-SimGrid (3.16) UNRELEASED
+SimGrid (3.20) NOT RELEASED YET (Release target: June 21. 2018 10:07 UTC)
+
+TRACE
+ - Change --cfg=tracing/msg/vm to --cfg=tracing/vm as virtual machine
+ behavior tracing is no longer limited to MSG
+
+MSG
+ - The deprecation of MSG is ongoing. A lot of functions are now simple
+ wrappers on the C API of S4U. All these wrappers (and their S4U counterparts
+ can be found in src/msg/msg_legacy.cpp).
+
+S4U:
+ - Introduced new function simgrid::s4u::Host::get_actor_count. This function
+ returns the number of actors running on a specific host.
+
+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.
+
+SMPI:
+ - SMPI is now tested with ~45 proxy apps from various sources, with none or
+ only minor patching needed: check 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.
+
+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
+ - 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.
+
+ The Blooming Spring Release: developments are budding.
Portability status:
- FreeBSD: Disable SMPI mmap privatization, switch automatically to dlopen.
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>
- - <zone
Zoute> an be used as a synonym for the now deprecated <asroute>
+ - <zone
Route> can 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
- 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.
+ the maximum of the read and write bandwidth as a resource constraint.
SimDag
- - New and Backwards Compatibility break:
+ - 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.
+ 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
+ - Allow multicore VMs, with the correct sharing (unless you overcommit)
+ BUG: vCPU overcommitting still leads to buggy sharing, though. WIP.
+
+ Energy
+ - New function to update the consumption of all hosts at once.
+ - Fix the model for multi-core hosts, linear in the amount of busy
+ cores with an abnormality for pIdle (see paper).
+ BUG: Still not satisfactory for ptask on mono-cores.
MSG
- - The netzone are now available from the MSG API.
+ - 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
+ - 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):
+ - 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
+ - MPI_Win_flush_local, MPI_Win_flush_all, MPI_Win_flush_local_all
+ - MPI_Op_commutative, MPI_Fetch_and_Op, MPI_Compare_and_swap
+ - MPI_Rput, MPI_Rget, MPI_Raccumulate, MPI_Rget_accumulate
+
+ S4U
+ - New: this_actor::isMaestro() returns whether we are in kernel mode.
+ - Behind the scene, ActivityImpl are now automatically refcounted.
+ Removing this nasty bottleneck will greatly simplify our internals.
XBT
- Replay: New function xbt_replay_action_get():
- 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>
+ -- Thu Jun 22 22:48:12 CEST 2017 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
-SimGrid (3.15) stable; urgency=low
+SimGrid (3.15) Released March 22. 2017
The Spring Release: continuous integration servers become green
We fixed even the transient bugs on all target architectures:
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.
- 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
+SimGrid (3.14.159) Released December 28. 2016
The previous release was only a crude approximation of a Pi release;
this one should be a bit better.
- 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
+SimGrid (3.14) Released December 24. 2016
Documentation
* The whole documentation was reworked and reorganized. There is
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.
- 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_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.
- -- Sat Dec 24 22:34:26 CET 2016 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
-
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.
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
