Are any detailed directions for upgrading (for common guys, not experts, I mean)? My 1.2.3 version on Debian Linux amd64 runs perfectly. Thanks francesco pietra
--- Tim Mattox <timat...@open-mpi.org> wrote: > The Open MPI Team, representing a consortium of research, academic, > and industry partners, is pleased to announce the release of Open MPI > version 1.2.4. This release is mainly a bug fix release over the v1.2.3 > release, but there are few new features. We strongly recommend > that all users upgrade to version 1.2.4 if possible. > > Version 1.2.4 can be downloaded from the main Open MPI web site or > any of its mirrors (mirrors will be updating shortly). > > Here are a list of changes in v1.2.4 as compared to v1.2.3: > > - Really added support for TotalView/DDT parallel debugger message queue > debugging (it was mistakenly listed as "added" in the 1.2 release). > - Fixed a build issue with GNU/kFreeBSD. Thanks to Petr Salinger for > the patch. > - Added missing MPI_FILE_NULL constant in Fortran. Thanks to > Bernd Schubert for bringing this to our attention. > - Change such that the UDAPL BTL is now only built in Linux when > explicitly specified via the --with-udapl configure command line > switch. > - Fixed an issue with umask not being propagated when using the TM > launcher. > - Fixed behavior if number of slots is not the same on all bproc nodes. > - Fixed a hang on systems without GPR support (ex. Cray XT3/4). > - Prevent users of 32-bit MPI apps from requesting >= 2GB of shared > memory. > - Added a Portals MTL. > - Fix 0 sized MPI_ALLOC_MEM requests. Thanks to Lisandro Dalcin for > pointing out the problem. > - Fixed a segfault crash on large SMPs when doing collectives. > - A variety of fixes for Cray XT3/4 class of machines. > - Fixed which error handler is used when MPI_COMM_SELF is passed > to MPI_COMM_FREE. Thanks to Lisandro Dalcini for the bug report. > - Fixed compilation on platforms that don't have hton/ntoh. > - Fixed a logic problem in the fortran binding for MPI_TYPE_MATCH_SIZE. > Thanks to Jeff Dusenberry for pointing out the problem and supplying > the fix. > - Fixed a problem with MPI_BOTTOM in various places of the f77-interface. > Thanks to Daniel Spangberg for bringing this up. > - Fixed problem where MPI-optional Fortran datatypes were not > correctly initialized. > - Fixed several problems with stdin/stdout forwarding. > - Fixed overflow problems with the sm mpool MCA parameters on large SMPs. > - Added support for the DDT parallel debugger via orterun's --debug > command line option. > - Added some sanity/error checks to the openib MCA parameter parsing > code. > - Updated the udapl BTL to use RDMA capabilities. > - Allow use of the BProc head node if it was allocated to the user. > Thanks to Sean Kelly for reporting the problem and helping debug it. > - Fixed a ROMIO problem where non-blocking I/O errors were not properly > reported to the user. > - Made remote process launch check the $SHELL environment variable if > a valid shell was not otherwise found for the user. > Thanks to Alf Wachsmann for the bugreport and suggested fix. > - Added/updated some vendor IDs for a few openib HCAs. > - Fixed a couple of failures that could occur when specifying devices > for use by the OOB. > - Removed dependency on sysfsutils from the openib BTL for > libibverbs >=v1.1 (i.e., OFED 1.2 and beyond). > > -- > Tim Mattox > Open Systems Lab > Indiana University > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545469
