HP-MPI Version 2.3.1 for Linux Release Note
Table Of Contents
- HP-MPI V2.3.1 for Linux Release Note
- Table of Contents
- 1 Information About This Release
- 2 New or Changed Features in V2.3.1
- 3 New or Changed Features in V2.3
- 3.1 Options Supported Only on HP Hardware
- 3.2 System Check
- 3.3 Default Message Size Changed For -ndd
- 3.4 MPICH2 Compatibility
- 3.5 Support for Large Messages
- 3.6 Redundant License Servers
- 3.7 License Release/Regain on Suspend/Resume
- 3.8 Expanded Functionality for -ha
- 3.8.1 Support for High Availability on InfiniBand Verbs
- 3.8.2 Highly Available Infrastructure (-ha:infra)
- 3.8.3 Using MPI_Comm_connect and MPI_Comm_accept
- 3.8.4 Using MPI_Comm_disconnect
- 3.8.5 Instrumentation and High Availability Mode
- 3.8.6 Failure Recover (-ha:recover)
- 3.8.7 Network High Availability (-ha:net)
- 3.8.8 Failure Detection (-ha:detect)
- 3.8.9 Clarification of the Functionality of Completion Routines in High Availability Mode
- 3.9 Enhanced InfiniBand Support for Dynamic Processes
- 3.10 Singleton Launching
- 3.11 Using the -stdio=files Option
- 3.12 Using the -stdio=none Option
- 3.13 Expanded Lightweight Instrumentation
- 3.14 The api option to MPI_INSTR
- 3.15 New mpirun option -xrc
- 4 Known Issues and Workarounds
- 4.1 Running on iWarp Hardware
- 4.2 Running with Chelsio uDAPL
- 4.3 Mapping Ranks to a CPU
- 4.4 OFED Firmware
- 4.5 Spawn on Remote Nodes
- 4.6 Default Interconnect for -ha Option
- 4.7 Linking Without Compiler Wrappers
- 4.8 Locating the Instrumentation Output File
- 4.9 Using the ScaLAPACK Library
- 4.10 Increasing Shared Memory Segment Size
- 4.11 Using MPI_FLUSH_FCACHE
- 4.12 Using MPI_REMSH
- 4.13 Increasing Pinned Memory
- 4.14 Disabling Fork Safety
- 4.15 Using Fork with OFED
- 4.16 Memory Pinning with OFED 1.2
- 4.17 Upgrading to OFED 1.2
- 4.18 Increasing the nofile Limit
- 4.19 Using appfiles on HP XC Quadrics
- 4.20 Using MPI_Bcast on Quadrics
- 4.21 MPI_Issend Call Limitation on Myrinet MX
- 4.22 Terminating Shells
- 4.23 Disabling Interval Timer Conflicts
- 4.24 libpthread Dependency
- 4.25 Fortran Calls Wrappers
- 4.26 Bindings for C++ and Fortran 90
- 4.27 Using HP Caliper
- 4.28 Using -tv
- 4.29 Extended Collectives with Lightweight Instrumentation
- 4.30 Using -ha with Diagnostic Library
- 4.31 Using MPICH with Diagnostic Library
- 4.32 Using -ha with MPICH
- 4.33 Using MPI-2 with Diagnostic Library
- 4.34 Quadrics Memory Leak
- 5 Installation Information
- 6 Licensing Information
- 7 Additional Product Information
Table 1-3 Directory Structure (continued)
ContentsSubdirectory
HP-MPI Linux 64-bit libraries for Opteron and EM64Tlib/linux_amd64
Configuration files and release notesnewconfig
manpages for the HP-MPI utilitiesshare/man/man1*
manpages for the HP-MPI libraryshare/man/man3*
Release Notesdoc
License fileslicenses
1.2.5 Documentation Changes
This release note might be updated periodically. To make sure that you have the latest
version of this release note, see the HP website:
www.docs.hp.com
Or
www.hp.com/go/mpi
Select the link for documentation. This website also has a link to the HP-MPI FAQ
section.
10 Information About This Release