X-Git-Url: http://info.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/pub/gitweb/simgrid.git/blobdiff_plain/ce1df4d2ea4594c15ffccdbf227c4e3c2adb1318..97822856837d9d28da641163961482ef8814c49e:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index adbde2e120..74b0569bab 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -3,15 +3,32 @@ __ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / |___ \ \ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ | | __) | \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) || |/ __/ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_|_____| + Oct 12 2015 -(to complete) +The Facelift Release. Major changes: + + * Many interface glitches addressed, everywhere. + - Require g++-4.7, Java 7 and boost 1.48 + - Builds on Linux, OS X, Windows and FreeBSD + - See ChangeLog for renamed functions and options. + + * Energy plugin: major cleanups/rewrites. + http://simgrid.org/tutorials/simgrid-energy-101.pdf + + * Model-Checker progresses toward production use: + - More robust (now runs in a separate process). + - More efficient (with snapshots' memory compaction). + - More usable (execution paths replayed out of MC) + http://simgrid.org/tutorials/simgrid-mc-101.pdf + + * SMPI improvements: + - Better standard coverage - SMP-aware collectives + - InfiniBand model - Early support for RMA + - Replay: Dynamic selector - MVAPICH2 selector + http://simgrid.org/tutorials/simgrid-smpi-101.pdf + +Upcoming v3.13 will introduce new interfaces, toward SimGrid 4. - * Surf internal cleanup: rename workstation into host. - Option "workstation/model" now reads "host/model" - * The model checker now runs in a separate process. - * The mocel checker has support for memory compaction of its snapshots. - * MC record/replay: a interesting path found by the modelchecker can be replayed - outside of the modelchecker. _ _____ _ _ __ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / / | \ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ | | |