[mvapich-discuss] Announcing the release of MVAPICH2 1.4RC2

[Dhabaleswar Panda]

The MVAPICH team is pleased to announce the release of MVAPICH2 1.4RC2
with the following added features and bug-fixes (compared to the RC1
release):

- Added Feature: Check-point Restart with Fault-Tolerant Backplane Support
  (FTB_CR)
- Added Feature: Multiple CQ-based design for Chelsio iWARP
- Fix for hang with packetized send using RDMA Fast path
- Fix for allowing to use user specified P_Key's (Thanks to Mike Heinz @
  QLogic)
- Fix for allowing mpirun_rsh to accept parameters through the
  parameters file (Thanks to Mike Heinz @ QLogic)
- Distribute LiMIC2-0.5.2 with MVAPICH2. Added flexibility for selecting
  and using a pre-existing installation of LiMIC2
- Modify the default value of shmem_bcast_leaders to 4K
- Fix for one-sided with XRC support
- Fix hang with XRC
- Fix to always enabling MVAPICH2_Sync_Checkpoint functionality
- Increase the amount of command line that mpirun_rsh can handle (Thanks
  for the suggestion by Bill Barth @ TACC)
- Fix build error on RHEL 4 systems (Reported by Nathan Baca and Jonathan
  Atencio)
- Fix issue with PGI compilation for PSM interface
- Fix for one-sided accumulate function with user-defined contiguous
  datatypes
- Fix linear/hierarchical switching logic and reduce threshold for the
  enhanced mpirun_rsh framework.
- Clean up intra-node connection management code for iWARP
- Fix --enable-g=all issue with uDAPL interface
- Fix one sided operation with on demand CM.
- Fix VPATH build

We strongly encourage MVAPICH2 1.4 users to update to the new RC2 version.

For downloading MVAPICH2 1.4RC2, associated user guide and accessing
the SVN, please visit the following URL:

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

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

Thanks,

The MVAPICH Team