[Mvapich-discuss] Announcing the release of MVAPICH-Plus 5.1.0b

[Panda, Dhabaleswar]

The MVAPICH team is pleased to announce the release of MVAPICH-Plus 5.1.0b.

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, AI
(training and inference), Big Data and Data Science applications.

The major features and enhancements available in MVAPICH-Plus 5.1.0b
are as follows:

* Features and Enhancements (since 5.0)
    - Based on MPICH 5.0.1
    - Added locality awareness to UCX netmod
    - Added --with-ch4-shmmods=hybrid option for the UCX netmod
        - Allows a hybrid netmod that supports MVAPICH enhanced GPU collectives
          alongside high performance UCX shm opperations
        - Enabled by default
    - Added optimized blocking pt2pt path in UCX netmod to improve latency
      performance of blocking send/recv
    - Added support for CCL Bcast on GPUs
    - Added support for reduction collectives on the MPIX_BFLOAT16 datatype
    - Enhanced GPU collective tuning for MPI_Bcast and MPI_Allreduce
    - Enhanced support for NVL72 systems

* Bug Fixes (since 5.0)
    - Resolved synchronization issues with IPC caching mechanism
        - Thanks to Natalie Beams @UTK for the report
        - Thanks to the Hui Zhou @ANL and the MPICH team for the fix

For downloading MVAPICH-Plus 5.1.0b 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 announce that the number of organizations
using MVAPICH libraries (and registered at the MVAPICH site) has
crossed 3,500 worldwide (in 94 countries). The number of downloads
from the MVAPICH site has crossed 2,090,000 (2.09 million).  The
MVAPICH team would like to thank all its users and organizations!!