X-Git-Url: http://info.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/pub/gitweb/simgrid.git/blobdiff_plain/bdb174604622ce78c0dce9cbbde290d4281e0d1a..0caecdf74ead0d19cc3b13eeb96dcd206243d71e:/ChangeLog diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 92841092b9..2cc86e858c 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,27 +1,360 @@ -SimGrid (3.11) NOT RELEASED; urgency=low - - TENTATIVE RELEASE GOALS for 3.11: - * Consider the removal of Supernovae mode if no user has manifested since the - release of version 3.10. - * Switch to tesh.pl, and kill the now unused parts of xbt that seem fragile - * Switch to surf++, and reintegrate the hypervisor branch on top of it - * Kill support for 32bits host architecture. - - Integers are too short to store a date or a size - - Plus, less platforms ~> simpler codebase ~> easier to maintain - * Clean up CMake files (may need a full rewrite). - Non exhaustive list of subgoals: - - Use genuine cmake mechanisms and variables when available, - instead of reinventing the wheel. - - Correctly determine system and architecture (e.g. x32). - - Correctly determine compiler type and version (e.g. clang). - - Correctly set compiler flags according to compiler type and version. - - Correctly set compiler flags for C++, Java, and Fortran compilers too. - - Use git to generate the dist archive. Either use git-archive to - generate the tarball, or keep using cmake -E tar, but use git-ls-files - to get the list of files to pack. +SimGrid (3.13) UNRELEASED; urgency=low + + The Easter Trim Release. + + Backwards Compatibility breaks + - Some command line options were renamed for consistency sake: + - model-check/sparse-checkpoint -> model-check/sparse_checkpoint + - smpi/async_small_thres -> smpi/async_small_thresh + - smpi/send_is_detached_thres -> smpi/send_is_detached_thresh + + - Removed Lua simulation bindings (switch to C or Java for that). + Lua can still be used to describe platforms + - Removed Java kernel plug-ins. + Will be reintroduced after the ongoing major internals reorg. + - In SimDag + - the SD_application_reinit function was removed. It was 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_workstation_set_access_mode + - SD_workstation_get_current_task + - Basic estimation functions have been removed but can easily be replaced + - 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. Use VM.getSpeed()*load/100 for the legacy behavior. + - In CMake + - option enable_tracing was removed. It was not doing anything since a while. + + XML platforms: + * Switch to platform v4 format. + - Rename from 'power' to 'speed' the attributes describing the amount of + flops that a , , or can deliver per second. + - In , attribute kind="POWER" is now kind="SPEED". + - In and , attributes availability and state are gone. + It was redundent with state and availability traces, and with peak values. + - In , attributes availability_file and state_file are gone. + It was too complex and unused. + - Kill . Was not doing anything. + - The DOCTYPE points to the right URL: + http://simgrid.gforge.inria.fr/simgrid/simgrid.dtd + (the file at this address now documents the changelog since its v1) + - A warning is emitted for unit-less values (they are still accepted). + - speed. Default: 'f' or 'flops'. Also defined: + 'Yf', 'Zf', 'Ef', 'Pf', 'Tf', 'Gf', 'Mf', 'kf' + 'yottaflops', 'zettaflops', 'exaflops', 'petaflops', 'teraflops', 'gigaflops', 'megaflops', 'kiloflops' + - bandwidth. Default: 'Bps' bytes per second (or 'bps' for bits but 1 Bps = 8 bps) + Also defined in bytes: 'TiBps', 'GiBps', 'MiBps', 'KiBps', 'TBps', 'GBps', 'MBps', 'kBps', 'Bps' + 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). + + S4U + * s4u::Host is now the preferred public interface to the Host features. + sg_host_* functions are C bindings to the exact same behavior + MSG_host_* and SD_workstation_* are #define to the sg_host_* ones + MSG + * 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. + 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 + include/simgrid/simdag.h + + Simix + * simgrid::simix::kernel() is the closure callback. It ensures that + the lambda or closure passed as a parameter will run in kernel mode. + Every callbacks should be rewritten to that interface at some point. + + Surf + * Reorganizing and cleaning the internals all around the place. + + SMPI + * Remove old default barrier/bcast buggy algorithms (see #18407) + * Various bug fixes to handle more codes + + XBT + * Kill the setset data container: MC don't use it anymore. + * Kill the queue data container: it made more sense with GRAS. + * Kill the xbt_peer_t data type: it's useless without GRAS. + * Kill rm_cb feature of config sets: it was never useful. + * Kill graphxml parsing feature. It was not used. + * Kill the deprecated code protected by XBT_USE_DEPRECATED + * New functions: + - xbt_dynar_sort_strings(), when the content is char* + - xbt_str_parse_int / xbt_str_parse_double, wrapping strtol/strtod + They throw exceptions on invalid input. + -- $date Da SimGrid team +SimGrid (3.12) stable; urgency=low + + The Facelift Release. + + Build System + * Require g++ v4.7 at least to not speak prehistorical C++. + * Require Boost 1.48 (for signal2 component). + * Java must be version 7 at least when activated. + * Builds on Windows again (including Java bindings). + * Tracing is now always enabled (no way to turn it out) + * Remove GTNetS. It was not working anyway. + * Various cleanups in the cmake scripts. + * Move headers around to sort them out on installed systems: + - instr/instr.h -> simgrid/instr.h + - instr/jedule/* -> simgrid/jedule + - simdag/datatypes.h was removed + - simdag/simdag.h -> simgrid/simdag.h + - msg/datatypes.h was removed + - msg/msg.h -> simgrid/msg.h + + cMSG: + * Interface improvement: + - Rename MSG_host_is_avail(h) to MSG_host_is_on(h) + - Sanitize the interface in MSG_task_ module: + - Merge two functions that were close enough but misleading: + set_compute_duration(t) -> set_flops_amount(t) + get_remaining_computation(t) -> get_flops_amount(t) + - set_data_size(t) -> set_bytes_amount(t) + get_data_size(t) -> get_bytes_amount(t) + - Massive cleanups in the functions related to the energy + - MSG_host_get_pstate_number() -> MSG_host_get_nb_pstates() + - New: MSG_host_get_pstate() + * New example: + - msg/energy/onoff: switching hosts on and off + jMSG: + * Interface improvement: + - Rename Host.isAvail() to Host.isOn() + - Rename Process.currentProcess() to Process.getCurrentProcess() + - Rename Task.setDataSize() to Task.setBytesAmount() + - Merge Task.getRemainingDuration() and Task.getComputeDuration() into Task.getFlopsAmount() + * Bug fixes: + - #18874: Actually allows the GC to reclaim tasks + + SIMIX: + * New functions + - SIMIX_process_throw: raises an exception in a remote process + * Refactoring: Separate sub-modules + - libsmx: the public interface, as libc in a real system + - popping: the strange dance that converts a user request into a kernel handling + - smx_context_*: the virtualization mechanisms that embed the user code + - smx_*: the handling of each simcalls + * Interface cleanup: + - simcall_host_set_power_peak_at -> simcall_host_set_pstate + * Rename smx_action_t into smx_synchro_t, making explicit that these + things are used to synchronize processes with their environment. + For example, a communication is a sort of synchronization involving + the communicating processes (that may block until the exchange) and + the platform. The same can be said from computations, etc. + * Bug fixes: + - #18888: segfault when a process ends before its kill_time + + 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. + - 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 + - MPI_Info_* functions (beware, get_nthkey may not follow the insertion order) + - MPI_Pack, MPI_Unpack and MPI_Pack_size 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 + 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/). + - Support for Rabenseifner Reduce/Allreduce algorithms (https://fs.hlrs.de/projects/par/mpi//myreduce.html) + * Replay + - Replay now uses algorithms from wanted collective selector + - Replay can be used with SMP-aware algorithms + - 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 + - Correctly use loopback on fat-tree clusters + - Asynchronous small messages shouldn't trigger deadlocks anymore + * Energy/DVFS cleanup and improvement + - smpi_set_host_power_peak_at() -> smpi_set_host_pstate() + - new: smpi_get_host_pstate() + SURF + * Bug fixes + - "Full" network optimization flag was broken since Surf++ + - Better handling of precision flags in maxmin + - Fix bug causing sometimes "Impossible" errors + - Properly pass cluster properties to included hosts + * Improvement of the Energy plugin. + - Always update the consumption before returning that value + - New property: watt_off to denote the dissipation when the host is off + - New functions getWattMinAt and getWattMaxAt to retrieve the + dissipation of pstates that we are not currently at. + * Java: class NetworkLink renamed to Link + * New function: simcall_process_get_kill_time() + * Massive rename s/workstation/host/ + - That's intrusive, but that's good for the project consistency. Sorry. + - Change config option "workstation/model" into "host/model" + XBT + * 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. + - xbt_dirname and xbt_basename for non-POSIX systems + MC + * The model checker now runs as a separate process. + * The model checker runs must now be launched with the new simgrid-mc program. + * Record/Replay: the MC can display a textual representation of a path in the + execution graph. It can then be replayed outside of the model checker. + + -- Mon Oct 12 06:02:41 CEST 2015 Da SimGrid team + +SimGrid (3.11) stable; urgency=low + + The Class Release. + + Tools: + * Normalizing pointers addresses tool for better diff between logs + + Examples: + * Add cloud examples using new VMs + - examples/msg/cloud/two_tasks_vm.tesh + - examples/msg/cloud/simple_vm.tesh + - examples/java/cloud/cloud.tesh + - examples/java/cloud/migration/migration.tesh + * Add java surf examples: + - examples/java/surfPlugin/surf_plugin.tesh + - examples/java/reservationSurfPlugin/reservation_surf_plugin.tes + - examples/java/surfCpuModel/surf_cpu_model.tesh + * Add SMPI+MSG example: + - examples/smpi/smpi_msg_masterslave/ + + TeshSuite: + * Add tests: + - msg process test + - msg task destroy cancel test + - msg_host on/off test + * Move all tests in testsuite to teshsuite (adding tesh files) + * Restructure teshsuites + - one folder for each kind of test + * Restructure AddTests.cmake + - unify tests names + - structure the order of tests (with sections) + + MSG: + * Add virtual machine + - creation of a VM on a PM + - migration of a VM from a PM to another PM + * New functions + - MSG_process_join(msg_process_t process, double timeout) + - msg_bar_t MSG_barrier_init(unsigned int count) + - int MSG_barrier_wait(msg_bar_t barrier) + - void MSG_barrier_destroy(msg_bar_t barrier) + - msg_as_t MSG_environment_as_get_by_name(const char * name) + * New option "msg/debug_multiple_use" to help debugging when a task is used + several times + * MSG IO + - Improvements and finalization of MSG_storage, MSG_file APIs and their + documentation + - Increase code coverage in test suites + - Bug fixes + + SIMIX: + * Protect context stacks against stack overflow. The number of protected memory + pages allocated on the top of each stack (1 by default) can be configured + with the new command line option --cfg=contexts/guard_size:. + * Simcalls are now generated by a python script that + - generates files included by SimGrid + - checks that all the functions exist, and proposes prototypes + * Clean simcalls + - remove sem_destroy, file_set_data, comm_destroy, vm_set_state, + host_set_data, host_get_data + * New simcalls + - simcall_process_join(smx_process_t process, double timeout) + * Fix bug where sleeping processing could not be suspended. + + SURF: + * Translate surf models from C to C++ + - Generic classes for all models: Model, Resource, Action + - A generic interface for each kind of model (CPU, Network, Storage + Workstation, WorkstationVM) + - C bindings + * Translate surf routings from C to C++ + * Add callbacks using sigc++ or boost::signals2 + - Add callback functions for resource creation/destruction + - Add callback functions for action state change + - Handle Energy as a plugin + * Replace swag by boost::intrusive + * Add new routing models for clusters. For documentation, see + http://simgrid.gforge.inria.fr/simgrid/latest/doc/platform.html#pf_cluster + - tori, with topology="TORUS" and topo_parameters="ndim1,ndim2,...,ndimn" + parameters for cluster tag + - Fat trees, with topology="FAT_TREE" and + topo_parameters="h;m1,...,mh;w1,...,wh;p1,...,ph" parameters for cluster tag + - see examples/platforms/torus_cluster.xml and + examples/platforms/fat_tree_cluster.xml + * More documentation + + SMPI: + * Hostfiles support host:nb_processes construct to deploy several processes on + 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, + 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) : + - 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 + dynamic libraries loaded by the application are not privatized (static + linking with these libraries is advised in this case) + + Tracing: + * Options defined in XML work correctly now. + + Java: + * New cmake option, enable_lib_in_jar, to control whether native libraries are + copied into simgrid.jar or not (ON by default). Use this option if you want + to reduce the size of the installed simgrid.jar, *and* the native libraries + are kept installed elsewhere. + * Surf binding with SWIG (code generated in maintainer mode only): + - plugin to handle callbacks + - CPU model only for the moment + + Build System: + * Supernovae build mode is definitively removed. It was used to improve + inlining and inter-module optimizations. It is nowadays superseded by + link-time optimizations commonly available in compilers. + * Update ns-3 find lib. Bindings for ns-3 should work again now. + * Add boost dependency for surf++ + * Add new macro for tests + - ADD_TESH(name ) + - ADD_TESH_FACTORIES(name "thread;ucontext;raw" ) + + XBT: + * New functions + - xbt_bar_t XBT_barrier_init(unsigned int count) + - int XBT_barrier_wait(xbt_bar_t barrier) + - void XBT_barrier_destroy(xbt_bar_t barrier) + * Make the xbt_os_time module public + + -- Sat May 31 22:39:38 CEST 2014 Da SimGrid team + SimGrid (3.10) stable; urgency=low The Clean Diaper Release, a.k.a. SimGrid is leak-free. @@ -67,7 +400,8 @@ SimGrid (3.10) stable; urgency=low * Add a --cfg:tracing/smpi/internals option, to trace internal communications happening inside a collective SMPI call. * Fix the behavior of complex data types handling. - * Make MPI_Wtime another synchronization point to take computations into account. + * Make MPI_Wtime another synchronization point to take computations into + account. * Replace MPICH-1 test suite by the one from MPICH 3.0.4. Can be built using enable_smpi_MPICH3_testsuite flag in cmake. Run with ctest. * Add all missing Fortran bindings, SMPI should work with Fortran 90 @@ -242,7 +576,7 @@ SimGrid (3.8) stable; urgency=low * New option "enable_mallocators" to disable mallocators, for debugging purpose ("on" by default). - Simix: + SIMIX: * Bug fixes around the resource failures: don't let the processes survive the host they are running onto. * Add an interface to auto-restart processes when the host in which they are @@ -321,6 +655,30 @@ SimGrid (3.8) stable; urgency=low -- Thu Oct 25 17:30:06 CEST 2012 Da SimGrid team +SimGrid-java (3.8.1) stable; urgency=low + + * New module: org.simgrid.trace.Trace (SimGrid trace bindings) + Warning: all methods are visible, but only some of them are + implemented so far. Check the source (src/jtrace.c) + for further information. + * New module: org.simgrid.msg.File (SimGrid File management functions) + * New Module: org.simgrid.msg.VM (SimGrid interface to mimick IAAS clouds) + * Change the meaning of Process.restart: now restart the process from + the begining, like MSG_process_restart in C. + * Add Process.setAutoRestart: handling of process restart when failed + host comes back. + * Add Process.getProperty, Host.getProperty, Host.getProperty: allows + you to retrieve the properties of the processes/hosts + * Deprecate Msg.clean(): you can just forget about it now. + * New function Process.getCount(), that only works when compiling + with the not yet released version 3.9 of the C library. + + * New context factory based on Coroutines. It mandates a modified JVM + but then, the simulations run about five times faster, and there is + no limit to the amount of processes (beside of the available memory). + + -- 2012-12-04 Da SimGrid team + SimGrid (3.7.1) stable; urgency=low MSG: @@ -352,6 +710,38 @@ SimGrid (3.7.1) stable; urgency=low -- Thu Jun 7 2012 Da SimGrid team + +SimGrid-java (3.7.1) stable; urgency=low + + The "Java aint got to be bloated and slow" release + + Major cleanups: + * Various internal cleanups and performance improvement + Simulations are expected to run up to twice faster or so + * Make Process.kill(process) an instance method, not a static one + * User processes are not java.lang.Thread subclasses. + This breaks the compatibility (sorry), but previous API was + brain-dead, making it impossible to have non-trivial + initializations in the process constructor. + * Require a full constructor per Process sub-class. + Kinda breaks the compatibility (sorry), but this allows a much more + efficient way to launch the processes at simulation startup. + * Do not embeed our version of semaphores, java 1.5 can be considered + as sufficiently prevalent for us to not dupplicate its features. + * Lot of bug fixes + + Extend the API: + * Add examples for almost every part of the API + We spotted and fixed a lot of bugs in the process + + * New module: asynchronous communication API + * New function: Process.sleep() + It takes milliseconds as argument, just as java.lang.Thread.sleep() + * New module: org.simgrid.msg.Mutex (SimGrid mutexes) + * New module: org.simgrid.msg.RngStream (RngStreams random generators) + + -- 2012-06-12 Da SimGrid team + SimGrid (3.7) stable; urgency=low The "spring cleanups (before the next Big Project kicks in)" release. @@ -497,6 +887,7 @@ SimGrid (3.7) stable; urgency=low -- Tue May 15 11:30:19 UTC 2012 Da SimGrid team + SimGrid (3.6.2) stable; urgency=low The "Not coding new stuff allows to polish old things" release. @@ -552,6 +943,13 @@ SimGrid (3.6.1) stable; urgency=low -- Mon Jun 27 13:59:03 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team +SimGrid-java (3.6) unstable; urgency=low + + * Initial release. + * Split of every thing from simgrid v3.5 into a separate package. + + -- 2011-10-05 Da SimGrid team + SimGrid (3.6) stable; urgency=medium The Summer Release, also known as the "OMG! They Killed Kenny!" version