1. New mpifort wrapper compiler: you can utilize mpif.h, use mpi, and use mpi_f08 through this one wrapper compiler
1. mpif77 and mpif90 still exist, but are sym links to mpifort and may be removed in a future release
1. The mpi module has been re-implemented and is significantly "mo' bettah"
1. The mpi_f08 module offers many, many improvements over mpif.h and the mpi module
This stuff is coming from a VERY long-lived mercurial branch (3 years!); it'll almost certainly take a few SVN commits and a bunch of testing before I get it correctly committed to the SVN trunk.
== More details ==
Craig Rasmussen and I have been working with the MPI-3 Fortran WG and Fortran J3 committees for a long, long time to make a prototype MPI-3 Fortran bindings implementation. We think we're at a stable enough state to bring this stuff back to the trunk, with the goal of including it in OMPI v1.7.
Special thanks go out to everyone who has been incredibly patient and helpful to us in this journey:
* Rolf Rabenseifner/HLRS (mastermind/genius behind the entire MPI-3 Fortran effort)
* The Fortran J3 committee
* Tobias Burnus/gfortran
* Tony !Goetz/Absoft
* Terry !Donte/Oracle
* ...and probably others whom I'm forgetting :-(
There's still opportunities for optimization in the mpi_f08 implementation, but by and large, it is as far along as it can be until Fortran compilers start implementing the new F08 dimension(..) syntax.
Note that gfortran is currently unsupported for the mpi_f08 module and the new mpi module. gfortran users will a) fall back to the same mpi module implementation that is in OMPI v1.5.x, and b) not get the new mpi_f08 module. The gfortran maintainers are actively working hard to add the necessary features to support both the new mpi_f08 module and the new mpi module implementations. This will take some time.
As mentioned above, ompi/mpi/f77 and ompi/mpi/f90 no longer exist. All the fortran bindings implementations have been collated under ompi/mpi/fortran; each implementation has its own subdirectory:
{{{
ompi/mpi/fortran/
base/ - glue code
mpif-h/ - what used to be ompi/mpi/f77
use-mpi-tkr/ - what used to be ompi/mpi/f90
use-mpi-ignore-tkr/ - new mpi module implementation
use-mpi-f08/ - new mpi_f08 module implementation
}}}
There's also a prototype 6-function-MPI implementation under use-mpi-f08-desc that emulates the new F08 dimension(..) syntax that isn't fully available in Fortran compilers yet. We did that to prove it to ourselves that it could be done once the compilers fully support it. This directory/implementation will likely eventually replace the use-mpi-f08 version.
Other things that were done:
* ompi_info grew a few new output fields to describe what level of Fortran support is included
* Existing Fortran examples in examples/ were renamed; new mpi_f08 examples were added
* The old Fortran MPI libraries were renamed:
* libmpi_f77 -> libmpi_mpifh
* libmpi_f90 -> libmpi_usempi
* The configury for Fortran was consolidated and significantly slimmed down. Note that the F77 env variable is now IGNORED for configure; you should only use FC. Example:
{{{
shell$ ./configure CC=icc CXX=icpc FC=ifort ...
}}}
All of this work was done in a Mercurial branch off the SVN trunk, and hosted at Bitbucket. This branch has got to be one of OMPI's longest-running branches. Its first commit was Tue Apr 07 23:01:46 2009 -0400 -- it's over 3 years old! :-) We think we've pulled in all relevant changes from the OMPI trunk (e.g., Fortran implementations of the new MPI-3 MPROBE stuff for mpif.h, use mpi, and use mpi_f08, and the recent Fujitsu Fortran patches).
I anticipate some instability when we bring this stuff into the trunk, simply because it touches a LOT of code in the MPI layer in the OMPI code base. We'll try our best to make it as pain-free as possible, but please bear with us when it is committed.
This commit was SVN r26283.
1. The send path get shorter. The BTL is allowed to return > 0 to specify that the
descriptor was pushed to the networks, and that the memory attached to it is
available again for the upper layer. The MCA_BTL_DES_SEND_ALWAYS_CALLBACK flag
can be used by the PML to force the BTL to always trigger the callback.
Unmodified BTL will continue to work as expected, as they will return OMPI_SUCCESS
which force the PML to have exactly the same behavior as before. Some BTLs have
been modified: self, sm, tcp, mx.
2. Add send immediate interface to BTL.
The idea is to have a mechanism of allowing the BTL to take advantage of
send optimizations such as the ability to deliver data "inline". Some
network APIs such as Portals allow data to be sent using a "thin" event
without packing data into a memory descriptor. This interface change
allows the BTL to use such capabilities and allows for other optimizations
in the future. All existing BTLs except for Portals and sm have this interface
set to NULL.
This commit was SVN r18551.
* Add some more error checking to GREQUEST_START
* Move the error checking in GREQUEST_COMPLETE up to inside the
MPI_PARAM_CHECK block, where it belongs
* Invoke the gen request query_fn in all the Right spots (per MPI-2:8.2)
* Distinguish between grequests created from C and Fortran
* Use the OBJ system to reference count to release the grequest at
the Right time and invoke the grequest free_fn properly (see
lengthy comment in grequest.c above the destructor)
* Have ompi_grequest_complete() call ompi_request_complete() rather
than [poorly] copy the contents of ompi_request_complete()
* Fix Fortran function callback pointer typedefs to use proper
Fortran types
* Edit ompi_request_test* and ompi_request_wait* to properly handle
generalized requests. This adds an "if" statement in the critical
path for all the back-end test* and wait* functions :-(,
but fortunately George took out two "if" statements from the
critical path last week. So we're still ahead. :-)
* Move ompi_request_test() out of request.h and into request.c (all
other test* and wait* functions were already in the .c file -- and
ompi_request_test() was too long to be statically inlined anyway)
This commit was SVN r12402.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 496 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/496
* Create a new request type: NOOP (described below)
* For all MPI_*_INIT functions, OBJ_NEW an ompi_request_t and set its
type to NOOP
* Ensure that the NOOP requests are OBJ_RELEASE'd when they are done
* MPI_START looks at the request type; if NOOP, just return success. If
not, call the PML start() function
* MPI_STARTALL always pass the entire array of requests back to the PML
(see next point)
* Make the PMLs only process PML requests (i.e., ignore/skip anything
that isn't of type PML -- such as the NOOP requests)
* Add a little more param error checking in STARTALL
This commit was SVN r12338.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 529 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/529
* Remove an extra OMPI_REQUEST_INIT() from the grequest constructor
(it was already invoked by the parent MPI_Request constructor)
* Set the state of the generalized request to ACTIVE (because this is
invoked from MPI_GREQUEST_START -- analogous to MPI_START)
* Before invoking the query function in MPI_REQUEST_COMPLETE, set the
status on the base request to ompi_status_empty. This gives a set
of default values for the request, including one for
status.MPI_ERROR = MPI_SUCCESS (because we check the value of
MPI_ERROR in MPI_TEST* and MPI_WAIT* processing, and use it to
determine whether the upper-level API call should raise an MPI
exception or not).
This commit was SVN r12337.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 532 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/532
to let the PML (or io, more generally the low level request manager)
to have it's own release function (what was before the req_fini). This
function will only be called from the low level while the req_free will
be called from the upper level (MPI layer) in order to mark the request
as not used by the user anymore.
From the request point of view the requests will be marked as inactive
everytime we read their status (true for persistent as well). As
MPI_REQUEST_NULL is already marked as inactive, the test and wait functions
are simpler. The drawback is that now we have to change in the
ompi_request_{test|wait} the req_status of the request once we get it's
status.
This commit was SVN r9290.
- move files out of toplevel include/ and etc/, moving it into the
sub-projects
- rather than including config headers with <project>/include,
have them as <project>
- require all headers to be included with a project prefix, with
the exception of the config headers ({opal,orte,ompi}_config.h
mpi.h, and mpif.h)
This commit was SVN r8985.
