-SimGrid (3.21) NOT RELEASED (Release Target: September 23. 2018, 1:54 UTC)
+SimGrid (3.23) NOT RELEASED (Release Target: June 21. 2019, 15:54 UTC)
+
+XBT:
+ - New log appenders: stdout and stderr. Use stdout for xbt_help.
+ - Drop xbt_dict_dump.
+
+Fixed bugs (GH=GitHub; FG=FramaGit):
+ - FG#10: Can not use MSG_process_set_data from SMPI any more
+ - GH#133: Java : a process can run on a VM even if its host is off
+ - GH#326: Valgrind-detected error for join() when energy plugin is activated
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+SimGrid (3.22) April 1. 2019
+
+The Easter Chrismas Release (this one is somewhat late).
+
+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 in the future. We need more
+ testers! Please report any glitches.
+ - No new project using Java should start now. Please switch to Python.
+
+General:
+ - Some of the internal cleanups may lead to speed improvements:
+ - The hard limitation on the amount of simulated actors with
+ Java+Mac was removed. Now, the available memory is the only limit.
+ - Our refcounting was tidyied, leading to 10% speedups in some cases.
+ - We are still working on making our code robust to the actor kills
+ and hosts' churn. Things are improving, but it's not perfect yet.
+ - Replaced 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.
+ - Add -gdb, -lldb, and -vgdb shortcuts to help debug MPI codes with smpirun
+ - MPI_Alltoallw support
+ - Partial MPI nonblocking collectives implementation: MPI_Ibcast, MPI_Ibarrier,
+ MPI_Iallgather, MPI_Iallgatherv, MPI_Ialltoall, MPI_Ialltoallv, MPI_Igather,
+ MPI_Igatherv, MPI_Iscatter, MPI_Iscatterv, MPI_Ialltoallw, MPI_Ireduce,
+ MPI_Iallreduce, MPI_Iscan, MPI_Iexscan, MPI_Ireduce_scatter,
+ MPI_Ireduce_scatter_block, with fortran bindings.
+ - MPI_Request_get_status, MPI_Status_set_cancelled, MPI_Status_set_elements
+ support, MPI_Comm_get_name, MPI_Comm_set_name
+ - Basic implementation of generalized requests (SMPI doesn't
+ allow MPI_THREAD_MULTIPLE) : MPI_Grequest_complete, MPI_Grequest_start
+
+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 xbt_str_join_array().
+ - 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
+ - #220: S4U: detached send causes exception if sender terminates soon after sending
+ - #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
+ - #324: S4U: Attempting to create an actor on turned off host segfaults instead of throwing
+ - #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.
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. This comes with new methods in the
- s4u::Storage class:
+ - 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
+ - read_async(sg_size_t) and write_async(sg_size_t) which are wrappers on
io_init() + start()
Tracing:
- 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
+ - #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?
- #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
* 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_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
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.
