[openfabrics-ewg] MVAPICH 0.9.9-beta release is available

[Pavel Shamis (Pasha)]

SRPM with latest version of mvapich 0.9.9 (beta 0.9.9) was uploaded to 
OFED 1.2 repository http://www.openfabrics.org/~pasha/ofed_1_2/mvapich/

Regards,
Pasha

Dhabaleswar Panda wrote:
> The MVAPICH team is pleased to announce the availability of MVAPICH
> 0.9.9-beta with the following NEW features:
> 
> - Message coalescing support to enable reduction of per Queue-pair
>   send queues for reduction in memory requirement on large scale
>   clusters. This design also increases the small message messaging
>   rate significantly.
> 
> - Designs for avoiding hot-spots in networks of large-scale clusters
> 
>   - Multi-pathing support leveraging LMC mechanism
>   - Multi-port support for enabling user processes to bind to 
>     different IB ports for balanced communication performance
>     on multi-core platforms
> 
> - Multi-core optimized scalable shared memory design
> 
> - Memory Hook support provided by integration with ptmalloc2 library. 
>   This provides safe release of memory to the Operating System and
>   is expected to benefit the memory usage of applications that 
>   frequently use malloc and free operations.
> 
> - Optimized, high-performance shared memory aware collective
>   operations for multi-core platforms
> 
> - Shared-Memory only channel (This interface support is useful for
>   running MPI jobs on multi-processor systems without using any 
>   high-performance network. For example, multi-core servers, 
>   desktops, and laptops; and clusters with serial nodes.)
> 
> A new "Multiple-pair Bandwidth and Message Rate" test is also
> available as a part of OSU_Benchmarks.
> 
> For downloading MVAPICH 0.9.9-beta package and accessing the anonymous
> SVN, please visit the following URL:
> 
> http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/projects/mpi-iba/
> 
> MVAPICH 0.9.9-beta is also available for OFED 1.2 testing.
> 
> All feedbacks, including bug reports and hints for performance tuning,
> are welcome. Please post it to the mvapich-discuss mailing list.
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> MVAPICH Team
> 
> 
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