The MPICH team is pleased to announce the availability of a new preview release, mpich-3.2b4. This represents the final beta release leading up to mpich-3.2. The 3.2b4 release includes a large number of bug fixes compared to the previous 3.2b3 release. Nevertheless, it is still considered a preview release and is not intended for production systems at this time.
More information about the release can be found on the MPICH website:
http://www.mpich.org
A list of changes in this release is included at the end of this email.
Regards,
The MPICH Team
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Changes in 3.2
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# Added support for MPI-3.1 features including nonblocking collective I/O,
address manipulation routines, thread-safety for MPI initialization,
pre-init functionality, and new MPI_T routines to look up variables
by name.
# Fortran 2008 bindings are enabled by default and fully supported.
# Added support for the Mellanox MXM InfiniBand interface. (thanks
to Mellanox for the code contribution).
# Added support for the Mellanox HCOLL interface for collectives.
(thanks to Mellanox for the code contribution).
# Significant stability improvements to the MPICH/portals4
implementation.
# Completely revamped RMA infrastructure including several
scalability improvements, performance improvements, and bug fixes.
# Added experimental support for Open Fabrics Interfaces (OFI) version 1.0.0.
https://github.com/ofiwg/libfabric (thanks to Intel for code contribution)
# The Myrinet MX network module, which had a life cyle from 1.1 till
3.1.2, has now been deleted.
# Several other minor bug fixes, memory leak fixes, and code cleanup.
A full list of changes is available at the following link:
http://git.mpich.org/mpich.git/shortlog/v3.1.3..v3.2b4
A full list of bugs that have been fixed is available at the
following link:
https://trac.mpich.org/projects/mpich/query?status=closed&group=resolution&…
