-SimGrid (3.3-cvs) unstable; urgency=low
+SimGrid (3.4-svn) unstable; urgency=high
+
+ OVERALL CHANGES:
+ * Tested successfully on AIX
+
+ GRAS:
+ * fix a bug on struct sizeof computation, which prevented the
+ exchange of arrays of structs in some conditions
+ - added a regression test about this in datadesc_usage
+ * Allow the exchange of 0-long dynamic vectors.
+ - for that, use -1 as indicator of dynamic size instead of 0
+ - This implied to change any size from unsigned long to long,
+ reducing a bit communication abilities, but I guess that with
+ 64bits being quite common, this is more than enough.
+ - This also induce a protocol change, thus bumping network protocol
+ version from 0 to 1 (if we have external users, we have to get
+ clean on that point too ;)
+ - added two regression tests about this in datadesc_usage
+ * Be more verbose when propagating local exceptions
+ This helps debugging.
+ * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT in
+ simulation mode
+
+ MSG:
+ * Allow to control the simulation from a trace file.
+ New functions MSG_action_register() and MSG_action_trace_run()
+ The first one allows to associate a function execution to each
+ kind of action while the second one parses a trace file and
+ triggers the corresponding actions within the system.
+ For now, only a toy example is provided in examples/msg/actions
+ * Add an exemple of process migration in examples/msg/migration
+ * Fix a bug in task exchange which broke MSG_task_get_sender()
+ Add a teshsuite regression test for that.
+ [Bug: if MSG_task_get_sender() is called after sender exit,
+ bad things happen]
+ * Fix a bug which prevented suspend/resume to work properly
+ * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT
+ This fixes a regression of v3.3. due to the introduction of SIMIX
+ * Bug fixing in failure management:
+ - trace could not start by a failure at time 0
+ - failure during communications were not working
+
+ SIMIX:
+ * Add SIMIX_process_set_name() to change the name of the current
+ process in the log messages.
+ * Store smx_hosts in a dict since we only retrieve them by name
+ * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
+
+ SIMDAG:
+ * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
+
+ XBT:
+ * Also include strbuff from xbt.h public header
+ * xbt_ex_display(): do not free the exception after displaying
+ This allows to do more with the given exception afterward.
+ Users should call xbt_ex_free() themselves.
+
+ SMPI:
+ * Massive internal cleanups:
+ - Store internal structures on processes instead of hosts (allows
+ to have more than one process per host, in addition of being more
+ logical)
+ - Cleanup the initialization/finalization process
+ - Kill a whole bunch of unneeded synchronization:
+ processes run in exclusive manner within the simulator
+ - Move queues from global tables to process data fields
+ * Improve smpirun:
+ - now accept -platform and -hostfile arguments
+ - Pass the right rank value to processes according to the hostfile
+ * Compile the examples by default, and use them as regression tests
+ * Implement MPI_Wtime()
+
+ Build Chain:
+ * Do not require doxygen in maintainer mode
+
+ -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
+
+SimGrid (3.3) stable; urgency=high
OVERALL CHANGES:
not scheduled in the same order with the old and new version. This
may be enough to completely change the execution of simulations in
some cases. Sorry for the inconvenience.
-
+
+ * Cleanup and upgrade the XML format to push further scalability
+ issues (check http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00256883/ for more info)
+
* Improve the testing infrastructure with tesh. Now a very large part of
the code is tested not only by being run but also by checking that the
output match an expected output [Mt].
* Move on to FleXML v1.7 for the embeeded XML parsers. This version
is really less memory-demanding, which should allow you to use
larger files in SimGrid [AL].
+
+ * Inform valgrind about our contextes, so that it becomes usable
+ with the default (and more effecient) version of SimGrid
+ [contributed by Sékou Diakite, many thanks]
GRAS:
+ * Introduce a listener thread in charge of receiving incomming
+ messages from the network. It allows to overlap communication and
+ computation but most notably, it removes some stupid deadlocks due
+ to the fact that so far, a process could not send and receive at
+ the same time. This made most non trivial communication schema
+ impossible.
* Convert the PIDs from long int to int to match the MSG ones (and
linux ones too) [Mt]
* New function: gras_agent_spawn() to launch a new process on
* New module: xbt/str [Mt]
a ton of string utility functions (split, join, printf to a newly
allocated buffer, trim, etc)
+ * New module: xbt/hash [Mt]
+ SHA1 hashing algorithm (more to come if needed)
* New module: xbt/synchro [Mt]
synchronization tools (mutex and conditions) working the same way
in simulation and in real life (mainly useful for GRAS, but not
classical producer/consumer synchronization scheme
* xbt_dynar_new_sync() creates a synchronized dynar. All access
(using the classical functions will get serialized) [Mt]
+ * Make dictionary internal table dynamic. No need to specify its size
+ anymore; functions xbt_dict_new_ext() and xbt_dict_hashsize_set()
+ thus dropped. [Mt].
+ * Make sure the log channels are organized as a tree under windows
+ (because of ANSI C compatibility issue, any channel were child of
+ root directly) [Mt].
SURF:
* Cleaned many thing in surf and fixed a few bugs [AL].
* Use the SURF command line configuration mechanism.
* 0-size tasks (for synchronization) should now work.
- --
+ -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sun Apr 12 05:20:36 CEST 2009
-SimGrid (3.2) unstable; urgency=low
+SimGrid (3.2) stable; urgency=high
OVERALL CHANGES:
* Port to windows.
-- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri Mar 16 21:11:46 CET 2007
-SimGrid (3.1) unstable; urgency=low
+SimGrid (3.1) stable; urgency=high
General:
* Port to gcc 4.x
-- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:32:27 +0200
-SimGrid (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
+SimGrid (3.0.1) stable; urgency=low
XBT:
* Unfortunately, I had missed 5 misnamed functions:
-- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:42:20 +0200
-SimGrid (3.00) stable; urgency=low
+SimGrid (3.00) stable; urgency=high
SURF:
* New! Give the possibility to hijack the surf parser and thus bypass
- Get rid of libgrasutils.a since it makes more trouble than it solves.
Build examples against the RL library, since there is no way to disable
its creation for now.
+
+For information, the beginning of coding on GRAS was back in june
+2003. I guess that every line has been rewritten at least twice since
+then.
