[Mvapich-discuss] Announcing the release of OSU Micro-Benchmarks (OMB) 6.0

[Panda, Dhabaleswar]

The MVAPICH team is pleased to announce the release of OSU
Micro-Benchmarks (OMB) 6.0.

OSU Micro-Benchmarks 6.0 introduces support for Java and Python pt2pt
and collective benchmarks.  The new features, enhancements, and bug
fixes for OSU Micro-Benchmarks (OMB) 6.0 are listed here:

* New Features & Enhancements (since v5.9)
    - Add support for Java pt2pt benchmarks
        * OSULatency - Latency Test
        * OSUBandwidth - Bandwidth Test
          - OSUBandwidthOMPI - Bandwidth Test for Open MPI Java Bindings
        * OSUBiBandwidth - Bidirectional Bandwidth Test
          - OSUBiBandwidthOMPI - BiBandwidth Test for Open MPI Java Bindings
    - Add support for Java collective benchmarks
        * OSUAllgather - MPI_Allgather Latency Test
        * OSUAllgatherv - MPI_Allgatherv Latency Test
        * OSUAllReduce - MPI_Allreduce Latency Test
        * OSUAlltoall - MPI_Alltoall Latency Test
        * OSUAlltoallv - MPI_Alltoallv Latency Test
        * OSUBarrier - MPI_Barrier Latency Test
        * OSUBcast - MPI_Bcast Latency Test
        * OSUGather - MPI_Gather Latency Test
        * OSUGatherv - MPI_Gatherv Latency Test
        * OSUReduce - MPI_Reduce Latency Test
        * OSUReduceScatter - MPI_Reduce_scatter Latency Test
        * OSUScatter - MPI_Scatter Latency Test
        * OSUScatterv - MPI_Scatterv Latency Test
    - Add support for Python pt2pt benchmarks
        * osu_latency - Latency Test
        * osu_bw - Bandwidth Test
        * osu_bibw - Bidirectional Bandwidth Test
        * osu_multi_lat - Multi-pair Latency Test
    - Add support for Python collective benchmarks
        * osu_allgather - MPI_Allgather Latency Test
        * osu_allgatherv - MPI_Allgatherv Latency Test
        * osu_allreduce - MPI_Allreduce Latency Test
        * osu_alltoall - MPI_Alltoall Latency Test
        * osu_alltoallv - MPI_Alltoallv Latency Test
        * osu_barrier - MPI_Barrier Latency Test
        * osu_bcast - MPI_Bcast Latency Test
        * osu_gather - MPI_Gather Latency Test
        * osu_gatherv - MPI_Gatherv Latency Test
        * osu_reduce - MPI_Reduce Latency Test
        * osu_reduce_scatter - MPI_Reduce_scatter Latency Test
        * osu_scatter - MPI_Scatter Latency Test
        * osu_scatterv - MPI_Scatterv Latency Test

* Bug Fixes (since v5.9)
    - Fix bug in data validation support for CUDA managed memory benchmarks
        - Thanks to Chris Chambreau @LLNL for the report

For downloading OMB 6.0 and associated README instructions, 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 you 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 1,618,000 (1.61 million).  The
MVAPICH team would like to thank all its users and organizations!!