[Mvapich-discuss] Announcing the release of MVAPICH2 3.0a

[Panda, Dhabaleswar]

The MVAPICH team is pleased to announce the release of MVAPICH2-3.0a.

The MVAPICH2-3.0a is the first release based on MPICH 3.4.3 series with support
for the new and enhanced CH4 channel. MVAPICH2-3.0a brings in support for
various modern interconnects such as Slingshot-11 from HPE/Cray, Omni-Path
Express (OPX) from Cornelis networks, and the Columbiaville series of network
adapters from Intel.  MVAPICH2-3.0a also supports the OFI and UCX communication
devices natively in combination with MVAPICH2's advanced collective
communication capabilities.

The major features and enhancements available in MVAPICH2-3.0a are as follows:

    - Based on MPICH 3.4.3
    - Added support for the ch4:ucx and ch4:ofi devices
        - Support for MVAPICH2 enhanced collectives over OFI and UCX
    - Added support for the Cray Slingshot 11 interconnect over OFI
        - Supports Cray Slingshot 11 network adapters
    - Added support for the Cornelis OPX library over OFI
        - Supports Intel Omni-Path adapters
    - Added support for the Intel PSM3 library over OFI
        - Supports Intel Columbiaville network adapters
    - Added support for IB verbs over UCX
        - Supports IB and RoCE network adapters
    - Disabled ch3:mrail device
    - Removed ch3:psm device

For downloading MVAPICH2-3.0a library and associated user guides, please
visit the following URL:

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

All questions, feedback, bug reports, hints for performance tuning, patches, and
enhancements are welcome. Please post it to the mvapich-discuss mailing list
(mvapich-discuss at lists.osu.edu).

Thanks,

The MVAPICH Team

PS: We are also happy to inform that the number of organizations using MVAPICH2
libraries (and registered at the MVAPICH site) has crossed 3,275 worldwide (in
90 countries). The number of downloads from the MVAPICH site has crossed
1,616,000 (1.61 million).  The MVAPICH team would like to thank all its users
and organizations!!