-SimGrid (3.8) NOT RELEASED; urgency=low
+SimGrid (3.10) NOT RELEASED; urgency=low
- The "SimGrid makes psssshiiiit and jumps into the cloud" release.
+ XBT:
+ * Our own implementation of getline is renamed xbt_getline, and gets
+ used even if the OS provide a getline(). This should reduce the
+ configuration complexity by using the same code on all platforms.
+ * new xbt_cfg_elm_boolean type
+
+ Java:
+ * Reintegrate Java to the main archive as desynchronizing these
+ package is not acceptable anymore (Java is now considered stable)
+ * Add explicit synchronization facilities through semaphores
+ * Bugfix: Task.setDataSize() only changed the C world, not the value
+ cached in the Java world
+
+ MSG:
+ * Dramatically change the way files are handled. API and internals changed, but
+ this part of MSG was not considered as production grade either.
+ * Add explicit synchronization facilities through semaphores
+
+ SMPI:
+ * SMPI is now included directly in the libsimgrid as the windows
+ linker dont forces us on splitting it anymore.
+ * Improvements of the SMPI replay tool:
+ - Most of the collective communications are now rooted in the same process as
+ in the original application.
+ - Traces now rely on the same MPI datatype as the application (MPI_BYTE was
+ used until now). Multiple datatypes can now be used in a trace.
+ - The replay tool now supports traces produce either by TAU or a modified
+ version of MPE.
+ - Bug Fix: the compute part of the reduce action is now taken into account.
+ * smpirun generates the hostfile if needed (with given hostcount and platform)
+
+ PLATFORM:
+ * Handle units for values (10ms, 10kiloflops, 10Bps, ...)
+ * Remove rule based routing (no more pcre dependency)
+
+-- $date Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
+
+SimGrid (3.9) stable; urgency=low
+
+ The Grasgory release: GRAS is really dead now.
+
+ * Complete overhaul of the internal host structures scheme.
+
+ GRAS:
+ * If you use GRAS, you should stay at SimGrid 3.5 (at most) since it
+ was considered as experimental and badly maintained since then.
+ * Keeping it was thus a trap to our potential users, that could take
+ it instead of MSG or SMPI by mistake despite is pity state.
+ * GRAS seems to have very few users (if any), and no one volunteered
+ to maintain it further. It also induces a lot of XBT code (for
+ portability sake), that must be maintained too.
+ * For all these reasons, we killed GRAS. If someone wants to revive it
+ in the future, don't cry, our git history still remembers of GRAS.
+
+ Documentation:
+ * Major overhaul. Merge our documentation again as time proved that
+ splitting it was really not helping our users.
+ * Further improve the developer documentation to help newcomers
+ hacking on SimGrid itself. The user documentation (and in
+ particular, the beginner documentation) is still in a sorry state.
+
+ SMPI:
+ * Now works on Windows too!
+ * Much more extensive test suite, from MPICH
+
+ SIMDAG:
+ * Add a new loader (SD_PTG_dotload) that creates a parallel task graph
+ (i.e., a DAG whose nodes are parallel tasks) from a dot file. Creates a
+ dynar of SD_TASK_COMP_PAR_AMDAHL and SD_TASK_COMM_MXN_1D_BLOCK tasks.
+ * Bug fix: let task be scheduled when the last dependency to be solved is
+ a control dependency.
+ * Remove SD_load_environment_script function.
+ Use the C sg_platf function if you want to declare a platform
+ programmatically.
+
+ MSG:
+ * New function: MSG_process_get_number()
+ * Old function documented: MSG_config()
+ * Remove MSG_load_platform_script function
+ Use the C sg_platf function if you want to declare a platform
+ programmatically.
+
+ SURF:
+ * Change the default value of the TCP_gamma constant (maximal size of TCP
+ congestion window) to a more realistic 4MiB value. If you notice changes in
+ your simulation results, you can fall back to the previous 20k tiny window
+ by adding --cfg=network/TCP_gamma:20000 on command line.
+ * (Hopefully) fix a bug wrt periodic availability and state traces
+ * Bug fix: use default values at start when first event in availability/state
+ trace is not at time 0.
+
+ PLATFORM:
+ * remove the "new_" part of function name sg_platf_new_trace_connect
+ (resulting in sg_platf_trace_connect), since it does not create
+ anything new
+
+ XBT:
+ * Kill synchronized dynars, and xbt_dynar_dopar(). We cannot think of a
+ use case where it's really mandatory, and maintaining it was a pain in
+ our code base.
+ * New: xbt_fifo_search(), search an item with a user-provided
+ comparison function instead of dumb pointer comparison.
+
+ LUA:
+ * Fix the lua deployment:
+ Use `simgrid.init_application()` before deployment instead of
+ `simgrid.msg_register_application()` after.
+
+ TRACING:
+ * Transfer the tracing files into the corresponding modules.
+
+ -- Tue Feb 5 11:31:43 CET 2013 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
+
+SimGrid (3.8.1) stable; urgency=low
+
+ The "we are told that some people want to also *install* the simgrid
+ framework" release.
+
+ * Add missing file "tesh.1" to the archive.
+
+ -- Sat Oct 27 16:12:11 CEST 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
+
+SimGrid (3.8) stable; urgency=low
+
+ The Psssshiiiit release: SimGrid jumps into the Cloud.
MSG:
* Add an experimental interface to manipulate VMs. They are mainly
process groups with very few intrinsic semantic, but they should
allow you to build the semantic you want easily.
* New function: MSG_host_set_property_value()
- * Deprecate functions MSG_global_init() / MSG_global_init_args()
- Please use MSG_init() instead. (reducing the amount of entry
- points in the library helps us).
- * Make it impossible to link against the wrong version of the lib
+ * New function: MSG_process_on_exit(). To clean memory in all cases.
* Bug fixes that made the host (and link) failures unusable.
* Add a way to auto-restart process when the host in which they are
executing comes back (ON_FAILURE="RESTART" on deployment file,
MSG_process_auto_restart_set).
* Use the "msg_" prefix for all datatypes (instead of m_, msg_ and MSG_),
please stop using the old ones, they are DEPRECATED.
+
+ * Deprecate functions MSG_global_init() / MSG_global_init_args()
+ Please use MSG_init() instead. (reducing the amount of entry
+ points in the library helps us).
+ * Make it impossible to link against the wrong version of the lib
* Deprecate MSG_clean(). No need to call it anymore.
* Function MSG_get_host_number() is not deprecated anymore.
Documentation:
* Split the doc into a user guide and a reference guide.
+ * Start a developper guide to help people hacking on SimGrid.
Cmake:
+ * Enable tracing by default. This modules rocks you should use it.
* Remove option custom_flags. Now use environment variables CFLAGS
and LDFLAGS.
- * Enable tracing by default. This modules rocks you should use it.
* Use default cmake things to detect lua instead of home grown ones.
* New option "enable_mallocators" to disable mallocators, for debugging
purpose ("on" by default).
Simix:
* Bug fixes around the resource failures: don't let the processes
survive the host they are running onto.
- * Add an interface to execute cleanup functions when a process is killed,
- to avoid memory leaks.
* Add an interface to auto-restart processes when the host in which they are
executing comes back.
* Ensures that SIMIX_clean is called automatically. It's not part of
* Re-implement time-independent trace replay using SMPI (at the
smpi_smp_* level) instead of MSG. This should replace
examples/msg/actions/actions.c
- * Implement support of MPI Datatypes (vectors, hvectors, indexed,
+ * Implement support of MPI Datatypes (vectors, hvectors, indexed,
hindexed and structs)
* Implement the exchange of non-contiguous data.
[Khalid Hasanov & Jean-Noel Quintin] Thanks for the patch, guys.
* Correct behavior of smpi/sender_gap and set its default value to 0
- * Add option to asynchronously send small messages to allow better
- simulation of pt2pt communications. --cfg=smpi/async_small_threshold:value
- specifies the size in bytes under which messages will be asynchronously sent.
+ * Add option to asynchronously send small messages to allow better
+ simulation of pt2pt communications. --cfg=smpi/async_small_threshold:value
+ specifies the size in bytes under which messages will be asynchronously sent.
* Add support of MPI_Iprobe, MPI_Probe, MPI_Testall, MPI_Wtick functions
- * SMPI now handles more MPI specific values in input. Closes [#14389] and [#14388]
-
-
+ * SMPI now handles more MPI specific values in input. Closes [#14389] and [#14388]
+
SimGrid:
+ * New C interface to define a platform: XML is now optional.
+ For more info, please check include/simgrid/platf.h.
+ * New interface to define random platforms from the C:
+ For more info, please check include/simgrid/platf_generator.h and
+ examples/msg/masterslave/masterslave_platfgen.c
* Export a sg_cmdline dynar containing all the arguments we got from
the command line.
+ TRACE:
+ * Two new tracing options for adding comments to trace file so you
+ can track your experiments (see --help-tracing for details).
+ * New option to generate a impoverished trace file (--cfg=tracing/basic:1)
+ * Adding the SimGrid version that generated the trace file as a comment.
+ * Instrumenting other MSG functions (MSG_task_isend_with_matching and MSG_task_dsend)
+ * Fix to avoid key clashes on Paje links
+ * Other minor fixes related to the Paje specification
+
XBT:
* Functions xbt_dict_hash() and xbt_dict_hash_ext() are made public,
and renamed to xbt_str_hash() and xbt_str_hash_ext().
* Greatly improve the robustness of mmalloc to user errors (such as
using an area after freeing it, or freeing it twice)
- -- $date Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
+ -- Thu Oct 25 17:30:06 CEST 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
SimGrid (3.7.1) stable; urgency=low
[Tests]
- use gras_exit in example to track memleaks
- get rid of gs_example now that GS is properly integrated into gras
- - update run_test to integrate the lastest tests (datadesc)
+ - update run_test to integrate the latest tests (datadesc)
[Logging]
- rename WARNINGn macros to WARNn since it prooved error-prone
