[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#685693: openmpi: New (major) upstream version 1.5.5 available
Mario Lang
mlang at tugraz.at
Thu Aug 23 13:31:42 UTC 2012
Package: openmpi
Severity: wishlist
OpenMPI is upstream currently at version 1.5.5.
Please provide an up-to-date package. The list of fixes and
improvements in ./NEWS is quite substantial since 1.4.5 (which is what Debian ships).
Thanks for your work on OpenMPI.
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1.5.5
-----
- Many, many portability configure/build fixes courtesy of Paul
Hargrove. Thanks, Paul!
- Fixed shared memory fault tolerance support compiler errors.
- Removed not-production-quality rshd and tmd PLM launchers.
- Minor updates to the Open MPI SRPM spec file.
- Fixed mpirun's --bind-to-socket option.
- A few MPI_THREAD_MULTIPLE fixes in the shared memory BTL.
- Upgrade the GNU Autotools used to bootstrap the 1.5/1.6 series to
all the latest versions at the time of this release.
- Categorically state in the README that if you're having a problem
with Open MPI with the Linux Intel 12.1 compilers, *upgrade your
Intel Compiler Suite to the latest patch version*, and the problems
will go away. :-)
- Fix the --without-memory-manager configure option.
- Fixes for Totalview/DDT MPI-capable debuggers.
- Update rsh/ssh support to properly handle the Mac OS X library path
(i.e., DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH).
- Make warning about shared memory backing files on a networked file
system be optional (i.e., can be disabled via MCA parameter).
- Several fixes to processor and memory affinity.
- Various shared memory infrastructure improvements.
- Various checkpoint/restart fixes.
- Fix MPI_IN_PLACE (and other MPI sentinel values) on OS X. Thanks to
Dave Goodell for providing the magic OS X gcc linker flags necessary.
- Various man page corrections and typo fixes. Thanks to Fujitsu for
the patch.
- Updated wrapper compiler man pages to list the various --showme
options that are available.
- Add PMI direct-launch support (e.g., "srun mpi_application" under
SLURM).
- Correctly compute the aligned address when packing the
datatype description. Thanks to Fujitsu for the patch.
- Fix MPI obscure corner case handling in packing MPI datatypes.
Thanks to Fujitsu for providing the patch.
- Workaround an Intel compiler v12.1.0 2011.6.233 vector optimization
bug.
- Output the MPI API in ompi_info output.
- Major VT update to 5.12.1.4.
- Rankfile 'P'hysical mapping is no longer available.
- Upgrade embedded Hardware Locality (hwloc) v1.3.2, plus some
post-1.3.2-release bug fixes. All processor and memory binding is
now done through hwloc. Woo hoo! Note that this fixes core binding
on AMD Opteron 6200 and 4200 series-based systems (sometimes known
as Interlagos, Valencia, or other Bulldozer-based chips).
- New MCA parameters to control process-wide memory binding policy:
hwloc_base_mem_alloc_policy, hwloc_base_mem_bind_failure_action (see
ompi_info --param hwloc base).
- Removed direct support for libnuma. Libnuma support may now be
picked up through hwloc.
- Added MPI_IN_PLACE support to MPI_EXSCAN.
- Various fixes for building on Windows, including MinGW support.
- Removed support for the OpenFabrics IBCM connection manager.
- Updated Chelsio T4 and Intel NE OpenFabrics default buffer settings.
- Increased the default RDMA CM timeout to 30 seconds.
- Issue a warning if both btl_tcp_if_include and btl_tcp_if_exclude
are specified.
- Many fixes to the Mellanox MXM transport.
1.5.4
-----
- Add support for the (as yet unreleased) Mellanox MXM transport.
- Add support for dynamic service levels (SLs) in the openib BTL.
- Fixed C++ bindings cosmetic/warnings issue with
MPI::Comm::NULL_COPY_FN and MPI::Comm::NULL_DELETE_FN. Thanks to
Júlio Hoffimann for identifying the issues.
- Also allow the word "slots" in rankfiles (i.e., not just "slot").
(** also to appear in 1.4.4)
- Add Mellanox ConnectX 3 device IDs to the openib BTL defaults.
(** also to appear in 1.4.4)
- Various FCA updates.
- Fix 32 bit SIGBUS errors on Solaris SPARC platforms.
- Add missing ARM assembly code files.
- Update to allow more than 128 entries in an appfile.
(** also to appear in 1.4.4)
- Various VT updates and bug fixes.
- Update description of btl_openib_cq_size to be more accurate.
(** also to appear in 1.4.4)
- Various assembly "clobber" fixes.
- Fix a hang in carto selection in obscure situations.
- Guard the inclusion of execinfo.h since not all platforms have it. Thanks
to Aleksej Saushev for identifying this issue.
(** also to appear in 1.4.4)
- Support Solaris legacy munmap prototype changes.
(** also to appear in 1.4.4)
- Updated to Automake 1.11.1 per
http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2011/07/9492.php.
- Fix compilation of LSF support.
- Update MPI_Comm_spawn_multiple.3 man page to reflect what it
actually does.
- Fix for possible corruption of the environment. Thanks to Peter
Thompson for the suggestion. (** also to appear in 1.4.4)
- Enable use of PSM on direct-launch SLURM jobs.
- Update paffinity hwloc to v1.2, and to fix minor bugs affinity
assignment bugs on PPC64/Linux platforms.
- Let the openib BTL auto-detect its bandwidth.
- Support new MPI-2.2 datatypes.
- Updates to support more datatypes in MPI one-sided communication.
- Fix recursive locking bug when MPI-IO was used with
MPI_THREAD_MULTIPLE. (** also to appear in 1.4.4)
- Fix mpirun handling of prefix conflicts.
- Ensure mpirun's --xterm options leaves sessions attached.
(** also to appear in 1.4.4)
- Fixed type of sendcounts and displs in the "use mpi" F90 module.
ABI is preserved, but applications may well be broken. See the
README for more details. Thanks to Stanislav Sazykin for
identifying the issue. (** also to appear in 1.4.4)
- Fix indexed datatype leaks. Thanks to Pascal Deveze for supplying
the initial patch. (** also to appear in 1.4.4)
- Fix debugger mapping when mpirun's -npernode option is used.
- Fixed support for configure's --disable-dlopen option when used with
"make distclean".
- Fix segv associated with MPI_Comm_create with MPI_GROUP_EMPTY.
Thanks to Dominik Goeddeke for finding this.
(** also to appear in 1.4.4)
- Improved LoadLeveler ORTE support.
- Add new WinVerbs BTL plugin, supporting native OpenFabrics verbs on
Windows (the "wv" BTL).
- Add new btl_openib_gid_index MCA parameter to allow selecting which
GID to use on an OpenFabrics device's GID table.
- Add support for PCI relaxed ordering in the OpenFabrics BTL (when
available).
- Update rsh logic to allow correct SGE operation.
- Ensure that the mca_paffinity_alone MCA parameter only appears once
in the ompi_info output. Thanks to Gus Correa for identifying the
issue.
- Fixed return codes from MPI_PROBE and MPI_IPROBE.
(** also to appear in 1.4.4)
- Remove --enable-progress-thread configure option; it doesn't work on
the v1.5 branch. Rename --enable-mpi-threads to
--enable-mpi-thread-multiple. Add new --enable-opal-multi-threads
option.
- Updates for Intel Fortran compiler version 12.
- Remove bproc support. Farewell bproc!
- If something goes wrong during MPI_INIT, fix the error
message to say that it's illegal to invoke MPI_INIT before
MPI_INIT.
1.5.3
-----
- Add missing "affinity" MPI extension (i.e., the OMPI_Affinity_str()
API) that was accidentally left out of the 1.5.2 release.
1.5.2
-----
- Replaced all custom topology / affinity code with initial support
for hwloc v1.1.1 (PLPA has been removed -- long live hwloc!). Note
that hwloc is bundled with Open MPI, but an external hwloc can be
used, if desired. See README for more details.
- Many CMake updates for Windows builds.
- Updated opal_cr_thread_sleep_wait MCA param default value to make it
less aggressive.
- Updated debugger support to allow Totalview attaching from jobs
launched directly via srun (not mpirun). Thanks to Nikolay Piskun
for the patch.
- Added more FTB/CIFTS support.
- Fixed compile error with the PGI compiler.
- Portability fixes to allow the openib BTL to run on the Solaris
verbs stack.
- Fixed multi-token command-line issues when using the mpirun
--debug switch. For example:
mpirun --debug -np 2 a.out "foo bar"
Thanks to Gabriele Fatigati for reporting the issue.
- Added ARM support.
- Added the MPI_ROOT environment variable in the Open MPI Linux SRPM
for customers who use the BPS and LSF batch managers.
- Updated ROMIO from MPICH v1.3.1 (plus one additional patch).
- Fixed some deprecated MPI API function notification messages.
- Added new "bfo" PML that provides failover on OpenFabrics networks.
- Fixed some buffer memcheck issues in MPI_*_init.
- Added Solaris-specific chip detection and performance improvements.
- Fix some compile errors on Solaris.
- Updated the "rmcast" framework with bug fixes, new functionality.
- Updated the Voltaire FCA component with bug fixes, new
functionality. Support for FCA version 2.1.
- Fix gcc 4.4.x and 4.5.x over-aggressive warning notifications on
possibly freeing stack variables. Thanks to the Gentoo packagers
for reporting the issue.
- Make the openib component be verbose when it disqualifies itself due
to MPI_THREAD_MULTIPLE.
- Minor man page fixes.
- Various checkpoint / restart fixes.
- Fix race condition in the one-sided unlock code. Thanks to
Guillaume Thouvenin for finding the issue.
- Improve help message aggregation.
- Add OMPI_Affinity_str() optional user-level API function (i.e., the
"affinity" MPI extension). See README for more details.
- Added btl_tcp_if_seq MCA parameter to select a different ethernet
interface for each MPI process on a node. This parameter is only
useful when used with virtual ethernet interfaces on a single
network card (e.g., when using virtual interfaces give dedicated
hardware resources on the NIC to each process).
- Changed behavior of mpirun to terminate if it receives 10 (or more)
SIGPIPEs.
- Fixed oversubscription detection.
- Added new mtl_mx_board and mtl_mx_endpoint MCA parameters.
- Added ummunotify support for OpenFabrics-based transports. See the
README for more details.
1.5.1
-----
- Fixes for the Oracle Studio 12.2 Fortran compiler.
- Fix SPARC and SPARCv9 atomics. Thanks to Nicola Stange for the
initial patch.
- Fix Libtool issues with the IBM XL compiler in 64-bit mode.
- Restore the reset of the libevent progress counter to avoid
over-sampling the event library.
- Update memory barrier support.
- Use memmove (instead of memcpy) when necessary (e.g., source and
destination overlap).
- Fixed ompi-top crash.
- Fix to handle Autoconf --program-transforms properly and other
m4/configury updates. Thanks to the GASNet project for the
--program transforms fix.
- Allow hostfiles to specify usernames on a per-host basis.
- Update wrapper compiler scripts to search for perl during configure,
per request from the BSD maintainers.
- Minor man page fixes.
- Added --with-libltdl option to allow building Open MPI with an
external installation of libltdl.
- Fixed various issues with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2.
- Various VT fixes and updates.
1.5
---
- Added "knem" support: direct process-to-process copying for shared
memory message passing. See http://runtime.bordeaux.inria.fr/knem/
and the README file for more details.
- Updated shared library versioning scheme and linking style of MPI
applications. The MPI application ABI has been broken from the
v1.3/v1.4 series. MPI applications compiled against any prior
version of Open MPI will need to, at a minimum, re-link. See the
README file for more details.
- Added "fca" collective component, enabling MPI collective offload
support for Voltaire switches.
- Fixed MPI one-sided operations with large target displacements.
Thanks to Brian Price and Jed Brown for reporting the issue.
- Fixed MPI_GET_COUNT when used with large counts. Thanks to Jed
Brown for reporting the issue.
- Made the openib BTL safer if extremely low SRQ settings are used.
- Fixed handling of the array_of_argv parameter in the Fortran
binding of MPI_COMM_SPAWN_MULTIPLE (** also to appear: 1.4.3).
- Fixed malloc(0) warnings in some collectives.
- Fixed a problem with the Fortran binding for
MPI_FILE_CREATE_ERRHANDLER. Thanks to Secretan Yves for identifying
the issue (** also to appear: 1.4.3).
- Updates to the LSF PLM to ensure that the path is correctly passed.
Thanks to Teng Lin for the patch (** also to appear: 1.4.3).
- Fixes for the F90 MPI_COMM_SET_ERRHANDLER and MPI_WIN_SET_ERRHANDLER
bindings. Thanks to Paul Kapinos for pointing out the issue
(** also to appear: 1.4.3).
- Fixed extra_state parameter types in F90 prototypes for
MPI_COMM_CREATE_KEYVAL, MPI_GREQUEST_START, MPI_REGISTER_DATAREP,
MPI_TYPE_CREATE_KEYVAL, and MPI_WIN_CREATE_KEYVAL.
- Fixes for Solaris oversubscription detection.
- If the PML determines it can't reach a peer process, print a
slightly more helpful message. Thanks to Nick Edmonds for the
suggestion.
- Make btl_openib_if_include/exclude function the same way
btl_tcp_if_include/exclude works (i.e., supplying an _include list
overrides supplying an _exclude list).
- Apply more scalable reachability algorithm on platforms with more
than 8 TCP interfaces.
- Various assembly code updates for more modern platforms / compilers.
- Relax restrictions on using certain kinds of MPI datatypes with
one-sided operations. Users beware; not all MPI datatypes are valid
for use with one-sided operations!
- Improve behavior of MPI_COMM_SPAWN with regards to --bynode.
- Various threading fixes in the openib BTL and other core pieces of
Open MPI.
- Various help file and man pages updates.
- Various FreeBSD and NetBSD updates and fixes. Thanks to Kevin
Buckley and Aleksej Saushev for their work.
- Fix case where freeing communicators in MPI_FINALIZE could cause
process failures.
- Print warnings if shared memory state files are opened on what look
like networked filesystems.
- Update libevent to v1.4.13.
- Allow propagating signals to processes that call fork().
- Fix bug where MPI_GATHER was sometimes incorrectly examining the
datatype on non-root processes. Thanks to Michael Hofmann for
investigating the issue.
- Various Microsoft Windows fixes.
- Various Catamount fixes.
- Various checkpoint / restart fixes.
- Xgrid support has been removed until it can be fixed (patches
would be welcome).
- Added simplistic "libompitrace" contrib package. Using the MPI
profiling interface, it essentially prints out to stderr when select
MPI functions are invoked.
- Update bundled VampirTrace to v5.8.2.
- Add pkg-config(1) configuration files for ompi, ompi-c, ompi-cxx,
ompi-f77, ompi-f90. See the README for more details.
- Removed the libopenmpi_malloc library (added in the v1.3 series)
since it is no longer necessary
- Add several notifier plugins (generally used when Open MPI detects
system/network administrator-worthy problems); each have their own
MCA parameters to govern their usage. See "ompi_info --param
notifier <name>" for more details.
- command to execute arbitrary commands (e.g., run a script).
- file to send output to a file.
- ftb to send output to the Fault Tolerant Backplane (see
http://wiki.mcs.anl.gov/cifts/index.php/CIFTS)
- hnp to send the output to mpirun.
- smtp (requires libesmtp) to send an email.
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Regards,
Mario Lang
Graz University of Technology mailto:mlang at TUGraz.at
Department Computing http://www.ZID.TUGraz.at/lang/
Phone: +43 (0) 316 / 873 - 6897
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