-- Surf precision default value is now 1e-9, instead of 1e-5. This was changed as
- several users had difficult to understand issues when using high bandwidth or
- small latency events. The new value was already the default for SMPI and
- should not cause too much performance hit. It can change some simulation
- timings if simulation was skipping a lot of small events (which was actually
- an issue of said simulation). The value can still be changed back using
- --cfg=surf/precision:1e-5
+ - SimGrid now requires a compiler with C++14 support.
+ Sibling projects should upgrade their FindSimgrid.cmake
+ - Surf precision default value is now 1e-9, instead of 1e-5. This was changed as
+ several users had difficult to understand issues when using high bandwidth or
+ small latency events. The new value was already the default for SMPI and
+ should not cause too much performance hit. It can change some simulation
+ timings if simulation was skipping a lot of small events (which was actually
+ an issue of said simulation). The value can still be changed back using
+ --cfg=surf/precision:1e-5.
+ - On some network models (L07, CM02, LV08), an implicit loopback link is created
+ for local communication. Default bandwidth was 500MBps and latency was 15µs,
+ which was rather bad. Default values have been changed to 10GBps and 0 latency.
+ Options network/loopback-lat and network/loopback-bw have been added to adapt
+ these values if needed. Network and routing models already providing separate
+ loopbacks (clusters and such) are not impacted by this change.
+ - SMPI now adds 16 bytes of header to each message sent, in order to simulate
+ metadata that are added to each MPI message by MPI libraries (tag,
+ src/dest, and communicator information). This may change simulation times
+ for very small message sizes, but should be more realistic.
+
+New features:
+ - New routing 'WiFi' that makes it easier to specify a wifi network zone.
+ - New plugins: wifi_energy and link_load. See the associated examples.
+ - New examples: wifi networks, and communication suspend.