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-SimGrid (3.27.1) NOT RELEASED YET (v3.28 expected June 21. 2021, 03:32 UTC)
+SimGrid (3.28.1) NOT RELEASED YET (v3.29 expected September 22. 2021, 19:21 UTC)
New features:
+ - Non-linear resource sharing: allows to dynamically change the resource
+ capacity. Users can change this capacity by setting a callback which will
+ be called when SimGrid is sharing the resource between the active
+ activities. An activity can be a task running, a read/write IO operation or a
+ communication flow.
+ - Callback signature: double (double capacity, int n_activities): given the
+ current resource's capacity and number of activities running on it,
+ returns the new capacity.
+ - Note that this callback is in the critical path of the system solve and
+ should not take long to execute.
+ - Examples:
+ - Disk: examples/cpp/io-degradation
+ - Link: examples/cpp/network-nonlinear
+ - CPU: examples/cpp/exec-cpu-nonlinear
+
+S4U:
+ - New: s4u::Disk::set_sharing_policy() and s4u::Host::set_sharing_policy().
+ Allows the configuration of non-linear resource sharing for hosts and
+ disks.
+
+Documentation:
+ * New section "Release Notes" documenting recent and current developments.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+SimGrid (3.28) July 14. 2021
+
+The Victoriadagarna Release.
+
+New features:
+ - C++ platform interface: Users can now describe their platform directly in C++.
+ This provides greatly flexibility and performance improvement for complex
+ platforms. Main features:
+ - Fat-Tree/DragonFly/Torus composing: allows you to create clusters of
+ "zones", instead of single hosts. This feature enables the description
+ of clusters with complex hosts, composed of several CPUs, GPUs, etc.
+ - StarZone: new zone with a Star-like topology. The routes are defined
+ as a set of links used to communicate from node to everybody (node<->ALL).
+ - Split-Duplex links: auxiliary method to create split-duplex links in
+ the platform, easing its utilisation. It automatically creates both UP
+ and DOWN links (similarly as done in XML).
+ - Please refer to the documentation and the examples included:
+ e.g. examples/cpp/clusters-multicpu/ and examples/platforms/*.cpp.
- New plugin: Producer-Consumer with monitor. Just requires to include the
include/simgrid/plugins/ProducerConsumer.hpp header to be used. See the
associated example (examples/cpp/plugin-prodcons).
S4U:
+ - New: s4u::Comm::wait_all_for() (like s4u::Comm::wait_all, but with a timeout),
+ s4u::Io::wait_any(), s4u::Io::wait_any_for().
+ - Methods test_all/test_any/wait_all/wait_any in s4u now take their vector
+ parameter by reference, instead of a pointer.
- Fixed a bug where Activity::wait_for() killed the activity on timeout.
Explicitly cancel the activity to get back to previous behavior.
+ - New: Link::set_concurrency_limit() to limit the amount of concurrent flows.
SMPI:
- The default SMPI compiler flags are no more taken from the environment.
is active when set to false, to keep going after a small error
--cfg=smpi/pedantic: True by default. Do not report some harmless MPI errors
which may or may not be problematic in the end.
- - Sampling:
+ - Sampling:
- fix behaviour, as maximum iteration count could be ignored
- add SMPI_SAMPLE_LOCAL_TAG and SMPI_SAMPLE_GLOBAL_TAG macros, to allow user to
use sampling when the same kernel is called with a different set of parameters
which have an impact on the timing.
- - realloc is now intercepted, to be coherent, as malloc/calloc/free were already.
- It should now work with smpi/auto-shared-malloc-thresh.
- - Improve error handling and reporting in multiple places
- - Improve correctness checks on the MPI code.(MPI_Op and MPI_Datatype
- validity checks, truncated messages are now an error, return errors
- when explicitely deleted handles are reused, ...)
- - RMA: multiple fixes and stability improvements.
- - analysis (-analyze flag in smpirun):
- - SMPI can now report buffer leaks as well as MPI handles leaks,
- if code was compiled without SMPI_NO_OVERRIDE_MALLOC.
- - if -trace-call-location is used when compiling, SMPI can report
- origin of leaked handles/buffers
- - group leaks by type/origin in output message if possible
- - New implemented MPI calls: MPI_Comm_test_inter
-
-LUA:
- - Lua platform files are deprecated. Their support will be dropped after v3.31.
-
-Simix:
- - Legacy functions deprecated in this release: SIMIX_get_clock(), SIMIX_run().
+ - realloc is now intercepted, to be coherent, as malloc/calloc/free were already.
+ It should now work with smpi/auto-shared-malloc-thresh.
+ - Improve error handling and reporting in multiple places
+ - Improve correctness checks on the MPI code.(MPI_Op and MPI_Datatype
+ validity checks, truncated messages are now an error, return errors
+ when explicitely deleted handles are reused, ...)
+ - RMA: multiple fixes and stability improvements.
+ - analysis (-analyze flag in smpirun):
+ - SMPI can now report buffer leaks as well as MPI handles leaks,
+ if code was compiled without SMPI_NO_OVERRIDE_MALLOC.
+ - if -trace-call-location is used when compiling, SMPI can report
+ origin of leaked handles/buffers
+ - group leaks by type/origin in output message if possible
+ - New implemented MPI calls: MPI_Comm_test_inter
Models:
- Changed internal implementation of bandwidth factors in network models.
This change may impact on the timing of your simulation results.
Take care when comparing simulations from different SimGrid's
versions. Sorry for the inconvenience.
+ - Dynamic network factors: users can configure a callback to define
+ the network factors dynamically. This API is available at
+ simgrid::kernel::resource::NetworkModelIntf.
+ - Users have access to complete information about the current communication
+ to decide which factor to apply. This includes: message size, source and
+ destination hosts, links and zones traversed.
+ - Dynamic factors for both latency and bandwidth.
+ - For more details, see the example in (examples/cpp/network-factors).
+ - Plugin host_energy: the "watt_off" and "watt_per_state" host properties,
+ deprecated since version 3.24, are no longer supported. Instead, use
+ "wattage_off" and "wattage_per_state".
XBT:
- xbt_assert is not disabled anymore, even when built with enable_debug=off.
Documentation:
- New tutorial: Model-checking and formal assessment
+ - New sections: "Demystifying the routing" and "C++ platforms"
+ - Update and improve the part on visualization in MPI and Algo tutorials.
+ - Improve the section on routing: how to define it, how it's used internally
+ - Fix many issues, broken links and missing references in doxygen and Sphinx
+
+LUA:
+ - Lua platform files are deprecated. Their support will be dropped after v3.31.
+
+Simix:
+ - Legacy functions deprecated in this release: SIMIX_get_clock(), SIMIX_run().
Fixed bugs (FG#.. -> FramaGit bugs; FG!.. -> FG merge requests)
(FG: issues on Framagit; GF: issues on GForge; GH: issues on GitHub)
