-SimGrid (3.14) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+SimGrid (3.16) UNRELEASED
+
+ Portability status:
+ - FreeBSD: Disable SMPI mmap privatization, switch automatically to dlopen.
+ - Mac, BSD: dlopen+thread broken, switch automatically to raw contexts.
+ - Java JAR file should be finally fully working on Mac OSX too.
+
+ XML platforms: Switch to platform v4.1 format.
+ * This is (mainly) a backward compatible change: v4 are valid v4.1 files
+ - <zone> can be used as a synonym for the now deprecated <as>
+ - <zoneZoute> an be used as a synonym for the now deprecated <asroute>
+ - <bypassZoneRoute> an be used as a synonym for the now deprecated <bypassAsRoute>
+ - <actor> can be used as a synonym for the now deprecated <process>
+ - state_file and avail_file periodicity is now easier to express
+ (check the documentation) the old behavior should still work.
+ * Storage: not backward compatible, but it seems that nobody ever used it
+ - Remove attribute 'content_type' of <storage_type>: was never used
+ - Make attribute 'model' of <storage_type> optional: for future usage
+ - Remove Bconnection model property: was never (in)validated. Replaced by
+ the maximum of the read and write bandwidth as a resource constraint.
+
+ 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.
+
+ Virtual Machines
+ - Allow multicore VMs, along with the correct sharing computations
+
+ MSG
+ - The netzone are now available from the MSG API.
+ The old names still work, but are now deprecated.
+
+ SMPI
+ - New algorithm to privatize globals: dlopen, with dynamic loading tricks
+ - New option: smpi/keep-temps to not cleanup temp files
+ - Support for sparse privatized malloc with SMPI_PARTIAL_SHARED_MALLOC()
+
+ XBT
+ - Replay: New function xbt_replay_action_get():
+ Retrieve the function previously associated to an event type.
+ - DROPPED FUNCTION: xbt_str_varsubst()
+ - DROPPED MODULE: strbuff. We don't need it anymore.
+ - DROPPED MODULE: matrix. We don't need it anymore.
+ - DROPPED MODULE: lib. We don't need it anymore.
+
+ -- 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
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.
* 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.
- 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
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
* ex/app_tokenring: new example, very similar to the MSG Token Ring
* ex/async_waitAll: new example, on asynchronous communications
- -- $date Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
+ 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
