[Mvapich-discuss] Announcing the Release of OSU Micro-Benchmarks (OMB) 6.1

[Panda, Dhabaleswar]

The MVAPICH team is pleased to announce the release of OSU
Micro-Benchmarks (OMB) 6.1. 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 6.1 introduces support for derived data types in
pt2pt and collective benchmarks. The new features, enhancements, and
bug fixes for OSU Micro-Benchmarks (OMB) 6.1 are listed here:

* New Features & Enhancements

    - Add support for derived data types in mpi pt2pt benchmarks
        * Enabled with the `-D` option
        * Supports contiguous, vector, and indexed data types
        * Benchmarks supported
            * osu_bibw
            * osu_bw
            * osu_mbw_mr
            * osu_latency
            * osu_multi_lat
    - Add support for data validation in mpi blocking and non-blocking
      collective benchmarks
        * Enabled with the `-D` option
        * Supports contiguous, vector, and indexed data types
        * Blocking benchmarks supported
            * osu_allgather
            * osu_allgatherv
            * osu_alltoall
            * osu_alltoallv
            * osu_bcast
            * osu_gather
            * osu_gatherv
            * osu_scatter
            * osu_scatterv
        * Non-Blocking benchmarks supported
            * osu_iallgather
            * osu_iallgatherv
            * osu_ialltoall
            * osu_ialltoallv
            * osu_ialltoallw
            * osu_ibcast
            * osu_igather
            * osu_igatherv
            * osu_iscatter
            * osu_iscatterv

* Bug Fixes (since v6.0)
    - Add support for data validation for ROCm benchmarks
        * Thanks to Amir Shehata @ORNL for the report and initial patch
    - Correct the version number in the released version
        * Thanks to Adam Goldman @Intel for the report

For downloading OMB 6.1 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 1,623,000 (1.62 million).  The
MVAPICH team would like to thank all its users and organizations!!