My wife thought it was frackin' brilliant. :) -jms Sent from my PDA. No type good.
----- Original Message ----- From: devel-boun...@open-mpi.org <devel-boun...@open-mpi.org> To: Open MPI Developers <de...@open-mpi.org> Sent: Wed Apr 01 18:58:55 2009 Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] Open MPI 2009 released Bravo!! This is beautiful. By far my favorite part is "Cobol (so say we all!)". However, I question why ARM6 was targeted as opposed to ARM7 ;-) -Paul George Bosilca wrote: > The Open MPI Team, representing a consortium of bailed-out banks, car > manufacturers, and insurance companies, is pleased to announce the > release of the "unbreakable" / bug-free version Open MPI 2009, > (expected to be available by mid-2011). This release is essentially a > complete rewrite of Open MPI based on new technologies such as C#, > Java, and object-oriented Cobol (so say we all!). Buffer overflows > and memory leaks are now things of the past. We strongly recommend > that all users upgrade to Windows 7 to fully take advantage of the new > powers embedded in Open MPI. > > This version can be downloaded from the The Onion web site or from > many BitTorrent networks (seeding now; the Open MPI ISO is > approximately 3.97GB -- please wait for the full upload). > > Here is an abbreviated list of changes in Open MPI 2009 as compared to > the previous version: > > - Dropped support for MPI 2 in favor of the newly enhanced MPI 11.7 > standard. MPI_COOK_DINNER support is only available with additional > equipment (some assembly may be required). An experimental PVM-like > API has been introduced to deal with the current limitations of the > MPI 11.7 API. > - Added a Twitter network transport capable of achieving peta-scale > per second bandwidth (but only on useless data). > - Dropped support for the barely-used x86 and x86_64 architectures in > favor of the most recent ARM6 architecture. As a direct result, > several Top500 sites are planning to convert from their now obsolete > peta-scale machines to high-reliability iPhone clusters using the > low-latency AT&T 3G network. > - The iPhone iMPI app (powered by iOpen MPI) is now downloadable from > the iTunes Store. Blackberry support will be included in a future > release. > - Fix all compiler errors related to the PGI 8.0 compiler by > completely dropping support. > - Add some "green" features for energy savings. The new "--bike" > mpirun option will only run your parallel jobs only during the > operation hours of the official Open MPI biking team. The > "--preload-result" option will directly embed the final result in > the parallel execution, leading to more scalable and reliable runs > and decreasing the execution time of any parallel application under > the real-time limit of 1 second. Open MPI is therefore EnergyStar > compliant when used with these options. > - In addition to moving Open MPI's lowest point-to-point transports to > be an external project, limited support will be offered for > industry-standard platforms. Our focus will now be to develop > highly scalable transports based on widely distributed technologies > such as SMTP, High Performance Gopher (v3.8 and later), OLE COMM, > RSS/Atom, DNS, and Bonjour. > - Opportunistic integration with Conflicker in order to utilize free > resources distributed world-wide. > - Support for all Fortran versions prior to Fortran 2020 has been > dropped. > > Make today an Open MPI day! > > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > de...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel -- Paul H. Hargrove phhargr...@lbl.gov Future Technologies Group Tel: +1-510-495-2352 HPC Research Department Fax: +1-510-486-6900 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@open-mpi.org http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel
