X-Git-Url: http://info.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/pub/gitweb/simgrid.git/blobdiff_plain/9bfa71c7201013012f9aba67044617f1739bd358..861682bbd33ba13c51148538775838f0d9f181a5:/ChangeLog diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index a3aeb1ca5c..b7af4deefe 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,4 +1,80 @@ -SimGrid (3.14) UNRELEASED; urgency=low +SimGrid (3.15) UNRELEASED; urgency=low + + The Ever Green Release. + We fixed even the transient bugs on all target architectures: + Linux (CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora), Mac OSX (Mavericks, El Capitan) + Windows, FreeBSD, NetBSD. + + - Rename NetCards to NetPoints. + This was intended to help NS3 users, but that's not a netcard. + That's a point in the routing algorithm, let's avoid wrong simplifications. + + MSG + - New function: MSG_process_yield() + - Renamed MSG_energy_plugin_init() -> MSG_host_energy_plugin_init() + to make room for the upcoming network energy plugin. + + Java + - Ensure that an actor can kill itself with Process::exit() + - Kill the obscure NativeException. Nobody want to survive the issues + it denotes, so use JniException that is a RuntimeException (not to + be catched explicitely). + + S4U + - New callbacks: + - s4u::onPlatformCreated: right before the simulation starts + - s4u::onSimulationEnd: right after the main simulation loop + - s4u::onTimeAdvance: right after a clock change (time is discrete) + - s4u::Host::onSpeedChange: when the pstate is changed, or when an + event from the availability_file changes the avail speed. + - Links are now usable from s4u + + SimDag + - Backwards Compatibility breaks + - 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 + 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 + - The SD_route_bandwidth and SD_route_latency functions have been replaced by + sg_host_route_bandwidth and sg_host_route_latency. + Macros ensure the backwards compatibility, but you should fix your code + + SMPI + - 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. + - New algorithm for SMPI_SHARED_MALLOC: global, where all blocks are + mapped onto a unique file. + - Bugfix : smpirun was sometimes misusing hostfile when wrongly terminated + - Fortran : cleanups, fixes, support of user-added operations + - RMA : MPI_Accumulate are applied in correct order, and + MPI_Win_complete or MPI_Win_post shouldn't miss messages anymore. + - Better support for MPI_IN_PLACE + - Support MPI_Comm_group_create, MPI_Type_size_x + - Replace implementation of MPI_Bcast "scatter followed by rdb allgather" + algorithm by a non failing one from mpich. + + XBT + - Kill the fifo data container: we don't use it anymore. + + XML + - A can now be created with different speed values to represent pstates. + see examples/platforms/energy_cluster.xml for an example. + -- target_date=March 20 2017 -- Da SimGrid team + +SimGrid (3.14.159) stable; urgency=low + + The previous release was only a crude approximation of a Pi release; + this one should be a bit better. + + - Revert a last minute change that broke on Mac OSX. + - Fix the changelog and NEWS files. + - 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 (3.14) stable; urgency=low Documentation * The whole documentation was reworked and reorganized. There is @@ -6,8 +82,14 @@ SimGrid (3.14) UNRELEASED; urgency=low Infrastructure * We now need python3 for our testing infrastructure. + * Model checking needs libevent + + MC + * Now works on FreeBSD 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. @@ -25,6 +107,16 @@ SimGrid (3.14) UNRELEASED; urgency=low * 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 + 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. + + * Replay : Fix broken waitall + New functions and features * MSG_parallel_task_execute_with_timeout, to timeout computations. @@ -42,11 +134,29 @@ SimGrid (3.14) UNRELEASED; urgency=low - MSG_storage_set_property_value() * VM properties. Since msg_vm_t are msg_host_t, just use MSG_host_get_property_value() and friends - + * VM I/O related things: + - 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(). + - 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. + Please switch to xbt_dict_new_homogeneous() before this is removed + for real. * Task affinity. Its intended behavior (that was very badly tested and probably not really working) was deceiving what most users 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: + * Added option storage/max_file_descriptors to allow more than 1024 files opened + + SURF: + * Added option maxmin/concurrency_limit to allow more than 100 processes per host + * Added Dragonfly topology support XML: * Add Exa- and Peta- units such as EiB, EB, Eib, Eb for size, and @@ -58,7 +168,11 @@ SimGrid (3.14) UNRELEASED; urgency=low * ex/app_tokenring: new example, very similar to the MSG Token Ring * ex/async_waitAll: new example, on asynchronous communications - -- $date Da SimGrid team + MSG: + * 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 (3.13) stable; urgency=low