X-Git-Url: http://info.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/pub/gitweb/simgrid.git/blobdiff_plain/7637ba17c1379d39b80d0b2304a47231f5ec5ff4..a4814a9f448c5eeac2272ee04d2ef88810ccc951:/ChangeLog diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 393ab80104..4727304205 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,49 +1,71 @@ -SimGrid (3.8) NOT RELEASED; urgency=low +SimGrid (3.9) NOT RELEASED; urgency=low - The "SimGrid makes psssshiiiit and jumps into the cloud" release. + SMPI: + * Now works on Windows too! + * Much more extensive test suite, from MPICH - Cmake: - * 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). + MSG: + * New function: MSG_get_process_number() - Documentation: - * Split the doc into a user guide and a reference guide. + -- $date Da SimGrid team + +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 (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. + * 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 the public interface anymore (bindings should be updated). SimDag: - * Bug fix for when SD_Simulate is called with a positive value: be careful - when comparing doubles. Sometimes they are different for non significant - digits only. + * Bug fix for when SD_Simulate is called with a positive value: be careful + when comparing doubles. Sometimes they are different for non significant + digits only. * New types of typed tasks. SD_TASK_COMP_PAR_AMDAHL represents a parallel task whose initial work is distributed among host according to the Amdahl's law. Such tasks are created with a parameter alpha @@ -73,15 +95,43 @@ SimGrid (3.8) NOT RELEASED; urgency=low * 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, + 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 support of MPI_Iprobe, MPI_Probe, MPI_Testall, MPI_Wtick functions + * 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(). * New function: xbt_os_timer_resume() to restart a timer w/o resetting it. + * 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 + -- Thu Oct 25 17:30:06 CEST 2012 Da SimGrid team SimGrid (3.7.1) stable; urgency=low