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

[Kenneth Raffenetti]

The MPICH team is pleased to announce the availability of a new stable 
release (mpich-3.2). This is the first stable release in the 3.2 series. 
It contains several new features, enhancements and bug fixes.

All production environments are encouraged to upgrade to this release.

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..v3.2

    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