[mpich-announce] Announcing the availability of mpich-3.2a2

[Balaji, Pavan]

The MPICH team is pleased to announce the availability of a new preview release (mpich-3.2a2).  This preview release adds several capabilities including support for the proposed MPI-3.1 standard (contains nonblocking collective I/O), full Fortran 2008 support (enabled by default), support for the Mellanox MXM interface for InfiniBand, support for the Mellanox HCOLL interface for collective communication, support for OFED InfiniBand for Xeon and Xeon Phi architectures, and significant improvements to the MPICH/portals4 implementation.  These features represent a subset of those planned for the 3.2.x release series.

Complete list of features planned for mpich-3.2:

	https://trac.mpich.org/projects/mpich/roadmap

MPICH website:

	http://www.mpich.org

A list of changes in this release is included at the end of this email.

Regards,

The MPICH Team

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                               Changes in 3.2a2
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 # Added support for proposed MPI-3.1 features including nonblocking
   collective I/O, address manipulation routines, thread-safety for
   MPI initialization and pre-init functionality.  Proposed MPI-3.1
   features are implemented as MPIX_ functions and the MPI version
   number is still set to 3.0.

 # Fortran 2008 bindings are enabled by default and fully supported.

 # Added support for the Mellanox MXM InfiniBand interface.  (thanks
   to Mellanox for the code contribution).

 # Added support for the Mellanox HCOLL interface for collectives.
   (thanks to Mellanox for the code contribution).

 # Added support for OFED IB on Xeon and Xeon Phi.  (thanks to RIKEN
   and University of Tokyo for the contribution).

 # Significant stability improvements to the MPICH/portals4
   implementation.

 # Several other minor bug fixes, memory leak fixes, and code cleanup.

   A full list of changes is available at the following link:

     http://git.mpich.org/mpich.git/shortlog/v3.1.2..v3.2a2

   A full list of bugs that have been fixed is available at the
   following link:

     https://trac.mpich.org/projects/mpich/query?status=closed&group=resolution&milestone=mpich-3.2

--
Pavan Balaji  ✉️
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~balaji