[ofa-general] Announcing the release of MVAPICH2 1.0-beta

[Dhabaleswar Panda]

The MVAPICH team is pleased to announce the availability of
MVAPICH2-1.0-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. Available for Open Fabrics Gen2-IB.

- Hot-Spot Avoidance Mechanism (HSAM) for alleviating
  network congestion in large scale clusters. Available for 
  Open Fabrics Gen2-IB.

- RDMA CM based on-demand connection management for large scale
  clusters. Available for OpenFabrics Gen2-IB and Gen2-iWARP.

- uDAPL on-demand connection management for large scale clusters.
  Available for uDAPL interface (including Solaris IB implementation).
 
- RDMA Read support for increased overlap of computation and
  communication. Available for OpenFabrics Gen2-IB and Gen2-iWARP.

- Application-initiated system-level (synchronous) checkpointing in
  addition to the user-transparent checkpointing. User application can
  now request a whole program checkpoint synchronously with BLCR by
  calling special functions within the application. Available for
  OpenFabrics Gen2-IB.

- Network-Level fault tolerance with Automatic Path Migration (APM)
  for tolerating intermittent network failures over InfiniBand.
  Available for OpenFabrics Gen2-IB.

- Integrated multi-rail communication support for OpenFabrics
  Gen2-iWARP.

- Blocking mode of communication progress. Available for OpenFabrics
  Gen2-IB.

- Based on MPICH2 1.0.5p4.

For downloading MVAPICH2 1.0-beta source code, associated user guide
and accessing the anonymous SVN, please visit the following URL:

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

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

Thanks, 

MVAPICH Team