[Mvapich-discuss] Announcing the release of OSU Micro-Benchmarks (OMB) 7.0

[Panda, Dhabaleswar]

The MVAPICH team is pleased to announce the release of OSU
Micro-Benchmarks (OMB) 7.0. Please note that OMB is also available
through the Spack package manager. Now the system administrators and
users of OSU Micro-Benchmarks (OMB) will be able to install these
libraries on their systems using Spack.

OSU Micro-Benchmarks 7.0 introduces integrated support for PAPI-based
profiling of pt2pt, one-sided, and collective benchmarks. The new
features, enhancements, and bug fixes for OSU Micro-Benchmarks (OMB)
7.0 are listed here:

* New Features & Enhancements (since 6.2)
    - Add PAPI support for mpi pt2pt benchmarks
        * Enabled with the `-P` option
        * Benchmarks supported
            * osu_bibw, osu_bw, osu_mbw_mr, osu_latency, osu_multi_lat,
            * osu_latency_mp
    - Add PAPI support for mpi blocking and non-blocking collective
      benchmarks
        * Enabled with the `-P` option
        * Blocking benchmarks supported
            * osu_allgather, osu_allgatherv, osu_alltoall, osu_allreduce,
            * osu_alltoallv, osu_alltoallw, osu_bcast, osu_barrier, osu_gather,
            * osu_gatherv, osu_reduce, osu_reduce_scatter, osu_scatter,
            * osu_scatterv
        * Non-Blocking benchmarks supported
            * osu_iallgather, osu_iallgatherv, osu_iallreduce, osu_ialltoall,
            * osu_ialltoallv, osu_ialltoallw, osu_ibcast, osu_ibarrier,
            * osu_igather, osu_igatherv, osu_ireduce, osu_iscatter,
            * osu_iscatterv, osu_ireduce_scatter
    - Add PAPI support for mpi one-sided benchmarks
        * Enabled with the `-P` option
        * Benchmarks supported
            * osu_acc_latency, osu_cas_latency, osu_fop_latency,
            * osu_get_acc_latency, osu_get_bw, osu_get_latency, osu_put_bibw,
            * osu_put_bw, osu_put_latency
    - Add support for benchmarking non-blocking Reduce-Scatter.
        * osu_ireduce_scatter

* Bug Fixes (since v6.2)
    - Fixed a bug causing incorrect value for size in graph titles.

For downloading OMB 7.0 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 3,290 worldwide (in 90 countries). The number of downloads
from the MVAPICH site has crossed 1,637,000 (1.63 million).  The
MVAPICH team would like to thank all its users and organizations!!