-SimGrid (3.17) UNRELEASED (release target: September 22 2017)
+SimGrid (3.22) NOT RELEASED (Release Target: December 21. 2018, 22:23 UTC)
+
+The Sneaky Release.
+
+Python:
+ - We are excited to introduce the SimGrid/S4U interface to your neighborhood
+ - Not complete yet: asynchronous activities (amongst others) are still missing
+ - Still ongoing: the interface may change a bit in the future (please
+ report any glitches), but it seems rather fast and reliable already.
+ - Forget about Java now (and soon about C++)
+
+Core:
+ - Replace our own code to display a backtrace (that was forking addr2line)
+ with the Boost.Stacktrace library.
+ You won't see your backtraces without this optional dependency.
+ - Bump cmake dependency to 3.5 (provided by Ubuntu 16.04).
+ - Stop setting random seed with srand() at initialization.
+
+XML
+ - In <host> and <peer>, 'availability_file' is now 'speed_file'.
+ XML file version remains 4.2 since old files are still compatible.
+
+Java:
+ - Process termination which was broken at version 3.21 has been repaired.
+ - Expose host load plugin: loadInit, getCurrentLoad, getComputedFlops, getAvgLoad
+ - Hide the examples into examples/deprecated. New users should use Python.
+
+MSG:
+ - Drop MSG_process_create_from_stdfunc() from the API.
+ This C++ function was a pimple in the C API, made necessary at some
+ point by the Java bindings. This is fixed now.
+ - Hide the examples into examples/deprecated. New users should use S4U.
+ - MSG_process_create and MSG_process_attach now crash if the host used
+ to run this process is off.
+ - Fix the protype of MSG_process_on_exit()
+ Now use (int,void*) callbacks instead of (void*,void*) ones.
+ The implementation was ways too messy to actually work, I guess.
+
+SMPI:
+ - Change the way SMPI_SAMPLE_* macros work to avoid invalidating cache
+ too often and provide more accurate timings.
+
+XBT:
+ - Drop sg_cmdline. Please use xbt_cmdline instead.
+ - Drop the C xbt_os_mutex_t; Use the C++11 std::mutex.
+ - Drop the C xbt_os_sem_t; Use the C++ xbt::OsSemaphore.
+ OsSemaphore is implemented in a portable way with C++11 threads.
+ This should allow much more threads to be created at the same time,
+ allowing Mac and Java users to simulate many more actors.
+ - Implement the 'thread' factory with std::thread instead of xbt ones.
+ It is not possible to set the stack size with threads anymore, but
+ -fsplit-stack is the way to go nowadays when using threads.
+ - Drop the xbt_os_thread_t module (now unused)
+ - Drop xbt_ex_display(), use simgrid::xbt::log_exception() instead.
+ - Drop cunit, use Catch2 instead.
+
+Kernel:
+ - Many cleanups in the kernel::activity namespace. This was long
+ overdue, and shall open the path to many future endeavors.
+
+Fixed bugs:
+ - #132: Java: a process can not shut down its own host
+ - #261: Document the parameters of parallel execution's constructor
+ - #300: [s4u] BarrierPtr is missing
+ - #314: SMPI args internal cleanup
+ - #316: Fix a bug related to the CPU utilization of multi-core VM
+ - #318: Invalid trace file when using option --cfg=tracing/smpi/display-sizes:yes
+ - #325: Turning off a host has different behavior on sleeping actors and computing actors
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+SimGrid (3.21) October 3. 2018
+
+The Restarting Documentation (TRD) Release.
+
+Documentation:
+ - Convert the user manual to Sphinx for improved usability.
+ Unstable version now hosted on https://simgrid.frama.io/simgrid
+ Many glitches remain; stay tuned.
+ - Restrict the Doxygen reference API to the installed header files.
+ (documenting all internals this way is overkill + doxygen scales badly)
+ - New tutorial on S4U (highly inspired from the old MSG one, but with
+ a git repository to fork as a starting point, and a docker image)
+ - Started but not finished a SMPI tutorial inspired from the JLPC'14 one.
+ - The Developper manual is still to be converted (not compiled until then)
+ - Some parts are still missing in this conversion (such as the
+ platform and deployment sections) while others were blindly converted
+ and would need more love (such as the configuration flags).
+ Things will certainly further improve in the future releases.
+
+S4U new features:
+ - Fully reimplement auto_restart mechanism that was utterly broken
+ (fix #22, #131 and #281 that were all very related)
+ - Implement semaphores (fix #303 and #291)
+ - When creating an actor from a function and its parameters,
+ move-only parameters are not allowed anymore, as it would prevent
+ the actor to be restartable if its parameters are consumed on run.
+ - s4u::Io: IOs go asynchronous as activities. New methods in s4u::Storage:
+ - io_init(sg_size_t, s4u::Io::OpType) to create a READ or WRITE asynchronous
+ IO operations that can be started, waited for, or canceled as a regular
+ activity.
+ - read_async(sg_size_t) and write_async(sg_size_t) which are wrappers on
+ io_init() + start()
+
+Tracing:
+ - Rename 'power' and 'power_used' variables into 'speed' and 'speed_used'
+ - New host variable: 'core_count'
+
+XBT:
+ - Remove xbt_os_thread_specific features
+ - Remove portability wrapper to condition variables
+ - Remove xbt_os_thread_yield()
+
+SMPI:
+ - MPICH collective selector now mimics MPICH 3.3b
+ - OpenMPI collective selector now mimics OpenMPI 3.1.2 (default "tuned" setting)
+ - MPI_Init(NULL,NULL) is now allowed
+ - smpi/wtime option now injects time in gettimeofday or clock_gettime calls
+ - Command-line arguments should now be handled properly in Fortran simulations
+ - MPI Attributes and related callbacks should work in Fortran
+ - Apps using C + Fortran should now work
+ - MPI_* calls now check for non MPI_SUCCESS return values and emit warnings
+ - Support MPI_Error_String
+
+Java:
+ - Due to an internal bug, Msg.run() must now be your last line.
+ We hope to fix it in a future release, and we are sorry for the inconvenience.
+
+Fixed bugs:
+ - #22: Process autorestart seem to only work with CAS01 cpus
+ - #56: Feature request: dynamic SMPI replay
+ - #93: simgrid should not eat --help
+ - #111: How to change the loopback link characteristics?
+ - #116: Platform cluster radical
+ - #117: Platform cluster/host order
+ - #129: Replay_multiple on steroid
+ - #131: Java : autostart does not work
+ - #143: Setting a breakpoint at a given time
+ - #235: Network energy models should be integrated
+ - #264: Add ptask L07 resource tracing
+ - #271: Dynamic and manual replay of SMPI traces
+ - #279: Breakpoints option uses time deltas instead of absolute time
+ - #281: Daemonized actor no longer daemonized after an auto-restart
+ - #282: TIT convertor erase traces when using absolute path in the trace list file
+ - #285: segfault when a s4u actor kills itself with msg process tracing activated
+ - #286: Pajé traces are not exposing the number of cores
+ - #287: Command-line parsing should stop when encountering '--'
+ - #288: MPI_Init(NULL, NULL)
+ - #289: Improve documentation of Actor::on_destruction and this_actor::on_exit()
+ - #290: Method to check if a mailbox has a message ready to be consumed
+ - #291: [s4u] semaphores do not seem available yet
+ - #294: Alltoall collective implementation of mpich
+ - #295: Starting a Host as OFF is not supported
+ - #296: DTD too permissive
+ - #299: Add a s4u barrier example
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+SimGrid (3.20) Released June 24. 2018
+
+The proxy snake_case() release.
+
+S4U:
+ - The whole API is now using snake_case() instead of mixing it with camelCase.
+ Compatibility wrappers in place for one year.
+ - We took the opportunity to increase the consistency of the API.
+ Please report any remaining glitches.
+ - New function simgrid::s4u::Host::get_actor_count:
+ Returns the number of actors running on a specific host.
+
+SMPI:
+ - SMPI is now tested with ~45 proxy apps from various sources, with none or
+ only minor patching needed: check https://github.com/simgrid/SMPI-proxy-apps
+ - Replay: The replay file has been re-written in C++.
+ - Replay: Tags used for messages sent via MPI_Send / MPI_Recv are now
+ supported. They are stored in the trace and used when replayed.
+ - Basic support of MPI_Cancel. Robustness not guaranteed.
+ - Support of MPI_Win_allocate_shared, MPI_Win_shared_query, MPI_Comm_split_type
+ (only for MPI_COMM_TYPE_SHARED).
+ - New option: smpi/privatize-libs, to add external shared libs to be privatized
+ by SMPI. They will be copied locally and loaded separately by each process.
+ Example --cfg=smpi/privatize-libs:"libgfortran.so.3;libscalapack.so".
+ - Tracing: add tracing for MPI_Start, Startall, Testall, Testany
+ - Interception of getopt, getopt_long and getopt_long_only calls to avoid issues
+ with internal index optind with multiple processes. Only works if MPI_Init has
+ already been called.
+ - Fortran: SMPI builds a mpi.mod file which should allow use of "use mpi"
+ syntax without preprocessing tricks.
+
+TRACE
+ - Change --cfg=tracing/msg/vm to --cfg=tracing/vm as virtual machine
+ behavior tracing is no longer limited to MSG
+ - TIT (Time Independent Traces): We finally support tags. Unfortunately,
+ this means that traces now need to be updated or re-obtained; both Irecv
+ and Isend lines in your traces have now in total 5 mandatory fields:
+ <rankid> <command> <to/from rankid> <tag> <size>
+ To update your traces, it suffices to add a 0 for the tag here.
+ - TIT now also supports waiting for a distinct request via MPI_Wait.
+ Wait/Test now wait for a specific request, not just the last one that was
+ issued. This unfortunately means another update, because we need to
+ identify which request you want to wait for. We do this via the
+ triplet (sender, receiver, tag), which needs to be added:
+ <rankid> <command> <sender> <receiver> <tag>
+ - Actions are now in lower case (e.g., "allReduce" becomes "allreduce").
+ New script simgrid_convert_TI_traces.py: upgrade your TI traces.
+
+MSG
+ - The deprecation of MSG is ongoing (but this should not impact you).
+ Many MSG functions are now simple wrappers on the C API of S4U. If
+ you wish to convert your code to S4U, find the S4U counterparts of
+ your MSG calls in src/msg/msg_legacy.cpp.
+ - MSG can still be used, but won't evolve anymore.
+
+Plugins:
+ - Allow to run the Link energy plugin from the command line with
+ --cfg=plugin:link_energy
+ - Rename Energy plugin into host_energy
+ - Rename Load plugin into host_load
+
+simix:
+ - Add parameter --cfg=simix/breakpoint to raise a SIGTRAP at given time.
+ - kill simix::onDeadlock() that was somewhat dupplicating s4u::on_deadlock()
+ - Improve performance when handling timeouts of simix synchros.
+
+XBT:
+ - Config: the C API is now deprecated (will be removed in 3.23), and
+ the C++ API has been slightly improved.
+
+Other:
+ - Fix several build issues on OSX.
+ - Move simgrid_config.h to simgrid/config.h (old header still working)
+
+Fixed bugs:
+ - #143: Setting a breakpoint at a given time
+ - #150: Inconsistent event names in SMPI replay
+ - #258: daemonized actors hang after all non-daemonized actors have completed
+ - #267: Linker error on unit_tmgr
+ - #269: SMPI: tracing of MPI_Wait/all/any broken
+ - SMPI: Fix various crashes with combined use of MPI_PROC_NULL and MPI_IGNORE_STATUS
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+SimGrid (3.19.1) Released March 22 2018
+
+ The Fixed ABI Release.
+
+ As you may know, we are currently refactoring SimGrid in deep.
+ Upcoming SimGrid4 will be really different from SimGrid3: modular,
+ standard and extensible vs. layered, homegrown and rigid. C++ vs. C.
+
+ Our goal is to smooth this transition, with backward compatibility
+ and automatic update paths, while still progressing toward SimGrid4.
+
+ SimGrid remains open during works: The last pure SimGrid3 release was
+ v3.12 while all subsequent versions are usable alpha versions of
+ SimGrid4: Existing interfaces remain unchanged, but the new S4U
+ interface is budding and the internals are deeply reorganized.
+
+ Since 2015, we work hard to reduce the changes to public APIs. When
+ we need to rename a public library symbol in S4U, we let your
+ compiler issue an explicative warning when you use the deprecated
+ function. These messages remain for four releases, i.e. for one full
+ year, before turning into an error. Starting with v3.15, your can
+ also adapt to API changes with the SIMGRID_VERSION macro, that is
+ defined to 31500 for v3.15, to 31901 for v3.19.1 and so on.
+
+ Starting with this v3.19.1, our commitment to reduce the changes to
+ the public interfaces is extended from the API to the ABI: a program
+ using only MSG or SimDag and compiled against a given version of
+ simgrid can probably be used with a later version of SimGrid without
+ recompilation. We will do our best... but don't expect too much of
+ it, that's a really difficult goal during such profund refactoring.
+
+ The difference between v3.19 and v3.19.1 is that the former was
+ accidentally breaking the ABI of MSG, while the later is restoring
+ the previous ABI.
+
+ S4U and kernel APIs will still evolve until SimGrid4, with one-year
+ deprecation warnings as currently. In fact, cleaning up these
+ interfaces and converting them to snake_case() is one release goal of
+ v3.20. But don't worry, we are working to smooth this upgrade path.
+
+ In summary, new projects should start with S4U to benefit of the
+ future, but old MSG projects should still be usable with no change.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+SimGrid (3.19) Released March 20 2018
+
+ The Moscovitly-cold Spring release.
+
+ SMPI user-visible improvements:
+ - Support of MPI_Type_create_subarray
+ - Unimplemented MPI calls now abort (instead of issuing a warning)
+ Some harmless calls around errhandlers still only issue a warning.
+ - MPI_Sendrecv was behaving badly when MPI_PROC_NULL was sender or receiver.
+ - Starting MPI ranks (or even MSG/S4U actors) once the simulation started
+ is now possible (mmap privatization was refactored to this end).
+ Adding new SMPI instances should also be technically doable now.
+
+ SMPI internal cleanups:
+ - Removed index notion from SMPI -- no more "getPid() - 1"!
+ In tracing files, actors are called rank-<PROCESS-ID> but these are
+ NOT the real ranks (tracing several communicators is not supported yet).
+ - Deprecate smpi_process_index() (will be removed in 3.22)
+ - Better testing on classical proxy apps, through an external project:
+ https://github.com/simgrid/SMPI-proxy-apps/
+
+ Documentation
+ - Use a graphical TOC to make it easier to find the documentation you need
+ - Revamp the MSG tutorial
+
+ MSG
+ - Fix MSG_task_get_remaining_work_ratio(): return 1.0 for unstarted tasks.
+ - Remove parameter of MSG_process_killall().
+ Resetting the PID was bogus anyway (several actors could have the same PID).
S4U
- - Comm.detach(): start and forget about asynchronous emission
+ - Execution->setHost() can be called after start(), to migrate it.
+ - Comm::test_any() is now implemented.
+ - s4u::Actor now has onCreation() and onDestruction() signals.
+ - Install some kernel header files for the users' plugins and more.
+ Warning, their API is really not stable yet.
+ include/simgrid/kernel/resource/{Action,Resource,Model}.hpp
+ include/simgrid/kernel/routing/*Zone.hpp
+
+ SimDag
+ - SD_task_dependency_add(): remove unused parameters 'name' and 'data'.
+
+ Build System and other cleanups:
+ - Remove unused run-time parameter "tracing/onelink-only".
+ - SimGrid now works with intel compilers (MC still buggy)
+ - Remove XBT_LOG_CONNECT, it should be useless nowadays.
+ - tesh kills subprocesses on timeout (but not on windows)
+
+ PLATFORM:
+ - Rename FULLDUPLEX into SPLITDUPLEX (old name still accepted)
+
+ Fixed bugs:
+ - #194: Feature request: simgrid::s4u::Comm::test_any()
+ - #245: migrating an actor does not migrate its execution
+ - #253: Feature Request: expose clusters as objects
+ - #254: Something seems wrong with s4u::Actor::kill(aid_t)
+ - #255: Tesh broken on Windows
+ - #256: Modernize FindSimGrid.cmake
+ - #257: Fix (ab)use of CMake install
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+SimGrid (3.18) Released December 24 2017
+
+ The "Ho Ho Ho! SimGrid 4 beta is coming to town" release.
+
+ MSG IS NOW DEPRECATED. Please use S4U for new projects.
+ - Support for MSG should not be removed from SimGrid before 2020,
+ but future evolutions will be limited to the integration of
+ user-provided patches.
+
+ S4U New features
+ - s4u::onDeadlock() signal, run before stopping the simulation.
+ - s4u::Exec: asynchronous executions (abstraction of background
+ threads)
+ - s4u::Host->getLoad() returns the achieved speed in flops/s
+
+ S4U API changes
+ - Link::name() is deprecated and will be removed in v3.21, use
+ Link::getCname() instead.
+ - Mailbox::getName() changed to return a std::string, use
+ Mailbox::getCname() instead to get a char*.
+ - Storage::getName() changed to return a std::string, use
+ Storage::getCname() instead to get a char*.
+ - s4u::allStorages() becomes s4u::getStorageList(whereTo)
+ to have both allocation and deallocation of the map in user space.
+
+ MSG
+ - Forbid the use of MSG_task_get_flops_amount() on parallel tasks:
+ The amount of flops remaining to do is a vector, not a scalar.
+ - Introduce MSG_task_get_remaining_work_ratio(), which does what its
+ name implies on both sequential and parallel tasks.
+ - Both changes fix GitHub's #223 using PR #237 as a basis.
+ Thanks Michael Mercier.
+ - Most examples were converted to S4U and hidden elsewhere at tests.
+ Rationale: we still want MSG to work; we want newcomers to use S4U.
+
+ SURF
+ - LMM stuff moved to its own namespace: simgrid::kernel::lmm.
+ - Renamed LMM classes (e.g. s_lmm_system_t -> System).
+
+ SMPI
+ - Switch to the faster dlopen privatization mechanism by default
+ - Documentation improvments
+
+ Virtual Machines
+ - Live migration is getting moved to a plugin. Dirty page tracking is
+ the first part of this plugin. This imply that VM migration is now
+ only possible if one this function is called:
+ - C/MSG: MSG_vm_live_migration_plugin_init()
+ - C/C++: sg_vm_live_migration_plugin_init()
+ - Java: Msg.liveMigrationInit()
+ For C and C++, "simgrid/plugins/live_migration.h" also has to be
+ included.
+
+ XBT
+ - Define class simgrid::xbt::Path to manage file names.
+ - Removed unused functions:
+ - xbt/file.h: xbt_basename(), xbt_dirname(), xbt_getline()
+ - xbt/graph.h: xbt_graph_edge_get_length(), xbt_graph_edge_set_length,
+ xbt_graph_export_graphviz()
+ - xbt/str.h: xbt_str_join()
+ - Remove unused datatypes:
+ - xbt/heap.h: use std::priority_queue or boost::heap instead
+ - xbt/swag.h: use boost::intrusive::list instead
+
+ PLUGINS:
+ - New link_energy plugin for the consumption of the links.
+ - All of the operations on files and storage contents have been
+ packaged into a plugin (src/plugins/file_system). The current
+ public interface can be found in
+ include/simgrid/plugins/file_system.h
+ To use these functions you now have to initialize the plugin by
+ calling MSG_storage_file_system_init() just after calling
+ MSG_init() or sg_storage_file_system_init() just after creating
+ the Engine.
+
+ XML
+ - Remove the undocumented/untested tag <include>
+
+ TRACE
+ - Remove viva specific tracing as the tool is no longer maintained
+
+ Fixed bugs:
+ - #248: Kill of finished processes leads to segfault
+ - #240: xbt_cond_wait_timeout should gracefully return for C apps
+ - #239: please implement signal s4u::onDeadlock()
+ - #230: segfaults when exit() without run()
+ - #225: s4u::Actor::kill() doesn not really kill victims in a join()
+ - #223: MSG_task_get_flops_amount() not working with parallel tasks
+ - #222: Actor::kill() doesn't really kill and segfaults
+ - #221: odd LMM warning when killing an actor
+ - #120: Memory leak when the processes are forcefully killed
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+SimGrid (3.17) Released October 8 2017
+
+ The Drained Leaks release: (almost) no known leaks despite the tests.
+
+ Even very long simulations will preserve your memory: our testsuite
+ stresses SimGrid for over 45mn on fast machines for a coverage of
+ over 80%, and there is only one single known leak, of about 4kb.
+
+
+ S4U
+ - Comm.detach(): start and forget about asynchronous emission. A cleanup
+ handler may be given to free resources if the comm cannot be completed.
- this_actor::send(mailbox) is now mailbox->put()
+ - New: simgrid::s4u::Comm::wait_all()
+ - New: Host.execute() for remote executions.
+
+ SURF
+ - Unused option network/sender-gap is removed.
+
+ MSG
+ - Deprecate MSG_task_isend_with_matching(): This unused feature
+ really complicates our internals. Will be removed in v3.20.
+
+ Simix
+ - Improved context termination. It is now possible to free resources, even
+ when a process is forcibly killed.
+ - ContextBoost: add support for Boost versions above 1.61.
+
+ XBT
+ - Bring back run-time option --cfg=exception/cutpath to remove exception
+ backtraces.
+ - Removed unused functions:
+ - xbt/str.h: xbt_str_split_str(), xbt_str_subst(), xbt_str_ltrim(),
+ xbt_str_rtrim(), xbt_str_trim().
+ - xbt/xbt_os_thread.h: xbt_os_thread_cancel(), xbt_os_thread_detach().
+
+ Misc
+ - Removed header files obsolete since SimGrid 3.12:
+ msg/datatypes.h, msg/msg.h, simdag/datatypes.h, simdag/simdag.h.
+ - Fix many bugs:
+ - #3: SD_exit should be made optional
+ - #120: Memory leak when the processes are forcefully killed
+ - #159: Threading test regression in Actor refcounting
+ - #170: simgrid::s4u::Comm::wait_any() returns too many comms
+ - #185: simgrid::s4u::Engine::instance()->shutdown() segfaults
+ - #186: Actor::killAll() segfaults if some process is blocked on wait()
+ - #191: VM migration and pstate
+ - #192: Updating the energy consumptions of all hosts crashes with VMs
+ - #195: All actors have PID=0 in the logs
+ - #204: Sometimes segfault with thread contexts and mmap privatization
+ - #222: Actor::kill() doesn't really kill and segfaults
+ - #225: Actor::kill() doesn't really kill when victims are doing a join()
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
SimGrid (3.16) Released June 22. 2017.
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.
+ now returns void.
Virtual Machines
- Allow multicore VMs, with the correct sharing (unless you overcommit)
SMPI
- New algorithm to privatize globals: dlopen, with dynamic loading tricks
- New option: smpi/keep-temps to not cleanup temp files
- - New option : smpi/shared-malloc-blocksize . Relevant only when global shared
+ - New option: smpi/shared-malloc-blocksize . Relevant only when global shared
mallocs mode is used, allows to change the size of the fake file used
(default 1MB), to potentially limit the number of mappings for large runs.
- Support for sparse privatized malloc with SMPI_PARTIAL_SHARED_MALLOC()
- Fortran ifort and flang compilers support
- - New RMA calls supported (experimental) :
+ - New RMA calls supported (experimental):
- MPI_Win_allocate, MPI_Win_create_dynamic, MPI_Win_attach
- MPI_Win_detach, MPI_Win_set_info, MPI_Win_get_info
- MPI_Win_lock_all, MPI_Win_unlock_all, MPI_Win_flush
MSG
- New: MSG_process_yield(). Stop and yield to other processes.
- - New: MSG_process_daemon(). Daemon processes are automatically killed
+ - 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()
- 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.
+ - 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 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.
+ 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.
SimDag
- Backwards Compatibility breaks
- - The SD_route_get_list and SD_route_get_size functions have been removed.
- They are replaced by the unique
+ - 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
+ 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.
+ 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++).
+ - 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.
+ - 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
+ - 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.
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
+ 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
* 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
+ * 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.
+ * SMPI tracing: fixed issue with poor matching of send/receives.
- * Replay : Fix broken waitall
+ * Replay: Fix broken waitall
New functions and features
* MSG_parallel_task_execute_with_timeout, to timeout computations.
* 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().
+ * MSG_as_router_get_property_value() was redundant 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.
+ * 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
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:
+
+ Storage:
* Added option storage/max_file_descriptors to allow more than 1024 files opened
SURF:
XML:
* Add Exa- and Peta- units such as EiB, EB, Eib, Eb for size, and
- EiBps, EBps, Eibps, Ebps for bandwidth.
+ 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
+ * Memory usage should be decreased for simulations with a large number
of processes. This also helps for SMPI.
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,
+ - 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
way, with filter function.
- MSG_task_listen_from_host
- MSG_mailbox_get_count_host_waiting_tasks
- - MSG_mailbox_put_with_timeout was removed.
+ - 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 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
+ - In SimDag
+ - 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_workstation_get_access_mode
- 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.
+ - 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 for a while.
flops that a <host>, <peer>, <cluster> or <cabinet> can deliver per second.
- In <trace_connect>, attribute kind="POWER" is now kind="SPEED".
- In <host> and <link>, attributes availability and state are gone.
- It was redundent with state and availability traces, and with peak values.
+ It was redundant with state and availability traces, and with peak values.
- In <cluster>, attributes availability_file and state_file are gone.
It was too complex and unused.
- Kill <gpu>. Was not doing anything.
And the same in bits: 'Tibps', 'Gibps', 'Mibps', 'Kibps', 'Tbps', 'Gbps', 'Mbps', 'kbps', 'bps'
- latency. Default: 's' second. Also defined:
'w' week, 'd' day, 'h' hour, 'm' minute, 'ms' millisecond, 'us' microsecond, 'ns' nanosecond, 'ps' picosecond
-
+
* bin/simgrid_update_xml can upgrade your files automatically (won't convert unit-less values)
tools/sg_xml_unit_converter.py may help (but it's just a warning and will probably ever be).
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).
+ * 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.
SimDag
- * The API has been profoundly modified to directly use the core objects instead of redefining its own.
+ * The API has been profoundly modified to directly use the core objects instead of redefining its own.
SD_Workstation_t and SD_link_t are now sg_host_t and sg_link_t respectively.
- Some functions have also been renamed for consistency. Backward compatibility is maintained, but users are
- encouraged to update their codes. A list of the modified functions can be found at the end of
+ Some functions have also been renamed for consistency. Backward compatibility is maintained, but users are
+ encouraged to update their codes. A list of the modified functions can be found at the end of
include/simgrid/simdag.h
Simix
* refactoring and cleanup of the code;
* ongoing process to cleanly separate the model-checking algorithms
from the code model-checking support.
-
+
-- Wed Apr 27 21:00:53 CEST 2016 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
SimGrid (3.12) stable; urgency=low
SMPI:
* New functions
- - 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.
+ - 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.
- MPI_Keyval*, MPI_Attr* functions, as well as MPI_Comm_attr*, MPI_Type_attr* variants (C only, no Fortran support yet)
- MPI_Type_set_name, MPI_Type_get_name
- MPI_*_c2f and MPI_*_f2c functions
- Activate a lot of new tests from the mpich 3 testsuite
* Features
- Constant times can be injected inside MPI_Wtime and MPI_Test through options smpi/wtime and smpi/test
- - InfiniBand network model added : Based on the works of Jerome Vienne
+ - InfiniBand network model added: Based on the works of Jerome Vienne
http://mescal.imag.fr/membres/jean-marc.vincent/index.html/PhD/Vienne.pdf
- When smpi/display_timing is set, also display global simulation time and application times
- Have smpirun, smpicc and friends display the simgrid git hash version on --git-version
* Collective communications
- 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
- - 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/).
+ - 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/).
- Support for Rabenseifner Reduce/Allreduce algorithms (https://fs.hlrs.de/projects/par/mpi//myreduce.html)
* Replay
- Replay now uses algorithms from wanted collective selector
- Memory occupation of replay should now be contained (temporary buffers allocated in collective algorithms should be shared between processes)
- 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.
* Bug fixes
- - [#17799] : have mpi_group_range_incl and mpi_group_range_excl better test some corner cases
+ - [#17799]: have mpi_group_range_incl and mpi_group_range_excl better test some corner cases
- Correctly use loopback on fat-tree clusters
- Asynchronous small messages shouldn't trigger deadlocks anymore
* Energy/DVFS cleanup and improvement
* New functions
- Add a xbt_heap_update function, to avoid costly xbt_heap_remove+xbt_heap_insert use
- Add a xbt wrapper for simcall_mutex_trylock (asked in [#17878])
- - Add two new log appenders : rollfile and splitfile. Patch by Fabien Chaix.
+ - Add two new log appenders: rollfile and splitfile. Patch by Fabien Chaix.
- xbt_dirname and xbt_basename for non-POSIX systems
MC
* The model checker now runs as a separate process.
one node.
* Collective communication algorithms should not crash if used with
improper number of nodes and report the error.
- * SMPI now partially supports MPI_Topologies : MPI_Cart_create, MPI_Cart_shift,
+ * SMPI now partially supports MPI_Topologies: MPI_Cart_create, MPI_Cart_shift,
MPI_Cart_rank, MPI_Cart_get, MPI_Cart_coords, MPI_Cartdim_get,
MPI_Dims_create, MPI_Cart_sub are supported.
* New interface to use SMPI programmatically (still depends on MSG for
- some parts, see examples/smpi/smpi_msg_masterslave) :
+ some parts, see examples/smpi/smpi_msg_masterslave):
- SMPI_app_instance_register(const char *name, xbt_main_func_t code,
int num_processes)
- SMPI_init()
- SMPI_finalize();
* Global variables privatization in MPI executables is now performed at runtime
with the option smpi/privatize_global_variables (default:no).
- Limitations : Linux/BSD only, with mmap enabled. Global variables inside
+ Limitations: Linux/BSD only, with mmap enabled. Global variables inside
dynamic libraries loaded by the application are not privatized (static
linking with these libraries is advised in this case)
- allows to select one in particular with --cfg=smpi/coll_name:algorithm
- allows to use the decision logic of OpenMPI(1.7) or MPICH(3.0.4) by setting
--cfg=smpi/coll_selector:(mpich/ompi)
- * Support for new functions : MPI_Issend, MPI_Ssend, Commutative operations in
+ * Support for new functions: MPI_Issend, MPI_Ssend, Commutative operations in
Reduce
* Add a --cfg:tracing/smpi/internals option, to trace internal communications
happening inside a collective SMPI call.
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 :
+ 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)
action_free ~> action_unref
action_change_state ~> action_state_set
action_get_state ~> action_state_get
- - Change model methods into functions :
+ - Change model methods into functions:
(model)->common_public->action_use ~> surf_action_ref
* Implement a generic resource; use it as ancestor to specific ones
* After a (long ?) discussion on simgrid-devel, we have decided that the
convention we had on units was stupid. That is why it has been decided
to move from (MBits, MFlops, seconds) to (Bits, Flops, seconds).
- WARNING : This means that all previous platform files will not work as
+ WARNING: This means that all previous platform files will not work as
such with this version! A warning is issued to ask users to update
their files. [AL]
A conversion script can be found in the contrib module of the CVS, under
* REVOLUTION 1: The SimGrid project has merged with the GRAS project
lead by Martin Quinson. As a consequence SimGrid gains a lot in
portability, speed, and a lot more but you'll figure it out later.
- SimGrid now comprises 3 different projects : MSG, GRAS and SMPI.
+ SimGrid now comprises 3 different projects: MSG, GRAS and SMPI.
I wanted to release the new MSG as soon as possible and I have
broken GRAS, which is the reason why, for now, only MSG is fully
functional. A laconic description of these projects is available
* REVOLUTION 3: I have tried to change a little as possible the API of
MSG but a few things really had to disappear. The main differences
- with the previous version are :
+ with the previous version are:
1) no more m_links_t and the corresponding functions. Platforms are
directly read from a XML description and cannot be hard-coded
anymore. The same format is used for application deployment
