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Change Log

The format is based on Keep a Changelog.

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. This project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

This project follows the Gitflow Workflow model.

Unreleased

The Unreleased section will be empty for tagged releases. Unreleased functionality appears in the develop branch.

5.6.3 - 2017-12-08

  • Known Bugs
    • #48 Message sizes exceeding 2GB may not work correctly
  • Fixed
    • Critical bug, incorrect use of MPI_Comm_split() might prevent startup in the following ComEx ports.
      • MPI-PR
      • MPI-PT
      • MPI-MT

5.6.2 - 2017-09-29

  • Known Bugs
    • #48 Message sizes exceeding 2GB may not work correctly
  • Fixed
    • Bug in MPI-PT comex_malloc().
    • Revert ARMCI contiguous check due to regression.
    • ELPA updates.
    • ScaLAPACK updates, including case for large matrices.
    • ComEx OFI updates from Intel.
    • Improved configure tests for LAPACK.
    • Improved travis tests.

5.6.1 - 2017-05-26

  • Known Bugs
    • #48 Message sizes exceeding 2GB may not work correctly
  • Added
    • New ELPA 2015 and 2016 eigensolver interfaces
  • Changed
    • autogen.sh unconditionally runs install-autotools.sh
    • install-autotools.sh downloads latest config.guess and config.sub
    • Additional LAPACK symbols are now tested for during configure
  • Fixed
    • comex_fence_proc() fixed for MPI-MT, MPI-PT, MPI-PR ports
    • configure --disable-fortran now works again
    • ComEx openib port was missing comex_nbacc symbol
    • Added $(BLAS_LIBS) to libcomex LIBADD to capture BLAS library dependency
    • EISPACK no longer enabled by default; --enable-eispack now works correctly
    • Shared memory name limit on OSX is now followed
    • comex_unlock() race condition
    • install-autotools.sh properly updates $PATH during build
    • install-autotools.sh alternate download location when FTP is blocked
    • patches to generated configure scripts for -lnuma
    • CMake build did not install some fortran headers
    • TravisCI: don't fail when brew install is a no-op
  • Closed Pull Requests
    • #34 Fix installation of autotools if not present
    • #53 new ELPA 2016 eigensolver 2stage interface
    • #54 new ELPA 2016 eigensolver interface for the Hotfix/5.6.1 branch
    • #55 curl for download when wget not installed
    • #58 comex/ofi: max_bytes_in_atomic may not fit in int
  • Closed Issues
    • #1 Incorporating GAMESS Patch
    • #5 Compiler error with --with-ofi
    • #9 Adding documentation for GA compilation on Windows
    • #25 CMake not building MA fortran wrappers
    • #30 Disable Fortran not working
    • #33 GA 5.6 release - autotools are downloaded and built even when latest versions exist
    • #38 #ifdef ENABLE_EISPACK should be #if ENABLE_EISPACK
    • #39 libcomex missing optional BLAS dependency
    • #41 develop branch and m4 version on cascade
    • #44 Comex OpenIB missing library symbol
    • #49 autogen.sh fails when only automake needs to be built
    • #50 install-autotools.sh on osx might choke if no timeout tool
    • #56 comex_fence_proc() is no-op in MT, PT, PR
    • #57 process groups sometimes fail for MPI-PT port

5.6 - 2017-04-04

  • Added
    • Port for MPI-3 one-sided (--with-mpi3).
    • CMake build.
    • More complete test coverage.
  • Changed
    • Initial shared library versioning.
  • Fixed
    • Updates to ComEx/OFI provided by Intel.
    • ComEx/MPI-PR added uid and pid to shmem name.
  • Closed Pull Requests
    • #6 Comex/OFI: updated initialization of OmniPath provider
    • #10 comex/ofi: fixed EP initialization
    • #11 COMEX/OFI: added readme file for comex/ofi provider

5.5 - 2016-08

  • Added
    • Port for libfabric (--with-ofi) via ComEx. This adds native support for Intel Omnipath.
  • Fixed
    • Numerous bug fixes.

5.4 - 2016-04

  • Fixed
    • Numerous bug fixes.
    • Performed license/copyright audit of source files.
  • Removed
    • BGML and DCMF ports. Use MPI multithreading instead.

5.4b - 2015-05

  • Added
    • Port for MPI progress ranks (--with-mpi-pr) via ComEx.
    • Port for MPI multithreading with progress threads (--with-mpi-pt) via ComEx.
    • Port for MPI multithreading (--with-mpi-mt) via ComEx.
  • Changed
    • Default network interface from SOCKETS to MPI two-sided (--with-mpi-ts) via ComEx.
  • Improved
    • ScaLAPACK and ELPA integration.
  • Removed
    • Replaced EISPACK with LAPACK/BLAS.

5.3 - 2014-04

  • Fixed
    • Bug where incorrect BLAS integer size was used in ComEx.
    • Incompatibilities between this and the 5.2 release with respect to NWChem.
  • Testing
    • Validated this software with the NWChem 6.3 sources.

5.3b - 2013-12

  • Added
    • Port for Portals4 (configure --with-portals4). When linking to the Portals4 reference implementation, it is highly recommended that the ummunotify driver is installed. Otherwise, memory registration errors and/or dropped messages may occur. This behavior can be verified using the PTL_DEBUG=1 and PTL_LOG_LEVEL=2 Portals4 environment variables.
    • ARMCI profiling to ComEx.
  • Changed
    • autotool scripts now latest versions.

5.2 - 2012-08

  • Added
    • The Communications Runtime for Extreme Scale (ComEx) software to the GA release bundle. ComEx provides the following features to GA:
      • Port for Cray XE and XC (configure --with-dmapp).
      • Port for MPI-1 two-sided (configure --with-mpi-ts).
    • Support for externally linkable ARMCI (configure --with-armci=...)
    • Ability for users to select a different IB device using the ARMCI_OPENIB_DEVICE environment variable.
    • Ability for users to specify upper bound on ARMCI shared memory. Added ARMCI_DEFAULT_SHMMAX_UBOUND which is set and parsed at configure time.
  • Changed
    • How users link their applications. You now need "-lga -larmci" since libarmci is possibly an external dependency (see above).
  • Fixed
    • Support for Intel/QLogic IB thanks to patches from Dean Luick, Intel.
  • Improved
    • BLAS library parsing for ACML and MKL ('-mkl').
    • ScaLAPACK integration thanks to Edo Apra.

5.1.1 - 2012-10

  • Added
    • A wrapper for fsync to SF library.
    • MA_ACCESS_INDEX_TYPE to ma library.
    • Missing Python C sources.
  • Changed
    • Atomic operations.
  • Fixed
    • Numerous bugs for compilation on IBM AIX, as well as IBM xl compilers.
    • Many warnings reported by Intel compilers.
    • Integer overflow for indexing large arrays during accumulate.
    • Bug in GA_Zgemm64.
    • Ghosts hanging.
  • Removed
    • A few debugging print statements from pario.

5.1 - 2012-02

  • Added
    • Unified "NGA" prefix for all functions.
    • New profiling interface and weak symbol interposition support.
    • Support for struct data types using the new NGA_Register_type(), NGA_Get_field() and NGA_Put_field() functions.
    • ga-config for 3rd party software to query compilation flags used for GA.
    • Global Arrays in NumPy (GAiN) interface for a NumPy work-alike with a Global Arrays backend.
    • GA_MPI_Comm() and other functions to retrieve MPI_Comm object associated with a GA processor group.
    • MPI-MT (MPI_THREAD_MULTIPLE) port for use when a native port is not available.
    • armci_msg_finalize() to abstract the message passing function required for application termination.
    • Ability for EAF_Open() to use MA memory operations instead of I/O operations.
  • Changed
    • ARMCI directory structure.
    • NGA_Add_patch() algorithm to use less memory.
    • tascel to no longer be part of the top-level configure (must be installed separately).
    • Python base module from "ga" to "ga4py" since we now have the submodules ga4py.ga and ga4py.gain.
    • autotools build to use autoconf-2.68 and libtool-2.4.2.
    • ARMCI Fortran sources to use integer*4 type rather than an integer size compiler flag.
  • Fixed
    • Numerous configure and source bugs with our ScaLAPACK integration.
    • Bug in NGA_Matmul_patch().
    • Numerous configure bugs.
    • Numerous Makefile bugs.
    • Support for large files.
  • Improved
    • Internal code, reducing the amount of dereferenced pointers.
    • Restriction on calling GA_Initalize() before messaging layer -- GA_Initalize(), ARMCI_Init(), MPI_Init()/tcg_pbegin() can be called in any order.
  • Removed
    • Deprecated interconnects Myrinet GM, VIA, Mellanox Verbs API, Quadrics Elan-3, Quadrics Elan-4.
    • Vampir support.
    • KSR and PARAGON support.

5.0.3 - 2012-02

  • Added
    • Support for Cray compilers.
  • Fixed
    • Shared library linking.
    • A few critical bugs in GA_Duplicate().
    • Bugs in strided get/put/acc routines.
    • Bugs in GPC support.
    • Numerous compilation warnings.
    • Numerous valgrind warnings.
    • Numerous configure bugs.
    • Numerous Makefile bugs.
    • Numerous bugs in Python interface.
    • Bug in GA_Patch_enum().
    • Bug in TCGMSG-MPI nxtval().
    • Latency reporting in perf.x benchmark.
    • Fortran ordering bug in NGA_Scatter(), NGA_Scatter_acc(), and NGA_Gather().
  • Improved
    • BGP configure.
    • TCGMSG-MPI build.
    • Test suite.
    • Numerous inefficiencies in Python interface.

5.0.2 - 2011-03

  • Added
    • Added support for Sun Studio compilers.
    • Added support for AMD Open64 compilers.
  • Changed
    • ARMCI RMW interface now uses void pointer.
    • GA_Patch_enum() now uses void pointer.
  • Fixed
    • Bugs in processor groups code.
    • Numerous compilation warnings.
    • Numerous configure bugs.
    • Numerous Makefile bugs.
    • Bug in GA_Unpack().
    • Bug in GA_Dgemm() concerning transpose.
    • Numerous bugs in Python interface.
  • Improved
    • ga_scan_copy() and ga_scan_add().

5.0.1 - 2011-01

  • Fixed
    • Numerous configure bugs.
    • Numerous Makefile bugs.
    • Numerous bugs in test suite.
    • Atomics bug.
    • Numerous tascel bugs.
    • Bug in single complex matrix multiply.
    • Bug in destruction of mutexes.
    • Bug in process group collectives.
    • Bug in GA_Terminate().
  • Improved
    • Configure for NEC and HPUX.

5.0 - 2010-11

  • Now built using GNU autotools (autoconf,automake,libtool)
  • Restricted arrays (see user manual)
  • ARMCI runtime enhancements
    • On-demand connection management
    • Improved scalability for fence
  • New Python interface
  • Task Scheduling Library (tascel)

5.0b - 2010-07

  • Now built using GNU autotools (autoconf,automake,libtool)

4.3 - 2010-05

  • Optimized portals port to scale upto 200K procs
  • Optimized OpenIB port
  • BlueGene/P
  • Support for Sparse Data Operations
    • (See GA user manual - Chapter 11 for more details)

4.2 - 2009-07

  • Support for several new platforms
  • Optimized portals port for Cray XT5
  • BlueGene/P
  • Optimized OpenIB port
  • Support for Sparse Data Operations
    • (See GA user manual - Chapter 11 for more details)

4.1 - 2008-05

  • Support for several new platforms
    • Cray XT4
    • BlueGene/L, BlueGene/P
    • OpenIB network
  • Optimized one-sided non-blocking operations
  • New networks. i.e. ARMCI_NETWORK
    • OPENIB
    • PORTALS
    • MPI-SPAWN (one-sided communication thru' MPI2 Dynamic Process management and Send/Recv)

4.0 - 2006-04

  • Support for multilevel parallelism: processor group awareness
  • GA_Dgemm matrix multiplication based on SRUMMA
  • Support for large arrays (a terabyte Global Array now possible)
  • Optimized one-sided non-blocking operations
  • Supports various platforms (Crays, IBM SPs, SGI Altix, ...) and interconnects (Myrinet, Quadrics, Infiniband, ...)