[Mvapich-discuss] Announcing the release of OSU Micro-Benchmarks (OMB) 7.1

[Panda, Dhabaleswar]

The MVAPICH team is pleased to announce the release of OSU
Micro-Benchmarks (OMB) 7.1. 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.

The new features, enhancements, and bug fixes for OSU Micro-Benchmarks
(OMB) 7.1 are listed here:

* New Features & Enhancements (since 7.0)
    - Add new blocking and non-blocking neighborhood collective benchmarks with
      support for CPU buffers.
        * Blocking benchmarks
          - osu_neighbor_allgather, osu_neighbor_allgatherv,
          - osu_neighbor_alltoall, osu_neighbor_alltoallv,
          - osu_neighbor_alltoallw
        * Non-Blocking benchmarks
          - osu_ineighbor_allgatherv, osu_ineighbor_allgatherv,
          - osu_ineighbor_alltoall, osu_ineighbor_alltoallv,
          - osu_ineighbor_alltoallw
    - Add new benchmarks for point-to-point persistent communication primitives.
        * osu_bw_persistent, osu_bibw_persistent, osu_latency_persistent
    - Extend collective and point-to-point benchmarks to support different MPI
      datatypes.
        * New data types supported - MPI_INT, MPI_FLOAT, MPI_CHAR
    - Add validation and MPI types support to one-sided benchmarks.
        * osu_acc_latency, osu_cas_latency, osu_fop_latency

* Bug Fixes (since v7.0)
    - Reverse order of calling MPI_Reduce to find out MIN and MAX comm times
        * Thanks to Devendar Bureddy @NVIDIA for the report and patch
    - Fix data validation issue when running wiht ROCm support on AMD GPUs
        * Thanks to Damon McDougall @AMD for the report and patch
    - Thanks to Luke Robison @Amazon for initial patch for one sided
      validation and MPI_TYPEs support.

For downloading OMB 7.1 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 3,300 worldwide (in 90 countries). The number of downloads
from the MVAPICH site has crossed 1,669,000 (1.67 million).  The
MVAPICH team would like to thank all its users and organizations!!