gLite-MPI v.1.0.0

Release Notes

What's new:

• Support for user defined mapping of processes
• Support for SLURM & Condor schedulers
• Review of MPI implementations and schedulers
• Basic support for OpenMP
• Use command line options instead of environment variables.
• Added testing of most features
• Fixed installation paths, default installation now follows FHS

Deployment notes:

• No special installation requirements, no need for restarting services.
• Yaim plugin available for configuration in WN and CEs

*Known Issues: *

• Fine grained process mapping is not supported with Slurm or Condor schedulers.
• Shared filesystem detection only works in Linux.

Extended Release Notes

List of RFCs

• Planned:
  • chmod +x the executable
  • SLURM support
  • OpenMP support
• Unplanned:
  • Tested:
    • retrial for root requests after db reconnection
    • Add loaded scheduler variable
    • Check LSF support
    • Implementation of I2G_MPI_APPLICATION_STDIN and STDOUT is buggy
    • Parameters as command line parameters instead of environment variables
    • Not Tested:
      • condor support

Documentation

MPI-Start documentation is available at the mpi-start wiki. A 1.0.4 version for EMI is available as PDF. This document covers the following items

• Functional Description
• User Guide
• Client Installation and Configuration
• System Administrator Guide

Details:

• Functional Description
• Software Requirement Specification
• Software Design Description
• User Guide
• Client Installation and Configuration
• Man Pages/Online Help: Manual and Command Line Options
• User & Service Troubleshooting Guide
• System Administrator Guide

Artefacts

-- DoinaCristinaAiftimiei - 12-May-2011