[mpich-announce] Announcing the availability of mpich-3.2b4

[Balaji, Pavan]

The MPICH team is pleased to announce the availability of a new preview release, mpich-3.2b4.  This represents the final beta release leading up to mpich-3.2.  The 3.2b4 release includes a large number of bug fixes compared to the previous 3.2b3 release.  Nevertheless, it is still considered a preview release and is not intended for production systems at this time.

More information about the release can be found on the 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 3.2
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 # Added support for MPI-3.1 features including nonblocking collective I/O,
   address manipulation routines, thread-safety for MPI initialization,
   pre-init functionality, and new MPI_T routines to look up variables
   by name.

 # 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).

 # Significant stability improvements to the MPICH/portals4
   implementation.

 # Completely revamped RMA infrastructure including several
   scalability improvements, performance improvements, and bug fixes.

 # Added experimental support for Open Fabrics Interfaces (OFI) version 1.0.0.
   https://github.com/ofiwg/libfabric (thanks to Intel for code contribution)

 # The Myrinet MX network module, which had a life cyle from 1.1 till
   3.1.2, has now been deleted.

 # 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/v3.1.3..v3.2b4

   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