1.6.1rc1 is a bust because of a compile error. :( It wasn't caught on the build machine because it's a bug in the openib BTL, and the build machine doesn't have OpenFabrics support.
1.6.1rc2 will be posted later today. On Jul 27, 2012, at 10:20 PM, Jeff Squyres wrote: > Finally! It's in the usual place: > > http://www.open-mpi.org/software/ompi/v1.6/ > > Please test, especially with low-registered-memory-available scenarios with > Mellanox OpenFabrics devices. > > Here's a list of changes since 1.6: > > - A bunch of changes to eliminate hangs on OpenFabrics-based networks. > Users with Mellanox hardware are ***STRONGLY ENCOURAGED*** to check > their registered memory kernel module settings to ensure that the OS > will allow registering more than 8GB of memory. See this FAQ item > for details: > > http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=openfabrics#ib-low-reg-mem > > - Fall back to send/receive semantics if registered memory is > unavilable for RDMA. > - Fix two fragment leaks when registered memory is exhausted. > - Hueristically determine how much registered memory is available > and warn if it's significantly less than all of RAM. > - Artifically limit the amount of registered memory each MPI process > can use to about 1/Nth to total registered memory available. > - Improve error messages when events occur that are likely due to > unexpected registered memory exhaustion. > - Remove the last openib default per-peer receive queue > specification (and make it an SRQ). > > - Switch the MPI_ALLTOALLV default algorithm to a pairwise exchange. > - Increase the openib BTL default CQ length to handle more types of > OpenFabrics devices. > - Lots of VampirTrace fixes; upgrade to v5.13.0.4. > - Map MPI_2INTEGER to underlying MPI_INTEGERs, not MPI_INTs. > - Ensure that the OMPI version number is toleant of handling spaces. > Thanks to dragonboy for identifying the issue. > - Fixed IN parameter marking on Fortran "mpi" module > MPI_COMM_TEST_INTER interface. > - Various MXM improvements. > - Make the output of "mpirun --report-bindings" much more friendly / > human-readable. > - Properly handle MPI_COMPLEX8|16|32. > - More fixes for mpirun's processor affinity options (--bind-to-core > and friends). > - Use aligned memory for OpenFabrics registered memory. > - Multiple fixes for parameter checking in MPI_ALLGATHERV, > MPI_REDUCE_SCATTER, MPI_SCATTERV, and MPI_GATHERV. Thanks to the > mpi4py community (Bennet Fauber, Lisandro Dalcin, Jonathan Dursi). > - Fixed file positioning overflows in MPI_FILE_GET_POSITION, > MPI_FILE_GET_POSITION_SHARED, FILE_GET_SIZE, FILE_GET_VIEW. > - Removed the broken --cpu-set mpirun option. > - Fix cleanup of MPI errorcodes. Thanks to Alexey Bayduraev for the > patch. > - Fix default hostfile location. Thanks to Götz Waschk for noticing > the issue. > - Improve several error messages. > > > -- > Jeff Squyres > jsquy...@cisco.com > For corporate legal information go to: > http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/ > -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/
