-SimGrid (3.8) NOT RELEASED; urgency=low
+SimGrid (3.9) NOT RELEASED; urgency=low
- The "SimGrid makes psssshiiiit and jumps into the cloud" release.
+ The Grasgory release: GRAS is really dead now.
- Cmake:
- * Remove option custom_flags. Now use environment variables CFLAGS
- and LDFLAGS.
- * Enable tracing by default. This modules rocks you should use it.
- * Use default cmake things to detect lua instead of home grown ones.
+ GRAS:
+ * If you use GRAS, you should stay at SimGrid 3.7 or something since
+ it was not really maintained with the latest versions of SimGrid as
+ nobody stepped in to take the maintainership over.
+ * Keeping it was thus a trap to our potential users, that could take
+ it instead of MSG or SMPI by mistake. GRAS also induces a lot of XBT
+ code (for portability sake), that must be maintained too.
+ * For all these reasons, we killed GRAS. If someone wants to revive it
+ in the future, don't cry, our git history still remembers of GRAS.
- Documentation:
- * Split the doc into a user guide and a reference guide.
+ SMPI:
+ * Now works on Windows too!
+ * Much more extensive test suite, from MPICH
+
+ MSG:
+ * New function: MSG_process_get_number()
+
+ SURF:
+ * Change the default value of the TCP_gamma constant (maximal size of TCP
+ congestion window) to a more realistic 4MiB value. If you notice changes in
+ your simulation results, you can fall back to the previous 20k tiny window
+ by adding --cfg=network/TCP_gamma:20000 on command line.
+
+ XBT:
+ * Kill synchronized dynars, and xbt_dynar_dopar(). We cannot think of a
+ usecase where it's really mandatory, and maintaining it was a pain in
+ our codebase.
+ * New: xbt_fifo_search(), search an item with a user-provided
+ comparison function instead of dumb pointer comparison.
+
+ -- $date Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
+
+SimGrid (3.8.1) stable; urgency=low
+
+ The "we are told that some people want to also *install* the simgrid
+ framework" release.
+
+ * Add missing file "tesh.1" to the archive.
+
+ -- Sat Oct 27 16:12:11 CEST 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
+
+SimGrid (3.8) stable; urgency=low
+
+ The Psssshiiiit release: SimGrid jumps into the Cloud.
MSG:
* Add an experimental interface to manipulate VMs. They are mainly
process groups with very few intrinsic semantic, but they should
allow you to build the semantic you want easily.
* New function: MSG_host_set_property_value()
- * Deprecate functions MSG_global_init() / MSG_global_init_args()
- Please use MSG_init() instead. (reducing the amount of entry
- points in the library helps us).
- * Make it impossible to link against the wrong version of the lib
+ * New function: MSG_process_on_exit(). To clean memory in all cases.
* Bug fixes that made the host (and link) failures unusable.
* Add a way to auto-restart process when the host in which they are
- executing comes back (ON_FAILURE="RESTART" on deployment file,
+ executing comes back (ON_FAILURE="RESTART" on deployment file,
MSG_process_auto_restart_set).
* Use the "msg_" prefix for all datatypes (instead of m_, msg_ and MSG_),
please stop using the old ones, they are DEPRECATED.
+
+ * Deprecate functions MSG_global_init() / MSG_global_init_args()
+ Please use MSG_init() instead. (reducing the amount of entry
+ points in the library helps us).
+ * Make it impossible to link against the wrong version of the lib
* Deprecate MSG_clean(). No need to call it anymore.
+ * Function MSG_get_host_number() is not deprecated anymore.
+
+ Documentation:
+ * Split the doc into a user guide and a reference guide.
+ * Start a developper guide to help people hacking on SimGrid.
+
+ Cmake:
+ * Enable tracing by default. This modules rocks you should use it.
+ * Remove option custom_flags. Now use environment variables CFLAGS
+ and LDFLAGS.
+ * Use default cmake things to detect lua instead of home grown ones.
+ * New option "enable_mallocators" to disable mallocators, for debugging
+ purpose ("on" by default).
Simix:
* Bug fixes around the resource failures: don't let the processes
survive the host they are running onto.
- * Add an interface to execute cleanup functions when a process is killed,
- to avoid memory leaks.
* Add an interface to auto-restart processes when the host in which they are
executing comes back.
* Ensures that SIMIX_clean is called automatically. It's not part of
the public interface anymore (bindings should be updated).
SimDag:
+ * Bug fix for when SD_Simulate is called with a positive value: be careful
+ when comparing doubles. Sometimes they are different for non significant
+ digits only.
* New types of typed tasks. SD_TASK_COMP_PAR_AMDAHL represents a
parallel task whose initial work is distributed among host according
to the Amdahl's law. Such tasks are created with a parameter alpha
communication_amount structures is now done seamlessly thanks to the chosen
assumptions.
* New function SD_workstation_dump to display various information
- * New function SD_task_set_rate to throttle the bandwidth allowed to be used
- by a SD_TASK_COMM_E2E typed task. This rate depends on both the nominal
- bandwidth on the route onto which the task is scheduled and the amount of
+ * New function SD_task_set_rate to throttle the bandwidth allowed to be used
+ by a SD_TASK_COMM_E2E typed task. This rate depends on both the nominal
+ bandwidth on the route onto which the task is scheduled and the amount of
data to transfer.
To divide the nominal bandwidth by 2, the rate then has to be :
rate = bandwidth/(2*amount)
* Compute tasks that have failed can now be rescheduled and executed again
(from their beginning)
- * Increasing source code coverage (src/simdag is now covered at 91.5%
+ * Increasing source code coverage (src/simdag is now covered at 95.8%
on average)
-
+
SMPI:
* Re-implement time-independent trace replay using SMPI (at the
smpi_smp_* level) instead of MSG. This should replace
examples/msg/actions/actions.c
+ * Implement support of MPI Datatypes (vectors, hvectors, indexed,
+ hindexed and structs)
* Implement the exchange of non-contiguous data.
[Khalid Hasanov & Jean-Noel Quintin] Thanks for the patch, guys.
-
+ * Correct behavior of smpi/sender_gap and set its default value to 0
+ * Add option to asynchronously send small messages to allow better
+ simulation of pt2pt communications. --cfg=smpi/async_small_threshold:value
+ specifies the size in bytes under which messages will be asynchronously sent.
+ * Add support of MPI_Iprobe, MPI_Probe, MPI_Testall, MPI_Wtick functions
+ * SMPI now handles more MPI specific values in input. Closes [#14389] and [#14388]
+
+ SimGrid:
+ * New C interface to define a platform: XML is now optional.
+ For more info, please check include/simgrid/platf.h.
+ * New interface to define random platforms from the C:
+ For more info, please check include/simgrid/platf_generator.h and
+ examples/msg/masterslave/masterslave_platfgen.c
+ * Export a sg_cmdline dynar containing all the arguments we got from
+ the command line.
+
+ TRACE:
+ * Two new tracing options for adding comments to trace file so you
+ can track your experiments (see --help-tracing for details).
+ * New option to generate a impoverished trace file (--cfg=tracing/basic:1)
+ * Adding the SimGrid version that generated the trace file as a comment.
+ * Instrumenting other MSG functions (MSG_task_isend_with_matching and MSG_task_dsend)
+ * Fix to avoid key clashes on Paje links
+ * Other minor fixes related to the Paje specification
+
XBT:
* Functions xbt_dict_hash() and xbt_dict_hash_ext() are made public,
and renamed to xbt_str_hash() and xbt_str_hash_ext().
* New function: xbt_os_timer_resume() to restart a timer w/o resetting it.
+ * Greatly improve the robustness of mmalloc to user errors (such as
+ using an area after freeing it, or freeing it twice)
- -- $date Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
+ -- Thu Oct 25 17:30:06 CEST 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
SimGrid (3.7.1) stable; urgency=low
[Tests]
- use gras_exit in example to track memleaks
- get rid of gs_example now that GS is properly integrated into gras
- - update run_test to integrate the lastest tests (datadesc)
+ - update run_test to integrate the latest tests (datadesc)
[Logging]
- rename WARNINGn macros to WARNn since it prooved error-prone
