation of the contexts using pthread
4345 - Add xbt_procname(): returns the name of the current process.
4346 Use it to show the current process's name in all logging.
4348 - fix detection of older flex version and the reaction, since we do
4349 depend on modern ones (we use lex_destroy)
4350 - Better separation of SG and RL in the libs: remove all simulation code
4351 from libgras. As a result, this lib is now only 200k when stripped.
4352 Some of the xbt modules may also be duplicated (two sets and such) and
4353 should be cleaned/killed before SG3.
4354 - Insist on using xlC on AIX because of weird problems involving gcc there.
4355 - Cleanup the make remote stuff. This is now done by scripts
4356 tools/graspe-{master,slave} (GRAS Platform Expender). This is still
4357 mainly for our private use, but we're working on changing them to user
4360 - Bugfix: flush the socket on close only if there is some *output*.
4361 - Bugfix: flush idempotent when there's nothing to send (don't send size=0)
4363 - Add MSG_task_get_name. The task names are mainly for debugging purpose,
4366 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:32:37 -0800
4368 SimGrid (2.92) unstable; urgency=low
4370 Alpha 3 on the path to SimGrid 3
4374 - New! First try of benchmarking macros.
4375 - New! First try so that gras_stub_generator generate deployment and
4376 remote compilation helpers.
4378 - Bugfix: Initialization fix in msg_test.
4382 - Bugfix: applied patch to lexer so that it doesn't need a huge heap.
4384 - Bugfix: let dicts work with NULL content (_foreach didn't) and cleanups
4386 - API Change: gras_os_sleep to take the amount of seconds as a double.
4387 Accepting an int was error prone since it was the only location where
4388 seconds were coded as such. It leaded to damn rounding errors.
4389 - Bugfix: Hard to belive that timers ever worked before this.
4391 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:09:21 +0100
4393 SimGrid (2.91) unstable; urgency=low
4395 Alpha 2 on the path to SimGrid 3
4399 - Bug fix in the lmm_solver.
4401 - New! Interface to Paje (see http://www-id.imag.fr/Logiciels/paje/)
4402 through the function MSG_paje_output.
4403 - New! Introducing two new functions MSG_process_kill() and MSG_process_killall().
4404 - It is possible to bound the rate of a communication in MSG with
4405 MSG_task_put_bounded() (was already in the previous version but I had forgotten
4406 to write it in the changelog).
4407 - Bug fix to let GRAS run on top of MSG until we move it directly on top
4412 - Various cleanups to the autotools stuff
4413 - Begin to move Gras examples to examples/gras/
4414 - Let make distcheck work again (yeah!)
4416 - documentation overhauled using doxygen.
4417 gtk-doc-tools is dead in SimGrid now.
4418 - Automatically extract all existing logging categories, and add the list
4419 to the documentation (long standing one, to say the less)
4421 - Cleanup the known architecture table. Reorder the entries to group what
4422 should be, and use a more consistent naming scheme.
4423 (some of the test dataset are still to be regenerated)
4424 - New! Allow library to register globals on each process just as userdata
4426 This is implemented using a xbt_dict and not a xbt_set, so we loose the
4427 lookup time (for now).
4428 Use it in msg and trp.
4429 This cleans a lot the internals and helps enforcing privacy of the
4430 headers between the gras components.
4431 - New! Add a timer mechanism, not unlike cron(8) and at(1).
4432 - Bugfix: gras_os_time was delirious in RL.
4433 - Bugfix: gras_trp_select/RL don't run into the wall when asked to select
4435 - Reenable GRAS now that it works.
4437 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:02:13 -0800
4439 SimGrid (2.90) unstable; urgency=low
4441 Alpha 1 on the path to SimGrid 3
4443 * It is a long time since the last release of SimGrid. I'm sorry about
4444 that but as I had told you, I was rewriting a lot of things. I apologize
4445 to those who had been reporting bugs to me and that I had not answered.
4446 If your bug is still in the new version, please tell me. Here is a
4447 summary of the main changes.
4449 * REVOLUTION 1: The SimGrid project has merged with the GRAS project
4450 lead by Martin Quinson. As a consequence SimGrid gains a lot in
4451 portability, speed, and a lot more but you'll figure it out later.
4452 SimGrid now comprises 3 different projects: MSG, GRAS and SMPI.
4453 I wanted to release the new MSG as soon as possible and I have
4454 broken GRAS, which is the reason why, for now, only MSG is fully
4455 functional. A laconic description of these projects is available
4456 in the documentation.
4458 * REVOLUTION 2: I have removed SG and I am now using a new simulation
4459 kernel optimized for our needs (called SURF but only the developers
4460 should use it). Hence, MSG is now roughly 30 times faster and I think
4461 that by rewriting a little bit MSG, I could event speed it up a little
4462 bit more. Beside the gain in speed, it is also much easier to encode a
4463 new platform model with SURF than it was with SG. More to come...
4465 * REVOLUTION 3: I have tried to change a little as possible the API of
4466 MSG but a few things really had to disappear. The main differences
4467 with the previous version are:
4468 1) no more m_links_t and the corresponding functions. Platforms are
4469 directly read from an XML description and cannot be hard-coded
4470 anymore. The same format is used for application deployment
4471 description. The new format is described in the documentation.
4472 Have a look in tools/platform_generation. There is a tiny script
4473 that converts from the old platform format to the new one. Concerning
4474 the application deployment format, parsing the old one is tricky.
4475 I think most of you should however be able to convert your files. If
4476 it is really an issue, I can write a C code that does the conversion.
4478 2) the toolbox tbx does not exist anymore. We now have a library
4479 with much more data-structures but without the hash-tables (we have
4480 dictionaries that are much faster).
4482 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:45:53 -0800
4484 *****************************************************************************
4485 * Follows the old GRAS changelog. It does not follow the same syntax, but I *
4486 * don't feel like converting the oldies. (Mt) *
4487 *****************************************************************************
4490 Version 2.90: "the long awaited one"
4491 - Finished rewriting and debugging MSG. Rewrote the documentation.
4492 - disable GRAS for now since it needs to be ported to the newest SG
4495 - Finish the port to windows (using mingw32 for cross-compile)
4498 - Main loop and datastructures of SURF. A cpu resource object is
4499 functional. Surf can thus be used to create cpu's with variable
4500 performance on which you can execute some actions.
4502 2004-11-15 Martin Quinson
4503 - Port to ARM. Simply added the alignment and size descriptions. Should
4504 work, but the ARM machines are so slow that I didn't had the opportunity
4505 to 'make check' over there yet.
4507 2004-11-15 Arnaud Legrand
4508 - Trace manager now written. It uses a heap structure and is therefore
4509 expected to be efficient. It may however be speeded up (particularly
4510 when many events occur at the same date) by using red and black
4511 trees. One day maybe...
4512 - Max-min linear system solver written. It uses a sparse matrix
4513 structure taking advantage of its expected use. Most operations are
4514 O(1) and free/calloc are called as few as possible. The computation of
4515 the minimum could however be improved by using a red and black tree
4518 2004-11-03 Arnaud Legrand
4519 - Rename every gras_* function that was in xbt/ to its xbt_
4521 - Add a heap and a doubly-linked list to xbt
4522 - Added a dichotomy to the dictionaries. make check works as well before
4523 so I assume that the patch is correct. I do not know however if things
4524 run effectively faster than before now. :)
4526 Inclusion of the SimGrid tree in the GRAS one. The archive is renamed to
4527 SimGrid, and the version number is bumped to 2.x
4529 2004-10-29 Martin Quinson
4530 - Introduction of the remote errors.
4531 They are the result of a RMI/RPC on the remote machine.
4532 ErrCodes being scalar values, you can't get the host on which those
4533 errors did happen. Extending the error mechanism as in Gnome is possible.
4534 No idea yet whether it is a good idea.
4536 2004-10-28 Martin Quinson
4537 - Interface revolution: the Starred Structure Eradication.
4538 I used to do typedef struct {} toto_t; and then handle *toto_t.
4539 Arnaud (and Oli) didn't like it, and I surrendered. Now, you have:
4540 - ???_t is a valid type (builded with typedef)
4541 - s_toto_t is a structure (access to fields with .)
4542 - s_toto is a structure needing 'struct' keyword to be used
4543 - e_toto_t is an enum
4544 - toto_t is an 'object' (struct*)
4546 typedef struct s_toto {} s_toto_t, *toto_t;
4547 typedef enum {} e_toto_t;
4548 Moreover, only toto_t (and e_toto_t) are public. The rest (mainly
4549 s_toto_t) is private.
4551 - While I was at it, all gras_<obj>_free() functions want a gras_<obj>_t*
4552 so that it can set the variable to NULL. It was so for dicts and sets,
4553 it changed for dynars.
4555 - Fix a bunch of memleaks in dict_remove
4556 - Fix a bug in sg/server_socket opening: it failed all the time.
4558 2004-10-07 Martin Quinson
4559 - Speed up dynar lookup operation a bit.
4561 gras_dynar_get is dead.
4563 Now, you can choose between gras_dynar_get_cpy (the old gras_dynar_get
4564 but should be avoided for efficiency reasons) and gras_dynar_get_ptr
4565 (which gives you the address of the stored data).
4567 gras_dynar_get_as is an helpful macro which allows you to retrieve a
4568 copy of the data using an affectation to do the job and not a memcpy.
4570 int toto = gras_dynar_get_as(dyn,0,int); rewrites itself to
4571 int toto = *(int*)gras_dynar_get_ptr(dyn,0);
4573 It does not really speedup the dynar test because they are
4574 setting elements all the time (and look them seldom). But the dict does
4575 far more lookup than setting.
4577 So, this brings the dict_crash test from ~33s to ~25s (200000 elms).
4579 2004-10-05 Martin Quinson
4580 - Allow to (en/dis)able the cycle detection at run time.
4582 Whether we should check for cycle or not is now a property of each
4583 datatype. When you think there may be some cycle, use datadesc_cycle_set.
4584 datadesc_cycle_unset allow to remove this property when previously set.
4586 Note that the cycle detection is off by default since it impacts the
4587 performance. Watch the data you feed GRAS with ;)
4589 This property is hereditary. Any element embedded in a structure having it
4590 set have it set for the time of this data exchange.
4592 You should set it both on sender and receiver side. If you don't set it on
4593 sender side, it will enter an endless loop. If you forget on receiver
4594 side, the cycles won't be recreated after communication.
4596 - Header reorganization.
4597 Kill gras_private.h, each submodule must load the headers it needs.
4599 2004-10-04 Martin Quinson
4600 - Interface revolution: do not try to survive to malloc failure.
4602 Now, gras_malloc and friends call gras_abort() on failure.
4603 As a conclusion, malloc_error is not a valid error anymore, and all
4604 functions for which it was the only gras_error_t return value are
4605 changed. They now return void, or there result directly.
4606 This simplify the API a lot.
4608 2004-09-29 Martin Quinson
4609 - Re-enable raw sockets.
4610 Created by gras_socket_{client,server}_ext;
4611 Used with gras_raw_{send,recv}
4614 It should allow to kill the last bits of gras first version soon.
4616 This is not completely satisfactory yet (duplicate code with
4617 chunk_{send,recv}; a bit out of the plugin mechanism), but it should
4620 - Simplify transport plugin (internal) interface by not passing any
4621 argument to _server and _client, but embedding them in the socket
4624 2004-09-28 Martin Quinson
4625 - Finish the port to AIX.
4626 autoconf was my problem (segfault within the malloc replacement
4627 function. No idea why)
4629 2004-09-16 Martin Quinson
4630 - Fix some size_t madness on 64bit architectures.
4632 2004-09-08 Martin Quinson
4633 - Reduce the number of system headers loaded, overload some more system
4634 calls (such as malloc to cast the result of the system one, and work
4636 - Fix and reintroduce the config support
4638 2004-09-07 Martin Quinson
4639 - Source code reorganization to allow Arnaud to surf all over there.
4640 - Allow to document the logging categories.
4641 - Remove all uppercase from logging categories and useless cleanup in names.
4643 2004-08-18 Martin Quinson
4644 Version 0.6.2 (protocol not changed; API changed)
4645 - Interface cleanup: gras_msgtype_by_name returns the type (instead of a
4646 gras_error_t), and NULL when not found. Functions expecting a msgtype
4647 as argument (msg_wait; msg_send) deal with NULL argument by providing a
4648 hopefully usefull message.
4649 - Portability to prehistoric sparcs again
4651 2004-08-17 Martin Quinson
4652 Version 0.6.1 (protocol not changed; ABI not changed)
4653 - prealloc some buffers to speed things up
4655 2004-08-11 Martin Quinson
4656 Version 0.6 (protocol not changed; ABI expended)
4657 - The parsing macro can deal with the references, provided that you add
4658 the relevant annotations (using GRAS_ANNOTE(size,field_name))
4660 2004-08-09 Martin Quinson
4661 Version 0.5 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
4662 - Allow to off turn the cycle detection code in data exchange at
4663 compilation time. It should be at run time, but I'm short of time (and
4664 the config stuff is still broken). That way, we keep dict out of the
4665 critical path, which is good because the performance is poor:
4666 - search not dichotomial yet
4667 - dynar give no way to access their content and memcpy everytime
4668 - In composed data description (struct, ref and so on), stop foolness of
4669 keeping the subtype's ID, but store the type itself. This keeps sets out
4670 of the critical path, which is good since they rely on dynar and
4671 dictionaries. The only loose of that is that we cannot detect the
4672 redeclaration of a structure/union with another content (but I'm not sure
4673 the code detected well this error before anyway). We still can detect
4674 the redefinition discrepancy for the other types.
4675 - Use a whole bunch of optimisation flags (plus -fno-strict-aliasing since
4676 it breaks the code because of type-punning used all over the place).
4677 This breaks on all non-gcc architectures (for now).
4679 All those changes (plus the buffer of last time) allow me to gain 2 order
4680 of magnitude on cruel tests consisting of 800000 array of integers on two
4681 level of a hierarchical structure (200 secondes -> 4 secondes)
4684 - the selector of reference must now return the type it points to, not
4685 the ID of this type.
4687 2004-08-06 Martin Quinson
4688 Version 0.4 (protocol changed; ABI not changed)
4689 - Allow to pass --gras-log argument to processes in simulation mode. Really.
4690 - New debugging level: trace (under debug) to see effect of GRAS_IN/OUT
4691 - Implement a buffer transport, and use it by default (it relies on tcp in
4692 real life and on sg in simulation).
4693 That's a bit hackish since I had a new field to the structure to store
4694 its data without interfering with the subtype ones. Inheritance
4695 is tricky in C. And that's a kind of reverse inheritance with one class
4696 derivating two classes. Or maybe a game with java interfaces. Anyway,
4697 that's damn hard in C (at least).
4698 Moreover, I got tired while trying to ensure plugin separation and
4699 genericity in SG mode. MSG wants me to do weird things, so let's go for
4700 cruel hacks (temporarily of course ;).
4701 See comment in transport_private.h:71
4702 - do not include all the _interface headers in private but in the files
4703 which really need them (to cut the compilation time when they are
4706 2004-07-26 Martin Quinson
4707 Version 0.3 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
4708 - Major overhault of the datadesc interface to simplify it:
4709 - shorted the function names:
4710 s/gras_datadesc_declare_struct/gras_datadesc_struct/ and so on
4711 - add a trivial way to push/pop integers into the cbps without malloc.
4712 This allows to make really generic sub_type description, which simply
4713 pop their size of the stack.
4714 - add a function gras_datadesc_ref_pop_arr() which does what users want
4715 most of the time: Declare a dynamic array (which pops its size of the
4716 stack) and declare a reference to it. Poor name, but anyway.
4717 - kill the post-send callback, add a post-receive one
4719 2004-07-23 Martin Quinson
4720 Version 0.2 (protocol changed; ABI changed)
4721 - add some testing for cpbs in the test cases, and fix some more bugs.
4722 This invalidate again the little64 data file, since I cannot regenerate
4724 - remove an awfull optimization in the logging stuff, allowing me to:
4725 - understand it again
4726 - learn gcc how to check that the argument match the provided format
4727 - fix all errors revealed by gcc after that
4728 - internal keys of dict are not \0 terminated. Deal with it properly in
4729 loggings instead of segfaulting when the user want to see the logs :-/
4731 2004-07-22 Martin Quinson
4732 - Fix some stupid bug preventing cbps (callback postit) from working
4734 2004-07-21 Martin Quinson
4735 - Some documentation cleanups
4736 - remove the useless last argument of msgtype_declare
4737 - rename the Virtu functions to fit into the 'os' namespace
4738 - move headers src/include -> src/include/gras/ and stop fooling with
4739 gras -> . symbolic link
4740 - make distcheck is now successful
4742 2004-07-19 Martin Quinson
4744 - Build shared library also
4745 - Install html doc to the right location
4746 - stop removing maintainer files in make clean
4747 - build tests only on make check
4749 2004-07-13 Martin Quinson
4751 - No major issue in previous version => change versioning schema
4752 - Re-enable little64 convertion test now that Abdou kindly regenerated the
4753 corresponding dataset.
4755 2004-07-11 Martin Quinson
4757 - Get it working with any kind of structure (we can compute the padding
4758 bytes remotely for all the architectures I have access to)
4759 - Implement the structure parsing macro (still not quite robust/complete)
4760 - Improvement to the remote testing toysuite
4762 2004-07-10 Martin Quinson
4763 [autoconf mechanism]
4764 - get ride of a bunch of deprecated macros
4765 - actually run the test for two-compliment, not only compile it :-/
4766 - test whether the structures get packed (and bail out if yes. Damn.
4767 Alignment is a serious matter)
4768 - test whether the structures get compacted (but respecting the alignment
4769 constraints of each types)
4770 - test whether the array fields of structures can straddle alignment boundaries
4772 - Damnit, double are bigger than float (typo in creation of 'double' datadesc)
4773 (took me 2 hours to find that bug, looking at the wrong place)
4774 - Add gras_datadesc_declare_{union,struct}_close(). They must be used
4775 before sending/receiving and are used to compute the offsets of fields
4776 - Given that padding size depend even on compiler options, keep track of
4777 alignment and aligned_size only for the current architecture. Not a big
4778 deal since we send structure fields one after the other (seems
4780 - Add the datastructure used for IEEE paper by the PBIO guys to the test
4781 program, let it work on linux/gcc/little32. portability todo.
4783 2004-07-08 Martin Quinson
4784 - import and improve remote compilation support from FAST
4785 - make sure make check works on half a dozen of machines out there
4787 2004-07-07 Martin Quinson
4788 Let's say it's version 0.0.3 ;)
4789 - Implement conversions (yuhu!)
4790 - Let it work on solaris (beside conversion, of course)
4791 - Stupid me, using rand() to generate the conversion datatests in not wise.
4793 2004-07-06 Martin Quinson
4794 - Let make dist work, since I'm gonna need it to compile on remote hosts
4795 - Let Tests/datadesc_usage write the architecture on which the file was
4796 generated as first byte.
4797 - Add PowerPC (being also IRIX64), SPARC (also power4) and ALPHA
4798 architecture descriptions.
4799 - Add datadesc_usage.{i386,ppc,sparc} files being the result of execution
4800 on those architectures.
4801 - Optimization: send/recv array of scalar in one shoot
4803 2004-07-05 Martin Quinson
4804 - YEAH! GRAS/SG and GRAS/RL are both able to run the ping example !
4806 - Plug a whole bunch of memleaks
4807 - each process now have to call gras_{init,exit}. One day, their log
4808 settings will be separated
4809 - Continue the code factorisation between SG, RL and common in Transport.
4811 2004-07-04 Martin Quinson
4813 - Redistribution between SG and RL.
4814 We wanna have to accept in SG, so move accepted related parts of RL in
4815 the common part. (more precisely, the dynar of all known sockets is no
4816 more a static in transport.c, but part of the process_data)
4818 [gras_stub_generator]
4819 - Bug fix: Do call gras_process_init from gras_init (wasnt called in RL).
4821 2004-07-03 Martin Quinson
4822 - Create a new log channel tbx containing dict, set, log, dynar (to shut
4823 them all up in one shot)
4825 - Fix the ugly case of reference to dynamic array.
4826 - New (semi-public) function gras_datadesc_size to allow the messaging
4827 layer to malloc the needed space for the buffer.
4829 - gras_socket_close now expect the socket to close (and not its address to
4830 put NULL in it after it). This is because the socket passed to handlers
4831 is one of their argument (=> not writable).
4833 - propagate the interface cleanup from last week in datadesc, ie remove a
4834 superfluous level of indirection. User pass adress of variable
4835 containing data (both when sending and receiving), and not of a variable
4836 being a pointer to the data. Let's say that I like it better ;)
4837 The price for that is constructs like "int msg=*(int*)payload" in
4838 handlers, but it's a fine price, IMHO.
4840 - Let it work in RL (yuhu)
4842 2004-06-21 Martin Quinson
4844 - porting SG plugin and SG select to new standards (works almost).
4845 - plug memleaks and fix bugs around.
4848 - cleanup the prototype of data recv and force users to specify when they
4849 want to handle references to objects. Test case working even for cycles.
4850 - plug memleaks. Valgrind is perfectly ok with this.
4852 2004-06-12 Martin Quinson
4854 - cleanup the separation between plugin and main code in plugin creation
4856 2004-06-11 Martin Quinson
4858 - Reput hook for raw sockets, needed for BW experiments
4859 - kill a few lines of dead code
4860 [Data description] Interface cleanup
4861 - gras_datadesc_by_name returns the searched type or NULL.
4862 That way, no variable is needed to use a type desc once, which makes
4864 - gras_datadesc_declare_[struct|union]_append_name is removed. The last
4865 two parameters were strings (field name, type name), leading to
4867 [Dicos] Interface cleanup
4868 - gras_dico_retrieve -> gras_dico_get ; gras_dico_insert -> gras_dico_set
4869 This is consistant with the dynar API.
4871 2004-04-21 Martin Quinson
4873 - Porting to new standards.
4875 - interface cleanup.
4876 There is no bag anymore, no need to take extra provision to mask the
4877 pointers behind "ID".
4878 Better splitup of functions between files create/exchange/convert.
4879 This is still a bit artificial since convert and receive are so
4880 interleaved, but anyway.
4882 - add a queued message list to procdata (the ones not matching criteria
4884 - factorize some more code between SG and RL wrt procdata
4886 - use gras_exit in example to track memleaks
4887 - get rid of gs_example now that GS is properly integrated into gras
4888 - update run_test to integrate the latest tests (datadesc)
4890 - rename WARNINGn macros to WARNn since it prooved error-prone
4892 2004-04-19 Martin Quinson
4894 - register init/exit functions within gras module mechanism
4895 - send/receive function.
4896 Convertion is not implemented, but short-cutted if not needed.
4897 struct/array elements are sent one by one (instead of block-wise), but
4898 nobody really cares (yet). Get a prototype before optimizing.
4899 - tests (using a file socket) for DD send/receive on:
4900 - base types: int, float
4901 - array: fixed size, string (ie ref to dynamic string)
4902 - structure: homogeneous, heterogeneous
4903 - chained list, graph with cycle
4904 Believe it or not, valgrind is not too unhappy with the results. The
4905 cycle happily segfaults, but the others are ok. And I'm sick of pointers
4909 - Bugfix when using a filename explicitly (instead of '-')
4911 2004-04-09 Martin Quinson
4913 - factorize more code between RL and SG in socket creation
4914 - Complete the implementation and tests of:
4916 o file (only in RL, and mainly for debugging)
4918 I lost 3 days to design a portable address resolver, and then decided
4919 that the prototype mainly have to run on my box.
4920 Addressing portability too early may be like optimizing too early :-/
4922 - use gras_init in the Tests instead of the crappy parse_log_opt
4923 (the latter function is removed)
4924 [Conditional execution]
4925 - New functions: gras_if_RL/gras_if_SG (basic support for this)
4926 [Code reorganisation]
4927 - Get rid of libgrasutils.a since it makes more trouble than it solves.
4928 Build examples against the RL library, since there is no way to disable
4929 its creation for now.
4931 For information, the beginning of coding on GRAS was back in june
4932 2003. I guess that every line has been rewritten at least twice since