The Hardware Locality (hwloc) team is pleased to announce the first release candidate of v1.2:
http://www.open-mpi.org/projects/hwloc/ v1.2 is a major new release series for hwloc. It includes many new features and changes over the v1.1.x series. The just-released v1.1.2 is expected to be the last release of its series (see http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/hwloc-announce/2011/04/0014.php). The following is a summary of the changes since the v1.1 series: * Major features + Expose latency matrices in the API as an array of distance structures within objects. Add several helpers to find distances. + Add hwloc_topology_set_distance_matrix() and environment variables to provide a matrix of distances between a given set of objects. + Add hwloc_get_last_cpu_location() and hwloc_get_proc_last_cpu_location() to retrieve the processors where a process or thread recently ran. - Add the corresponding --get-last-cpu-location option to hwloc-bind. + Add hwloc_topology_restrict() to restrict an existing topology to a given cpuset. - Add the corresponding --restrict option to lstopo. * Minor API updates + Add hwloc_bitmap_list_sscanf/snprintf/asprintf to convert between bitmaps and strings such as 4-5,7-9,12,15- + hwloc_bitmap_set/clr_range() now support infinite ranges. + Clarify the difference between inserting Misc objects by cpuset or by parent. + hwloc_insert_misc_object_by_cpuset() now returns NULL in case of error. * Discovery improvements + x86 backend (for freebsd): add x2APIC support + Support standard device-tree phandle, to get better support on e.g. ARM systems providing it. + Detect cache size on AIX. Thanks Christopher and IBM. + Improve grouping to support asymmetric topologies. * Tools + Command-line tools now support "all" and "root" special locations consisting in the entire topology, as well as type names with depth attributes such as L2 or Group4. + hwloc-calc improvements: - Add --number-of/-N option to report the number of objects of a given type or depth. - -I is now equivalent to --intersect for listing the indexes of objects of a given type or depth that intersects the input. - Add -H to report the output as a hierarchical combination of types and depths. + Add --thissystem to lstopo. + Add lstopo-win, a console-less lstopo variant on Windows. * Miscellaneous + Remove C99 usage from code base. + Rename hwloc-gather-topology.sh into hwloc-gather-topology -- Brice Goglin