-SimGrid (3.13) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+SimGrid (3.16) UNRELEASED
- The Easter Trim Release.
+SimDag
+ - New and Backwards Compatibility break:
+ SD_simulate_with_update (double how_long, xbt_dynar_t changed_tasks_dynar)
+ When one wants to get the list of tasks whose states have changed during a
+ simulation round, s/he has to allocate and free a dynar and use it as argument
+ to this function. The former SD_simulate (double how_long) now returns void.
+ -- Release target: June 21 2017 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
+
+SimGrid (3.15) stable; urgency=low
+
+ The Spring Release: continuous integration servers become green
+ We fixed even the transient bugs on all target architectures:
+ Linux (CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora), Mac OSX (Mavericks, El Capitan)
+ Windows, FreeBSD, NetBSD.
+
+ - Rename NetCards to NetPoints.
+ This was intended to help NS3 users, but that's not a netcard.
+ That's a point in the routing algorithm, let's avoid wrong simplifications.
+
+ MSG
+ - New: MSG_process_yield(). Stop and yield to other processes.
+ - New: MSG_process_daemon(). Daemon processes are automatically killed
+ when the last non-daemon process terminates
+ - New: MSG_process_ref/unref(). Fiddle with the process refcounting.
+ - Renamed MSG_energy_plugin_init() -> MSG_host_energy_plugin_init()
+ to make room for the upcoming network energy plugin.
+ - Drop MSG_host_get_current_power_peak: duplicates MSG_host_get_speed
+
+ Java
+ - Ensure that an actor can kill itself with Process::exit()
+ - Kill the obscure NativeException. Nobody want to survive the issues
+ it denotes, so use JniException that is a RuntimeException (not to
+ be caught explicitly).
+ - Partial bug fix in initialization. SimGrid flags on command line were
+ consumed at C level but stayed in the original Java String[] args.
+ This could mess users' args[i] if SG flags were not put at the end of
+ the command line.
+ The SimGrid flags are now removed from the Java arguments. However,
+ the number of arguments REMAINS UNCHANGED. It is then UNSAFE to test
+ if args.length is greater than the number of YOUR OWN ARGUMENTS.
+ It might be if you have --log or --cfg flags in the command line.
+ - Fix numerous memleaks all around the place. In particular, around VMs.
+
+ S4U
+ - New callbacks:
+ - s4u::onPlatformCreated: right before the simulation starts
+ - s4u::onSimulationEnd: right after the main simulation loop
+ - s4u::onTimeAdvance: right after a clock change (time is discrete)
+ - s4u::Host::onSpeedChange: when the pstate is changed, or when an
+ event from the availability_file changes the avail speed.
+ - Links are now usable from s4u
+ - New: Engine::hostList() and Engine::hostCount(). Still clumsy.
+ - New: Actor::suspend(), Actor::resume(), and Actor::migrate(new_host)
+ - New examples: The conversion of MSG examples to S4U has begun
+ - Actors: create, kill, migration, and suspend
+ - Applications: master-worker and token-ring
+ - Action replay: communications and storage
+ - Drop Host::getPstateSpeedCurrent() which duplicates Host::speed()
+
+ SimDag
+ - Backwards Compatibility breaks
+ - The SD_route_get_list and SD_route_get_size functions have been removed.
+ They are replaced by the unique
+ void sg_host_route(sg_host_t src, sg_host_t dst, xbt_dynar_t links)
+ The route from src to dst is built in the links dynar whose size can
+ be obtained with xbt_dynar_length.
+ - The SD_route_bandwidth and SD_route_latency functions have been replaced by
+ sg_host_route_bandwidth and sg_host_route_latency.
+ Macros ensure the backwards compatibility, but you should fix your code
+
+ SMPI
+ - Major C++ rewrite ongoing (SMPI used to be C compiled in C++).
+ This can break codes using SMPI internals (from private.h instead of the public smpi.h).
+ - Bump our claim of support from MPI 1.1 to MPI 2.2.
+ We don't support 100% of it, but it should be enough. Contact us if not.
+ - MPI_Win_lock/unlock, MPI_Get_accumulate support added (as for all RMA, implementation is
+ naive and probably inaccurate)
+ - New algorithm for SMPI_SHARED_MALLOC: global, where all blocks are
+ mapped onto a unique small file using some system magic.
+ - Bugfix: smpirun was sometimes misusing hostfile when wrongly terminated
+ - Fortran: cleanups, fixes, support of user-added operations
+ - RMA: MPI_Accumulate are applied in correct order.
+ - RMA: MPI_Win_{complete/post} shouldn't miss messages anymore.
+ - Better support for MPI_IN_PLACE
+ - Support for MPI_Win attrs and keyvals.
+ - Support MPI_Comm_group_create, MPI_Type_size_x
+ - MPI ops should be properly applied to all allowed types
+ - Replace implementation of MPI_Bcast "scatter followed by rdb allgather"
+ algorithm by a non failing one from mpich.
+
+ XBT
+ - Kill the fifo data container: we don't use it anymore.
+
+ XML
+ - A <cluster> can now be created with different speed values to represent pstates.
+ see examples/platforms/energy_cluster.xml for an example.
+
+ -- Wed Mar 22 17:50:21 CET 2017 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
+
+SimGrid (3.14.159) stable; urgency=low
+
+ The previous release was only a crude approximation of a Pi release;
+ this one should be a bit better.
+
+ - Revert a last minute change that broke on Mac OSX.
+ - Fix the changelog and NEWS files.
+ - Improve the documentation, in particular of the routing module.
+ - Integrate some patches flying around in Debian.
+
+ -- Wed Dec 28 17:14:49 CET 2016 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
+
+SimGrid (3.14) stable; urgency=low
+
+ Documentation
+ * The whole documentation was reworked and reorganized. There is
+ still much room for improvement here, but we're on it.
+
+ Infrastructure
+ * We now need python3 for our testing infrastructure.
+ * Model checking needs libevent
+
+ MC
+ * Now works on FreeBSD
+
+ SMPI
+ * Privatization now works on FreeBSD
+
+ * Privatization is now activated by default in smpirun
+ You can turn it off with -no-privatize if something goes wrong.
+
+ * Call-location tracing for SMPI.
+ You can add the exact location (filename / linenumber) of an MPI call to
+ your trace files and slow down or speed up the simulation between two
+ consecutive calls by using an adjustment file (see the documentation).
+
+ * Fixed computation of timings for MPI_Send, MPI_Recv & possibly also others
+ We've found a bug that prevented SMPI to account for MPI_Send, MPI_Recv
+ and others (in some cases) in a correct way. That is, the smpi/os, smpi/or
+ values were ignored in some cases. The timings of these functions can now
+ be significantly different.
+
+ * smpi/cpu-threshold:-1 should become smpi/simulate-computation:no
+ smpi/running-power is renamed to smpi/host-speed
+
+ * smpi/grow-injected-times option to enable or disable multiplication of the
+ timings injected in MPI_Iprobe, or MPI_Test. Enabled by default, which can
+ make simulation less precise (but also much faster).
+
+ * smpirun script should be (much) faster for large deployments.
+
+ * SMPI tracing : fixed issue with poor matching of send/receives.
+
+ * Replay : Fix broken waitall
+
+ New functions and features
+ * MSG_parallel_task_execute_with_timeout, to timeout computations.
+
+ Dropped / renamed functions and features
+ * msg_mailbox_t and associated functions. Use s4u::Mailbox instead.
+ - MSG_mailbox_is_empty() -> Mailbox::empty()
+ - MSG_mailbox_front() -> Mailbox::front()
+ - MSG_mailbox_get_by_alias() -> simgrid::s4u::Mailbox::byName(name)
+ - MSG_mailbox_get_task_ext() -> MSG_task_receive_ext()
+ - MSG_mailbox_get_task_ext_bounded -> MSG_task_receive_ext_bounded
+ - MSG_host_(get/set)_params -> MSG_vm_(get/set)_params
+ * Don't pass the free_f parameter to property related functions:
+ - MSG_host_set_property_value()
+ - MSG_as_router_set_property_value()
+ - MSG_storage_set_property_value()
+ * VM properties. Since msg_vm_t are msg_host_t, just use
+ MSG_host_get_property_value() and friends
+ * VM I/O related things:
+ - Ignored parameter of vm_create: core_nb, disk_path and disk_size.
+ - Unimplemented save/restore methods
+ * MSG_as_router_get_property_value() was redundent with
+ MSG_environment_as_get_property_value().
+ - Removed MSG_as_router_*propert*() functions
+ - Added MSG_environment_as_set_property_value() for consistency
+ * xbt heterogeneous dictionnaries (created with xbt_dict_new()).
+ Well, they are still there for now, but deprecated with a warning.
+ Please switch to xbt_dict_new_homogeneous() before this is removed
+ for real.
+ * Task affinity. Its intended behavior (that was very badly tested
+ and probably not really working) was deceiving what most users
+ would have hoped here.
+ * xbt_os_sem_get_value: unused internally, deprecated on OS X El Capitan
+ * Option network/coordinates is now useless and should be dropped.
+
+ Storage:
+ * Added option storage/max_file_descriptors to allow more than 1024 files opened
+
+ SURF:
+ * Added option maxmin/concurrency_limit to allow more than 100 processes per host
+ * Added Dragonfly topology support
+
+ XML:
+ * Add Exa- and Peta- units such as EiB, EB, Eib, Eb for size, and
+ EiBps, EBps, Eibps, Ebps for bandwidth.
+ They may become useful to some lucky ones.
+
+ Java:
+ * New functions: msg.Comm.waitAll() and msg.Comm.waitAny()
+ * ex/app_tokenring: new example, very similar to the MSG Token Ring
+ * ex/async_waitAll: new example, on asynchronous communications
+
+ MSG:
+ * Memory usage should be decreased for simulations with a large number
+ of processes. This also helps for SMPI.
+
+ -- Sat Dec 24 22:34:26 CET 2016 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
+
+SimGrid (3.13) stable; urgency=low
+
+ The Half Release, a.k.a. the Zealous Easter Trim.
+
+ - We removed half of the lines, that were mostly experimental cruft.
+ v3.12 lasted 286000 lines of code, v3.13 is only 142000 lines
+ (not counting blanks and comments -- according to openhub.net)
+ - The internals are now compiled in C++ (and will soon be clean C++)
+ - We removed 75 klines of XML, 12 klines of Java, 5 klines of cmake,
+ 59 klines of C, etc. We added only 29 klines of C++ in replacement.
+
* Backwards Compatibility breaks
- Removed Lua simulation bindings (switch to C or Java for that).
Lua can still be used to describe platforms
- the following functions were removed.
They were too specific and should be reimplemented in a generic
way, with filter function.
- - MSG_task_listen_from_host
- - MSG_mailbox_get_count_host_waiting_tasks
- - MSG_mailbox_put_with_timeout was removed.
- Please use MSG_task_send_with_timeout instead.
+ - MSG_task_listen_from_host
+ - MSG_mailbox_get_count_host_waiting_tasks
+ - MSG_mailbox_put_with_timeout was removed.
+ Please use MSG_task_send_with_timeout instead.
- In SimDag
- - the SD_application_reinit function was removed. It was a noop for a while.
+ - the SD_application_reinit function was removed. It has been a noop for a while.
- The ACCESS_MODE of SD_workstation has been removed. This feature was not really usable and should soon be
replaced by a more flexible mechanism.
- The following functions thus do not exist anymore
- SD_route_get_communication_time => SG_route_get_latency() + amount / SD_route_get_bandwidth()
- SD_workstation_get_computation_time => amount / sg_host_speed()
- In Java
- - VM.setBound(int load) is now VM.setBound(double bound) to meet the MSG semantics. Use VM.getSpeed()*load/100 for the legacy behavior.
+ - VM.setBound(int load) is now VM.setBound(double bound) to meet the MSG semantics.
+ Use VM.getSpeed()*load/100 for the legacy behavior.
- In CMake
- - option enable_tracing was removed. It was not doing anything since a while.
+ - option enable_tracing was removed. It was not doing anything for a while.
- In the ModelChecker:
- the model-checker now ptraces the model-checked process which means
you cannot use a debugger on the latter anymore (we might make this
MC_snapshot() and MC_compare_snapshot();
- keep the MC_cut() function as a stub (it was not really working
in the previous release).
-
+
Options:
* All options are consistently in kebab-case. Old names are kept as alias.
MSG_host_* and SD_workstation_* are #define to the sg_host_* ones
MSG
+ * The examples were completely reorganized (in C and Java), for your browsing pleasure.
* Kill all deprecated functions (the ones you had when declaring MSG_DEPRECATED).
They were deprecated since a few years, and probably did not even compile anymore.
include/simgrid/simdag.h
Simix
- * simgrid::simix::kernel() is the closure callback. It ensures that
+ * simgrid::simix::kernelImmediate() is the closure callback. It ensures that
the lambda or closure passed as a parameter will run in kernel mode.
- Every callbacks should be rewritten to that interface at some point.
-
+ All the callback functions should be rewritten to that interface at some point.
+
Surf
* Reorganizing and cleaning the internals all around the place.
They throw exceptions on invalid input;
* C++ support for declaring CLI flags (simgrid::config::Flag);
* class for abstracting different signal backends (simgrid::xbt::signal).
+ with no external dependencies (we need very simple signals).
MC
* refactoring and cleanup of the code;
* ongoing process to cleanly separate the model-checking algorithms
from the code model-checking support.
- -- $date Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
+ -- Wed Apr 27 21:00:53 CEST 2016 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
SimGrid (3.12) stable; urgency=low
XBT:
* Logs:
- Add new runtime parameters --help-logs and --help-log-categories
- to display informations about supported logging parameters and
+ to display information about supported logging parameters and
categories.
- Old deprecated parameters --{gras,surf,msg,simix,xbt}-log=...
don't exists anymore.
SIMIX:
* New SIMIX network module. Provides:
- - Mailbox: rendez-vous mecanism to find with who you want to speak
+ - Mailbox: rendez-vous mechanism to find with who you want to speak
- Synchronous send/recv: easier and hopefully faster since the
logic is handled in the maestro process directly now
- Asynchronous send/recv: you dreamt of it? It's here now
(just like the main() function)
GRAS new features and improvements:
- * New module mecanism where user code can use per process globals [Mt]
+ * New module mechanism where user code can use per process globals [Mt]
This is similar to gras_userdata_*() functions, but for libraries. It
factorize some code developped over and over in the examples and AMOK.
It has still to be documented and used (only amok/peermanagement is
converted for now).
- * Fix a vicious bug in the TCP buffering mecanism which leaded to message
+ * Fix a vicious bug in the TCP buffering mechanism which leaded to message
loss when they were small enough to fit into the buffer and sent quickly
enough so that they can all get received in one shoot.
* gras_datadesc_by_name and gras_msgtype_by_name: now raise an exception
XBT:
* When running manually src/testall, you select specific units [Mt]
- testall is the result of our cunit mecanism, and should replace all
+ testall is the result of our cunit mechanism, and should replace all
the scripty thingy around since bash don't run easily on billware.
* A mallocator system has been added. [Christophe Thiery]
. Lesson 3: Passing arguments to the processes (in SG)
. Lesson 4: Attaching callbacks to messages
. Lesson 5: Using globals in processes
- . Lesson 6: Logging informations properly
+ . Lesson 6: Logging information properly
. Lesson 7: Using internal timers
. Lesson 8: Handling errors through exceptions
. Lesson 9: Exchanging simple data
is up or down. [AL]
GRAS:
- * New! a real RPC mecanism, as it ought to be since too long. [MQ]
+ * New! a real RPC mechanism, as it ought to be since too long. [MQ]
Exception occurring on server-side are propagated back to client (!).
API CHANGE: the callback changed their prototype. Change:
- Don't use it for receive since we send data sizes and data on the
same stream, so we wouldn't be able to chain large amount of chunks
before having to flush the stuff to read the size.
- * Rework the transport plugin mecanism to simplify it and reduce the
+ * Rework the transport plugin mechanism to simplify it and reduce the
amount of pointer dereferencement when searching for the right function
to use.
XBT:
* New! Exception handling with setjmp or such (code from OSSP ex) [MQ]
- This deprecates the xbt_error_t mecanisms.
+ This deprecates the xbt_error_t mechanisms.
It modifies (simplifies) all XBT and GRAS API.
MSG API keeps unchanged (exceptions raised by XBT are catched from
within MSG and masked with existing error handling facilities)
* Add xbt_os_time(). As the rest of xbt/portability, this is not public
for users. Instead, each programming environment (GRAS, MSG,...) use it
when needed to provide such a feature to users.
- Don't shortcut the mecanism or you will also shortcut the virtualization
+ Don't shortcut the mechanism or you will also shortcut the virtualization
you need on the simulator.
>>>Martin<<<
* Rename gras_get_my_fqdn to gras_os_myname and implement it in the simulator
RL would imply a DNS resolver, which is *hard* to do in a portable way
(and therefore delayed).
- * Implement a real timer mecanism and use it in timing macros. This allows
+ * Implement a real timer mechanism and use it in timing macros. This allows
to avoid rounding errors and get a 0.000005 sec precision in timing
macros. While I was at it, various cleanups:
- allow to declare more than one timed section per file (fix a stupid bug)
2004-07-13 Martin Quinson
version 0.1
- - No major issue in previous version => change versionning schema
+ - No major issue in previous version => change versioning schema
- Re-enable little64 convertion test now that Abdou kindly regenerated the
corresponding dataset.
