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3 SimGrid (3.26.1) NOT RELEASED YET (v3.27 expected March 20. 2021, 09:37 UTC)
6 - Removed some option aliases that were deprecated since v3.23 (June 2019)
7 - 'verbose-exit' is now 'debug/verbose-exit'
8 - 'simix/breakpoint' is now 'debug/breakpoint'
9 - 'clean-atexit' is now 'debug/clean-atexit'
12 - Functions Mailbox::get() and Mailbox::get_async() are now templated with the
13 type of the pointee. Untyped functions are deprecated. Use Mailbox::get<void>()
14 or Mailbox::get_async<void>() if you really want to play with void*.
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18 SimGrid (3.26) December 15. 2020
20 The Release release (the French lockdown was eased today).
22 Important user-visible changes:
23 - SimGrid now requires a compiler with C++14 support.
24 Sibling projects should upgrade their FindSimgrid.cmake
25 - Surf precision default value is now 1e-9, instead of 1e-5. This was changed as
26 several users had difficulties to understand issues when using high bandwidth or
27 small latency events. The new value was already the default for SMPI and
28 should not cause too much performance hit. It can change some simulation
29 timings if simulation was skipping a lot of small events (which was actually
30 an issue per see). The old value can be restored with --cfg=surf/precision:1e-5.
31 - On some network models (L07, CM02, LV08), an implicit loopback link is created
32 for local communication. Default bandwidth was 500MBps and latency was 15µs,
33 which was rather bad. Default values have been changed to 10GBps and 0 latency.
34 Options network/loopback-lat and network/loopback-bw have been added to adapt
35 these values if needed. Network and routing models already providing separate
36 loopbacks (clusters and such) are not impacted by this change.
37 - SMPI now adds 16 bytes of header to each message sent, in order to simulate
38 metadata that are added to each MPI message by MPI libraries (tag,
39 src/dest, and communicator information). This may change simulation times
40 for very small message sizes, but should be more realistic.
43 - New routing 'WiFi' that makes it easier to specify a wifi network zone.
44 - New plugins: wifi_energy and link_load. See the associated examples.
45 - New examples: wifi networks, and communication suspend.
48 - LTO is now enabled for Intel/clang compilers.
49 - LTO behavior on GCC can be parameterized using LTO_EXTRA_FLAG in cmake.
50 Setting it to "auto" will use all available cores, while setting it to n will
51 use n cores to speedup link step (usage: cmake -DLTO_EXTRA_FLAG=4).
52 - Remove obsolete runtime option 'contexts/parallel-threshold'.
53 - Runtime option 'tracing/msg/process' renamed to 'tracing/actor'. The old name
54 has been kept for compatibility.
55 - Finally remove obsolete snake_case() aliases for runtime options.
56 - Further improve the documentation.
59 - the on_exit() of each actor is also executed when the simulation deadlocks.
60 - New functions: s4u::Activity:: suspend(), resume() and is_suspended()
61 An example is provided for s4u::Comm but it should work with Exec and Io.
64 - Update proxy apps coverage of new ECP apps: 60+ apps now tested nightly on
65 https://framagit.org/simgrid/SMPI-proxy-apps
66 - MPI/IO: supports names starting with "./"
67 - Fortran: many MPI/IO bindings, support for MPI_UB/LB, C MPI_INT/FLOAT/DOUBLE
69 - smpicc/cxx/ff/f90 now will actually perform definition checks at link time. When
70 building shared libraries, this may cause issues, so environment variable
71 SMPI_NO_UNDEFINED_CHECK can be added to disable this.
72 - most temporary files should now be created in /tmp dir (or equivalent).
73 If this one does not allow execution of code (noexec flag), this may cause issues.
74 Please use another tmp directory (using TMPDIR or equivalent system variable)
78 - A large refactoring is ongoing, but this should be transparent for users so far.
81 - Drop xbt_str_split().
83 C binding and interface:
84 - The return type of the sg_actor_on_exit() callbacks is now 'void'
85 (int value was previously ignored)
86 - Many C functions were renamed to follow a common naming style
87 (sg_object_get_something and sg_object_set_something). As usual, the deprecated
88 names are kept until version 3.30.
89 - Many MSG tests were converted to the new S4U's interface in C, that
90 was extended for that.
92 Fixed bugs (FG#.. -> FramaGit bugs; FG!.. -> FG merge requests)
93 (FG: issues on Framagit; GF: issues on GForge; GH: issues on GitHub)
94 - FG#41: Add sg_actor_create C interface
95 - FG#43: xbt::random needs some care
96 - FG#48: The Impossible Did Happen (yet again)
97 - FG#50: Suspending an actor executed at the current timestamp fails
98 - FG#52: Zero-seconds timeout : "That's in the past already"
99 - FG#53: Crash while using ns-3 network model
100 - FG#54: How to suspend a comm?
101 - FG!22: Stochastic Profiles
102 - FG!24: Documentation and fix for xbt/random
103 - FG!35: Add a modeling hint for parallel links in doc
104 - FG!36: [xbt/random] Read/Write the state of the RNG
105 - FG!42: Link cumulated load plugin
106 - FG!44: Test condition variable wait_until+notify_all
107 - GF#18137: Allow different stack sizes?
108 - GH#128: Parallelization of simulation with --cfg=contexts/nthreads
109 - GH#139: Allow pthread creation in SMPI
110 - GH#336: Packet-level simulation using SMPI?
111 - GH#345: Error in the LMM while migrating a VM
112 - GH#346: [SMPI] error while loading shared libraries: libsimgrid.so
113 - GH#352: pip install / python setup.py install fail to find pybind11
114 - GH!337: Fix link_energy plugin for wifi platforms
115 - GH!339: Add Mailbox set_receiver method to python binding
116 - GH!344: Cast hugepages macros parameters to int64
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120 SimGrid (3.25) February 2. 2020 (aka 02 02 2020)
122 The Palindrom Day Release.
124 Important user-visible changes:
125 - Improve the Python usability (stability and documentation).
126 - A nasty synchronization bug was ironed out, see also below.
127 - Python's doc was organized as a separate tree, now integrated with C++.
128 - C bindings of S4U were not part of the doc.
129 - The C++ doc was also improved as methods are now split by theme.
130 - Further deprecate MSG: you now have to pass -Denable_msg=ON to cmake.
131 - This is mandatory to use the Java bindings.
132 - OFF by default; The plan is to completely remove MSG by 2020Q4 or 2021Q1.
133 - SimDAG++: Automatic dependencies on S4U activities (experimental)
134 - Some features are already implemented but not all of them
135 - Cannot block an activity until it's scheduled on a resource
136 - No heterogeneous wait_any() that would mix Exec/Comm/Io activities.
137 - See examples/s4u/{io,exec,comm}-dependent for what's already there.
140 - Upgrade documented Java dependency to Java 8 (earlier versions don't work).
141 - Drop support for Viva/Triva (old visualization tools), hence removed
142 TRACE_get_node_types() and TRACE_get_edge_types() functions.
145 - Require pybind11 version 2.4.
146 - Greatly improve locking during context switches with Python.
147 - Declaring Python callbacks to this_actor::on_exit is now working.
148 - No more tests are failing currently, even on win32.
151 - Actor: Merge signals on_migration_start/end into on_host_change
152 - Actor: Rename migrate() into set_host()
153 - Disk: Allow users to get the read and write nominal bandwidth values
154 - Exec: Implement wait_for(timeout)
155 - Io: Implement wait_for(timeout)
158 - Parse errors now raise a simgrid::ParseError that you may want to catch.
161 - In simgrid::kernel::resource::Model, the methods next_occuring_event*() have
162 been renamed to fix a spelling error. As usual, the previous definitions are
163 kept with a deprecation warning. However, to avoid runtime errors, it is now
164 forbidden to override these deprecated methods in a derived class. Please use
165 the new names immediately if you need to override them.
168 - Remove unused parameter 'free_ctn' for xbt_dict_set() and xbt_dict_set_ext().
169 - Drop unused functions for dicts and dynars: xbt_dict_cursor_get_elm,
170 xbt_dict_get, xbt_dict_get_elm, xbt_dict_get_ext, xbt_dict_get_key,
171 xbt_dict_remove, xbt_dict_reset, xbt_dynar_compare, xbt_dynar_dump,
172 xbt_dynar_foreach_ptr, xbt_dynar_free_data, xbt_dynar_free_voidp,
173 xbt_dynar_init, xbt_dynar_insert_at_as, xbt_dynar_merge,
174 xbt_dynar_remove_n_at, xbt_dynar_replace, xbt_dynar_search, xbt_dynar_set.
175 - New module: random, providing classical random numbers generators.
178 - New option : "smpi/auto-shared-malloc-thresh" which sets a value for
179 allocations' size above which they are considered "shared" by default (as if
180 they were performed through SMPI_SHARED_MALLOC macros).
181 Default = 0 = disabled feature.
182 Note : malloc, calloc and free are now overriden by smpicc/cxx by default.
183 This can cause some troubles if codes are already overriding these. If this
184 is the case, defining SMPI_NO_OVERRIDE_MALLOC in the compilation flags can
185 help, but will make this feature unusable.
186 - Input check is now performed much more consistently and outputs precise
187 warnings for each error found
188 - New supported calls : MPI_File_set_view, MPI_File_get_view
189 - MPI I/O now only supports disks, as storage is discontinued.
190 - MPI I/O allows opening files without specifying absolute path
191 - Note : SMPI configuration options are now initialized by smpi_init_options()
192 call, which should be called if SMPI is not being used through smpirun.
194 Fixed bugs (FG#.. -> framagit bugs; FG!.. -> framagit merge requests):
195 - FG#9: Python bindings crashing
196 - FG#39: Missing s4u::Comm::wait_any_for example
197 - FG#42: Add support for ThreadSanitizer (TSan)
198 - FG!19: Removing RngStream
199 - FG!20: A module for RNG calls
200 - FG!21: Choice between ad-hoc and standard distributions implementations
202 - FG!25: Fix link in Mutex doc
203 - FG!26: Fix links in SMPI interface doc
204 - GH#31: [MC] please provide an option to make MPI_Send asynchronous
205 - GH#305: Unscheduled tasks are still excuted
206 - GH#313: smpirun: manual outdated w.r.t. --help
207 - GH#321: [S4U] Get task remaining work ratio
208 - GH#323: Crash when an actor turn off his physical host
209 - GH#335: Missing links on dragonfly example svg
210 - https://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/simgrid-user/2019-November/004653.html:
211 MPI_Cart_sub was not working properly. Kudos to Jonathan Borne for the report.
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215 SimGrid (3.24) October 9. 2019
217 The Clean Disk Release.
220 - Introduce a s4u::Disk interface to manage the newly introduced <disk>
221 tag. s4u::Disk is called to supplant s4u::Storage in a near future. It
222 thus becomes the default resource to execute I/O operations. Examples
223 and the file system plugin have been modified to use disks instead of
224 storage elements. Storage can still be used but is doomed to disappear.
225 Users are thus adviced to update their simulators accordingly.
226 - Barrier::wait returns SG_BARRIER_SERIAL_THREAD for (only) one actor
227 for consistency with pthread_barrier_wait()
228 - Host::get_englobing_zone() returns the englobing netzone
229 - Actor::on_destruction is now called in the destructor
230 Actor::on_termination new signal called when the actor terminates
232 - Global signals are now part of the Engine:
233 - on_platform_creation: after config settings, before the XML parsing
234 - on_platform_created: right after the XML parsing
235 - on_time_advance: each time the clock advances
236 - on_simulation_end: after simulation, before cleanups
237 - on_deadlock: as the name implies.
239 - sg_{actor,host,link}_{data,data_set}() now all exist.
240 Use them to attach user data to the object and retrieve it.
243 - Introduce an experimental Wifi model. It sounds reasonable
244 according to the state of the art, but it still has to be properly
245 validated, at least against ns-3 if not against reality.
246 - Improved the usability of ns-3. Several bugs were ironed out.
247 - host_energy: Wattage was expressed as 'idle:oneCore:allCores'.
248 It is now expressed as 'idle:epsilon:allCores' to properly model the
249 consumption of non-whole tasks on mono-core hosts. More info in the doc.
252 - convert a new set of functions to the S4U C interface and move the old MSG
253 versions to legacy (MSG_process_self*, MSG_process_{un}ref, ...)
256 - Fortran bindings for DVFS have been removed.
257 - Add support for MPI_Irsend, MPI_Rsend, MPI_Rsend_init, MPI_Bsend,
258 MPI_Ibsend, MPI_Bsend_init, MPI_Buffer_attach, MPI_Buffer_detach
259 - SMPI can now be selected by cmake's find_module(MPI) with
260 MPI_C_COMPILER, MPI_CXX_COMPILER, MPI_Fortran_COMPILER variables.
261 - Add support for MPI Errhandlers in Comm, File or Win. Default errhandler is now
262 MPI_ERRORS_ARE_FATAL, so codes which were sending warnings may start failing.
263 - trace-call-location can be used with TI traces, and replayed, and is compatible
264 with smpi/comp-adjustment-file.
265 - sleep events are now correctly traced/replayed.
266 - Default for trace-call-location is now to use file names and not full paths.
267 To revert to previous behavior (in case of collision of filenames), option
268 "smpi/trace-call-use-absolute-path" can be set to yes.
271 - Use the included xxHash as an hash implem when C++14 is usable.
272 - Option model-checker/hash was removed. This is always activated now.
273 - New option smpi/buffering controls the MPI buffering in MC mode.
274 - MPI calls now MC_assert() that no MPI_ERR_* code is returned.
275 This is useful to check for MPI compliance.
278 - New section on plugins: how to define a new one, and existing ones.
281 - xbt_mutex_t and xbt_cond_t are now marked as deprecated, a new C interface
282 on S4U is already available to replace them by sg_mutex_t and sg_cond_t.
285 - Introduce the <disk> tag as a replacement of the <storage>, <storage_type>,
286 and <mount> tags. The rationale is finish to decouple what should be handle
287 by SimGrid kernel (i.e., resources and activities) from plugins built in
288 user space (e.g., the file system plugin). This new tag currently accepts
289 only three attributes (id, read_bw, and write_bw). All the other information
290 that was declared with the storage related tags now has to be expressed as
291 properties. An example of platform using this new tag is available at
292 examples/platforms/hosts_with_disks.xml
295 - 'expect signal' can now accept more than one potential signal.
297 Fixed bugs (FG#.. -> framagit bugs; FG!.. -> framagit merge requests):
298 - FG#28: add sg_actor_self (and other wrappers on this_actor methods)
299 - FG#29 and FG#33: provide a new C API to mutexes and condition variables
300 - FG#30: convert MSG_process_{un}ref to sg_actor_{un}ref
301 - FG#31: per-actor data
302 - FG#34: SG_BARRIER_SERIAL_THREAD?
303 - FG#35: model-checker does not like buster-produced binaries
304 - FG!13: MC: complete workaround in the error msg seen on modern systems
305 - FG!15: execute_flops now logs compute
306 - FG!16: Fix the ns-3 bindings when several flows are simultaneously finishing
307 - FG!17: ns-3: unblock the right number of communications + others issues
308 - FG!18: Improving the performance of the ns-3 bindings
309 - GH#189: Energy consumption of parallel tasks
310 - GH#219: Error in the throughput of TCP transfer
311 - GH!330: Minor polishing of English: Configuring_Simgrid
312 - GH!331: Fix a doc error about actors (Tutorial_algorithms)
313 - GH!332: Add '-O0' flag for: cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug
314 - GH!334: Rework energy plugin, again
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318 SimGrid (3.23.2) July 8. 2019
321 - Nicer introduction page.
322 - Migrate the "Deploy your application" page to the new doc.
323 - Move Java as a subtree of MSG.
326 - Rename simgrid::TimeoutError to simgrid::TimeoutException.
329 - Drop xbt_dynar_sort_strings().
332 - Really fix FG#26: Turning off a link should raise NetworkFailureException
333 - FG#27: Wrong exception thrown to wait_any when link is turned off
334 - GH#328: Java: Canceling multiple tasks in a single vm/host
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338 SimGrid (3.23) June 25. 2019
340 The Exotic Solstice Release.
343 - SunOS and Haiku OS support. Because exotic platforms are fun.
344 - Stop setting random seed with srand48() at initialization.
345 - Use addr2line as a fallback for stacktraces when backtrace is not available.
346 - Build option -Denable_documentation is now OFF by default.
347 - Network model 'NS3' was renamed into 'ns-3'.
350 - Simgrid can now hopefully be installed with pip.
353 - wait_any can now be used for asynchronous executions too.
356 - New log appenders: stdout and stderr. Use stdout for xbt_help.
357 - Drop xbt_dict_dump.
360 - 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
361 - MPI/IO is now supported over the Storage API (no files are written or read, storage is simulated). Supported calls are all synchronous ones.
362 - MPI interface is now const correct for input parameters
363 - MPI_Ireduce, MPI_Iallreduce, MPI_Iscan, MPI_Iexscan, MPI_Ireduce_scatter, MPI_Ireduce_scatter_block support
364 - Fortran bindings for async collectives.
365 - MPI_Comm_get_name, MPI_Comm_set_name, MPI_Count support.
368 - Remove option 'model-check/record': Paths are recorded in any cases now.
369 - Remove option 'model-check/sparse-checkpoint': Checkpoints are now
370 always sparse. That's an immense gain in memory, and can even be
371 faster because of cache effects. So there is no need to clutter the
372 code to allow the user to go for the unefficient mode.
375 - Remove the lagrange-based models (Reno/Reno2/Vegas). The regular
376 models proved to be more accurate than these old experiments.
378 Fixed bugs (FG=FramaGit; GH=GitHub -- Please prefer framagit for new bugs)
379 - FG#1: Broken link in error messages
380 - FG#2: missing installation documentation
381 - FG#3: missing documentation in smpirun
382 - FG#6: Python bindings not available on PyPI
383 - FG#7: simple cmake call requires doxygen
384 - FG#8: make python bindings an optional dependency
385 - FG#10: Can not use MSG_process_set_data from SMPI any more
386 - FG#11: Auto-restart actors forget their on_exit behavior
387 - FG#12: -Denable_lto=OFF doesn't disable LTO
388 - FG#13: Installs unstripped file 'bin/graphicator'
389 - FG#14: Installs the empty directory 'doc/simgrid/html'
390 - FG#15: Setting -Denable_python=OFF doesn't disable the search for pybind11
391 - FG#17: Dead link in doc (pls_ns3)
392 - FG#20: 'tesh --help' should return 0
393 - FG#21: Documentation link on http://simgrid.org/ broken
394 - FG#22: Debian installation instruction are broken
395 - FG#26: Turning off a link should raise NetworkFailureException exceptions
396 - GH#133: Java: a process can run on a VM even if its host is off
397 - GH#320: Stacktrace: Avoid the backtrace variant of Boost.Stacktrace?
398 - GH#326: Valgrind-detected error for join() when energy plugin is activated
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402 SimGrid (3.22) April 1. 2019
404 The Easter Christmas Release (this one is somewhat late).
407 - We are excited to introduce the SimGrid/S4U interface to your neighborhood
408 - Not complete yet: asynchronous activities (amongst others) are still missing
409 - Still ongoing: the interface may change in the future. We need more
410 testers! Please report any glitches.
411 - No new project using Java should start now. Please switch to Python.
414 - Some of the internal cleanups may lead to speed improvements:
415 - The hard limitation on the amount of simulated actors with
416 Java+Mac was removed. Now, the available memory is the only limit.
417 - Our refcounting was tidyied, leading to 10% speedups in some cases.
418 - We are still working on making our code robust to the actor kills
419 and hosts' churn. Things are improving, but it's not perfect yet.
420 - Replaced our own code to display a backtrace (that was forking addr2line)
421 with the Boost.Stacktrace library.
422 You won't see your backtraces without this optional dependency.
423 - Bump cmake dependency to 3.5 (provided by Ubuntu 16.04).
424 - Stop setting random seed with srand() at initialization.
427 - In <host> and <peer>, 'availability_file' is now 'speed_file'.
428 XML file version remains 4.2 since old files are still compatible.
431 - Process termination which was broken at version 3.21 has been repaired.
432 - Expose host load plugin: loadInit, getCurrentLoad, getComputedFlops, getAvgLoad
433 - Hide the examples into examples/deprecated. New users should use Python.
436 - Drop MSG_process_create_from_stdfunc() from the API.
437 This C++ function was a pimple in the C API, made necessary at some
438 point by the Java bindings. This is fixed now.
439 - Hide the examples into examples/deprecated. New users should use S4U.
440 - MSG_process_create and MSG_process_attach now crash if the host used
441 to run this process is off.
442 - Fix the protype of MSG_process_on_exit()
443 Now use (int,void*) callbacks instead of (void*,void*) ones.
444 The implementation was ways too messy to actually work, I guess.
447 - Change the way SMPI_SAMPLE_* macros work to avoid invalidating cache
448 too often and provide more accurate timings.
449 - Add -gdb, -lldb, and -vgdb shortcuts to help debug MPI codes with smpirun
450 - MPI_Alltoallw support
451 - Partial MPI nonblocking collectives implementation: MPI_Ibcast, MPI_Ibarrier,
452 MPI_Iallgather, MPI_Iallgatherv, MPI_Ialltoall, MPI_Ialltoallv, MPI_Igather,
453 MPI_Igatherv, MPI_Iscatter, MPI_Iscatterv, MPI_Ialltoallw.
454 - MPI_Request_get_status, MPI_Status_set_cancelled, MPI_Status_set_elements
456 - Basic implementation of generalized requests (SMPI doesn't
457 allow MPI_THREAD_MULTIPLE) : MPI_Grequest_complete, MPI_Grequest_start
460 - Drop sg_cmdline. Please use xbt_cmdline instead.
461 - Drop the C xbt_os_mutex_t; Use the C++11 std::mutex.
462 - Drop the C xbt_os_sem_t; Use the C++ xbt::OsSemaphore.
463 OsSemaphore is implemented in a portable way with C++11 threads.
464 This should allow much more threads to be created at the same time,
465 allowing Mac and Java users to simulate many more actors.
466 - Implement the 'thread' factory with std::thread instead of xbt ones.
467 It is not possible to set the stack size with threads anymore, but
468 -fsplit-stack is the way to go nowadays when using threads.
469 - Drop the xbt_os_thread_t module (now unused)
470 - Drop xbt_ex_display(), use simgrid::xbt::log_exception() instead.
471 - Drop xbt_str_join_array().
472 - Drop cunit, use Catch2 instead.
475 - Many cleanups in the kernel::activity namespace. This was long
476 overdue, and shall open the path to many future endeavors.
479 - #132: Java: a process can not shut down its own host
480 - #220: S4U: detached send causes exception if sender terminates soon after sending
481 - #261: Document the parameters of parallel execution's constructor
482 - #300: [s4u] BarrierPtr is missing
483 - #314: SMPI args internal cleanup
484 - #316: Fix a bug related to the CPU utilization of multi-core VM
485 - #318: Invalid trace file when using option --cfg=tracing/smpi/display-sizes:yes
486 - #324: S4U: Attempting to create an actor on turned off host segfaults instead of throwing
487 - #325: Turning off a host has different behavior on sleeping actors and computing actors
489 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
491 SimGrid (3.21) October 3. 2018
493 The Restarting Documentation (TRD) Release.
496 - Convert the user manual to Sphinx for improved usability.
497 Unstable version now hosted on https://simgrid.frama.io/simgrid
498 Many glitches remain; stay tuned.
499 - Restrict the Doxygen reference API to the installed header files.
500 (documenting all internals this way is overkill + doxygen scales badly)
501 - New tutorial on S4U (highly inspired from the old MSG one, but with
502 a git repository to fork as a starting point, and a docker image)
503 - Started but not finished an SMPI tutorial inspired from the JLPC'14 one.
504 - The Developper manual is still to be converted (not compiled until then)
505 - Some parts are still missing in this conversion (such as the
506 platform and deployment sections) while others were blindly converted
507 and would need more love (such as the configuration flags).
508 Things will certainly further improve in the future releases.
511 - Fully reimplement auto_restart mechanism that was utterly broken
512 (fix #22, #131 and #281 that were all very related)
513 - Implement semaphores (fix #303 and #291)
514 - When creating an actor from a function and its parameters,
515 move-only parameters are not allowed anymore, as it would prevent
516 the actor to be restartable if its parameters are consumed on run.
517 - s4u::Io: IOs go asynchronous as activities. New methods in s4u::Storage:
518 - io_init(sg_size_t, s4u::Io::OpType) to create a READ or WRITE asynchronous
519 IO operations that can be started, waited for, or canceled as a regular
521 - read_async(sg_size_t) and write_async(sg_size_t) which are wrappers on
525 - Rename 'power' and 'power_used' variables into 'speed' and 'speed_used'
526 - New host variable: 'core_count'
529 - Remove xbt_os_thread_specific features
530 - Remove portability wrapper to condition variables
531 - Remove xbt_os_thread_yield()
534 - MPICH collective selector now mimics MPICH 3.3b
535 - OpenMPI collective selector now mimics OpenMPI 3.1.2 (default "tuned" setting)
536 - MPI_Init(NULL,NULL) is now allowed
537 - smpi/wtime option now injects time in gettimeofday or clock_gettime calls
538 - Command-line arguments should now be handled properly in Fortran simulations
539 - MPI Attributes and related callbacks should work in Fortran
540 - Apps using C + Fortran should now work
541 - MPI_* calls now check for non MPI_SUCCESS return values and emit warnings
542 - Support MPI_Error_String
545 - Due to an internal bug, Msg.run() must now be your last line.
546 We hope to fix it in a future release, and we are sorry for the inconvenience.
549 - #22: Process autorestart seem to only work with CAS01 cpus
550 - #56: Feature request: dynamic SMPI replay
551 - #93: simgrid should not eat --help
552 - #111: How to change the loopback link characteristics?
553 - #116: Platform cluster radical
554 - #117: Platform cluster/host order
555 - #129: Replay_multiple on steroid
556 - #131: Java : autostart does not work
557 - #143: Setting a breakpoint at a given time
558 - #235: Network energy models should be integrated
559 - #264: Add ptask L07 resource tracing
560 - #271: Dynamic and manual replay of SMPI traces
561 - #279: Breakpoints option uses time deltas instead of absolute time
562 - #281: Daemonized actor no longer daemonized after an auto-restart
563 - #282: TIT convertor erase traces when using absolute path in the trace list file
564 - #285: segfault when a s4u actor kills itself with msg process tracing activated
565 - #286: Pajé traces are not exposing the number of cores
566 - #287: Command-line parsing should stop when encountering '--'
567 - #288: MPI_Init(NULL, NULL)
568 - #289: Improve documentation of Actor::on_destruction and this_actor::on_exit()
569 - #290: Method to check if a mailbox has a message ready to be consumed
570 - #291: [s4u] semaphores do not seem available yet
571 - #294: Alltoall collective implementation of mpich
572 - #295: Starting a Host as OFF is not supported
573 - #296: DTD too permissive
574 - #299: Add a s4u barrier example
576 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
578 SimGrid (3.20) Released June 24. 2018
580 The proxy snake_case() release.
583 - The whole API is now using snake_case() instead of mixing it with camelCase.
584 Compatibility wrappers in place for one year.
585 - We took the opportunity to increase the consistency of the API.
586 Please report any remaining glitches.
587 - New function simgrid::s4u::Host::get_actor_count:
588 Returns the number of actors running on a specific host.
591 - SMPI is now tested with ~45 proxy apps from various sources, with none or
592 only minor patching needed: check https://github.com/simgrid/SMPI-proxy-apps
593 - Replay: The replay file has been re-written in C++.
594 - Replay: Tags used for messages sent via MPI_Send / MPI_Recv are now
595 supported. They are stored in the trace and used when replayed.
596 - Basic support of MPI_Cancel. Robustness not guaranteed.
597 - Support of MPI_Win_allocate_shared, MPI_Win_shared_query, MPI_Comm_split_type
598 (only for MPI_COMM_TYPE_SHARED).
599 - New option: smpi/privatize-libs, to add external shared libs to be privatized
600 by SMPI. They will be copied locally and loaded separately by each process.
601 Example --cfg=smpi/privatize-libs:"libgfortran.so.3;libscalapack.so".
602 - Tracing: add tracing for MPI_Start, Startall, Testall, Testany
603 - Interception of getopt, getopt_long and getopt_long_only calls to avoid issues
604 with internal index optind with multiple processes. Only works if MPI_Init has
606 - Fortran: SMPI builds a mpi.mod file which should allow use of "use mpi"
607 syntax without preprocessing tricks.
610 - Change --cfg=tracing/msg/vm to --cfg=tracing/vm as virtual machine
611 behavior tracing is no longer limited to MSG
612 - TIT (Time Independent Traces): We finally support tags. Unfortunately,
613 this means that traces now need to be updated or re-obtained; both Irecv
614 and Isend lines in your traces have now in total 5 mandatory fields:
615 <rankid> <command> <to/from rankid> <tag> <size>
616 To update your traces, it suffices to add a 0 for the tag here.
617 - TIT now also supports waiting for a distinct request via MPI_Wait.
618 Wait/Test now wait for a specific request, not just the last one that was
619 issued. This unfortunately means another update, because we need to
620 identify which request you want to wait for. We do this via the
621 triplet (sender, receiver, tag), which needs to be added:
622 <rankid> <command> <sender> <receiver> <tag>
623 - Actions are now in lower case (e.g., "allReduce" becomes "allreduce").
624 New script simgrid_convert_TI_traces.py: upgrade your TI traces.
627 - The deprecation of MSG is ongoing (but this should not impact you).
628 Many MSG functions are now simple wrappers on the C API of S4U. If
629 you wish to convert your code to S4U, find the S4U counterparts of
630 your MSG calls in src/msg/msg_legacy.cpp.
631 - MSG can still be used, but won't evolve anymore.
634 - Allow to run the Link energy plugin from the command line with
635 --cfg=plugin:link_energy
636 - Rename Energy plugin into host_energy
637 - Rename Load plugin into host_load
640 - Add parameter --cfg=simix/breakpoint to raise a SIGTRAP at given time.
641 - kill simix::onDeadlock() that was somewhat dupplicating s4u::on_deadlock()
642 - Improve performance when handling timeouts of simix synchros.
645 - Config: the C API is now deprecated (will be removed in 3.23), and
646 the C++ API has been slightly improved.
649 - Fix several build issues on OSX.
650 - Move simgrid_config.h to simgrid/config.h (old header still working)
653 - #143: Setting a breakpoint at a given time
654 - #150: Inconsistent event names in SMPI replay
655 - #258: daemonized actors hang after all non-daemonized actors have completed
656 - #267: Linker error on unit_tmgr
657 - #269: SMPI: tracing of MPI_Wait/all/any broken
658 - SMPI: Fix various crashes with combined use of MPI_PROC_NULL and MPI_IGNORE_STATUS
660 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
662 SimGrid (3.19.1) Released March 22 2018
664 The Fixed ABI Release.
666 As you may know, we are currently refactoring SimGrid in deep.
667 Upcoming SimGrid4 will be really different from SimGrid3: modular,
668 standard and extensible vs. layered, homegrown and rigid. C++ vs. C.
670 Our goal is to smooth this transition, with backward compatibility
671 and automatic update paths, while still progressing toward SimGrid4.
673 SimGrid remains open during works: The last pure SimGrid3 release was
674 v3.12 while all subsequent versions are usable alpha versions of
675 SimGrid4: Existing interfaces remain unchanged, but the new S4U
676 interface is budding and the internals are deeply reorganized.
678 Since 2015, we work hard to reduce the changes to public APIs. When
679 we need to rename a public library symbol in S4U, we let your
680 compiler issue an explicative warning when you use the deprecated
681 function. These messages remain for four releases, i.e. for one full
682 year, before turning into an error. Starting with v3.15, your can
683 also adapt to API changes with the SIMGRID_VERSION macro, that is
684 defined to 31500 for v3.15, to 31901 for v3.19.1 and so on.
686 Starting with this v3.19.1, our commitment to reduce the changes to
687 the public interfaces is extended from the API to the ABI: a program
688 using only MSG or SimDag and compiled against a given version of
689 simgrid can probably be used with a later version of SimGrid without
690 recompilation. We will do our best... but don't expect too much of
691 it, that's a really difficult goal during such profund refactoring.
693 The difference between v3.19 and v3.19.1 is that the former was
694 accidentally breaking the ABI of MSG, while the later is restoring
697 S4U and kernel APIs will still evolve until SimGrid4, with one-year
698 deprecation warnings as currently. In fact, cleaning up these
699 interfaces and converting them to snake_case() is one release goal of
700 v3.20. But don't worry, we are working to smooth this upgrade path.
702 In summary, new projects should start with S4U to benefit of the
703 future, but old MSG projects should still be usable with no change.
705 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
707 SimGrid (3.19) Released March 20 2018
709 The Moscovitly-cold Spring release.
711 SMPI user-visible improvements:
712 - Support of MPI_Type_create_subarray
713 - Unimplemented MPI calls now abort (instead of issuing a warning)
714 Some harmless calls around errhandlers still only issue a warning.
715 - MPI_Sendrecv was behaving badly when MPI_PROC_NULL was sender or receiver.
716 - Starting MPI ranks (or even MSG/S4U actors) once the simulation started
717 is now possible (mmap privatization was refactored to this end).
718 Adding new SMPI instances should also be technically doable now.
720 SMPI internal cleanups:
721 - Removed index notion from SMPI -- no more "getPid() - 1"!
722 In tracing files, actors are called rank-<PROCESS-ID> but these are
723 NOT the real ranks (tracing several communicators is not supported yet).
724 - Deprecate smpi_process_index() (will be removed in 3.22)
725 - Better testing on classical proxy apps, through an external project:
726 https://github.com/simgrid/SMPI-proxy-apps/
729 - Use a graphical TOC to make it easier to find the documentation you need
730 - Revamp the MSG tutorial
733 - Fix MSG_task_get_remaining_work_ratio(): return 1.0 for unstarted tasks.
734 - Remove parameter of MSG_process_killall().
735 Resetting the PID was bogus anyway (several actors could have the same PID).
738 - Execution->setHost() can be called after start(), to migrate it.
739 - Comm::test_any() is now implemented.
740 - s4u::Actor now has onCreation() and onDestruction() signals.
741 - Install some kernel header files for the users' plugins and more.
742 Warning, their API is really not stable yet.
743 include/simgrid/kernel/resource/{Action,Resource,Model}.hpp
744 include/simgrid/kernel/routing/*Zone.hpp
747 - SD_task_dependency_add(): remove unused parameters 'name' and 'data'.
749 Build System and other cleanups:
750 - Remove unused run-time parameter "tracing/onelink-only".
751 - SimGrid now works with intel compilers (MC still buggy)
752 - Remove XBT_LOG_CONNECT, it should be useless nowadays.
753 - tesh kills subprocesses on timeout (but not on windows)
756 - Rename FULLDUPLEX into SPLITDUPLEX (old name still accepted)
759 - #194: Feature request: simgrid::s4u::Comm::test_any()
760 - #245: migrating an actor does not migrate its execution
761 - #253: Feature Request: expose clusters as objects
762 - #254: Something seems wrong with s4u::Actor::kill(aid_t)
763 - #255: Tesh broken on Windows
764 - #256: Modernize FindSimGrid.cmake
765 - #257: Fix (ab)use of CMake install
767 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
769 SimGrid (3.18) Released December 24 2017
771 The "Ho Ho Ho! SimGrid 4 beta is coming to town" release.
773 MSG IS NOW DEPRECATED. Please use S4U for new projects.
774 - Support for MSG should not be removed from SimGrid before 2020,
775 but future evolutions will be limited to the integration of
776 user-provided patches.
779 - s4u::onDeadlock() signal, run before stopping the simulation.
780 - s4u::Exec: asynchronous executions (abstraction of background
782 - s4u::Host->getLoad() returns the achieved speed in flops/s
785 - Link::name() is deprecated and will be removed in v3.21, use
786 Link::getCname() instead.
787 - Mailbox::getName() changed to return a std::string, use
788 Mailbox::getCname() instead to get a char*.
789 - Storage::getName() changed to return a std::string, use
790 Storage::getCname() instead to get a char*.
791 - s4u::allStorages() becomes s4u::getStorageList(whereTo)
792 to have both allocation and deallocation of the map in user space.
795 - Forbid the use of MSG_task_get_flops_amount() on parallel tasks:
796 The amount of flops remaining to do is a vector, not a scalar.
797 - Introduce MSG_task_get_remaining_work_ratio(), which does what its
798 name implies on both sequential and parallel tasks.
799 - Both changes fix GitHub's #223 using PR #237 as a basis.
800 Thanks Michael Mercier.
801 - Most examples were converted to S4U and hidden elsewhere at tests.
802 Rationale: we still want MSG to work; we want newcomers to use S4U.
805 - LMM stuff moved to its own namespace: simgrid::kernel::lmm.
806 - Renamed LMM classes (e.g. s_lmm_system_t -> System).
809 - Switch to the faster dlopen privatization mechanism by default
810 - Documentation improvments
813 - Live migration is getting moved to a plugin. Dirty page tracking is
814 the first part of this plugin. This imply that VM migration is now
815 only possible if one this function is called:
816 - C/MSG: MSG_vm_live_migration_plugin_init()
817 - C/C++: sg_vm_live_migration_plugin_init()
818 - Java: Msg.liveMigrationInit()
819 For C and C++, "simgrid/plugins/live_migration.h" also has to be
823 - Define class simgrid::xbt::Path to manage file names.
824 - Removed unused functions:
825 - xbt/file.h: xbt_basename(), xbt_dirname(), xbt_getline()
826 - xbt/graph.h: xbt_graph_edge_get_length(), xbt_graph_edge_set_length,
827 xbt_graph_export_graphviz()
828 - xbt/str.h: xbt_str_join()
829 - Remove unused datatypes:
830 - xbt/heap.h: use std::priority_queue or boost::heap instead
831 - xbt/swag.h: use boost::intrusive::list instead
834 - New link_energy plugin for the consumption of the links.
835 - All of the operations on files and storage contents have been
836 packaged into a plugin (src/plugins/file_system). The current
837 public interface can be found in
838 include/simgrid/plugins/file_system.h
839 To use these functions you now have to initialize the plugin by
840 calling MSG_storage_file_system_init() just after calling
841 MSG_init() or sg_storage_file_system_init() just after creating
845 - Remove the undocumented/untested tag <include>
848 - Remove viva specific tracing as the tool is no longer maintained
851 - #248: Kill of finished processes leads to segfault
852 - #240: xbt_cond_wait_timeout should gracefully return for C apps
853 - #239: please implement signal s4u::onDeadlock()
854 - #230: segfaults when exit() without run()
855 - #225: s4u::Actor::kill() doesn not really kill victims in a join()
856 - #223: MSG_task_get_flops_amount() not working with parallel tasks
857 - #222: Actor::kill() doesn't really kill and segfaults
858 - #221: odd LMM warning when killing an actor
859 - #120: Memory leak when the processes are forcefully killed
861 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
863 SimGrid (3.17) Released October 8 2017
865 The Drained Leaks release: (almost) no known leaks despite the tests.
867 Even very long simulations will preserve your memory: our testsuite
868 stresses SimGrid for over 45mn on fast machines for a coverage of
869 over 80%, and there is only one single known leak, of about 4kb.
873 - Comm.detach(): start and forget about asynchronous emission. A cleanup
874 handler may be given to free resources if the comm cannot be completed.
875 - this_actor::send(mailbox) is now mailbox->put()
876 - New: simgrid::s4u::Comm::wait_all()
877 - New: Host.execute() for remote executions.
880 - Unused option network/sender-gap is removed.
883 - Deprecate MSG_task_isend_with_matching(): This unused feature
884 really complicates our internals. Will be removed in v3.20.
887 - Improved context termination. It is now possible to free resources, even
888 when a process is forcibly killed.
889 - ContextBoost: add support for Boost versions above 1.61.
892 - Bring back run-time option --cfg=exception/cutpath to remove exception
894 - Removed unused functions:
895 - xbt/str.h: xbt_str_split_str(), xbt_str_subst(), xbt_str_ltrim(),
896 xbt_str_rtrim(), xbt_str_trim().
897 - xbt/xbt_os_thread.h: xbt_os_thread_cancel(), xbt_os_thread_detach().
900 - Removed header files obsolete since SimGrid 3.12:
901 msg/datatypes.h, msg/msg.h, simdag/datatypes.h, simdag/simdag.h.
903 - #3: SD_exit should be made optional
904 - #120: Memory leak when the processes are forcefully killed
905 - #159: Threading test regression in Actor refcounting
906 - #170: simgrid::s4u::Comm::wait_any() returns too many comms
907 - #185: simgrid::s4u::Engine::instance()->shutdown() segfaults
908 - #186: Actor::killAll() segfaults if some process is blocked on wait()
909 - #191: VM migration and pstate
910 - #192: Updating the energy consumptions of all hosts crashes with VMs
911 - #195: All actors have PID=0 in the logs
912 - #204: Sometimes segfault with thread contexts and mmap privatization
913 - #222: Actor::kill() doesn't really kill and segfaults
914 - #225: Actor::kill() doesn't really kill when victims are doing a join()
916 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
918 SimGrid (3.16) Released June 22. 2017.
920 The Blooming Spring Release: developments are budding.
923 - FreeBSD: Disable SMPI mmap privatization, switch automatically to dlopen.
924 - Mac, BSD: dlopen+thread broken, switch automatically to raw contexts.
925 - Java JAR file should be finally fully working on Mac OSX too.
927 XML platforms: Switch to platform v4.1 format.
928 * This is (mainly) a backward compatible change: v4 are valid v4.1 files
929 - <zone> can be used as a synonym for the now deprecated <as>
930 - <zoneRoute> can be used as a synonym for the now deprecated <asroute>
931 - <bypassZoneRoute> can be used as a synonym for the now deprecated <bypassAsRoute>
932 - <actor> can be used as a synonym for the now deprecated <process>
933 - state_file and avail_file periodicity is now easier to express
934 (check the documentation) the old behavior should still work.
935 * Storage: not backward compatible, but it seems that nobody ever used it
936 - Remove attribute 'content_type' of <storage_type>: was never used
937 - Make attribute 'model' of <storage_type> optional: for future usage
938 - Remove Bconnection model property: was never (in)validated. Replaced by
939 the maximum of the read and write bandwidth as a resource constraint.
942 - New and Backwards Compatibility break:
943 SD_simulate_with_update (double how_long, xbt_dynar_t changed_tasks_dynar)
944 When one wants to get the list of tasks whose states have changed during a
945 simulation round, s/he has to allocate and free a dynar and use it as
946 argument to this function. The former SD_simulate (double how_long)
950 - Allow multicore VMs, with the correct sharing (unless you overcommit)
951 BUG: vCPU overcommitting still leads to buggy sharing, though. WIP.
954 - New function to update the consumption of all hosts at once.
955 - Fix the model for multi-core hosts, linear in the amount of busy
956 cores with an abnormality for pIdle (see paper).
957 BUG: Still not satisfactory for ptask on mono-cores.
960 - The netzone are now available from the MSG API.
961 The old names still work, but are now deprecated.
964 - New algorithm to privatize globals: dlopen, with dynamic loading tricks
965 - New option: smpi/keep-temps to not cleanup temp files
966 - New option: smpi/shared-malloc-blocksize . Relevant only when global shared
967 mallocs mode is used, allows to change the size of the fake file used
968 (default 1MB), to potentially limit the number of mappings for large runs.
969 - Support for sparse privatized malloc with SMPI_PARTIAL_SHARED_MALLOC()
970 - Fortran ifort and flang compilers support
971 - New RMA calls supported (experimental):
972 - MPI_Win_allocate, MPI_Win_create_dynamic, MPI_Win_attach
973 - MPI_Win_detach, MPI_Win_set_info, MPI_Win_get_info
974 - MPI_Win_lock_all, MPI_Win_unlock_all, MPI_Win_flush
975 - MPI_Win_flush_local, MPI_Win_flush_all, MPI_Win_flush_local_all
976 - MPI_Op_commutative, MPI_Fetch_and_Op, MPI_Compare_and_swap
977 - MPI_Rput, MPI_Rget, MPI_Raccumulate, MPI_Rget_accumulate
980 - New: this_actor::isMaestro() returns whether we are in kernel mode.
981 - Behind the scene, ActivityImpl are now automatically refcounted.
982 Removing this nasty bottleneck will greatly simplify our internals.
985 - Replay: New function xbt_replay_action_get():
986 Retrieve the function previously associated to an event type.
987 - DROPPED FUNCTION: xbt_str_varsubst()
988 - DROPPED MODULE: strbuff. We don't need it anymore.
989 - DROPPED MODULE: matrix. We don't need it anymore.
990 - DROPPED MODULE: lib. We don't need it anymore.
992 -- Thu Jun 22 22:48:12 CEST 2017 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
994 SimGrid (3.15) Released March 22. 2017
996 The Spring Release: continuous integration servers become green
997 We fixed even the transient bugs on all target architectures:
998 Linux (CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora), Mac OSX (Mavericks, El Capitan)
999 Windows, FreeBSD, NetBSD.
1001 - Rename NetCards to NetPoints.
1002 This was intended to help NS3 users, but that's not a netcard.
1003 That's a point in the routing algorithm, let's avoid wrong simplifications.
1006 - New: MSG_process_yield(). Stop and yield to other processes.
1007 - New: MSG_process_daemon(). Daemon processes are automatically killed
1008 when the last non-daemon process terminates
1009 - New: MSG_process_ref/unref(). Fiddle with the process refcounting.
1010 - Renamed MSG_energy_plugin_init() -> MSG_host_energy_plugin_init()
1011 to make room for the upcoming network energy plugin.
1012 - Drop MSG_host_get_current_power_peak: duplicates MSG_host_get_speed
1015 - Ensure that an actor can kill itself with Process::exit()
1016 - Kill the obscure NativeException. Nobody want to survive the issues
1017 it denotes, so use JniException that is a RuntimeException (not to
1018 be caught explicitly).
1019 - Partial bug fix in initialization. SimGrid flags on command line were
1020 consumed at C level but stayed in the original Java String[] args.
1021 This could mess users' args[i] if SG flags were not put at the end of
1023 The SimGrid flags are now removed from the Java arguments. However,
1024 the number of arguments REMAINS UNCHANGED. It is then UNSAFE to test
1025 if args.length is greater than the number of YOUR OWN ARGUMENTS.
1026 It might be if you have --log or --cfg flags in the command line.
1027 - Fix numerous memleaks all around the place. In particular, around VMs.
1031 - s4u::onPlatformCreated: right before the simulation starts
1032 - s4u::onSimulationEnd: right after the main simulation loop
1033 - s4u::onTimeAdvance: right after a clock change (time is discrete)
1034 - s4u::Host::onSpeedChange: when the pstate is changed, or when an
1035 event from the availability_file changes the avail speed.
1036 - Links are now usable from s4u
1037 - New: Engine::hostList() and Engine::hostCount(). Still clumsy.
1038 - New: Actor::suspend(), Actor::resume(), and Actor::migrate(new_host)
1039 - New examples: The conversion of MSG examples to S4U has begun
1040 - Actors: create, kill, migration, and suspend
1041 - Applications: master-worker and token-ring
1042 - Action replay: communications and storage
1043 - Drop Host::getPstateSpeedCurrent() which duplicates Host::speed()
1046 - Backwards Compatibility breaks
1047 - The SD_route_get_list and SD_route_get_size functions have been removed.
1048 They are replaced by the unique
1049 void sg_host_route(sg_host_t src, sg_host_t dst, xbt_dynar_t links)
1050 The route from src to dst is built in the links dynar whose size can
1051 be obtained with xbt_dynar_length.
1052 - The SD_route_bandwidth and SD_route_latency functions have been replaced by
1053 sg_host_route_bandwidth and sg_host_route_latency.
1054 Macros ensure the backwards compatibility, but you should fix your code
1057 - Major C++ rewrite ongoing (SMPI used to be C compiled in C++).
1058 This can break codes using SMPI internals (from private.h instead of the public smpi.h).
1059 - Bump our claim of support from MPI 1.1 to MPI 2.2.
1060 We don't support 100% of it, but it should be enough. Contact us if not.
1061 - MPI_Win_lock/unlock, MPI_Get_accumulate support added (as for all RMA, implementation is
1062 naive and probably inaccurate)
1063 - New algorithm for SMPI_SHARED_MALLOC: global, where all blocks are
1064 mapped onto a unique small file using some system magic.
1065 - Bugfix: smpirun was sometimes misusing hostfile when wrongly terminated
1066 - Fortran: cleanups, fixes, support of user-added operations
1067 - RMA: MPI_Accumulate are applied in correct order.
1068 - RMA: MPI_Win_{complete/post} shouldn't miss messages anymore.
1069 - Better support for MPI_IN_PLACE
1070 - Support for MPI_Win attrs and keyvals.
1071 - Support MPI_Comm_group_create, MPI_Type_size_x
1072 - MPI ops should be properly applied to all allowed types
1073 - Replace implementation of MPI_Bcast "scatter followed by rdb allgather"
1074 algorithm by a non failing one from mpich.
1077 - Kill the fifo data container: we don't use it anymore.
1080 - A <cluster> can now be created with different speed values to represent pstates.
1081 see examples/platforms/energy_cluster.xml for an example.
1083 SimGrid (3.14.159) Released December 28. 2016
1085 The previous release was only a crude approximation of a Pi release;
1086 this one should be a bit better.
1088 - Revert a last minute change that broke on Mac OSX.
1089 - Fix the changelog and NEWS files.
1090 - Improve the documentation, in particular of the routing module.
1091 - Integrate some patches flying around in Debian.
1093 SimGrid (3.14) Released December 24. 2016
1096 * The whole documentation was reworked and reorganized. There is
1097 still much room for improvement here, but we're on it.
1100 * We now need python3 for our testing infrastructure.
1101 * Model checking needs libevent
1104 * Now works on FreeBSD
1107 * Privatization now works on FreeBSD
1109 * Privatization is now activated by default in smpirun
1110 You can turn it off with -no-privatize if something goes wrong.
1112 * Call-location tracing for SMPI.
1113 You can add the exact location (filename / linenumber) of an MPI call to
1114 your trace files and slow down or speed up the simulation between two
1115 consecutive calls by using an adjustment file (see the documentation).
1117 * Fixed computation of timings for MPI_Send, MPI_Recv & possibly also others
1118 We've found a bug that prevented SMPI to account for MPI_Send, MPI_Recv
1119 and others (in some cases) in a correct way. That is, the smpi/os, smpi/or
1120 values were ignored in some cases. The timings of these functions can now
1121 be significantly different.
1123 * smpi/cpu-threshold:-1 should become smpi/simulate-computation:no
1124 smpi/running-power is renamed to smpi/host-speed
1126 * smpi/grow-injected-times option to enable or disable multiplication of the
1127 timings injected in MPI_Iprobe, or MPI_Test. Enabled by default, which can
1128 make simulation less precise (but also much faster).
1130 * smpirun script should be (much) faster for large deployments.
1132 * SMPI tracing: fixed issue with poor matching of send/receives.
1134 * Replay: Fix broken waitall
1136 New functions and features
1137 * MSG_parallel_task_execute_with_timeout, to timeout computations.
1139 Dropped / renamed functions and features
1140 * msg_mailbox_t and associated functions. Use s4u::Mailbox instead.
1141 - MSG_mailbox_is_empty() -> Mailbox::empty()
1142 - MSG_mailbox_front() -> Mailbox::front()
1143 - MSG_mailbox_get_by_alias() -> simgrid::s4u::Mailbox::byName(name)
1144 - MSG_mailbox_get_task_ext() -> MSG_task_receive_ext()
1145 - MSG_mailbox_get_task_ext_bounded -> MSG_task_receive_ext_bounded
1146 - MSG_host_(get/set)_params -> MSG_vm_(get/set)_params
1147 * Don't pass the free_f parameter to property related functions:
1148 - MSG_host_set_property_value()
1149 - MSG_as_router_set_property_value()
1150 - MSG_storage_set_property_value()
1151 * VM properties. Since msg_vm_t are msg_host_t, just use
1152 MSG_host_get_property_value() and friends
1153 * VM I/O related things:
1154 - Ignored parameter of vm_create: core_nb, disk_path and disk_size.
1155 - Unimplemented save/restore methods
1156 * MSG_as_router_get_property_value() was redundant with
1157 MSG_environment_as_get_property_value().
1158 - Removed MSG_as_router_*propert*() functions
1159 - Added MSG_environment_as_set_property_value() for consistency
1160 * xbt heterogeneous dictionaries (created with xbt_dict_new()).
1161 Well, they are still there for now, but deprecated with a warning.
1162 Please switch to xbt_dict_new_homogeneous() before this is removed
1164 * Task affinity. Its intended behavior (that was very badly tested
1165 and probably not really working) was deceiving what most users
1166 would have hoped here.
1167 * xbt_os_sem_get_value: unused internally, deprecated on OS X El Capitan
1168 * Option network/coordinates is now useless and should be dropped.
1171 * Added option storage/max_file_descriptors to allow more than 1024 files opened
1174 * Added option maxmin/concurrency_limit to allow more than 100 processes per host
1175 * Added Dragonfly topology support
1178 * Add Exa- and Peta- units such as EiB, EB, Eib, Eb for size, and
1179 EiBps, EBps, Eibps, Ebps for bandwidth.
1180 They may become useful to some lucky ones.
1183 * New functions: msg.Comm.waitAll() and msg.Comm.waitAny()
1184 * ex/app_tokenring: new example, very similar to the MSG Token Ring
1185 * ex/async_waitAll: new example, on asynchronous communications
1188 * Memory usage should be decreased for simulations with a large number
1189 of processes. This also helps for SMPI.
1191 SimGrid (3.13) stable; urgency=low
1193 The Half Release, a.k.a. the Zealous Easter Trim.
1195 - We removed half of the lines, that were mostly experimental cruft.
1196 v3.12 lasted 286000 lines of code, v3.13 is only 142000 lines
1197 (not counting blanks and comments -- according to openhub.net)
1198 - The internals are now compiled in C++ (and will soon be clean C++)
1199 - We removed 75 klines of XML, 12 klines of Java, 5 klines of cmake,
1200 59 klines of C, etc. We added only 29 klines of C++ in replacement.
1202 * Backwards Compatibility breaks
1203 - Removed Lua simulation bindings (switch to C or Java for that).
1204 Lua can still be used to describe platforms
1205 - Removed Java kernel plug-ins.
1206 Will be reintroduced after the ongoing major internals reorg.
1208 - the following functions were removed.
1209 They were too specific and should be reimplemented in a generic
1210 way, with filter function.
1211 - MSG_task_listen_from_host
1212 - MSG_mailbox_get_count_host_waiting_tasks
1213 - MSG_mailbox_put_with_timeout was removed.
1214 Please use MSG_task_send_with_timeout instead.
1216 - the SD_application_reinit function was removed. It has been a noop for a while.
1217 - The ACCESS_MODE of SD_workstation has been removed. This feature was not really usable and should soon be
1218 replaced by a more flexible mechanism.
1219 - The following functions thus do not exist anymore
1220 - SD_workstation_get_access_mode
1221 - SD_workstation_set_access_mode
1222 - SD_workstation_get_current_task
1223 - Basic estimation functions have been removed but can easily be replaced
1224 - SD_route_get_communication_time => SG_route_get_latency() + amount / SD_route_get_bandwidth()
1225 - SD_workstation_get_computation_time => amount / sg_host_speed()
1227 - VM.setBound(int load) is now VM.setBound(double bound) to meet the MSG semantics.
1228 Use VM.getSpeed()*load/100 for the legacy behavior.
1230 - option enable_tracing was removed. It was not doing anything for a while.
1231 - In the ModelChecker:
1232 - the model-checker now ptraces the model-checked process which means
1233 you cannot use a debugger on the latter anymore (we might make this
1234 optional in the feature);
1235 - removed soft-dirty page tracking;
1236 - remove model-checked side snapshot management,
1237 MC_snapshot() and MC_compare_snapshot();
1238 - keep the MC_cut() function as a stub (it was not really working
1239 in the previous release).
1242 * All options are consistently in kebab-case. Old names are kept as alias.
1245 * Switch to platform v4 format.
1246 - Rename from 'power' to 'speed' the attributes describing the amount of
1247 flops that a <host>, <peer>, <cluster> or <cabinet> can deliver per second.
1248 - In <trace_connect>, attribute kind="POWER" is now kind="SPEED".
1249 - In <host> and <link>, attributes availability and state are gone.
1250 It was redundant with state and availability traces, and with peak values.
1251 - In <cluster>, attributes availability_file and state_file are gone.
1252 It was too complex and unused.
1253 - Kill <gpu>. Was not doing anything.
1254 - The DOCTYPE points to the right URL:
1255 http://simgrid.gforge.inria.fr/simgrid/simgrid.dtd
1256 (the file at this address now documents the changelog since its v1)
1257 - A warning is emitted for unit-less values (they are still accepted).
1258 - speed. Default: 'f' or 'flops'. Also defined:
1259 'Yf', 'Zf', 'Ef', 'Pf', 'Tf', 'Gf', 'Mf', 'kf'
1260 'yottaflops', 'zettaflops', 'exaflops', 'petaflops', 'teraflops', 'gigaflops', 'megaflops', 'kiloflops'
1261 - bandwidth. Default: 'Bps' bytes per second (or 'bps' for bits but 1 Bps = 8 bps)
1262 Also defined in bytes: 'TiBps', 'GiBps', 'MiBps', 'KiBps', 'TBps', 'GBps', 'MBps', 'kBps', 'Bps'
1263 And the same in bits: 'Tibps', 'Gibps', 'Mibps', 'Kibps', 'Tbps', 'Gbps', 'Mbps', 'kbps', 'bps'
1264 - latency. Default: 's' second. Also defined:
1265 'w' week, 'd' day, 'h' hour, 'm' minute, 'ms' millisecond, 'us' microsecond, 'ns' nanosecond, 'ps' picosecond
1267 * bin/simgrid_update_xml can upgrade your files automatically (won't convert unit-less values)
1268 tools/sg_xml_unit_converter.py may help (but it's just a warning and will probably ever be).
1271 * s4u::Host is now the preferred public interface to the Host features.
1272 sg_host_* functions are C bindings to the exact same behavior
1273 MSG_host_* and SD_workstation_* are #define to the sg_host_* ones
1276 * The examples were completely reorganized (in C and Java), for your browsing pleasure.
1277 * Kill all deprecated functions (the ones you had when declaring MSG_DEPRECATED).
1278 They were deprecated since a few years, and probably did not even compile anymore.
1281 * The API has been profoundly modified to directly use the core objects instead of redefining its own.
1282 SD_Workstation_t and SD_link_t are now sg_host_t and sg_link_t respectively.
1283 Some functions have also been renamed for consistency. Backward compatibility is maintained, but users are
1284 encouraged to update their codes. A list of the modified functions can be found at the end of
1285 include/simgrid/simdag.h
1288 * simgrid::simix::kernelImmediate() is the closure callback. It ensures that
1289 the lambda or closure passed as a parameter will run in kernel mode.
1290 All the callback functions should be rewritten to that interface at some point.
1293 * Reorganizing and cleaning the internals all around the place.
1296 * Remove old default barrier/bcast buggy algorithms (see #18407)
1297 * Various bug fixes to handle more codes
1298 * Remove the need for the --foreground option of smpirun (it is still
1299 accepted for backward compatibility).
1302 * Kill the setset data container: MC don't use it anymore.
1303 * Kill the queue data container: it made more sense with GRAS.
1304 * Kill the xbt_peer_t data type: it's useless without GRAS.
1305 * Kill rm_cb feature of config sets: it was never useful.
1306 * Kill graphxml parsing feature. It was not used.
1307 * Kill the deprecated code protected by XBT_USE_DEPRECATED
1309 - xbt_dynar_sort_strings(), when the content is char*
1310 - xbt_str_parse_int / xbt_str_parse_double, wrapping strtol/strtod
1311 They throw exceptions on invalid input;
1312 * C++ support for declaring CLI flags (simgrid::config::Flag);
1313 * class for abstracting different signal backends (simgrid::xbt::signal).
1314 with no external dependencies (we need very simple signals).
1317 * refactoring and cleanup of the code;
1318 * ongoing process to cleanly separate the model-checking algorithms
1319 from the code model-checking support.
1321 -- Wed Apr 27 21:00:53 CEST 2016 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1323 SimGrid (3.12) stable; urgency=low
1325 The Facelift Release.
1328 * Require g++ v4.7 at least to not speak prehistorical C++.
1329 * Require Boost 1.48 (for signal2 component).
1330 * Java must be version 7 at least when activated.
1331 * Builds on Windows again (including Java bindings).
1332 * Tracing is now always enabled (no way to turn it out)
1333 * Remove GTNetS. It was not working anyway.
1334 * Various cleanups in the cmake scripts.
1335 * Move headers around to sort them out on installed systems:
1336 - instr/instr.h -> simgrid/instr.h
1337 - instr/jedule/* -> simgrid/jedule
1338 - simdag/datatypes.h was removed
1339 - simdag/simdag.h -> simgrid/simdag.h
1340 - msg/datatypes.h was removed
1341 - msg/msg.h -> simgrid/msg.h
1344 * Interface improvement:
1345 - Rename MSG_host_is_avail(h) to MSG_host_is_on(h)
1346 - Sanitize the interface in MSG_task_ module:
1347 - Merge two functions that were close enough but misleading:
1348 set_compute_duration(t) -> set_flops_amount(t)
1349 get_remaining_computation(t) -> get_flops_amount(t)
1350 - set_data_size(t) -> set_bytes_amount(t)
1351 get_data_size(t) -> get_bytes_amount(t)
1352 - Massive cleanups in the functions related to the energy
1353 - MSG_host_get_pstate_number() -> MSG_host_get_nb_pstates()
1354 - New: MSG_host_get_pstate()
1356 - msg/energy/onoff: switching hosts on and off
1358 * Interface improvement:
1359 - Rename Host.isAvail() to Host.isOn()
1360 - Rename Process.currentProcess() to Process.getCurrentProcess()
1361 - Rename Task.setDataSize() to Task.setBytesAmount()
1362 - Merge Task.getRemainingDuration() and Task.getComputeDuration() into Task.getFlopsAmount()
1364 - #18874: Actually allows the GC to reclaim tasks
1368 - SIMIX_process_throw: raises an exception in a remote process
1369 * Refactoring: Separate sub-modules
1370 - libsmx: the public interface, as libc in a real system
1371 - popping: the strange dance that converts a user request into a kernel handling
1372 - smx_context_*: the virtualization mechanisms that embed the user code
1373 - smx_*: the handling of each simcalls
1374 * Interface cleanup:
1375 - simcall_host_set_power_peak_at -> simcall_host_set_pstate
1376 * Rename smx_action_t into smx_synchro_t, making explicit that these
1377 things are used to synchronize processes with their environment.
1378 For example, a communication is a sort of synchronization involving
1379 the communicating processes (that may block until the exchange) and
1380 the platform. The same can be said from computations, etc.
1382 - #18888: segfault when a process ends before its kill_time
1386 - 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.
1387 - MPI_Keyval*, MPI_Attr* functions, as well as MPI_Comm_attr*, MPI_Type_attr* variants (C only, no Fortran support yet)
1388 - MPI_Type_set_name, MPI_Type_get_name
1389 - MPI_*_c2f and MPI_*_f2c functions
1390 - MPI_Info_* functions (beware, get_nthkey may not follow the insertion order)
1391 - MPI_Pack, MPI_Unpack and MPI_Pack_size functions
1392 - Activate a lot of new tests from the mpich 3 testsuite
1394 - Constant times can be injected inside MPI_Wtime and MPI_Test through options smpi/wtime and smpi/test
1395 - InfiniBand network model added: Based on the works of Jerome Vienne
1396 http://mescal.imag.fr/membres/jean-marc.vincent/index.html/PhD/Vienne.pdf
1397 - When smpi/display_timing is set, also display global simulation time and application times
1398 - Have smpirun, smpicc and friends display the simgrid git hash version on --git-version
1399 * Collective communications
1400 - 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
1401 - 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/).
1402 - Support for Rabenseifner Reduce/Allreduce algorithms (https://fs.hlrs.de/projects/par/mpi//myreduce.html)
1404 - Replay now uses algorithms from wanted collective selector
1405 - Replay can be used with SMP-aware algorithms
1406 - Memory occupation of replay should now be contained (temporary buffers allocated in collective algorithms should be shared between processes)
1407 - 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.
1409 - [#17799]: have mpi_group_range_incl and mpi_group_range_excl better test some corner cases
1410 - Correctly use loopback on fat-tree clusters
1411 - Asynchronous small messages shouldn't trigger deadlocks anymore
1412 * Energy/DVFS cleanup and improvement
1413 - smpi_set_host_power_peak_at() -> smpi_set_host_pstate()
1414 - new: smpi_get_host_pstate()
1417 - "Full" network optimization flag was broken since Surf++
1418 - Better handling of precision flags in maxmin
1419 - Fix bug causing sometimes "Impossible" errors
1420 - Properly pass cluster properties to included hosts
1421 * Improvement of the Energy plugin.
1422 - Always update the consumption before returning that value
1423 - New property: watt_off to denote the dissipation when the host is off
1424 - New functions getWattMinAt and getWattMaxAt to retrieve the
1425 dissipation of pstates that we are not currently at.
1426 * Java: class NetworkLink renamed to Link
1427 * New function: simcall_process_get_kill_time()
1428 * Massive rename s/workstation/host/
1429 - That's intrusive, but that's good for the project consistency. Sorry.
1430 - Change config option "workstation/model" into "host/model"
1433 - Add a xbt_heap_update function, to avoid costly xbt_heap_remove+xbt_heap_insert use
1434 - Add a xbt wrapper for simcall_mutex_trylock (asked in [#17878])
1435 - Add two new log appenders: rollfile and splitfile. Patch by Fabien Chaix.
1436 - xbt_dirname and xbt_basename for non-POSIX systems
1438 * The model checker now runs as a separate process.
1439 * The model checker runs must now be launched with the new simgrid-mc program.
1440 * Record/Replay: the MC can display a textual representation of a path in the
1441 execution graph. It can then be replayed outside of the model checker.
1443 -- Mon Oct 12 06:02:41 CEST 2015 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1445 SimGrid (3.11) stable; urgency=low
1450 * Normalizing pointers addresses tool for better diff between logs
1453 * Add cloud examples using new VMs
1454 - examples/msg/cloud/two_tasks_vm.tesh
1455 - examples/msg/cloud/simple_vm.tesh
1456 - examples/java/cloud/cloud.tesh
1457 - examples/java/cloud/migration/migration.tesh
1458 * Add java surf examples:
1459 - examples/java/surfPlugin/surf_plugin.tesh
1460 - examples/java/reservationSurfPlugin/reservation_surf_plugin.tes
1461 - examples/java/surfCpuModel/surf_cpu_model.tesh
1462 * Add SMPI+MSG example:
1463 - examples/smpi/smpi_msg_masterslave/
1468 - msg task destroy cancel test
1469 - msg_host on/off test
1470 * Move all tests in testsuite to teshsuite (adding tesh files)
1471 * Restructure teshsuites
1472 - one folder for each kind of test
1473 * Restructure AddTests.cmake
1475 - structure the order of tests (with sections)
1478 * Add virtual machine
1479 - creation of a VM on a PM
1480 - migration of a VM from a PM to another PM
1482 - MSG_process_join(msg_process_t process, double timeout)
1483 - msg_bar_t MSG_barrier_init(unsigned int count)
1484 - int MSG_barrier_wait(msg_bar_t barrier)
1485 - void MSG_barrier_destroy(msg_bar_t barrier)
1486 - msg_as_t MSG_environment_as_get_by_name(const char * name)
1487 * New option "msg/debug_multiple_use" to help debugging when a task is used
1490 - Improvements and finalization of MSG_storage, MSG_file APIs and their
1492 - Increase code coverage in test suites
1496 * Protect context stacks against stack overflow. The number of protected memory
1497 pages allocated on the top of each stack (1 by default) can be configured
1498 with the new command line option --cfg=contexts/guard_size:<value>.
1499 * Simcalls are now generated by a python script that
1500 - generates files included by SimGrid
1501 - checks that all the functions exist, and proposes prototypes
1503 - remove sem_destroy, file_set_data, comm_destroy, vm_set_state,
1504 host_set_data, host_get_data
1506 - simcall_process_join(smx_process_t process, double timeout)
1507 * Fix bug where sleeping processing could not be suspended.
1510 * Translate surf models from C to C++
1511 - Generic classes for all models: Model, Resource, Action
1512 - A generic interface for each kind of model (CPU, Network, Storage
1513 Workstation, WorkstationVM)
1515 * Translate surf routings from C to C++
1516 * Add callbacks using sigc++ or boost::signals2
1517 - Add callback functions for resource creation/destruction
1518 - Add callback functions for action state change
1519 - Handle Energy as a plugin
1520 * Replace swag by boost::intrusive
1521 * Add new routing models for clusters. For documentation, see
1522 http://simgrid.gforge.inria.fr/simgrid/latest/doc/platform.html#pf_cluster
1523 - tori, with topology="TORUS" and topo_parameters="ndim1,ndim2,...,ndimn"
1524 parameters for cluster tag
1525 - Fat trees, with topology="FAT_TREE" and
1526 topo_parameters="h;m1,...,mh;w1,...,wh;p1,...,ph" parameters for cluster tag
1527 - see examples/platforms/torus_cluster.xml and
1528 examples/platforms/fat_tree_cluster.xml
1529 * More documentation
1532 * Hostfiles support host:nb_processes construct to deploy several processes on
1534 * Collective communication algorithms should not crash if used with
1535 improper number of nodes and report the error.
1536 * SMPI now partially supports MPI_Topologies: MPI_Cart_create, MPI_Cart_shift,
1537 MPI_Cart_rank, MPI_Cart_get, MPI_Cart_coords, MPI_Cartdim_get,
1538 MPI_Dims_create, MPI_Cart_sub are supported.
1539 * New interface to use SMPI programmatically (still depends on MSG for
1540 some parts, see examples/smpi/smpi_msg_masterslave):
1541 - SMPI_app_instance_register(const char *name, xbt_main_func_t code,
1545 * Global variables privatization in MPI executables is now performed at runtime
1546 with the option smpi/privatize_global_variables (default:no).
1547 Limitations: Linux/BSD only, with mmap enabled. Global variables inside
1548 dynamic libraries loaded by the application are not privatized (static
1549 linking with these libraries is advised in this case)
1552 * Options defined in XML work correctly now.
1555 * New cmake option, enable_lib_in_jar, to control whether native libraries are
1556 copied into simgrid.jar or not (ON by default). Use this option if you want
1557 to reduce the size of the installed simgrid.jar, *and* the native libraries
1558 are kept installed elsewhere.
1559 * Surf binding with SWIG (code generated in maintainer mode only):
1560 - plugin to handle callbacks
1561 - CPU model only for the moment
1564 * Supernovae build mode is definitively removed. It was used to improve
1565 inlining and inter-module optimizations. It is nowadays superseded by
1566 link-time optimizations commonly available in compilers.
1567 * Update ns-3 find lib. Bindings for ns-3 should work again now.
1568 * Add boost dependency for surf++
1569 * Add new macro for tests
1570 - ADD_TESH(name <tesh_args>)
1571 - ADD_TESH_FACTORIES(name "thread;ucontext;raw" <tesh_args>)
1575 - xbt_bar_t XBT_barrier_init(unsigned int count)
1576 - int XBT_barrier_wait(xbt_bar_t barrier)
1577 - void XBT_barrier_destroy(xbt_bar_t barrier)
1578 * Make the xbt_os_time module public
1580 -- Sat May 31 22:39:38 CEST 2014 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1582 SimGrid (3.10) stable; urgency=low
1584 The Clean Diaper Release, a.k.a. SimGrid is leak-free.
1587 * Reintegrate Java to the main archive as desynchronizing these
1588 package is not acceptable anymore (Java is now considered stable)
1589 * Add explicit synchronization facilities through semaphores
1590 * Bug fix: Task.setDataSize() only changed the C world, not the value
1591 cached in the Java world
1594 * Dramatically change the way files are handled. API and internals changed, but
1595 this part of MSG was not considered as production grade either.
1596 * Add explicit synchronization facilities through semaphores
1597 * Add a new function MSG_host_get_process_list()
1598 * Preliminary DVFS support (see examples/msg/energy/ for details)
1601 * SMPI is now included directly in the libsimgrid as the windows
1602 linker doesn't force us on splitting it anymore.
1603 * Improvements of the SMPI replay tool:
1604 - Most of the collective communications are now rooted in the same process as
1605 in the original application.
1606 - Traces now rely on the same MPI data type as the application (MPI_BYTE was
1607 used until now). Multiple data types can now be used in a trace.
1608 - The replay tool now supports traces produce either by TAU or a modified
1610 - Bug Fix: the compute part of the reduce action is now taken into account.
1611 - Gatherv collective is now supported
1612 - SimGrid (SMPI for now) can generate replay traces as well. Option -trace-ti
1613 of smpirun outputs time independent traces for the current run. One file
1614 is created per process. If too many processes are simulated, this behavior
1615 can be changed to one file for all processes by using the
1616 tracing/smpi/format/ti_one_file flag
1617 * smpirun generates the host file if needed (with given host count and platform)
1618 * Integration of more than 100 STAR-MPI, MPICH, OpenMPI collective algorithms
1619 - allows to select one in particular with --cfg=smpi/coll_name:algorithm
1620 - allows to use the decision logic of OpenMPI(1.7) or MPICH(3.0.4) by setting
1621 --cfg=smpi/coll_selector:(mpich/ompi)
1622 * Support for new functions: MPI_Issend, MPI_Ssend, Commutative operations in
1624 * Add a --cfg:tracing/smpi/internals option, to trace internal communications
1625 happening inside a collective SMPI call.
1626 * Fix the behavior of complex data types handling.
1627 * Make MPI_Wtime another synchronization point to take computations into
1629 * Replace MPICH-1 test suite by the one from MPICH 3.0.4. Can be built using
1630 enable_smpi_MPICH3_testsuite flag in cmake. Run with ctest.
1631 * Add all missing Fortran bindings, SMPI should work with Fortran 90
1632 (no privatization of global variables yet)
1633 * Preliminary DVFS support (see examples/smpi/energy/ for details)
1636 * Verification of liveness properties is now available for SMPI applications
1637 (in addition to MSG applications)
1638 * Bugged examples using SMPI in examples/smpi/mc/
1639 * Add --cfg=model-check/visited option. Allows the verification of infinite
1640 programs. Detection of loops in the execution thanks to the system state
1641 comparison and reduction of the state space to explore. Can be combined with
1642 DPOR for safety properties.
1645 * Allow to change SimGrid configuration (see --help) within the code
1646 thanks to SD_config() as it can be done in MSG.
1647 * Add a new function SD_task_set_amount() upon user request.
1650 * Handle units for values (10ms, 10kiloflops, 10Bps, 1GB, ...)
1651 * Remove rule based routing (no more PCRE dependency)
1652 * Add a limiter_link option to cluster tag, to specify a maximum reachable
1653 bandwidth in fullduplex mode when it is less than twice the nominal bandwidth.
1654 * Add a loopback_bw and loopback_lat options to cluster tag.
1655 * Fix the peer tag that could not be mixed with other AS within a Vivaldi
1656 routing. Now peers are encapsulated in an AS and have their own private
1657 router but this is transparent.
1660 * Our own implementation of getline is renamed xbt_getline, and gets
1661 used even if the OS provide a getline(). This should reduce the
1662 configuration complexity by using the same code on all platforms.
1663 * New type: xbt_cfg_elm_boolean.
1664 * Allow to use yes/no for boolean configuration options in the command line.
1665 * Allow to disable SimGrid cleanups at exit from command line option.
1666 There are situations where one may want a simulation to end with an exit.
1667 Unfortunately, calling exit may cause SimGrid to segfault, which is quite
1668 annoying when scripting around the simulator. Adding a
1669 --cfg=clean_atexit:no allows to circumvent this issue.
1672 * Lots of memory leaks were corrected in this release.
1673 There is no known memory leaks anymore, in all of our 600+ tests.
1674 * New command line option --version, to get SimGrid version information.
1675 Packagers may want to add extra words to SIMGRID_VERSION_EXTRA defined in
1677 * Supernovae builds are deprecated, and expected to be removed in the next
1680 -- Sun Nov 17 00:26:44 CET 2013 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1682 SimGrid (3.9) stable; urgency=low
1684 The Grasgory release: GRAS is really dead now.
1686 * Complete overhaul of the internal host structures scheme.
1689 * If you use GRAS, you should stay at SimGrid 3.5 (at most) since it
1690 was considered as experimental and badly maintained since then.
1691 * Keeping it was thus a trap to our potential users, that could take
1692 it instead of MSG or SMPI by mistake despite is pity state.
1693 * GRAS seems to have very few users (if any), and no one volunteered
1694 to maintain it further. It also induces a lot of XBT code (for
1695 portability sake), that must be maintained too.
1696 * For all these reasons, we killed GRAS. If someone wants to revive it
1697 in the future, don't cry, our git history still remembers of GRAS.
1700 * Major overhaul. Merge our documentation again as time proved that
1701 splitting it was really not helping our users.
1702 * Further improve the developer documentation to help newcomers
1703 hacking on SimGrid itself. The user documentation (and in
1704 particular, the beginner documentation) is still in a sorry state.
1707 * Now works on Windows too!
1708 * Much more extensive test suite, from MPICH
1711 * Add a new loader (SD_PTG_dotload) that creates a parallel task graph
1712 (i.e., a DAG whose nodes are parallel tasks) from a dot file. Creates a
1713 dynar of SD_TASK_COMP_PAR_AMDAHL and SD_TASK_COMM_MXN_1D_BLOCK tasks.
1714 * Bug fix: let task be scheduled when the last dependency to be solved is
1715 a control dependency.
1716 * Remove SD_load_environment_script function.
1717 Use the C sg_platf function if you want to declare a platform
1721 * New function: MSG_process_get_number()
1722 * Old function documented: MSG_config()
1723 * Remove MSG_load_platform_script function
1724 Use the C sg_platf function if you want to declare a platform
1728 * Change the default value of the TCP_gamma constant (maximal size of TCP
1729 congestion window) to a more realistic 4MiB value. If you notice changes in
1730 your simulation results, you can fall back to the previous 20k tiny window
1731 by adding --cfg=network/TCP_gamma:20000 on command line.
1732 * (Hopefully) fix a bug wrt periodic availability and state traces
1733 * Bug fix: use default values at start when first event in availability/state
1734 trace is not at time 0.
1737 * remove the "new_" part of function name sg_platf_new_trace_connect
1738 (resulting in sg_platf_trace_connect), since it does not create
1742 * Kill synchronized dynars, and xbt_dynar_dopar(). We cannot think of a
1743 use case where it's really mandatory, and maintaining it was a pain in
1745 * New: xbt_fifo_search(), search an item with a user-provided
1746 comparison function instead of dumb pointer comparison.
1749 * Fix the lua deployment:
1750 Use `simgrid.init_application()` before deployment instead of
1751 `simgrid.msg_register_application()` after.
1754 * Transfer the tracing files into the corresponding modules.
1756 -- Tue Feb 5 11:31:43 CET 2013 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1758 SimGrid (3.8.1) stable; urgency=low
1760 The "we are told that some people want to also *install* the simgrid
1763 * Add missing file "tesh.1" to the archive.
1765 -- Sat Oct 27 16:12:11 CEST 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1767 SimGrid (3.8) stable; urgency=low
1769 The Psssshiiiit release: SimGrid jumps into the Cloud.
1772 * Add an experimental interface to manipulate VMs. They are mainly
1773 process groups with very few intrinsic semantic, but they should
1774 allow you to build the semantic you want easily.
1775 * New function: MSG_host_set_property_value()
1776 * New function: MSG_process_on_exit(). To clean memory in all cases.
1777 * Bug fixes that made the host (and link) failures unusable.
1778 * Add a way to auto-restart process when the host in which they are
1779 executing comes back (ON_FAILURE="RESTART" on deployment file,
1780 MSG_process_auto_restart_set).
1781 * Use the "msg_" prefix for all datatypes (instead of m_, msg_ and MSG_),
1782 please stop using the old ones, they are DEPRECATED.
1784 * Deprecate functions MSG_global_init() / MSG_global_init_args()
1785 Please use MSG_init() instead. (reducing the amount of entry
1786 points in the library helps us).
1787 * Make it impossible to link against the wrong version of the lib
1788 * Deprecate MSG_clean(). No need to call it anymore.
1789 * Function MSG_get_host_number() is not deprecated anymore.
1792 * Split the doc into a user guide and a reference guide.
1793 * Start a developper guide to help people hacking on SimGrid.
1796 * Enable tracing by default. This modules rocks you should use it.
1797 * Remove option custom_flags. Now use environment variables CFLAGS
1799 * Use default cmake things to detect lua instead of home grown ones.
1800 * New option "enable_mallocators" to disable mallocators, for debugging
1801 purpose ("on" by default).
1804 * Bug fixes around the resource failures: don't let the processes
1805 survive the host they are running onto.
1806 * Add an interface to auto-restart processes when the host in which they are
1807 executing comes back.
1808 * Ensures that SIMIX_clean is called automatically. It's not part of
1809 the public interface anymore (bindings should be updated).
1812 * Bug fix for when SD_Simulate is called with a positive value: be careful
1813 when comparing doubles. Sometimes they are different for non significant
1815 * New types of typed tasks. SD_TASK_COMP_PAR_AMDAHL represents a
1816 parallel task whose initial work is distributed among host according
1817 to the Amdahl's law. Such tasks are created with a parameter alpha
1818 that corresponds to the non-parallelizable part of the computation.
1819 SD_TASK_COMM_PAR_MXN_1D_BLOCK represents a complex data redistribution
1820 between two sets of workstations assuming a 1D block distribution (each
1821 workstation owns a similar share of data) on both sides.
1823 These tasks can be scheduled with SD_task_schedulel or SD_task_schedulev.
1824 Data redistribution will be automatically scheduled once parent and child
1825 are both scheduled. The filling of computation_amount and
1826 communication_amount structures is now done seamlessly thanks to the chosen
1828 * New function SD_workstation_dump to display various information
1829 * New function SD_task_set_rate to throttle the bandwidth allowed to be used
1830 by a SD_TASK_COMM_E2E typed task. This rate depends on both the nominal
1831 bandwidth on the route onto which the task is scheduled and the amount of
1833 To divide the nominal bandwidth by 2, the rate then has to be:
1834 rate = bandwidth/(2*amount)
1835 * Compute tasks that have failed can now be rescheduled and executed again
1836 (from their beginning)
1837 * Increasing source code coverage (src/simdag is now covered at 95.8%
1841 * Re-implement time-independent trace replay using SMPI (at the
1842 smpi_smp_* level) instead of MSG. This should replace
1843 examples/msg/actions/actions.c
1844 * Implement support of MPI Datatypes (vectors, hvectors, indexed,
1845 hindexed and structs)
1846 * Implement the exchange of non-contiguous data.
1847 [Khalid Hasanov & Jean-Noel Quintin] Thanks for the patch, guys.
1848 * Correct behavior of smpi/sender_gap and set its default value to 0
1849 * Add option to asynchronously send small messages to allow better
1850 simulation of pt2pt communications. --cfg=smpi/async_small_threshold:value
1851 specifies the size in bytes under which messages will be asynchronously sent.
1852 * Add support of MPI_Iprobe, MPI_Probe, MPI_Testall, MPI_Wtick functions
1853 * SMPI now handles more MPI specific values in input. Closes [#14389] and [#14388]
1856 * New C interface to define a platform: XML is now optional.
1857 For more info, please check include/simgrid/platf.h.
1858 * New interface to define random platforms from the C:
1859 For more info, please check include/simgrid/platf_generator.h and
1860 examples/msg/masterslave/masterslave_platfgen.c
1861 * Export a sg_cmdline dynar containing all the arguments we got from
1865 * Two new tracing options for adding comments to trace file so you
1866 can track your experiments (see --help-tracing for details).
1867 * New option to generate an impoverished trace file (--cfg=tracing/basic:1)
1868 * Adding the SimGrid version that generated the trace file as a comment.
1869 * Instrumenting other MSG functions (MSG_task_isend_with_matching and MSG_task_dsend)
1870 * Fix to avoid key clashes on Paje links
1871 * Other minor fixes related to the Paje specification
1874 * Functions xbt_dict_hash() and xbt_dict_hash_ext() are made public,
1875 and renamed to xbt_str_hash() and xbt_str_hash_ext().
1876 * New function: xbt_os_timer_resume() to restart a timer w/o resetting it.
1877 * Greatly improve the robustness of mmalloc to user errors (such as
1878 using an area after freeing it, or freeing it twice)
1880 -- Thu Oct 25 17:30:06 CEST 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1882 SimGrid-java (3.8.1) stable; urgency=low
1884 * New module: org.simgrid.trace.Trace (SimGrid trace bindings)
1885 Warning: all methods are visible, but only some of them are
1886 implemented so far. Check the source (src/jtrace.c)
1887 for further information.
1888 * New module: org.simgrid.msg.File (SimGrid File management functions)
1889 * New Module: org.simgrid.msg.VM (SimGrid interface to mimick IAAS clouds)
1890 * Change the meaning of Process.restart: now restart the process from
1891 the beginning, like MSG_process_restart in C.
1892 * Add Process.setAutoRestart: handling of process restart when failed
1894 * Add Process.getProperty, Host.getProperty, Host.getProperty: allows
1895 you to retrieve the properties of the processes/hosts
1896 * Deprecate Msg.clean(): you can just forget about it now.
1897 * New function Process.getCount(), that only works when compiling
1898 with the not yet released version 3.9 of the C library.
1900 * New context factory based on Coroutines. It mandates a modified JVM
1901 but then, the simulations run about five times faster, and there is
1902 no limit to the amount of processes (beside of the available memory).
1904 -- 2012-12-04 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1906 SimGrid (3.7.1) stable; urgency=low
1909 * Restore the prototype of MSG_process_create_with_environment() to
1910 the pre-3.7 situation by removing the kill_time argument.
1911 * Add a MSG_process_set_kill_time() function instead.
1914 * Fix weird behaviors when dealing with parallel tasks.
1917 * Simgrid is now built as a dll.
1918 * Simgrid-java now works on Windows.
1919 * Simgrid-Java is now included into Windows package.
1922 * First pre-build package for MacOSX.
1925 * Fix compilation when using MSG_USE_DEPRECATED.
1926 * Fix some compilation issues on Macs and Windows.
1927 * Reduce the number of failing tests on exotic systems, like Debian/Hurd.
1928 * Environment variables CFLAGS and LDFLAGS are now honored by cmake.
1930 We discovered that the Lua console is broken, but we are missing the
1931 manpower to fix it right now. The problem existed in 3.7 too, so we
1932 are not blocking the release for that. Sorry if you depended on this
1933 feature, any help would be really welcome.
1935 -- Thu Jun 7 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1938 SimGrid-java (3.7.1) stable; urgency=low
1940 The "Java aint got to be bloated and slow" release
1943 * Various internal cleanups and performance improvement
1944 Simulations are expected to run up to twice faster or so
1945 * Make Process.kill(process) an instance method, not a static one
1946 * User processes are not java.lang.Thread subclasses.
1947 This breaks the compatibility (sorry), but previous API was
1948 brain-dead, making it impossible to have non-trivial
1949 initializations in the process constructor.
1950 * Require a full constructor per Process sub-class.
1951 Kinda breaks the compatibility (sorry), but this allows a much more
1952 efficient way to launch the processes at simulation startup.
1953 * Do not embeed our version of semaphores, java 1.5 can be considered
1954 as sufficiently prevalent for us to not dupplicate its features.
1958 * Add examples for almost every part of the API
1959 We spotted and fixed a lot of bugs in the process
1961 * New module: asynchronous communication API
1962 * New function: Process.sleep()
1963 It takes milliseconds as argument, just as java.lang.Thread.sleep()
1964 * New module: org.simgrid.msg.Mutex (SimGrid mutexes)
1965 * New module: org.simgrid.msg.RngStream (RngStreams random generators)
1967 -- 2012-06-12 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1969 SimGrid (3.7) stable; urgency=low
1971 The "spring cleanups (before the next Big Project kicks in)" release.
1974 * We can specify the SMPI latency/bandwidth factor with command line
1975 add --cfg=smpi/bw_factor:"threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"
1976 or add --cfg=smpi/lat_factor:"threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"
1977 You can also use the "config tag" from platform file by adding this line
1978 <prop id="smpi/bw_factor" value="threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"></prop>
1979 (see "example/platforms/tag_config.xml" to use "config tag").
1980 Note that the command line supersedes the platform file configuration.
1981 * Change the correction factors used in LMM model, according to
1982 the latest experiments described in INRIA RR-7821.
1983 Accuracy should be improved this way.
1984 * Use the partial invalidation optimization by default for the
1985 network too. Should produce the exact same results, only faster.
1986 * Major cleanup in surf to merge models and split some optimization
1987 mechanisms from the core of the models. As a result you can now
1988 specify which model to use (e.g., --cfg=network/model:LV08
1989 --cfg=cpu/model:Cas01) and which optimization mode to use
1990 (e.g., --cfg=network/optim:lazy --cfg=cpu/optim:TI).
1991 Incompatible combinations should err at initialization. See
1992 --help-models for the list of all models and optimization modes.
1993 * The CLM03 workstation model was dropped for simplicity because it
1994 used the deprecated CM02 network model. Use default instead.
1995 * Rename the TCP_gamma configuration option to network/TCP_gamma
1996 * Rename the coordinates configuration option to
1997 network/coordinates, and document it
1998 * Use now crosstraffic keyword instead of the terribly misleading
1999 fullduplex keyword. It is activated by default now in the current
2000 default model, use --cfg=network/crosstraffic:0 to turn it off.
2001 * Ongoing refactoring the model parsing to make XML files optional
2002 See include/simgrid/platf.h for details (still to be completed)
2005 * Major overhaul of the documentation. Almost instructive now :/
2006 * Deprecate the use of m_channel_t mechanism like MSG_task_{get,put}
2007 functions and friends. This interface was considered as
2008 deprecated since over 2 years, it's time to inform our users that it is.
2009 Switch to MSG_task_{send,recv} instead, or compile SimGrid command line
2010 'cmake -Dcustom_flags="-DMSG_USE_DEPRECATED" .' if you really need to
2011 use these (crappy) functions in your code.
2012 These functions will be removed soon. Stop using them now.
2013 * Deprecate MSG_get_host_{table,number}
2014 Implement MSG_hosts_as_dynar() instead.
2015 * Implement MSG_processes_as_dynar() (Closes gforge #13642)
2016 * Remove the public field msg_host_t->name. Use MSG_host_get_name()
2019 * Stabilize the parallel execution mode of user contexts
2020 * Introduce configuration variables to control parallel execution:
2021 - contexts/synchro: Synchronization mode to use when running
2022 contexts in parallel (either futex, posix or busy_wait)
2023 - contexts/parallel_threshold: Minimal number of user contexts
2024 that must be part of a scheduling round to switch to parallel
2025 execution mode (raw contexts only)
2026 * Fix bugs that prevented to use suspend/resume along with
2027 synchronization structures.
2028 * Fix bugs in process termination that lead to invalid memory access
2029 in very specific conditions.
2032 * Introduce a parallel mode for the models (controlled by surf/nthreads
2033 configuration item). In our tests, running the models in parallel
2034 never lead to any speedups because they are so fast that the gain
2035 of computing each model in parallel does not amortizes the
2036 synchronization costs, even when ultra fast futexes are used.
2037 This is released anyway because YMMV.
2040 * Performance boost by using a swag internally to compute the set of
2041 tasks that are finished and should constitute the return value of
2045 * Enable it by default now that it is considered rather stable.
2048 * Documentation of the tracing functions.
2049 * Performance gains when tracing categorized/uncategorized resource
2050 utilization by avoiding calls to get route when updating resource
2051 variables. LMM constraints are being used instead.
2052 * API changed to set task categories. Use MSG_task_set_category instead
2053 of TRACE_msg_set_task_category, and SD_task_set_category instead
2054 of TRACE_sd_set_task_category. They only work if ENABLE_TRACING is ON.
2055 * Bugfix for graphicator, routes not correctly obtained, memory leaks
2056 * Examples for link user variables added (see at examples/msg/tracing/)
2057 * Deprecated function TRACE_msg_set_process_category completely removed
2058 * Trace header updated according to the latest Paje file format
2059 * Tracing network lazy updates, no longer obligate users to use full updates
2060 * --cfg=tracing/platform:1 also registers power/bandwidth variables
2061 * Experimental: let user code declare/set/push/pop application states for hosts
2062 * API changed to allow the manual creation of graph configuration files
2063 for Triva. See TRACE_get_node_types() and TRACE_get_edge_types().
2066 * Improve the API of Lua MSG bindings, using the Lua spirit.
2067 * Each simulated process now lives in its own Lua world (globals are
2068 automatically duplicated). It helps writing simulators. Will allow
2069 to run Splay programs within SimGrid in the future.
2070 * Add a Chord example in Lua, equivalent to the MSG one.
2073 * Start the implementation of a solution to express temporal
2074 properties, not only local assertions. This is still an
2075 experimental work in progress, stay clear from it to be safe.
2079 - Add new runtime parameters --help-logs and --help-log-categories
2080 to display information about supported logging parameters and
2082 - Old deprecated parameters --{gras,surf,msg,simix,xbt}-log=...
2083 don't exists anymore.
2084 * Mallocators: allow value NULL for the reset function.
2086 - New function xbt_dict_new_homogeneous(void(*)(void*)) to
2087 create homogeneous dictionaries, where all the elements share the
2088 same free function. Non homogeneous dictionaries will be
2089 deprecated in the next release.
2090 - Dicts of scalar elements (xbt_dicti_*) are deprecated.
2091 - Multi-level dictionaries are deprecated.
2093 - new function xbt_dynar_search_or_negative() that is useful when
2094 you have less than 2 million elements in your dynar and don't
2095 want of the extra complexity of catching exceptions when the
2096 element is not found.
2098 - Make xbt_os_thread module (for thread portability) public.
2099 Documentation is still to come, sorry.
2101 - Cleanups and simplifications to make it maintainable again.
2102 - Exotic features (such as memalign and valloc) were removed.
2103 - The metadata were extended and improved so that the
2104 model-checker becomes able to explore and inspect the heaps.
2105 - This may induce a performance drop when enable_model-checking is
2106 ON in cmake (even if it's not used in the simulation), but it is
2107 necessary at this point to get MC working.
2109 Turn model-checking OFF if simulation performance matters to you.
2110 Not enabling it at runtime is not enough, disable it in cmake.
2112 -- Tue May 15 11:30:19 UTC 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2115 SimGrid (3.6.2) stable; urgency=low
2117 The "Not coding new stuff allows to polish old things" release.
2120 * New bindings to the NS3 packet level simulator (experimental)
2121 * Use the raw (efficient) execution contexts instead of the sysv
2122 (portable) ones when possible.
2123 * libpcre is now mandatory in any cases since not using it led to
2124 severe performance loss and possibly other issues
2125 * Update the XML platforms:
2126 - G5K: include the latest machine in Nancy
2127 - GridPP and LCG: new platforms
2128 * Documentation was partially updated, at least (more to come)
2130 Bug fixes, cosmetics and small improvements
2131 * Free terminated processes before the end of the simulation to avoid
2132 exhausting the memory of users having very dynamic amount of
2134 * Bug fix and cosmetics about canceling non-running tasks
2135 * Bug fix about the dot loader's issues when using libcgraph
2138 * Create an installer for windows with nsis (amd64 and win32)
2139 - Add an hello world project to illustrate simgrid project creation.
2140 - Embed libpcre into the Simgrid installer to avoid
2141 its compilation burden
2142 * The raw execution contexts should work on Apple now
2143 * Port to Windows 64 bits
2144 - Sysv contexts now have an implementation for this arch
2145 - GRAS communication features now support this arch
2146 * Drop support for borland compiler on windows
2147 - this code was not maintained, and we kinda depend on gcc nowadays
2148 * Fix portability issues on kfreebsd/gnu: build error about semaphores
2149 * Fix portability issue on unstable ubuntu: linker became picky on
2152 -- Wed Oct 5 15:51:01 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2154 SimGrid (3.6.1) stable; urgency=low
2156 The "Oops, we broke Macs too" release
2159 * Fixed contexts detection so that raw ones are used when possible
2160 * On Mac, do not use Posix Ucontexts with gcc v4.[1-5] since this
2161 leads to a strange error, with user code segfaulting sometimes when
2162 the generated code is not perfectly aligned (which is not
2163 controllable from the user side, depends on the amount of code)
2166 * New macro: CATCH_ANONYMOUS, which is like CATCH(e) but without argument.
2168 -- Mon Jun 27 13:59:03 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2170 SimGrid-java (3.6) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * Split of every thing from simgrid v3.5 into a separate package.
2175 -- 2011-10-05 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2177 SimGrid (3.6) stable; urgency=medium
2179 The Summer Release, also known as the "OMG! They Killed Kenny!" version
2182 * Bindings now constitute their own package, separated from the main one.
2183 Rationale: reduce our maintenance nightmare by reducing the module coupling
2184 They will soon be released on their own on gforge.
2186 svn co svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/simgrid/contrib/trunk/simgrid-java
2187 svn co svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/simgrid/contrib/trunk/simgrid-ruby
2189 GRAS: It is not considered as stable anymore, but experimental. Sorry.
2190 * It's not quite deprecated for now because we have no replacement,
2191 but it may soon become the case.
2194 * New MPI functions supported: MPI_Comm_disconnect, MPI_Comm_get_name
2195 * Fortran: New user-level cache variable to store the rank of the running
2196 process. This improves performance by an order of magnitude.
2197 * C: New coccinelle script to automatically locate and modify global and
2198 local static variables.
2199 * Improved SMPI network model with a sender-side gap to account for multiple
2203 * New function MSG_comm_get_status(). MSG_comm_test() and MSG_comm_testany()
2204 only say if a communication is finished, no matter whether it succeeded or
2205 failed. You can call MSG_comm_get_status() to know the status of a finished
2207 * New function MSG_task_dsend() to send a task and detach it. When a
2208 communication is detached, you are never notified of its success or failure
2209 and the memory is released automatically once it is finished. This function
2210 is useful when you don't care about the end nor the success of a
2212 * Change the prototypes of action replay. Sorry for inconvenience,
2213 but this is really more efficient this way (and to adapt your code,
2214 you just have to fix the initialization, that shouldn't be too long)
2215 * Kill the braindead MSG_task_refcount_dec() function. I guess nobody
2216 ever managed to do anything useful with it.
2217 * New function MSG_comm_testany(). Similarly to MSG_comm_waitany(), it
2218 takes a dynar of communications. It returns immediately and gives the
2219 index of a finished communication (if any).
2220 * New example: a basic implementation of the Chord P2P algorithm.
2223 * New model for multi-core CPUs. You can now use the core attribute to
2224 precise the number of cores of a host. This is a basic model. Every
2225 process running on the host receives at most the power provided in
2226 the DTD (throughput<=power). Total throughput of process cannot exceed
2228 * New peer tag. This peer tag creates a tiny AS comprising a host and a
2229 router linked by an up-link and a down-link (possibly asymmetrical).
2230 This kind of pattern allows to easily build last-mile model style platforms.
2231 Aggregating such patterns in a rule-based AS is thus the technique of
2232 choice for modeling large peer-to-peer/volunteer computing/cloud platforms.
2233 * New model for Vivaldi routing. We transformed the Vivaldi network model
2234 into a Vivaldi routing model (based on the rule-based model). This allows to
2235 combine Vivaldi based latencies with last-mile platforms.
2238 * Added a check for NaN of IEEE754 infinite in the double entries of
2240 * Introduce a new context factory "raw", highly inspirated from the
2241 ucontext factory, but using manually crafted functions in assembly to
2242 do the work in an efficient manner.
2243 * Allow to change the used context factory at run time, not only at
2244 compilation time. Use --cfg=contexts/factory:raw for maximal speed.
2245 * Add an option --cfg=contexts/stacksize:N to set the stack size of the user
2246 contexts at runtime (only with raw contexts or ucontexts).
2247 * Completely rewrote this module to allow parallel execution of user
2248 processes. Use --cfg=contexts/nthreads:N to execute user processes
2249 with N parallel threads (the default is 1, meaning no parallelism).
2250 * Allow to decide dynamically between sequential and parallel modes.
2251 When nthreads > 1, you can use --cfg=contexts/threshold:P to run the user
2252 processes in parallel only when their number is greater than or equal to P
2254 * Added a check for NaN of IEEE754 infinite in the double entries of
2258 * New command line option: if you pass --cfg=verbose-exit:0, SimGrid
2259 won't output the state of processes when interrupted with Ctrl-C
2260 * Add a new function xbt_dynar_to_array that transforms a dynar into a
2261 NULL-terminated array. This may solve backward compatibility issues
2262 due to the change to return type of SD_simulate. See also:
2263 http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/simgrid-user/2010-December/002206.html
2264 * Add new macros with variable number of arguments.
2265 - in xbt/log.h: XBT_DEBUG, XBT_VERB, XBT_INFO, etc.
2266 - in xbt/asserts.h: xbt_assert
2267 - in xbt/cunit.h: xbt_test_{add,fail,assert,log}
2268 - in xbt/ex.h: THROWF and RETHROWF.
2269 Define XBT_USE_DEPRECATED if you want to use the old numbered macros like
2271 * Change xbt_die() to accept a format string with arguments, just like printf.
2272 * New data structure: xbt_lib_t, like a dict but more general and with better
2276 * New configuration options
2277 Options triva/categorized and triva/uncategorized can be used to generate
2278 graph configuration files for Triva visualization tool.
2279 * Configuration option tracing/platform is renamed to tracing/categorized
2280 * XBT logging makes tracing error checks easier, new root log hierarchy: instr
2281 * New TRACE_user_link_variable interface:
2282 User provides the name of the link and the tracing variable to attach to it
2283 * the declaration of tracing categories must be done after the environment
2285 * simpler tracing interface, just one way to declare categories
2286 TRACE_category or TRACE_category_with_color, it is up to you
2287 * links in the trace file are again identified by their names
2288 * trace contains the full platform hierarchy exactly as declared using the ASes
2289 * Options tracing/msg/[task|process]:1 groups the process by hosts
2290 for both cases, tasks and processes must have names that are unique during the simulation
2291 these options generate traces that are suited to gantt-charts, such as the space-time view of Paje
2292 * The experimental option tracing/msg/volume is deprecated
2293 its functionality may be reincorporated if needed
2295 The tracing generates a trace file with unordered timestamped events,
2296 because of the way the core simulator (surf) works. A script available
2297 at the tools directory (fix-paje-trace.sh) can be used to put the events
2298 in order. We have changed the tracing so it can generate ordered timestamped
2299 events in the final trace, but depending on the simulator (and how much time
2300 is simulated) that can lead to a huge memory utilization. It is deactivated
2301 by default, but it can be activated using the --cfg=tracing/buffer:1 switch.
2303 Build Infrastructure
2304 * Define a SIMGRID_VERSION macro in simgrid_config.h.
2305 - We are trying hard to keep the API stable, but it may happen that
2306 some things change (we're a research project after all, not a
2307 nuclear plant operating system). If such things should happen, you
2308 could rely on that macro to adapt.
2309 - current value: 30600 for 3.06.00, aka 3.6
2310 * Define macro MAKE_SIMGRID_VERSION(major, minor, patch) to help building
2311 a number that can be compared with SIMGRID_VERSION.
2312 * Add a build option -Denable_debug (set to ON by default): when set to OFF,
2313 assertions and verbose/debug logging events are disabled at compile time.
2315 -- Tue Jun 21 08:57:43 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2317 SimGrid (3.5) stable; urgency=medium
2320 * New feature to any SimGrid-based simulator: Model-Checking
2321 Check SIN#1 for more details.
2324 * New Model SMPI (three-interval linear regression for correction factors)
2325 See RR-7426, available at http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00527150
2326 * Ability to use FORTRAN MPI code (through f2c, automatically privatized)
2327 * New MPI functions supported: MPI_Get_count(), MPI_Comm_split()
2328 * New: RAM folding (see RR-7426 and examples/smpi/NAS/DT-folding)
2329 * New: execution sampling (see RR-7426 and examples/smpi/NAS/EP-sampling)
2330 * See also src/smpi/README
2335 - Tracing API changes: TRACE_start and TRACE_end should not be called
2336 by user-code. They are automatically called by simulators created
2337 with SimDAG, MSG and SMPI if the toolkit is compiled with
2338 tracing_enabled=ON. Categories declaration and utilization remain the
2339 same for MSG and SimDag.
2340 - A function was added to the tracing API to declare categories with
2342 - TRACE_category_with_color (char *category, char *color)
2343 where color must be in the following format
2344 "%f %f %f", red, green, blue
2345 and red, green, blue are float values in the interval [0, 1]
2346 - User can specify NULL as color parameter, or continue calling
2347 TRACE_category (cat)
2348 On that case, the tracing system will define random colors
2349 - The following command-line options are supported:
2350 --cfg=tracing/filename:msg.trace
2351 --cfg=tracing:1 (activate tracing, needed to use others)
2352 --cfg=tracing/platform:1 (categorized resource use)
2353 --cfg=tracing/uncategorized:1 (uncategorized resource use)
2354 --cfg=tracing/msg/task:1 (task creation)
2355 --cfg=tracing/msg/process:1 (process creation, migration)
2356 --cfg=tracing/msg/volume:1 (volume of MSG send/recv)
2357 --cfg=tracing/smpi:1 (SMPI interface tracing)
2358 --cfg=tracing/simdag:1 (allow SimDAG tasks receive categories)
2359 - examples of examples/msg/tracing updated
2361 - DAXLoader and DOTLoader functions can generate tasks with categories
2362 - A new function to attribute a category to SD tasks:
2363 TRACE_sd_set_task_category (SD_task_t task, char *category)
2364 * Tracing the MPI interface implemented by SMPI
2365 - Collective operations are traced with states
2366 - Point-to-Point operations are traced with states/links
2367 - Tracing activated by a parameter "-trace filename" passed
2368 to smpirun during execution (considering that simgrid
2369 is compiled with tracing enabled)
2370 - To run the simulation with gdb, the simulator
2371 accepts --cfg=tracing/smpi:1 to trace SMPI
2372 - tesh files to check if smpi tracing is ok
2373 - See examples/smpi/NAS/DT-trace
2374 * GTNetS tracing re-worked
2375 - adaptation to the tracing system of GTNets to cope
2376 with modifications regarding the fullduplex mode
2377 - new tesh files to check if gtnets tracing is ok
2380 * Asynchronous communications through the functions:
2381 MSG_task_isend/irecv and MSG_comm_test/wait/waitall
2382 * New function: MSG_load_platform_script()
2383 to make possible using a lua script instead of XML files to set up platforms
2384 * New function: MSG_set_function
2385 to associate functions to processes, used when bypassing the parser
2386 * New functions: MSG_task_set_name(), MSG_task_set_compute_duration()
2388 Platforms: Add some more examples in examples/platforms
2389 * Grid'5000: see www.grid5000.fr
2390 * *_30000_hosts.xml: various huge files [mainly scalability testing]
2393 * Change the XML format. This is a very important modification. SimGrid
2394 3.5 introduces a new hierarchical format based on the notion of
2395 Autonomous Systems. Compatibility with old format is ensured
2396 through the perl script provided in the install bin directory
2397 bin/simgrid_update_xml.
2398 It is now possible to build platforms with specific routing
2399 mechanism (Full/Dijkstra/DijkstraCache/Floyd) and to easily
2400 connect several platforms together. We will try to provide soon
2401 set of realistic platforms exploiting these properties (have a
2402 look at examples/platforms/ for the moment).
2403 * Take the opportunity of the XML format change to be a good XML citizen:
2404 rename link:ctn to link_ctn and similar changes (also dealt with by
2406 * Add a new routing scheme (rule-based) using regular expressions. It
2407 enables to have an extremely low memory footprint when the
2408 underlying routing is simple and can be compactly described. You
2409 need to have libpcre4-dev (perl regular expressions) installed if
2410 you want to use this routing scheme.
2411 * Revive the cluster TAG and allow to easily and efficiently (both in
2412 term of memory and speed) connect clusters together. Have a look
2413 at teshsuite/simdag/platforms/ to see how this can be done. With
2414 this tag, you can create clusters with thousands of tasks at no
2415 cost (have a look at examples/platforms/).
2416 Note: clusters are implemented as ASes, so there is no need for an
2417 enclosing AS tag if you have only one cluster in your platform.
2418 * Add new generic functions in the public interface that allows the user
2419 to call SURF 'create_resource' methods from your code (same
2420 functionality as the XML bypass mechanism but with a much lighter
2422 * Add a new model (enabled through command line --cfg=network/model:SMPI)
2423 that uses a piecewise linear approximation to produce better
2424 results when exchanging small messages.
2425 * Add a new parameter to handle correctly full duplex link and account
2426 for interferences between uplink and downlink communications
2427 (activate with --cfg=fullduplex:1).
2430 * Rename the SD_READY (all dependencies are satisfied and task is
2431 scheduled) state in SD_RUNNABLE and define a new SD_SCHEDULABLE (all
2432 dependencies are satisfied) state.
2433 This prevents a confusion between the notion of "ready to schedule"
2434 (SD_SCHEDULABLE) used in DAG scheduling and that of "ready to be
2435 simulated" (SD_RUNNABLE) used by the simulation kernel.
2436 * Change the way a task is considered as ready. Instead of removing
2437 dependencies when a task is done, a counter is decreased. This way,
2438 it is always possible to reach ancestors thanks to the
2439 SD_taks_get_parents function (even after the end of the simulation.)
2440 * Change the return type of SD_Simulate from (SD_task_t*) into
2441 xbt_dynar_t. This function was in handling a dynar internally and
2442 converted it into a NULL terminated array for historical reasons.
2443 * New function SD_dotload(char*) to load a DAG described in dot
2444 format. This loader and the corresponding examples require the
2445 installation of the graphviz library.
2446 * Fix a bug in the management of tasks of size 0 in the surf network
2447 models. This problem was only visible with SIMDAG and you should
2448 thus disregard results produced with earlier versions if you
2449 relied on this feature (some tasks were blocked because of this).
2450 * Fix a bunch of stuff that prevented to use classical models with SIMDAG
2451 even though your applications were doing only point-to-point
2452 communications and sequential computations. Now you can really use any
2453 model you want (of course, if you create real parallel tasks, which are
2454 not implemented in most models beside ptaskL07, this will abort).
2455 * Add an example that schedules a DAX on an heterogeneous platform
2456 using a Min-Min strategy.
2457 * New function SD_workstation_get_current_task() that returns the kind
2458 of task currently running on a workstation in the sequential access
2460 * Raise some warnings when unexecuted tasks remains at the end of the
2461 simulation. This is usually caused by cycles in the DAG.
2464 * New function: SIMIX_process_set_function() called by MSG_set_function
2465 * Change the underlying waiting queue in semaphores so that a process
2466 can wait on several of them simultaneously (as in waitany).
2467 * Fix the way to handle tokens in semaphores so that all access patterns
2468 work: {acquire, acquire_timeout, waitany} / {release, release_forever}.
2469 * kill the dirty pimple SIMIX_message_sizes_output()
2470 Please use (proper) visualization instead
2473 * New data container: setset (set of sets of elements)
2474 * New module: mmalloc (mapped malloc, allowing to have several
2475 independent segments of malloc)
2476 * New function: xbt_dict_cursor_set_data()
2477 * New functions: xbt_dynar_sort(), xbt_dynar_compare()
2478 * New function: xbt_dynar_is_empty()
2479 * New function: xbt_fifo_get_last_item()
2480 * Fix xbt_dynar_shrink(): use the right element size.
2481 * Fix xbt_dynar_set*(): allow index larger than current size and memset 0
2482 uninitialized areas during expand.
2483 * Fix semaphores: previous implementation was severely broken.
2484 * Use library init/fini functions for our initialization.
2485 - you can use logs and other feature as soon as you want in your
2486 code (even before the xbt_init / MSG_init)
2487 - xbt_exit is now a no-op and produce a warning when used.
2490 * Port GRAS to new SIMIX mechanisms. This allows gras users to
2491 benefit from the latest improvement to the simulation kernel.
2492 * Kill measurement sockets for now. If you rely on them, sorry. This
2493 release is not for you. This feature will be reintroduced in the
2494 future, but we cannot delay the release any further.
2495 * New function: gras_msgtype_get_name().
2496 * Implement gras_agent_spawn in RL too (the prototype changed a bit)
2497 * Fix (at last) the pmm example: it should not randomly fail anymore.
2499 Build chain: bug fixes and overall polishing
2500 * Cmake is now stable enough. Hence, we killed the autotools.
2501 * Port to windows ( TM :)
2502 * Fix the 'make install' target.
2503 No need to use 'make install-simgrid' anymore
2504 * Introduce a 'make dist' target compiling a *source* archive
2505 'make package' compiles a binary archive
2506 * Compile java files only on need
2507 * Add --cd and --setenv command line options to tesh
2508 * Out of source builds are not fully supported yet, but we are close
2509 * Enable supernovae and optimization flags by default for our users
2512 * Add layer to set up environment directly from lua, without XML.
2513 * The effect of gras_stub_generator can be achieved through
2514 lua too (check examples/gras/console/ping_generator.lua)
2516 -- Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:09:23 +0100 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
2518 SimGrid (3.4.1) stable; urgency=low
2520 The "Polishing easter eggs is probably a good idea" release.
2521 This is a bug fixes release only.
2525 * Fix a bug preventing the tasks from begin garbage collected.
2528 * Fix a bug occurring when a host involved in a communication fails.
2529 This was not detected properly by the other peer involved in the
2530 communication. Now, it's reported as a network error.
2533 * Warn the user about loop dependencies in data flow of DAX files
2534 * Obey the control-flow dependencies of DAX files
2537 * Add option "enable_smpi" allowing to not compile SMPI.
2538 Probably useful for the (Mac) users experiencing a build error here
2539 * Improve the detection of lua5.1 and ruby1.8
2541 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Tus, 04 May 2010 28 16:11:16 +0100
2543 SimGrid (3.4) stable; urgency=low
2545 The "Easter in Cargese" release. Also known as (major changes):
2547 * the "se habla Java, Ruby 話せます, fala-se Lua (and deaf-friendly)"
2548 ~> bindings were greatly improved
2549 ~> new tracing infrastructure for better visualization introduced
2551 * the "Welcome to configury modernity" release.
2552 ~> we switched from autotools to cmake, and improved our cdash
2555 A more detailled list of changes follow (full detail in svn log).
2557 Java Bindings: Various Cleanups
2558 * (install java-gcj-compat-dev on debian-like to use them)
2559 * Remove put/get: no need to export deprecated interface in Java
2560 Use send/receive instead.
2561 * Cleanup the examples and add a README per directory
2562 * Remove example autoDestination (that's the only way to go now)
2563 * Remove example explicitDestination (was a plain copy of basic)
2564 * Make JniException a runtime exception, so that there is no need to
2565 declare the fact that you may encounter such a beast. I guess that
2566 nobody will ever want to survive such error.
2567 * Create specific errors for each MSG case of failure:
2568 host failure, transfer failure, timeout, task cancelled
2569 * Cleanup the exceptions that may get thrown by each function
2570 * Other internal cleanups in Java bindings. Performance still bad :/
2571 Ruby and Lua Bindings: create them
2572 * (install ruby1.8-dev/liblua5.1-0-dev on debian-like to use them)
2573 * That's new and great, you should try them out.
2574 Same functionalities than Java bindings, only even less polished
2576 * Kill the useless "rate" argument of SD_task_get_execution_time()
2577 Everyone used to provide -1 as a value, it was not used, and the
2578 semantic of a possible use wasn't even clear.
2579 * SD_SCHED_NO_COST: Constant to use as cost in SD_task_schedule()
2580 either as comm costs or compute costs to mean that there is no
2581 such thing for that specific task.
2582 * Add a SD_task_set_name() function
2583 * Fix SD_task_unschedule() on typed tasks
2584 * Fix SD_task_get_execution_time() to return seconds, not flop*sec
2585 * In DAX loader, accept useless 'level' attributes to <job> since
2586 LIGO DAGs have them (seem to be to ease graphical representation).
2588 * Add an example masterslave_mailbox.c using send/receive and not
2589 the deprecated put/get interface.
2590 * Kill the MSG_paje_output() function. It's a noop since 2 years.
2591 * Kill MSG_WARNING and MSG_FATAL return codes: they were not used
2593 * Rename MSG_TIMEOUT_FAILURE into MSG_TIMEOUT for sake of logic
2594 (declare MSG_USE_DEPRECATED to still have the old name)
2595 * Add a MSG_task_set_data() function
2596 * About trace replay (see examples/msg/actions):
2598 - Allow to work with splitted trace files for each process
2599 Give the specific trace file as argument of each process,
2600 and call MSG_action_trace_run(NULL)
2601 You can still have one merged file for all processes.
2602 - Fix implementation of collective operations
2603 * Allow task_execute() on 0-sized tasks (closes #10063)
2605 * This is the first release of SimGrid where SMPI is not considered
2606 beta anymore (even if some corners should still be improved)
2607 * Port over the new SIMIX_network submodule (internal refactoring)
2608 * Basic support to log events as with SMPE (use --cfg=SMPE:1)
2609 * Implement more missing elements of the standard:
2611 - MPI_MAXLOC MPI_MINLOC + all associated datatype MPI_DOUBLE_INT,
2613 - MPI_Address() MPI_Get_count() MPI_Type_free() MPI_Type_extent()
2614 MPI_Scan() MPI_Get_processor_name()
2615 - Added implementation of missing case for Alltoall (warning: it's
2616 *not* the bruck variant from OpenMPI; based on Alltoallv instead)
2617 - SMPI_MPI_Gather() SMPI_MPI_Gatherv() SMPI_MPI_Scatterv()
2618 SMPI_MPI_Reduce_scatter() SMPI_MPI_Allgather()
2619 SMPI_MPI_Allgatherv()
2620 * Bug fixes include:
2621 - MPI_Waitsome() was broken
2622 - Allow relative includes in smpicc
2623 - Command line cfg argument 'reference_speed' was ignored...
2624 - Some functions did not properly lead to auto-benching of user code
2625 - smpicc passes -O2 by default (just like openmpi one)
2627 * add SIMIX_action_suspend() and SIMIX_action_resume() functions
2628 * Bug fixes about timeouts during communications
2629 * add SIMIX_message_sizes_output() as a pimple to write to file the
2630 amount of messages per size. Use gnuplot to get histogram.
2631 Pimple because that's the only user-visible function of simix,
2632 defined directly in xbt.h (irk, sorry)
2634 - Add a SIMIX_sem_get_capacity() function
2635 - Fix interactions with processe resume/suspende
2636 - release_forever() was stupidly broken
2637 - Fix SIMIX_display_process_status() for processes in a semaphore
2638 - Make SIMIX_sem_block_onto() user-visible
2639 * Refactoring context stuff:
2640 - Use pseudo-OOP for better modularity
2641 - reimplement SIMIX_process_kill() without process_schedule() so
2642 that the latter can take as invariant that it is called from
2644 - Merge context_start into context_new for sake of simplicity
2646 * Add a Vivaldi network model, coded live during SUD'10 ;)
2647 * Rename configuration variables to start a hierarchy:
2648 o cpu_model -> cpu/model
2649 o network_model -> network/model
2650 o workstation_model -> workstation/model
2651 * New configuration variables:
2652 o network/bandwidth_factor: correction to bandwidth
2653 o network/latency_factor: correction to latency
2654 o netwotk/weight_S: correction to the weight of competing streams
2655 * Add a long description to the models, that users can see with such
2656 argument on the command line: --cfg=cpu/model:help
2657 * --help-models display the long description of all known models
2659 * config: add the ability to set a default value after registration
2660 Does not override any previously set value (e.g. from cmd line)
2661 * dict: allow to have integer key and data.
2662 When so, you need to use the following functions
2663 void xbt_dicti_set(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key, uintptr_t data);
2664 uintptr_t xbt_dicti_get(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key);
2665 void xbt_dicti_remove(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key);
2666 In contrary to regular dicts, the key is not malloced before copy.
2667 Mixing scalar and regular elements in the same dict is not tested
2669 * Allow to use xbt_dynar_shrink() to expend the dynar instead
2670 Tracing for Visualization:
2671 * SimGrid is now instrumented in order to generate a trace file for
2672 visualization analysis: to use it, need to compile SimGrid with the
2673 "tracing" option enabled, and instrument the program using SimGrid with
2674 TRACE_start, TRACE_category, TRACE_msg_set_task_category and TRACE_end
2675 (among other functions).
2676 * The instrumentation only traces the platform utilization for now
2677 * Documentation to use the tracing functions and how to analyze the
2678 traces with the Triva tool is written.
2679 * More information about: SimGrid FAQ (in the section Tracing Simulations
2682 * We moved to cmake as default build system. Autotools support will
2683 be dropped soon. Check the FAQ for more info about how to use it.
2684 * Greatly improved our cdash/ctest interactions
2685 Check http://cdash.inria.fr/CDash/index.php?project=Simgrid
2686 * Added memory checking tests with valgrind; lot of memleak fixing.
2687 This may be the first release of simgrid with so few memory issues
2688 * Added code coverage tests.
2689 Our coverage is still improvable, but at least we see it on cdash.
2691 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Wed, 28 Apr 2010 28 17:11:16 +0100
2693 SimGrid (3.3.4) stable; urgency=low
2695 The "Desktop Grid needs love too" release (also called Xmas release).
2697 Models improvements:
2698 * Major speedup in the maxmin system solving by using lazy evaluation
2699 Instead of solving completely the maxmin system at each iteration,
2700 only invalidate (and recompute) the modified parts.
2701 This new feature is enabled in default models but you can try to
2702 turn it on with "--cfg:maxmin-selective-update=1" for other models.
2703 * Cas01 IMproved as default CPU model
2704 This CPU model is the same Cas01 model, but it uses the
2705 maxmin-selective-update flag and a heap structure to manage
2706 actions on SURF kernel.
2707 It reduces the complexity to find the next action to finish and,
2708 consequently, it's faster than the old Cas01.
2709 This is the new default CPU model (Cas01).
2710 * Rename the old Cas01 model to Cas01_fullupdate
2711 Keep the old cpu model Cas01 with the new name of Cas01_fullupdate.
2712 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:Cas01_fullupdate" to use the old default CPU model.
2713 * CpuTI (CPU Trace Integration)
2714 A new CPU model whose objective is simulate faster when using
2715 availability trace files.
2716 Instead of using a full featured, over engineered maxmin system for
2717 CPU modeling, this model does the pre-integration of traces files
2718 to calculate the amount of CPU power available, and so, executes
2719 faster than the old CPU models.
2720 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:CpuTI" to change to this CPU model.
2721 * Use LV08 as default network model since it gives better accuracy
2722 for small messages and shouldn't change things for big ones.
2723 Use --cfg=network_model:CM02 to get the previous behavior.
2726 ******************************************
2727 *DO NOT MIX 3.3.4 RESULTS WITH OLDER ONES*
2728 ******************************************
2729 * The new CPU model may changes simulations!
2730 The point is that events occurring at the exact same timestamp
2731 are not scheduled in the same order with the old and new
2732 version. This may be enough to completely change the execution
2733 of simulations in some cases.
2734 * The new network model will change simulations!
2735 This new model is more realistic than the previous one, so you
2736 should consider redoing your old experiments with this model.
2737 Sorry for the inconvenience.
2740 * Introduce the supernovae compilation mode
2741 When compiled that way, the whole SimGrid (or almost) is put in a
2742 single compilation unit and compiled in one shoot.
2743 This is to help gcc which has difficulties to inline stuff from one
2745 The speedup seem to be above 15%, althrough more tests are needed on
2746 amd64 to confirm that gain.
2749 * Port of MSG's mailbox on top of SIMIX network
2750 The put/get mechanism was greatly simplified on the way.
2753 * New SIMIX network module. Provides:
2754 - Mailbox: rendez-vous mechanism to find with who you want to speak
2755 - Synchronous send/recv: easier and hopefully faster since the
2756 logic is handled in the maestro process directly now
2757 - Asynchronous send/recv: you dreamt of it? It's here now
2758 Too bad that nobody cared enough to propagate the change to MSG.
2759 * Add semaphores as SIMIX synchronization mechanism.
2762 * new function SD_daxload(char*) to load a DAX file
2763 (see http://vtcpc.isi.edu/pegasus/index.php/WorkflowGenerator)
2764 * Introduce typed tasks. Specify its kind and cost at creation.
2765 At scheduling, just give where it should be placed, and the cost
2766 for each involved resource is automatically computed.
2767 Existing constructors so far (more to come of course):
2768 - SD_task_create_comm_e2e() for end-to-end communication
2769 - SD_task_create_comp_seq() for sequential computation
2770 Use SD_task_schedulev() / SD_task_schedulel() to schedule them.
2771 * new function SD_task_dump() for debugging display
2772 * new function SD_task_dotty(task,FILE*) writing to file the info
2773 about the task in dotty format
2774 * SD_task_dependency_exists() can now cope with having one of its
2775 arguments NULL. If so, it tests whether the other argument has any
2777 * Add getters on list of preceding/following tasks:
2778 SD_task_get_parents(task) and SD_task_get_children(task)
2779 * Add getters on amount of workstations and list:
2780 SD_task_get_workstation_count(t) and SD_task_get_workstation_list(t)
2781 * Add getter on task kind: SD_task_get_kind(task)
2782 * Update the start_time and finish_time of tasks on completion/failure
2783 * Bugfix: Remove task from state swags when destroyed
2786 * New function: void gras_cpu_burn(double flops) -- a simple CPU burner
2789 * New function: xbt_dynar_dopar(dynar,fun) to map a function over the
2790 dynar with one separate thread per value of the dynar.
2791 * Change the prototype of xbt_thread_create(), sorry.
2792 Added a boolean parameter indicating whether we want to join this
2793 thread (used in SG only for now)
2794 * Implement xbt_thread_join and xbt_thread_yield in SG also.
2797 * GTNetS wrappers should now be usable again (and betterly tested too)
2798 * Fix a major regression from 3.2 where the timeout provided to
2799 MSG_task_put_with_timeout() was used as absolute time before which
2800 the comm should be done.
2801 * Start to fix the <cluster> tag.
2802 - Internal links should be good now (beside of the loopback, which
2803 use the private link instead)
2804 - paths to the external world is still rather broken
2805 - the <route:multi> tag is just broken. Actually that's brain-dead.
2806 We need sth like <route:multi src="myCluster" dst="$*-${myCluster}">
2807 to make it less stupid
2808 ** Check your platform with teshsuite/simdag/platforms/flatifier **
2809 * Fix a source-level compatibility glitch from 3.2: after defining
2810 MSG_USE_DEPRECATED, you can use the old name
2811 MSG_task_put_with_time_out() for MSG_task_put_with_timeout()
2812 * Allow to compile from the SVN with automake 1.11
2813 * Fix some problems when using the "start_time" tag in deployment XMLs.
2814 * Fix #8569: XBT/synchro.h has redundant declarations
2815 * Fix #8563: MSG return values and exceptions
2816 Introduce a MSG_TIMEOUT_FAILURE return code and use it consistently.
2817 * Integrate patch #8636: Obey DESTDIR when installing documentation.
2818 Thanks to Robson Peixoto.
2819 * Fix a vicious bug in dictionaries inducing that some elements were
2820 not freed on xbt_dict_free()
2822 Portability report of this version:
2823 * Main portability targets:
2824 - linux (ubuntu (804/810/910) /debian (4/5/testing) /fedora (core11))
2825 on (amd64/i386/ia64)
2826 - mac leopard on i386
2827 Known problems: http://cdash.inria.fr/CDash/index.php?project=Simgrid
2828 but nothing critical.
2829 * Other platforms: windows, AIX and others were not tested for this release
2831 Timing report of this version:
2832 * Lazy evaluation brings arbitrary speedup (ie, speedup depending on
2833 scenario parameters). From 8h to a few seconds in desktop grid settings.
2834 * Supernovae brings about 25% speedup on i386.
2836 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:07:39 +0100
2838 SimGrid (3.3.3) stable; urgency=low
2840 The "Need for Speed" release.
2842 The timings done to validate the 3.3.2 were faulty.
2843 Instead of being 5% faster, it was 15% slower (compared to 3.3.1).
2845 The problem was a conversion from a manually handled vector to
2846 xbt_dynar_t on the critical path.
2847 xbt_dynar_foreach calls functions, inducing stack management crap.
2849 We inlined these functions and xbt_dynar_foreach is now breath taking.
2850 We also inlined xbt_swag_belong on the way.
2852 Here are some approximate speedup measurements (on master/slaves
2853 simulations lasting between 10s and 20s each):
2854 3.3.1 -> 3.3.2: about same performance
2855 3.3.2 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
2856 3.3.1 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
2857 3.3.1 with inline patch -> 3.3.3: 30% speedup
2859 Our reading is that the refactoring which occurred in 3.3.2 made us
2860 suffer much more from the xbt_dynar_foreach low performance, but
2861 once we solved this, this refactoring proved to be very performance
2862 effective. From the 40% speedup, somehow, 10% are due to the
2863 inlining and 30% to the refactoring.
2865 That's a pitty that gcc cannot inline functions placed in other files
2866 alone. We have to choose between:
2867 - break the encapsulation (by putting private data structures and
2868 accessors in headers files to help gcc)
2869 - live with low performance
2870 - switch to a decent compiler such as icc (not quite possible).
2872 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:21:33 +0200
2874 SimGrid (3.3.2) stable; urgency=low
2876 The "Simplicity does not preceed complexity, but follows it" release.
2878 The main contributors of this release were (lexical order):
2879 Silas De Munck, Stéphane Genaud, Martin Quinson, Cristian Rosa.
2882 * Extract the routing logic into its own object.
2883 (was dupplicated in network.c and workstation_LV07.c;
2884 Allows to implement other ways of storing that info)
2885 => kill now useless network_card concept
2886 - Use dynar to represent routes (instead of void** + int*)
2887 - kill link_set (use surf_network_model->resource_set instead)
2888 - Add a command-line option to choose the routing schema to use
2889 - Add three new models:
2890 * Floyd (shortest path computed at initialization)
2891 * Dijikstra (shortest path recomputed all the time)
2892 * Cached Dijikstra (shortest path computed on need)
2893 All these models where contributed by Silas De Munck, and are
2894 described in his ICCS09 paper.
2896 * Simplify model declaration
2897 (less redirections, less function to write when defining a model)
2898 - Factorize stuff between models:
2901 surf_model_resource_set(model)
2902 surf_model_resource_by_name(model, name)
2903 - Unify the types of models in s_surf_model_t (using an union)
2904 - Embeed fields of common_public directly into s_surf_model_t
2905 - Rename model methods:
2906 action_free ~> action_unref
2907 action_change_state ~> action_state_set
2908 action_get_state ~> action_state_get
2909 - Change model methods into functions:
2910 (model)->common_public->action_use ~> surf_action_ref
2912 * Implement a generic resource; use it as ancestor to specific ones
2913 (allows to kill duplicated code in models)
2914 Drawback: timer command don't need no name nor properties;
2915 workstation_CLM03 don't need no properties
2916 (but I guess we can live with those few bytes wasted)
2918 * Improve the action object model
2919 - implement a constructor avoiding dupplicated code about field
2920 initialization in generic_action part.
2922 * Kill the SDP model: it has an external dependency, is deprecated
2923 in flavor of modern lmm models, and didn't compile since a while
2926 * Relocation of the context module from XBT to SIMIX.
2927 (the context were decoupled from the simix processes, duplicating a lot of code)
2928 => a lot of code was factorized
2929 - less overhead is introduced during scheduling
2930 - simpler API for the context factory
2931 - the logic for process creation,destruction and manipulation was simplified
2932 * Simplification of the s_smx_process_t data structure.
2933 => accesing the simix level data associated to a process is faster now,
2934 and the code is a lot more readable.
2937 * Implement some more MPI primitives:
2938 MPI_Bcast, MPI_Waitany, MPI_Waitall, MPI_Reduce, MPI_Allreduce, MPI_Scatter, MPI_Sendrecv, MPI_Alltoall
2939 -implementation: Bcast: flat or 2-ary tree (default),
2940 Barrier: 4-ary tree,
2942 Allreduce: Reduce then Bcast
2943 Alltoall: "basic_linear" if data per proc < 3Kb, "otherwise pairwise".
2944 Not yet implemented: "Bruck" for data per proc < 200b and comm size > 12
2945 Alltoallv: flat tree, like ompi
2947 * Add support for optimized collectives (Bcast is now binomial by default)
2948 * Port smpirun and smpicc to OS X
2951 * Kill SD_link_get_properties: hard to maintain and makes very little sense
2952 Shout out if you used it.
2955 * Display the list of still queued messages in SG mode when existing
2959 * Add xbt_set_get_by_name_or_null() [Silas De Munck]
2960 * Add xbt_graph_node_get_outedges() [Silas De Munck]
2961 * Add xbt_str_from_file(FILE*)
2962 * Add xbt_dict_get_key achieving a linear reverse search
2963 * Remove the context module
2965 Portability report of this version:
2966 * Main portability targets:
2967 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
2968 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
2969 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
2970 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
2971 On these, we still have the eratic breakages of gras/pmm and
2972 amok/saturate_sg reported in previous version. We still think
2973 that the tests are the cause of the fault, not the tested code.
2975 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
2976 Still false negative in tesh autotesting.
2977 Smpi still fails, but this time because readlink does not accept -f
2978 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
2981 - AIX version 5.3 (only tested contexts this time)
2982 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
2983 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
2985 I managed to compile it for the first time, but several breakages.
2986 Won't delay the release for this exotic platform.
2988 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
2991 Timing report of this version:
2992 This version seem to be more than 5% faster than 3.3.1 (on linux
2993 64bits with contextes). The gain is less than expected, we are
2994 investigating this for next release.
2996 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:07:12 +0200
2998 SimGrid (3.3.1) stable; urgency=low
3001 * Implement a --cfg-help to show existing configuration variables
3002 * Build chain do not require doxygen in maintainer mode
3005 * fix a bug on struct sizeof computation, which prevented the
3006 exchange of arrays of structs in some conditions
3007 - added a regression test about this in datadesc_usage
3008 * Allow the exchange of 0-long dynamic vectors.
3009 - for that, use -1 as indicator of dynamic size instead of 0
3010 - This implied to change any size from unsigned long to long,
3011 reducing a bit communication abilities, but I guess that with
3012 64bits being quite common, this is more than enough.
3013 - This also induce a protocol change, thus bumping network protocol
3014 version from 0 to 1 (if we have external users, we have to get
3015 clean on that point too ;)
3016 - added two regression tests about this in datadesc_usage
3017 * Be more verbose when propagating local exceptions
3018 This helps debugging.
3019 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT in
3023 * Allow to control the simulation from a trace file.
3024 New functions MSG_action_register() and MSG_action_trace_run()
3025 The first one allows to associate a function execution to each
3026 kind of action while the second one parses a trace file and
3027 triggers the corresponding actions within the system.
3028 For now, only a toy example is provided in examples/msg/actions
3029 * Add an example of process migration in examples/msg/migration
3030 * Fix a bug in task exchange which broke MSG_task_get_sender()
3031 Add a teshsuite regression test for that.
3032 [Bug: if MSG_task_get_sender() is called after sender exit,
3034 * Fix a bug which prevented suspend/resume to work properly
3035 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT
3036 This fixes a regression of v3.3. due to the introduction of SIMIX
3037 * Bug fixing in failure management:
3038 - trace could not start by a failure at time 0
3039 - failure during communications were not working
3042 * Add SIMIX_process_set_name() to change the name of the current
3043 process in the log messages.
3044 * Store smx_hosts in a dict since we only retrieve them by name
3045 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
3048 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
3051 * Massive internal cleanups:
3052 - Store internal structures on processes instead of hosts (allows
3053 to have more than one process per host, in addition of being more
3055 - Cleanup the initialization/finalization process
3056 - Kill a whole bunch of unneeded synchronization:
3057 processes run in exclusive manner within the simulator
3058 - Move queues from global tables to process data fields
3060 - now accept -platform and -hostfile arguments
3061 - Pass the right rank value to processes according to the hostfile
3062 * Compile the examples by default, and use them as regression tests
3063 * Implement MPI_Wtime()
3064 * Change the reference speed to a command line option
3067 * TCP_gamma can now be specified as command line option using
3068 --cfg=TCP_gamma:10000000.0
3069 * Change the --surf-path cmd line option into --cfg=path:
3072 * Also include strbuff from xbt.h public header
3073 * xbt_ex_display(): do not free the exception after displaying
3074 This allows to do more with the given exception afterward.
3075 Users should call xbt_ex_free() themselves.
3079 Portability report of this version:
3080 * Main portability targets:
3081 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
3082 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
3083 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
3084 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
3085 These targets fail about 1/10 of times on gras/pmm, but we believe
3086 that this is because of the test, not because of simgrid.
3087 amok/saturate_sg fails even more rarely, and the test may not be
3090 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
3091 The test suite still spits tons of errors because some obscure
3092 force prevents us from removing the temporary directories
3093 arguing that they still contain some metadata I've never heard of.
3094 Smpi fails because seq is not installed.
3095 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
3098 - AIX version 5.3 (both contexts and pthread)
3099 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
3100 XML inclusions seems rosty on AIX.
3102 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
3105 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:14:30 +0200
3107 SimGrid (3.3) stable; urgency=high
3111 * JAVA BINDINGS for MSG (you dreamt of them? We made them)
3112 [Malek Cherier & Mt]
3114 * Introduce the SIMIX module: factorize code between MSG and GRAS.
3117 Until now, GRAS were using MSG as an interface to SURF. It was
3118 quite difficult because both interface have several differences
3119 (MSG channels vs GRAS sockets were the most notable point).
3121 This also opens the gate to SMPI (which should occur soon) and speed
3122 up simulations by to 40% (even if it were not the main goal).
3124 **************************************
3125 *DO NOT MIX 3.2 RESULTS WITH 3.3 ONES* Simix may changes simulations!
3126 **************************************
3127 The point is that events occurring at the exact same timestamp are
3128 not scheduled in the same order with the old and new version. This
3129 may be enough to completely change the execution of simulations in
3130 some cases. Sorry for the inconvenience.
3132 * Cleanup and upgrade the XML format to push further scalability
3133 issues (check http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00256883/ for more info)
3135 * Improve the testing infrastructure with tesh. Now a very large part of
3136 the code is tested not only by being run but also by checking that the
3137 output match an expected output [Mt].
3139 * Move on to FleXML v1.7 for the embeeded XML parsers. This version
3140 is really less memory-demanding, which should allow you to use
3141 larger files in SimGrid [AL].
3143 * Inform valgrind about our contextes, so that it becomes usable
3144 with the default (and more effecient) version of SimGrid
3145 [contributed by Sékou Diakite, many thanks]
3148 * Introduce a listener thread in charge of receiving incoming
3149 messages from the network. It allows to overlap communication and
3150 computation but most notably, it removes some stupid deadlocks due
3151 to the fact that so far, a process could not send and receive at
3152 the same time. This made most non trivial communication schema
3154 * Convert the PIDs from long int to int to match the MSG ones (and
3155 linux ones too) [Mt]
3156 * New function: gras_agent_spawn() to launch a new process on
3157 current host. Only working in simulation for now. [Mt]
3158 * New function: gras_os_hostport() returning a constant form (ie,
3159 not needing to be freed) of "gras_os_hostname():gras_os_myport()"
3162 * Make the backtrace of exceptions more human readable [Mt]
3163 * New module: xbt/str [Mt]
3164 a ton of string utility functions (split, join, printf to a newly
3165 allocated buffer, trim, etc)
3166 * New module: xbt/hash [Mt]
3167 SHA1 hashing algorithm (more to come if needed)
3168 * New module: xbt/synchro [Mt]
3169 synchronization tools (mutex and conditions) working the same way
3170 in simulation and in real life (mainly useful for GRAS, but not
3172 * New module: xbt/queue [Mt]
3173 classical producer/consumer synchronization scheme
3174 * xbt_dynar_new_sync() creates a synchronized dynar. All access
3175 (using the classical functions will get serialized) [Mt]
3176 * Make dictionary internal table dynamic. No need to specify its size
3177 anymore; functions xbt_dict_new_ext() and xbt_dict_hashsize_set()
3179 * Make sure the log channels are organized as a tree under windows
3180 (because of ANSI C compatibility issue, any channel were child of
3181 root directly) [Mt].
3184 * Cleaned many thing in surf and fixed a few bugs [AL].
3185 * Add a nice command line configuration mechanism to compose models [AL].
3186 * Add a new model for parallel tasks (ptask_L07) that is less buggy than
3187 the previous one (KCCFLN05). It relies on something that looks like
3188 a max-min sharing mechanism but cannot be written as such. A new solver
3189 was thus designed [AL].
3190 * Add a new solver to lmm. Based on Lagrange optimization and
3191 gradient-based descent, it enables to efficiently maximise systems s.a
3193 sum f_i(x_i) s.t Ax<= b with A_{i,j}>=0 and f_i a concave function.
3195 This solver enables to propose two new network models for TCP Reno and
3196 TCP Vegas based on Low's work. These models still need to be fully
3197 tested though [Pedro Velho].
3200 * Bug fix in SD_simulate. Now the time bound given as argument is
3202 * Use the new parallel task model (ptask_L07) as default.
3203 * Use the SURF command line configuration mechanism.
3204 * 0-size tasks (for synchronization) should now work.
3206 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sun Apr 12 05:20:36 CEST 2009
3208 SimGrid (3.2) stable; urgency=high
3212 We still experience issues on this platform, but we believe that at
3213 least MSG is usable.
3215 GRAS API BREAKAGE (for simplification purpose, sorry):
3216 * the gras_msgtype_by_name is not used anymore. Instead of
3217 gras_msg_send(toserver, gras_msgtype_by_name("request"), &request);
3218 you can write (and must)
3219 gras_msg_send(toserver, "request", &request);
3220 - If you still want to pass a gras_msgtype_t to the function (to cache
3221 the type and avoid the lookup time), use the gras_msg_send_() variant.
3222 - Impacted functions:
3223 gras_cb_register, gras_cb_unregister, gras_msg_send, gras_msg_wait,
3224 gras_msg_rpccall, gras_msg_rpc_async_call, gras_msg_wait_ext
3225 * The callbacks are now expected to return 0 when everything went well
3226 (just like the main() function)
3228 GRAS new features and improvements:
3229 * New module mechanism where user code can use per process globals [Mt]
3230 This is similar to gras_userdata_*() functions, but for libraries. It
3231 factorize some code developped over and over in the examples and AMOK.
3232 It has still to be documented and used (only amok/peermanagement is
3234 * Fix a vicious bug in the TCP buffering mechanism which leaded to message
3235 loss when they were small enough to fit into the buffer and sent quickly
3236 enough so that they can all get received in one shoot.
3237 * gras_datadesc_by_name and gras_msgtype_by_name: now raise an exception
3238 if not found. Use the *_or_null() variant for the old semantic.
3239 * In gras_msg_handle, do not discard messages without callback.
3240 They are probably messages to be explicitly awaited later (ie, proofs of
3241 mis-synchronization in userland since they are sent before being awaited)
3242 No big deal usually.
3243 * gras_socket_meas_send/recv: semantic changed!
3244 The numerical arguments used to be (1) the total amount of data to send
3245 and (2) msg_size. This was changed to (1) msg_size and (2) amount of
3246 messages. This was need for the fool willing to send more than MAXINT
3247 bytes on quite fat pipes.
3250 * Do really rename the hostmanagement module to peermanagement. [Mt]
3251 Ie, rename functions from amok_hm_* to amok_pm_*. This breaks the API,
3252 but this is rather new and this was documented in the module
3253 documentation (poor excuses, I admit)
3254 * Bandwidth measurement semantic changed! This follows the changes to
3255 gras_socket_meas_send/recv explained above.
3258 * A sequential mode has been added to the workstations. When a workstation
3259 is in sequential mode, it can execute only one task, and the other tasks
3260 are waiting in a FIFO. [Christophe Thiery]
3263 * The KCCFLN05 workstation model now handles parallel tasks. It is the
3264 model for SIMDAG. [Christophe Thiery]
3265 * Bug fix in the maxmin solver: Some values were close to 0 instead of
3266 equal to 0, which caused some bad behaviors in
3267 saturated_constraint_set_update. I now use a threshold mechanism like in
3271 * When running manually src/testall, you select specific units [Mt]
3272 testall is the result of our cunit mechanism, and should replace all
3273 the scripty thingy around since bash don't run easily on billware.
3275 * A mallocator system has been added. [Christophe Thiery]
3276 Mallocators allow you to recycle your unused objects instead of freeing them
3277 and allocating new ones.
3279 Documentation update:
3280 * FAQ reworking + New FAQs:
3281 - "Valgrind spits tons of errors!" [Mt]
3282 - "How to repport bugs" [Mt]
3283 - "Cross-compiling a Windows DLL of SimGrid from Linux" [Mt]
3284 - "What is the difference between MSG, SimDag, and GRAS?" [Mt]
3285 - Communication time measurement within MSG [AL]
3286 - I experience weird communication times when I change the latency [AL]
3287 * GRAS tutorial [Mt]
3289 - an introduction to the framework and to the used communication model
3290 - an initiatic tour introducing the most proheminent features:
3292 . Lesson 0: Installing GRAS
3293 . Lesson 1: Setting up your own project
3294 o Part 2: Message passing
3295 . Lesson 2: Exchanging simple messages
3296 . Lesson 3: Passing arguments to the processes (in SG)
3297 . Lesson 4: Attaching callbacks to messages
3298 . Lesson 5: Using globals in processes
3299 . Lesson 6: Logging information properly
3300 . Lesson 7: Using internal timers
3301 . Lesson 8: Handling errors through exceptions
3302 . Lesson 9: Exchanging simple data
3303 . Lesson 10: Remote Procedure Calling (RPC)
3304 . Lesson 11: Explicitly waiting for messages
3305 . Recapping of message passing features in GRAS
3306 - A HOWTO section containing:
3307 o HOWTO design a GRAS application
3308 More are due, of course. They will come latter. In the meanwhile, you can
3309 check the examples which are still here.
3311 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri Mar 16 21:11:46 CET 2007
3313 SimGrid (3.1) stable; urgency=high
3317 There was a stack corruption somewhere, visible only when optimizing
3318 with these versions. [Vince]
3321 * This is a NEW module! SimDAG (SD for short) is a revival of the old SG
3322 module that enabled to play with Directed Acyclic Graphs. It is built
3323 directly on top of SURF and provides an API rather close to the old
3324 SG. Some old codes using SG are currently under rewrite to check that
3325 all needful functions are provided. [Christophe Thiery]
3328 * Complete rewrite of the KCCFLN05 workstation model. It is now an
3329 extension of the classical CLM03 model that gracefully handles
3330 failures. This is now the default model for MSG and GRAS. It doesn't
3331 handle parallel tasks yet though. [AL]
3332 * Bug fix: Weights were not correctly set in the network part.
3333 WARNING: This may have resulted in incorrect results with simulations
3334 where there are more than one flow on a given link. [AL]
3337 * After a (long ?) discussion on simgrid-devel, we have decided that the
3338 convention we had on units was stupid. That is why it has been decided
3339 to move from (MBits, MFlops, seconds) to (Bits, Flops, seconds).
3340 WARNING: This means that all previous platform files will not work as
3341 such with this version! A warning is issued to ask users to update
3343 A conversion script can be found in the contrib module of the CVS, under
3344 the name contrib/platform_generation/surfxml_update.pl [MQ]
3347 * Bug fix: Processes were started in reverse order, wrt deployment file.
3348 WARNING: if your code relies on this bug, please fix it. [AL]
3349 * Bug fix: Add a test in MSG_task_execute to stop whenever a task is
3350 being executed on two different locations. [AL]
3351 * Bug fix: Failures are now better supported thanks to Derrick's tests
3352 (there was many failure situations I hadn't thought of and that weren't
3353 correctly handled). [AL]
3354 * New function: MSG_host_is_avail indicates you whether a given m_host_t
3358 * New! a real RPC mechanism, as it ought to be since too long. [MQ]
3359 Exception occurring on server-side are propagated back to client (!).
3361 API CHANGE: the callback changed their prototype. Change:
3362 int my_handler(gras_socket_t expeditor, void *payload_data) {
3364 int my_handler(gras_msg_cb_ctx_t ctx , void *payload_data) {
3365 gras_socket_t expeditor=gras_msg_cb_ctx_from(ctx);
3367 * New! function: gras_msg_handleall to deal with all messages arriving
3368 within a given period.
3369 * New! function: gras_socket_server_range to get a server socket in a
3370 range of port numbers (ease to avoid port number conflicts) [MQ]
3371 * New! gras processes display their backtrace when they get a SIGUSR1
3372 or when Ctrl-C is pressed. Use Ctrl-C Ctrl-C to exit.
3373 Sweet to debug RL processes [MQ]
3377 - Do not force experiment sizes to be expressed in kb, or it becomes
3378 impossible to measure the latency this way (needs one byte-long tests)
3379 WARNING: this changes the amok_bw_* function semantic. [MQ]
3380 - Implements the link saturation stuff. [MQ]
3381 * Peer management module:
3382 New! module factorizing code that we wrote over and over [MQ].
3385 * New module: cunit (my jUnit implementation in ansi C) [MQ]
3386 - Test units are placed directly into the library code, they get extracted
3387 automatically and placed into the src/testall binary.
3388 - Convert most of the XBT tests to this system.
3389 * New functions: xbt_dynar_getfirst_as() and xbt_dynar_getlast_as() [MQ]
3390 * XML parsing: rewrote parts of flexml to enable multiple xml parsers to
3391 live in the same C code. This required to change a little bit the API
3392 of surfxml parsing but shouldn't be an issue for end-users. [AL]
3393 * New module: sparse graph structure with basic algorithms (this is work
3394 in progress and the API is not considered to be frozen yet). [AL]
3395 * Display more information on backtraces: source line & function names are
3396 now displayed just like valgrind does (rely on addr2line tool) [MQ]
3397 * New function: xbt_backtrace_display(). Sweet while debugging [MQ]
3398 * Reworked a little bit some #include statements to load only required
3399 headers. Some user code that relied on SimGrid to include stdlib or
3400 stdio may need to include it by themselves. [AL]
3401 * Fixed xbt/log.h. A missing SG_BEGIN_DECL prevented compilation with
3403 * Renamed xbt_host_t into xbt_peer_t since it betterly describes what I
3404 meant. This breaks the API of AMOK and of xbt/config. Sorry about this,
3405 but I guess that almost nobody used those parts. [MQ]
3407 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:32:27 +0200
3409 SimGrid (3.0.1) stable; urgency=low
3412 * Unfortunately, I had missed 5 misnamed functions:
3413 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_newitem(void);
3414 void xbt_fifo_freeitem(xbt_fifo_item_t);
3415 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getFirstItem(xbt_fifo_t l);
3416 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getNextItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
3417 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getPrevItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
3418 They're now deprecated. Please use their new versions:
3419 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_new_item(void);
3420 void xbt_fifo_free_item(xbt_fifo_item_t);
3421 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_first_item(xbt_fifo_t l);
3422 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_next_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
3423 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_prev_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
3425 * Bugfix: really disconnect fifo items which are remove_item()ed [AL]
3426 * Documentation: xbt_log module unmercifully reworked [MQ]
3427 * Bugfix: there was a problem with the ending of contexts with
3428 the pthread backend. It caused some weird deadlock or behavior
3429 depending on the pthread implementation. [AL]
3430 * Bugfix: get the exceptions raised in the simulator repport where
3431 and why they come from when they are not caught in time [AL, MQ]
3434 * Bugfix: Do repport the error when two non-connected hosts try to
3435 exchange data (Thanks to Flavien for stumbling into this one) [AL]
3438 * Add additionnal checkings on communications. Assert that two
3439 communicating hosts are connected by a set of links... [AL]
3442 * Add additionnal checkings on channel values in communication [AL]
3443 * New: MSG_task_get_source to see on which host a task was generated [HC]
3444 * New: int MSG_task_probe_from_host(int channel, m_host_t host): returns
3445 the number of tasks waiting to be received on channel and sent
3447 * New: MSG_error_t MSG_task_get_from_host(m_task_t * task, int channel, m_host_t host);
3448 waits for the first task coming from a given host.. [AL]
3450 GRAS new functionnalities: [MQ]
3451 * Enhance the parsing macro to allow the size of multidimentional objects
3452 to be given thru annotations.
3453 * New example (and documentation): Matrix Multiplication a la RPC
3454 (as when I was young!) and fix a bunch of bugs found on the way.
3456 GRAS performance improvements: [MQ]
3458 * Reduce the amount of cbps creation/destruction by making it static to
3459 datadesc_send/recv() and using a (newly created) cbps_reset (based on
3462 * Change libdata to a set so that we can search for stuff by ID (and thus
3463 reduce the insane amount of dict lookups)
3466 * Actually implement gras_datadesc_copy() so that we don't have to mimick
3467 RL communication on top of SG since it's so uneffective.
3468 It may also be used for inter-thread communication in RL, one day.
3469 * Use gras_datadesc_copy() to exchange messages on top of SG
3471 - improve message exchange performance on top of SG
3472 - deprecate transport_plugin_sg.c:gras_trp_sg_chunk_send() & recv()
3473 * Don't exchange on the network the size of the used part of buffer,
3474 instead, specify the possible buffer size to read().
3476 - reduces the amount of read/write calls (one pair per exchange)
3477 - reduces the amount of exchanged data (the size)
3478 - allows to retrieve all arrived data on receiver side, if we don't need
3479 it right now (subsequent read will peek the buffer)
3480 - allows the receiver to proceed with the beginning of the stream before
3481 everything is arrived
3482 - make it possible to build an iov transport (using readv/writev)
3484 - take care of the data with non-stable storage (like stacked data),
3486 * If possible, TCP send uses vector I/O (when writev() is here)
3487 - Don't use it for receive since we send data sizes and data on the
3488 same stream, so we wouldn't be able to chain large amount of chunks
3489 before having to flush the stuff to read the size.
3490 * Rework the transport plugin mechanism to simplify it and reduce the
3491 amount of pointer dereferencement when searching for the right function
3494 * I guess that now, we do almost as few system calls as possible while
3495 doing as few data copy as possible.
3497 To improve it further, we could try to send all the sizes first and then
3498 all the data (to use iov on receiving size), but it's only a partial
3499 solution: when you have 2 dimensional data, the sizes of the second
3500 dimension is data of the first dimension, so you need 3 streams.
3502 I'm not sure the potential performance gains justify the coding burden.
3504 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:42:20 +0200
3506 SimGrid (3.00) stable; urgency=high
3509 * New! Give the possibility to hijack the surf parser and thus bypass
3510 MSG_create_environment and MSG_launch_application. Have a look at
3511 examples/msg/msg_test_surfxml_bypassed.c to see how it can be done.
3513 -- Arnaud Legrand <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 20 Aug 2005 23:25:25 -0700
3515 SimGrid (2.96) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * New! Exception handling with setjmp or such (code from OSSP ex) [MQ]
3521 This deprecates the xbt_error_t mechanisms.
3522 It modifies (simplifies) all XBT and GRAS API.
3523 MSG API keeps unchanged (exceptions raised by XBT are caught from
3524 within MSG and masked with existing error handling facilities)
3527 * New! Add a FATPIPE model. [AL]
3528 * New! Add a parallel task model. [AL]
3529 * New! Add automatically a loopback interface (in the default
3530 network model) if none was precised.
3533 * Bugfix: MSG_process_resume now works with the current running process.
3535 * New! Add MSG_parallel_task_create and MSG_parallel_task_execute. [AL]
3536 * Modification of MSG_task_get_compute_duration. Once a task has been
3537 processed, the value returned by this function is now equal to 0. [AL]
3538 * New! Add double MSG_task_get_remaining_computation(m_task_t task) and
3539 MSG_error_t MSG_task_cancel(m_task_t task). Add a state
3540 (MSG_TASK_CANCELLED) to MSG_error_t corresponding to the cancelation
3541 of a m_task. For now, MSG_task_cancel only works with computation
3543 * New! Add double MSG_get_host_speed(m_host_t h) that returns the speed
3544 of the processor (in Mflop/s) regardless of the current load on the
3546 * API Change: use proper naming convention for MSG_getClock and
3547 MSG_process_isSuspended: MSG_get_clock and MSG_process_is_suspended.
3549 * New! Add void MSG_task_set_priority(m_task_t task, double priority).
3550 This function changes the priority of a computation task. This priority
3551 doesn't affect the transfer rate. A priority of 2 will make a task
3552 receive two times more cpu power than the other ones. This function
3553 has been added to suit the needs of Nguyen The Loc and hasn't been that
3554 much tested yet. So if it fails, please report it and send me your code.
3556 * API Change: removed all functions and types that were marked "deprecated"
3557 since many months. Renamed MSG_global_init_args to MSG_global_init.
3559 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:58:47 -0700
3561 SimGrid (2.95) unstable; urgency=low
3564 * Steal some nice code to GNU pth to fix context detection and usage [AL]
3565 * Cleanup in the xbt_config API; add configuration callbacks. [MQ]
3566 * Cleanup in the initialization API: the unused "defaultlog" is dead. [MQ]
3569 * Bugfix: Allow absolute paths for platform description files [MQ]
3570 * Bugfix: do free the variables after use. Leads to drastic performance
3572 * Implement max_duration (ie, timeouts) on resources [AL]
3575 * Implement MSG_config to configure MSG at runtime. xbt_cfg test on a real
3577 * Implement MSG_channel_select_from() to help GRAS now that SURF provide
3578 the needed support (timeouts) [AL]
3581 * Implement measurement sockets. You can now get the bandwidth between two
3582 hosts thanks to AMOK (see below). [MQ]
3583 * gras_datadesc_dynar() builds a dynar type descriptor, allowing to send
3584 dynar over the network (yeah) [MQ]
3585 * Real (even if simplistic) implementation of gras_os_myname() on RL [MQ]
3586 * simple/static token-ring example. [Alexandre Colucci and MQ]
3587 * Use MSG_channel_select_from() and remove the *slow* hack we had to put
3588 in place before [MQ]
3591 * Differentiate the types "char[22]" and "unsigned char[22]" in automatic
3592 type parsing. "short" and "long" modifiers were also ignored; other
3593 modifier (such as reference level) are still ignored. [MQ]
3594 * Embeed the buffer size within the buffer itself on SG. [MQ]
3595 That way, send() are atomic and cannot get intermixed anymore (at least
3596 the ones which are less than 100k; bigger messages still have the issue)
3597 * Array size pushed by the field, not by the field type (or each
3598 and every long int will push stuff to the cbps) [MQ]
3599 * use select() to sleep since it allows to portably sleep less than one
3602 GRAS (minor cleanups)
3603 * <project>.Makefile.local (generated from gras_stub_generator) |MQ]:
3606 * Type Callbacks now receive the gras_datadesc_type_t they work on as argument.
3607 * type category 'ignored' killed as it was never used and were difficult
3609 * whether a type can cycle or not is now a flag, leaving room for more
3610 flags (as "ignored", if we feel the need one day ;)
3611 * Rename raw sockets to measurement sockets since "raw" has another
3612 meaning in networking community.
3615 * Advanced Metacomputing Overlay Kit introduction. It is based over GRAS
3616 and offers features not belonging to GRAS but that most applications
3617 need. One day, it may be a set of plugins loadable at runtime.
3618 * New module: bandwidth
3619 bandwidth measurement between arbitrary nodes running this module. [MQ]
3621 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:29:20 -0700
3623 SimGrid (2.94) unstable; urgency=low
3625 The first beta release of SimGrid 3 !
3629 * Update the main page and the FAQ. Adding references to gforge.
3632 * Add a gras_os_getpid function.
3635 * Add MSG_task_get_compute_duration() and MSG_task_get_data_size()
3636 * Extend the logs so that they also print PID, hostname, date, ... if
3638 * Convert the MSG example to the use of xbt_logs instead of PRINT_MESSAGE,
3639 and kill the old version which were in testsuite/
3640 * Rewrite tools/MSG_visualization/colorize.pl for using with logs instead
3644 * Add xbt_os_time(). As the rest of xbt/portability, this is not public
3645 for users. Instead, each programming environment (GRAS, MSG,...) use it
3646 when needed to provide such a feature to users.
3647 Don't shortcut the mechanism or you will also shortcut the virtualization
3648 you need on the simulator.
3652 * Cleanups in configury with regard to compile optimization/warning flags.
3653 Also add -fno-loop-optimize to any powerpc since it's the optimization
3654 killing gcc (< 3.4.0).
3655 * Doxygen cleanups: move MSG examples, kill the second Doxygen phase
3656 needed by MSG examples complications
3657 * Borrow configury beautifications from PHP
3660 * Bugfix: XBT_LOG_NEW_DEFAULT_CATEGORY now compiles without compiler
3661 warning (thanks loris for stumbling into this one).
3662 * Bugfix: stop loading private headers (gras_config.h) from the public
3666 * Change SIMGRID_INSTALL_PATH to GRAS_ROOT in Makefiles generated for user.
3667 * Rename gras_get_my_fqdn to gras_os_myname and implement it in the simulator
3668 RL would imply a DNS resolver, which is *hard* to do in a portable way
3669 (and therefore delayed).
3670 * Implement a real timer mechanism and use it in timing macros. This allows
3671 to avoid rounding errors and get a 0.000005 sec precision in timing
3672 macros. While I was at it, various cleanups:
3673 - allow to declare more than one timed section per file (fix a stupid bug)
3674 - move some private declaration to the right place
3675 - merge conditional execution and timing macros into emulation module
3676 - document the module
3677 - make sure the module cleanups its mess on gras_exit
3678 * Documentation improvements:
3679 - (new) how to compile applications using GRAS
3680 - (new) emulation support (timing macros)
3682 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 13 May 2005 10:49:31 +0200
3684 SimGrid (2.93) unstable; urgency=low
3686 Alpha 4 on the path to SimGrid 3 (aka the "neuf-trois" version)
3689 - Use Paje properly where used. Still to be sanitized properly.
3690 - Portability fix: Add an implementation of the contexts using pthread
3694 - Add xbt_procname(): returns the name of the current process.
3695 Use it to show the current process's name in all logging.
3697 - fix detection of older flex version and the reaction, since we do
3698 depend on modern ones (we use lex_destroy)
3699 - Better separation of SG and RL in the libs: remove all simulation code
3700 from libgras. As a result, this lib is now only 200k when stripped.
3701 Some of the xbt modules may also be duplicated (two sets and such) and
3702 should be cleaned/killed before SG3.
3703 - Insist on using xlC on AIX because of weird problems involving gcc there.
3704 - Cleanup the make remote stuff. This is now done by scripts
3705 tools/graspe-{master,slave} (GRAS Platform Expender). This is still
3706 mainly for our private use, but we're working on changing them to user
3709 - Bugfix: flush the socket on close only if there is some *output*.
3710 - Bugfix: flush idempotent when there's nothing to send (don't send size=0)
3712 - Add MSG_task_get_name. The task names are mainly for debugging purpose,
3715 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:32:37 -0800
3717 SimGrid (2.92) unstable; urgency=low
3719 Alpha 3 on the path to SimGrid 3
3723 - New! First try of benchmarking macros.
3724 - New! First try so that gras_stub_generator generate deployment and
3725 remote compilation helpers.
3727 - Bugfix: Initialization fix in msg_test.
3731 - Bugfix: applied patch to lexer so that it doesn't need a huge heap.
3733 - Bugfix: let dicts work with NULL content (_foreach didn't) and cleanups
3735 - API Change: gras_os_sleep to take the amount of seconds as a double.
3736 Accepting an int was error prone since it was the only location where
3737 seconds were coded as such. It leaded to damn rounding errors.
3738 - Bugfix: Hard to belive that timers ever worked before this.
3740 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:09:21 +0100
3742 SimGrid (2.91) unstable; urgency=low
3744 Alpha 2 on the path to SimGrid 3
3748 - Bug fix in the lmm_solver.
3750 - New! Interface to Paje (see http://www-id.imag.fr/Logiciels/paje/)
3751 through the function MSG_paje_output.
3752 - New! Introducing two new functions MSG_process_kill() and MSG_process_killall().
3753 - It is possible to bound the rate of a communication in MSG with
3754 MSG_task_put_bounded() (was already in the previous version but I had forgotten
3755 to write it in the changelog).
3756 - Bug fix to let GRAS run on top of MSG until we move it directly on top
3761 - Various cleanups to the autotools stuff
3762 - Begin to move Gras examples to examples/gras/
3763 - Let make distcheck work again (yeah!)
3765 - documentation overhauled using doxygen.
3766 gtk-doc-tools is dead in SimGrid now.
3767 - Automatically extract all existing logging categories, and add the list
3768 to the documentation (long standing one, to say the less)
3770 - Cleanup the known architecture table. Reorder the entries to group what
3771 should be, and use a more consistent naming scheme.
3772 (some of the test dataset are still to be regenerated)
3773 - New! Allow library to register globals on each process just as userdata
3775 This is implemented using a xbt_dict and not a xbt_set, so we loose the
3776 lookup time (for now).
3777 Use it in msg and trp.
3778 This cleans a lot the internals and helps enforcing privacy of the
3779 headers between the gras components.
3780 - New! Add a timer mechanism, not unlike cron(8) and at(1).
3781 - Bugfix: gras_os_time was delirious in RL.
3782 - Bugfix: gras_trp_select/RL don't run into the wall when asked to select
3784 - Reenable GRAS now that it works.
3786 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:02:13 -0800
3788 SimGrid (2.90) unstable; urgency=low
3790 Alpha 1 on the path to SimGrid 3
3792 * It is a long time since the last release of SimGrid. I'm sorry about
3793 that but as I had told you, I was rewriting a lot of things. I apologize
3794 to those who had been reporting bugs to me and that I had not answered.
3795 If your bug is still in the new version, please tell me. Here is a
3796 summary of the main changes.
3798 * REVOLUTION 1: The SimGrid project has merged with the GRAS project
3799 lead by Martin Quinson. As a consequence SimGrid gains a lot in
3800 portability, speed, and a lot more but you'll figure it out later.
3801 SimGrid now comprises 3 different projects: MSG, GRAS and SMPI.
3802 I wanted to release the new MSG as soon as possible and I have
3803 broken GRAS, which is the reason why, for now, only MSG is fully
3804 functional. A laconic description of these projects is available
3805 in the documentation.
3807 * REVOLUTION 2: I have removed SG and I am now using a new simulation
3808 kernel optimized for our needs (called SURF but only the developers
3809 should use it). Hence, MSG is now roughly 30 times faster and I think
3810 that by rewriting a little bit MSG, I could event speed it up a little
3811 bit more. Beside the gain in speed, it is also much easier to encode a
3812 new platform model with SURF than it was with SG. More to come...
3814 * REVOLUTION 3: I have tried to change a little as possible the API of
3815 MSG but a few things really had to disappear. The main differences
3816 with the previous version are:
3817 1) no more m_links_t and the corresponding functions. Platforms are
3818 directly read from an XML description and cannot be hard-coded
3819 anymore. The same format is used for application deployment
3820 description. The new format is described in the documentation.
3821 Have a look in tools/platform_generation. There is a tiny script
3822 that converts from the old platform format to the new one. Concerning
3823 the application deployment format, parsing the old one is tricky.
3824 I think most of you should however be able to convert your files. If
3825 it is really an issue, I can write a C code that does the conversion.
3827 2) the toolbox tbx does not exist anymore. We now have a library
3828 with much more data-structures but without the hash-tables (we have
3829 dictionaries that are much faster).
3831 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:45:53 -0800
3833 *****************************************************************************
3834 * Follows the old GRAS changelog. It does not follow the same syntax, but I *
3835 * don't feel like converting the oldies. (Mt) *
3836 *****************************************************************************
3839 Version 2.90: "the long awaited one"
3840 - Finished rewriting and debugging MSG. Rewrote the documentation.
3841 - disable GRAS for now since it needs to be ported to the newest SG
3844 - Finish the port to windows (using mingw32 for cross-compile)
3847 - Main loop and datastructures of SURF. A cpu resource object is
3848 functional. Surf can thus be used to create cpu's with variable
3849 performance on which you can execute some actions.
3851 2004-11-15 Martin Quinson
3852 - Port to ARM. Simply added the alignment and size descriptions. Should
3853 work, but the ARM machines are so slow that I didn't had the opportunity
3854 to 'make check' over there yet.
3856 2004-11-15 Arnaud Legrand
3857 - Trace manager now written. It uses a heap structure and is therefore
3858 expected to be efficient. It may however be speeded up (particularly
3859 when many events occur at the same date) by using red and black
3860 trees. One day maybe...
3861 - Max-min linear system solver written. It uses a sparse matrix
3862 structure taking advantage of its expected use. Most operations are
3863 O(1) and free/calloc are called as few as possible. The computation of
3864 the minimum could however be improved by using a red and black tree
3867 2004-11-03 Arnaud Legrand
3868 - Rename every gras_* function that was in xbt/ to its xbt_
3870 - Add a heap and a doubly-linked list to xbt
3871 - Added a dichotomy to the dictionaries. make check works as well before
3872 so I assume that the patch is correct. I do not know however if things
3873 run effectively faster than before now. :)
3875 Inclusion of the SimGrid tree in the GRAS one. The archive is renamed to
3876 SimGrid, and the version number is bumped to 2.x
3878 2004-10-29 Martin Quinson
3879 - Introduction of the remote errors.
3880 They are the result of a RMI/RPC on the remote machine.
3881 ErrCodes being scalar values, you can't get the host on which those
3882 errors did happen. Extending the error mechanism as in Gnome is possible.
3883 No idea yet whether it is a good idea.
3885 2004-10-28 Martin Quinson
3886 - Interface revolution: the Starred Structure Eradication.
3887 I used to do typedef struct {} toto_t; and then handle *toto_t.
3888 Arnaud (and Oli) didn't like it, and I surrendered. Now, you have:
3889 - ???_t is a valid type (builded with typedef)
3890 - s_toto_t is a structure (access to fields with .)
3891 - s_toto is a structure needing 'struct' keyword to be used
3892 - e_toto_t is an enum
3893 - toto_t is an 'object' (struct*)
3895 typedef struct s_toto {} s_toto_t, *toto_t;
3896 typedef enum {} e_toto_t;
3897 Moreover, only toto_t (and e_toto_t) are public. The rest (mainly
3898 s_toto_t) is private.
3900 - While I was at it, all gras_<obj>_free() functions want a gras_<obj>_t*
3901 so that it can set the variable to NULL. It was so for dicts and sets,
3902 it changed for dynars.
3904 - Fix a bunch of memleaks in dict_remove
3905 - Fix a bug in sg/server_socket opening: it failed all the time.
3907 2004-10-07 Martin Quinson
3908 - Speed up dynar lookup operation a bit.
3910 gras_dynar_get is dead.
3912 Now, you can choose between gras_dynar_get_cpy (the old gras_dynar_get
3913 but should be avoided for efficiency reasons) and gras_dynar_get_ptr
3914 (which gives you the address of the stored data).
3916 gras_dynar_get_as is an helpful macro which allows you to retrieve a
3917 copy of the data using an affectation to do the job and not a memcpy.
3919 int toto = gras_dynar_get_as(dyn,0,int); rewrites itself to
3920 int toto = *(int*)gras_dynar_get_ptr(dyn,0);
3922 It does not really speedup the dynar test because they are
3923 setting elements all the time (and look them seldom). But the dict does
3924 far more lookup than setting.
3926 So, this brings the dict_crash test from ~33s to ~25s (200000 elms).
3928 2004-10-05 Martin Quinson
3929 - Allow to (en/dis)able the cycle detection at run time.
3931 Whether we should check for cycle or not is now a property of each
3932 datatype. When you think there may be some cycle, use datadesc_cycle_set.
3933 datadesc_cycle_unset allow to remove this property when previously set.
3935 Note that the cycle detection is off by default since it impacts the
3936 performance. Watch the data you feed GRAS with ;)
3938 This property is hereditary. Any element embedded in a structure having it
3939 set have it set for the time of this data exchange.
3941 You should set it both on sender and receiver side. If you don't set it on
3942 sender side, it will enter an endless loop. If you forget on receiver
3943 side, the cycles won't be recreated after communication.
3945 - Header reorganization.
3946 Kill gras_private.h, each submodule must load the headers it needs.
3948 2004-10-04 Martin Quinson
3949 - Interface revolution: do not try to survive to malloc failure.
3951 Now, gras_malloc and friends call gras_abort() on failure.
3952 As a conclusion, malloc_error is not a valid error anymore, and all
3953 functions for which it was the only gras_error_t return value are
3954 changed. They now return void, or there result directly.
3955 This simplify the API a lot.
3957 2004-09-29 Martin Quinson
3958 - Re-enable raw sockets.
3959 Created by gras_socket_{client,server}_ext;
3960 Used with gras_raw_{send,recv}
3963 It should allow to kill the last bits of gras first version soon.
3965 This is not completely satisfactory yet (duplicate code with
3966 chunk_{send,recv}; a bit out of the plugin mechanism), but it should
3969 - Simplify transport plugin (internal) interface by not passing any
3970 argument to _server and _client, but embedding them in the socket
3973 2004-09-28 Martin Quinson
3974 - Finish the port to AIX.
3975 autoconf was my problem (segfault within the malloc replacement
3976 function. No idea why)
3978 2004-09-16 Martin Quinson
3979 - Fix some size_t madness on 64bit architectures.
3981 2004-09-08 Martin Quinson
3982 - Reduce the number of system headers loaded, overload some more system
3983 calls (such as malloc to cast the result of the system one, and work
3985 - Fix and reintroduce the config support
3987 2004-09-07 Martin Quinson
3988 - Source code reorganization to allow Arnaud to surf all over there.
3989 - Allow to document the logging categories.
3990 - Remove all uppercase from logging categories and useless cleanup in names.
3992 2004-08-18 Martin Quinson
3993 Version 0.6.2 (protocol not changed; API changed)
3994 - Interface cleanup: gras_msgtype_by_name returns the type (instead of a
3995 gras_error_t), and NULL when not found. Functions expecting a msgtype
3996 as argument (msg_wait; msg_send) deal with NULL argument by providing a
3997 hopefully usefull message.
3998 - Portability to prehistoric sparcs again
4000 2004-08-17 Martin Quinson
4001 Version 0.6.1 (protocol not changed; ABI not changed)
4002 - prealloc some buffers to speed things up
4004 2004-08-11 Martin Quinson
4005 Version 0.6 (protocol not changed; ABI expended)
4006 - The parsing macro can deal with the references, provided that you add
4007 the relevant annotations (using GRAS_ANNOTE(size,field_name))
4009 2004-08-09 Martin Quinson
4010 Version 0.5 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
4011 - Allow to off turn the cycle detection code in data exchange at
4012 compilation time. It should be at run time, but I'm short of time (and
4013 the config stuff is still broken). That way, we keep dict out of the
4014 critical path, which is good because the performance is poor:
4015 - search not dichotomial yet
4016 - dynar give no way to access their content and memcpy everytime
4017 - In composed data description (struct, ref and so on), stop foolness of
4018 keeping the subtype's ID, but store the type itself. This keeps sets out
4019 of the critical path, which is good since they rely on dynar and
4020 dictionaries. The only loose of that is that we cannot detect the
4021 redeclaration of a structure/union with another content (but I'm not sure
4022 the code detected well this error before anyway). We still can detect
4023 the redefinition discrepancy for the other types.
4024 - Use a whole bunch of optimisation flags (plus -fno-strict-aliasing since
4025 it breaks the code because of type-punning used all over the place).
4026 This breaks on all non-gcc architectures (for now).
4028 All those changes (plus the buffer of last time) allow me to gain 2 order
4029 of magnitude on cruel tests consisting of 800000 array of integers on two
4030 level of a hierarchical structure (200 secondes -> 4 secondes)
4033 - the selector of reference must now return the type it points to, not
4034 the ID of this type.
4036 2004-08-06 Martin Quinson
4037 Version 0.4 (protocol changed; ABI not changed)
4038 - Allow to pass --gras-log argument to processes in simulation mode. Really.
4039 - New debugging level: trace (under debug) to see effect of GRAS_IN/OUT
4040 - Implement a buffer transport, and use it by default (it relies on tcp in
4041 real life and on sg in simulation).
4042 That's a bit hackish since I had a new field to the structure to store
4043 its data without interfering with the subtype ones. Inheritance
4044 is tricky in C. And that's a kind of reverse inheritance with one class
4045 derivating two classes. Or maybe a game with java interfaces. Anyway,
4046 that's damn hard in C (at least).
4047 Moreover, I got tired while trying to ensure plugin separation and
4048 genericity in SG mode. MSG wants me to do weird things, so let's go for
4049 cruel hacks (temporarily of course ;).
4050 See comment in transport_private.h:71
4051 - do not include all the _interface headers in private but in the files
4052 which really need them (to cut the compilation time when they are
4055 2004-07-26 Martin Quinson
4056 Version 0.3 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
4057 - Major overhault of the datadesc interface to simplify it:
4058 - shorted the function names:
4059 s/gras_datadesc_declare_struct/gras_datadesc_struct/ and so on
4060 - add a trivial way to push/pop integers into the cbps without malloc.
4061 This allows to make really generic sub_type description, which simply
4062 pop their size of the stack.
4063 - add a function gras_datadesc_ref_pop_arr() which does what users want
4064 most of the time: Declare a dynamic array (which pops its size of the
4065 stack) and declare a reference to it. Poor name, but anyway.
4066 - kill the post-send callback, add a post-receive one
4068 2004-07-23 Martin Quinson
4069 Version 0.2 (protocol changed; ABI changed)
4070 - add some testing for cpbs in the test cases, and fix some more bugs.
4071 This invalidate again the little64 data file, since I cannot regenerate
4073 - remove an awfull optimization in the logging stuff, allowing me to:
4074 - understand it again
4075 - learn gcc how to check that the argument match the provided format
4076 - fix all errors revealed by gcc after that
4077 - internal keys of dict are not \0 terminated. Deal with it properly in
4078 loggings instead of segfaulting when the user want to see the logs :-/
4080 2004-07-22 Martin Quinson
4081 - Fix some stupid bug preventing cbps (callback postit) from working
4083 2004-07-21 Martin Quinson
4084 - Some documentation cleanups
4085 - remove the useless last argument of msgtype_declare
4086 - rename the Virtu functions to fit into the 'os' namespace
4087 - move headers src/include -> src/include/gras/ and stop fooling with
4088 gras -> . symbolic link
4089 - make distcheck is now successful
4091 2004-07-19 Martin Quinson
4093 - Build shared library also
4094 - Install html doc to the right location
4095 - stop removing maintainer files in make clean
4096 - build tests only on make check
4098 2004-07-13 Martin Quinson
4100 - No major issue in previous version => change versioning schema
4101 - Re-enable little64 convertion test now that Abdou kindly regenerated the
4102 corresponding dataset.
4104 2004-07-11 Martin Quinson
4106 - Get it working with any kind of structure (we can compute the padding
4107 bytes remotely for all the architectures I have access to)
4108 - Implement the structure parsing macro (still not quite robust/complete)
4109 - Improvement to the remote testing toysuite
4111 2004-07-10 Martin Quinson
4112 [autoconf mechanism]
4113 - get ride of a bunch of deprecated macros
4114 - actually run the test for two-compliment, not only compile it :-/
4115 - test whether the structures get packed (and bail out if yes. Damn.
4116 Alignment is a serious matter)
4117 - test whether the structures get compacted (but respecting the alignment
4118 constraints of each types)
4119 - test whether the array fields of structures can straddle alignment boundaries
4121 - Damnit, double are bigger than float (typo in creation of 'double' datadesc)
4122 (took me 2 hours to find that bug, looking at the wrong place)
4123 - Add gras_datadesc_declare_{union,struct}_close(). They must be used
4124 before sending/receiving and are used to compute the offsets of fields
4125 - Given that padding size depend even on compiler options, keep track of
4126 alignment and aligned_size only for the current architecture. Not a big
4127 deal since we send structure fields one after the other (seems
4129 - Add the datastructure used for IEEE paper by the PBIO guys to the test
4130 program, let it work on linux/gcc/little32. portability todo.
4132 2004-07-08 Martin Quinson
4133 - import and improve remote compilation support from FAST
4134 - make sure make check works on half a dozen of machines out there
4136 2004-07-07 Martin Quinson
4137 Let's say it's version 0.0.3 ;)
4138 - Implement conversions (yuhu!)
4139 - Let it work on solaris (beside conversion, of course)
4140 - Stupid me, using rand() to generate the conversion datatests in not wise.
4142 2004-07-06 Martin Quinson
4143 - Let make dist work, since I'm gonna need it to compile on remote hosts
4144 - Let Tests/datadesc_usage write the architecture on which the file was
4145 generated as first byte.
4146 - Add PowerPC (being also IRIX64), SPARC (also power4) and ALPHA
4147 architecture descriptions.
4148 - Add datadesc_usage.{i386,ppc,sparc} files being the result of execution
4149 on those architectures.
4150 - Optimization: send/recv array of scalar in one shoot
4152 2004-07-05 Martin Quinson
4153 - YEAH! GRAS/SG and GRAS/RL are both able to run the ping example !
4155 - Plug a whole bunch of memleaks
4156 - each process now have to call gras_{init,exit}. One day, their log
4157 settings will be separated
4158 - Continue the code factorisation between SG, RL and common in Transport.
4160 2004-07-04 Martin Quinson
4162 - Redistribution between SG and RL.
4163 We wanna have to accept in SG, so move accepted related parts of RL in
4164 the common part. (more precisely, the dynar of all known sockets is no
4165 more a static in transport.c, but part of the process_data)
4167 [gras_stub_generator]
4168 - Bug fix: Do call gras_process_init from gras_init (wasnt called in RL).
4170 2004-07-03 Martin Quinson
4171 - Create a new log channel tbx containing dict, set, log, dynar (to shut
4172 them all up in one shot)
4174 - Fix the ugly case of reference to dynamic array.
4175 - New (semi-public) function gras_datadesc_size to allow the messaging
4176 layer to malloc the needed space for the buffer.
4178 - gras_socket_close now expect the socket to close (and not its address to
4179 put NULL in it after it). This is because the socket passed to handlers
4180 is one of their argument (=> not writable).
4182 - propagate the interface cleanup from last week in datadesc, ie remove a
4183 superfluous level of indirection. User pass adress of variable
4184 containing data (both when sending and receiving), and not of a variable
4185 being a pointer to the data. Let's say that I like it better ;)
4186 The price for that is constructs like "int msg=*(int*)payload" in
4187 handlers, but it's a fine price, IMHO.
4189 - Let it work in RL (yuhu)
4191 2004-06-21 Martin Quinson
4193 - porting SG plugin and SG select to new standards (works almost).
4194 - plug memleaks and fix bugs around.
4197 - cleanup the prototype of data recv and force users to specify when they
4198 want to handle references to objects. Test case working even for cycles.
4199 - plug memleaks. Valgrind is perfectly ok with this.
4201 2004-06-12 Martin Quinson
4203 - cleanup the separation between plugin and main code in plugin creation
4205 2004-06-11 Martin Quinson
4207 - Reput hook for raw sockets, needed for BW experiments
4208 - kill a few lines of dead code
4209 [Data description] Interface cleanup
4210 - gras_datadesc_by_name returns the searched type or NULL.
4211 That way, no variable is needed to use a type desc once, which makes
4213 - gras_datadesc_declare_[struct|union]_append_name is removed. The last
4214 two parameters were strings (field name, type name), leading to
4216 [Dicos] Interface cleanup
4217 - gras_dico_retrieve -> gras_dico_get ; gras_dico_insert -> gras_dico_set
4218 This is consistant with the dynar API.
4220 2004-04-21 Martin Quinson
4222 - Porting to new standards.
4224 - interface cleanup.
4225 There is no bag anymore, no need to take extra provision to mask the
4226 pointers behind "ID".
4227 Better splitup of functions between files create/exchange/convert.
4228 This is still a bit artificial since convert and receive are so
4229 interleaved, but anyway.
4231 - add a queued message list to procdata (the ones not matching criteria
4233 - factorize some more code between SG and RL wrt procdata
4235 - use gras_exit in example to track memleaks
4236 - get rid of gs_example now that GS is properly integrated into gras
4237 - update run_test to integrate the latest tests (datadesc)
4239 - rename WARNINGn macros to WARNn since it prooved error-prone
4241 2004-04-19 Martin Quinson
4243 - register init/exit functions within gras module mechanism
4244 - send/receive function.
4245 Convertion is not implemented, but short-cutted if not needed.
4246 struct/array elements are sent one by one (instead of block-wise), but
4247 nobody really cares (yet). Get a prototype before optimizing.
4248 - tests (using a file socket) for DD send/receive on:
4249 - base types: int, float
4250 - array: fixed size, string (ie ref to dynamic string)
4251 - structure: homogeneous, heterogeneous
4252 - chained list, graph with cycle
4253 Believe it or not, valgrind is not too unhappy with the results. The
4254 cycle happily segfaults, but the others are ok. And I'm sick of pointers
4258 - Bugfix when using a filename explicitly (instead of '-')
4260 2004-04-09 Martin Quinson
4262 - factorize more code between RL and SG in socket creation
4263 - Complete the implementation and tests of:
4265 o file (only in RL, and mainly for debugging)
4267 I lost 3 days to design a portable address resolver, and then decided
4268 that the prototype mainly have to run on my box.
4269 Addressing portability too early may be like optimizing too early :-/
4271 - use gras_init in the Tests instead of the crappy parse_log_opt
4272 (the latter function is removed)
4273 [Conditional execution]
4274 - New functions: gras_if_RL/gras_if_SG (basic support for this)
4275 [Code reorganisation]
4276 - Get rid of libgrasutils.a since it makes more trouble than it solves.
4277 Build examples against the RL library, since there is no way to disable
4278 its creation for now.
4280 For information, the beginning of coding on GRAS was back in june
4281 2003. I guess that every line has been rewritten at least twice since