[Mvapich-discuss] Announcing the release of MVAPICH-Plus 3.0a2

[Panda, Dhabaleswar]

The MVAPICH team is pleased to announce the release of MVAPICH-Plus 3.0a2.

The new MVAPICH-Plus series is an advanced version of the MVAPICH MPI
library.  It is targeted to support unified MVAPICH2-GDR and MVAPICH2-X
features. It is also targeted to provide optimized support for modern
platforms (CPU, GPU, and interconnects) for HPC, Deep Learning,
Machine Learning, Big Data and Data Science applications.

The major features and enhancements available in MVAPICH-Plus 3.0a2
are as follows:

    - Based on MVAPICH 3.0
    - Support for various high-performance communication fabrics
          - InfiniBand, Slingshot-10/11, Omni-Path, OPX, RoCE, and Ethernet
    - Support naive CPU staging approach for collectives for small messages
          - Tune naive limits for the following systems
            - Pitzer at OSC, Owens at OSC, Ascend at OSC, Frontera at TACC, Lonestar6 at TACC,
              ThetaGPU at ALCF, Polaris at ALCF, Tioga at LLNL
          - Initial support for blocking collectives on NVIDIA and AMD GPUs
            - Reduce_local, Reduce_scatter_block
    - Initial support for blocking collectives on NVIDIA and AMD GPUs
        - Allgather, Allgatherv, Allreduce, Alltoall, Alltoallv, Bcast, Gather,
          Gatherv, Reduce, Reduce_scatter, Scatter, Scatterv
    - Initial support for non-blocking GPU collectives on NVIDIA and AMD GPUs
        - Iallgather, Iallgatherv, Iallreduce, Ialltoall, Ialltoallv, Ibcast,
          Igather, Igatherv, Ireduce, Ireduce_scatter, Iscatter, Iscatterv
    - Initial support for blocking GPU to GPU point-to-point operations on
      NVIDIA and AMD GPUs
        - Send, Recv
    - Alpha support for non-blocking GPU to GPU point-to-point operations on
      NVIDIA and AMD GPUs
        - Isend, Irecv
    - Tested with
        - Various HPC applications, mini-applications, and benchmarks
        - MPI4cuML (a custom cuML package with MPI support)
    - Tested with CUDA <= 11.6 and CUDA 12.0
    - Tested with ROCM <= 5.6.0

For downloading MVAPICH-Plus 3.0a2 library and associated user guide, 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 3,325 worldwide (in
90 countries). The number of downloads from the MVAPICH site has crossed
1,691,000 (1.69 million).  The MVAPICH team would like to thank all its users
and organizations!!