+SimGrid (3.30.1) NOT RELEASED YET (v3.31 expected March 20. 2022, 15:33 UTC)
+
+MC:
+ - Rework the internals, for simpler and modern code. This shall unlock many future improvements.
+ - You can now define plugins onto SafetyChecker (a simple DFS explorer), using the declared signals.
+ See CommunicationDeterminism for an example.
+ - Support mutex, semaphore and barrier in DPOR reduction
+ - Seems to work on Arm64 architectures too.
+ - Display a nice error message when ptrace is not usable.
+ - New test suite, imported from the MPI Bugs Initiative (MBI). Not all MBI generators are integrated yet.
+ - Remove the ISP test suite: it's not free software, and it's superseeded by MBI.
+
+SMPI:
+ - fix for FG#100 by ensuring small asynchronous messages never overtake larger
+ ones, conforming to the standard.
+ - replay: fix waitall behaviour to avoid forgetting requests and leaking
+ their handles.
+ - tracing: ensure that we dump the TI traces continuously during execution and
+ not just at the end, reducing memory cost and performance hit.
+ - Update OpenMPI collectives selection logic to match current one (4.1.2)
+
+S4U:
+ - New signal: Engine::on_simulation_start_cb()
+ - Reimplementation of barriers natively.
+ Previously, they were implemented on top of s4u::Mutex and s4u::ConditionVariable.
+ The new version should be faster (and can be used in the model-checker).
+
+MSG:
+ - MSG_barrier_destroy now expects a non-const msg_barrier parameter.
+
+New plugin: the Chaos Monkey (killing actors at any time)
+ - Along with the new simgrid-monkey script, it tests whether your simulation
+ resists resource failures at any possible timestamp in your simulation.
+ - It is mostly intended to test the simgrid core in extreme conditions,
+ but users may find it interesting too.
+
+XBT:
+ - Drop xbt_dynar_shrink().
+
+Fixed bugs (FG#.. -> FramaGit bugs; FG!.. -> FG merge requests)
+ (FG: issues on Framagit; GH: issues on GitHub)
+ - FG#57: Mc SimGrid should test whether ptrace is usable
+ - FG#87: Smpi scripts fail with spaces in paths
+ - FG#100: [SMPI] Order of the message matching is not guaranteed
+ - FG#101: LGPL 2.1 is deprecated license
+ - GH#151: Missing mutexes for DPOR.
+
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-SimGrid (3.29.1) NOT RELEASED YET (v3.30 expected December 21. 2021, 15:59 UTC)
+SimGrid (3.30) January 30. 2022.
+
+The Sunday Bloody Sunday release.
Main user-visible changes:
- The SimDag API for the simulation of the scheduling of Directed Acyclic
- Introduce on_X_cb() functions for all signals, to attach a new
callback to the signal X. The signal variables are now hidden and
only these functions should be used.
- Rationale: this enables the usual deprecation schema where functions
+ Rationale: this enables the usual deprecation scheme where functions
remain for 4 releases if we need to modify the signals, while the
current code with the signal variables directly visible prevents any
smooth transition.
- New function: Engine::run_until(date), to split the simulation.
- New signal: Activity::on_veto, to detect when an activity fails to start.
+ - Signal change: Comm::on_start(Comm&, bool) has been replaced by
+ Comm::on_send and Comm::recv. These two signals respectively correspond to
+ when the sending or receiving side of a Comm is ready. They are raised at
+ the same locations as the former Comm::on_start signal.
- New function: Engine::track_vetoed_activities() to interrupt run()
when an activity fails to start, and to keep track of such activities.
Please see the corresponding example for more info.
+ - New functions: s4u::Comm::{sendto_init, set_source, set_destination} to enable
+ the use of vetoers with direct host-to-host communications. Both source and
+ destination have to set for a comm to start. Each call to these setters check
+ if all vetoes are satisfied. When it is the case, the comm starts. A use case of
+ these functions is given in examples/cpp/dag-scheduling.
+ - New functions: {Exec, Io}::update_priority allow you to modify the priority of
+ these kinds of activities during their execution. Behavior is detailed in
+ examples/cpp/io-priority/.
SMPI:
- Dynamic costs for MPI operations: New API to allow users to dynamically
change injected costs for MPI_Recv, MPI_Send and MPI_Isend operations.
Alternative for smpi/or, smpi/os and smpi/ois configuration options.
+ - Fix some issues with the replay mechanism.
XBT:
- Function xbt::Extendable::get_data() is now templated with the type of the
- FG#78: Multiple fixes for SMPI replay:
- TI tracing of allotallv/w was outputting wrong values
- MPI_LOGICAL in fortran is actually 32 bits wide, and not 8.
+
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