Charm++ parallel programming system

[Phil Miller <mille121 AT illinois.edu>]

I've just incorporated an additional bugfix applicable to checkpoint
restart. It's in the repository tagged as charm-6.2.2-pre3.

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:52, Phil Miller 
<mille121 AT illinois.edu>
 wrote:
> 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.
>