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[charm] Charm 6.2.2 Release Candidate Ready


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  • From: Phil Miller <mille121 AT illinois.edu>
  • To: Charm Mailing List <charm AT cs.illinois.edu>
  • Subject: [charm] Charm 6.2.2 Release Candidate Ready
  • Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:52:24 -0500
  • List-archive: <http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/charm>
  • List-id: CHARM parallel programming system <charm.cs.uiuc.edu>

A release candidate of Charm 6.2.2 is available from the Git
repository (git checkout charm-6.2.2-pre2), with the following changes
from 6.2.1:

FEM: prepend string to timestamp files for compatibility with newer paraviews
Chare Array default mapping: fix bugs on late insertion and apparent imbalance
Makefile: Avoid accidental wrong generation of pup_f.f90
Chkpt: account for processors with 0 objects
add a test for restarting on a smaller number of pes.
fixed default array map in case when check/restart happens on
different processors. The binsize has to be updated.
icc: Staticly link Intel's libraries on all versions >=9
CkMulticast Reductions: Set result message reference number to userFlag
Reductions: Set the reference number on result messages to the userFlag
NetFEM: add prefix to timestep filenames for Paraview 3.x
Fall back on gethostname if a node has multiple IP addresses
bluegenep: Update compilers
bluegenep: fix path for XLF
CPU affinity on mpi-crayxt-smp: correct getXTNodeID calls for SMP
mpi-crayxt-smp: fix cputopology to account for multiple cores per node
xlC: update linker flags for blueprint
xlC 64-bit: link with big library TOC
trace-summary: Bugfixes
Change timestep filename format to work with paraview 3.x
CPU Affinity +pemap: fix a buffer overfow bug.
Docs: note slowness in CPU topology gathering from DNS issues
xlc: don't pass archaic -qstaticinline
Socket Routines: use getifaddrs (when available) for getting local IP.
configure: check if cp -p works
LAPI: Only copy argv in PEs that are not rank 0 in their process
configure: Drop archaic test on C library version
Fix the reading of processors lists after +pemap block addition
Increment version number to 6.2.2


Collectively, these improve support for various architectures, fix
bugs in some newer features, and offer some minor improvements for
testing and development work.

Please test this code and post any discovered problems to the list.
Barring any new issues, it will be released as 6.2.2 in the next day
or two.




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