[ofa-general] Announcing the release of MVAPICH2 1.2RC1

[Dhabaleswar Panda]

The MVAPICH team is pleased to announce the release of MVAPICH2 1.2RC1
with the following NEW features:

- Based on MPICH2 1.0.7

- Scalable and robust daemon-less job startup
   - Enhanced and robust mpirun_rsh framework (non-MPD-based) to
     provide scalable job launching on multi-thousand core clusters
   - Available for OpenFabrics (IB and iWARP) and uDAPL interfaces
     (including Solaris)

- Checkpoint-restart with intra-node shared memory support
   - Allows best performance and scalability with fault-tolerance
     support

- Enhancement to software installation
   - Full autoconf-based configuration
   - An application (mpiname) for querying the MVAPICH2
     library version and configuration information

- Enhanced processor affinity using PLPA for multi-core architectures
   - Allows user-defined flexible processor affinity

- Enhanced scalability for RDMA-based direct one-sided communication
  with less communication resource

- Shared memory optimized MPI_Bcast operation

- Optimized and tuned MPI_Alltoall

For downloading MVAPICH2 1.2RC1, associated user guide and accessing
the SVN, please visit the following URL:

http://mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu

All feedbacks, including bug reports and hints for performance tuning,
patches and enhancements are welcome. Please post it to the
mvapich-discuss mailing list.

Thanks,

The MVAPICH Team