Charm++ parallel programming system

[Nikhil Jain <nikhil AT illinois.edu>]

Hello All,

The next stable release of Charm++, version 6.6.1, is now available. It is tagged in our git repository as 'v6.6.1'. It can also be downloaded as a tarball from here (http://charm.cs.illinois.edu/distrib/charm-6.6.1.tar.gz).

We look forward to your feedback and bug reports related to this release (and Charm++ in general). 

Changes in this release are primarily bug fixes for 6.6.0. A concise list of affected components follows:

1. CkIO
2. Reductions with syncFT
3. mpicxx based MPI builds
4. Increased support for macros in CI file
5. GNI + RDMA related communication
6. MPI_STATUSES_IGNORE support for AMPIF
7. Restart on different node count with chkpt
8. Immediate msgs on multicore builds.

A complete listing of features added and bugs fixed can be seen in our issue
tracker here (https://charm.cs.illinois.edu/redmine/projects/charm/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&set_filter=1&f%5B%5D=fixed_version_id&op%5Bfixed_version_id%5D=%3D&v%5Bfixed_version_id%5D%5B%5D=7&f%5B%5D=&c%5B%5D=tracker&c%5B%5D=status&c%5B%5D=priority&c%5B%5D=subject&c%5B%5D=assigned_to&c%5B%5D=updated_on&group_by=tracker).

--Nikhil

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Nikhil Jain, nikhil.jain AT acm.org, http://charm.cs.uiuc.edu/people/nikhil
Doctoral Candidate @ CS, UIUC