We presented an unclassified unlimited release (UUR) poster at an internal MLDL conference.
Poster
2019-07-08 Mon
faodel code
We received DOE approval to relase version 1.1906.1 ("Excelsior!") of FAODEL on Github.
Release Improvements
- New faodel-cli tool for manipulating many things
- Gets build/configure info (replaces faodel-info)
- Start/stop services (dirman, kelpie)
- Define/query/remove dirman resources
- Put/get/list kelpie objects
- New example/kelpie-cli script shows how to use
- Support for ARM platform
- NNTI adds On-Demand Paging capability
- NNTI adds Cereal as alternative for serialization
- NNTI has better detection and selection of IB devices
- Fixes
- SBL could segfault due to Boost if exit without calling finish
- FAODEL couldn't be included in a larger project's cmake
- LDO had a race condition in destructor
Significant User-Visible Changes
- faodel-info and whookie tools replaced by faodel cli tool
- Dirman's DirInfo "children" renamed to "members"
- Faodel now has a package in the Spack develop branch
2018-12-01 Sat
clusters news
Our work was referenced in an unclassified unlimited release (UUR) annual report.
News Article
- Annual Report Yasmin Denning, "2018 HPC Annual Report", December 2018.
2018-11-30 Fri
faodel code
We received DOE approval to relase version 1.1811.1 ("DIO") of FAODEL on Github.
Release Improvements
- Kelpie has rank-folding table (RFT) pool
- Kelpie has new experimental IOMs (IomHDF5, IomLevelDB)
- New MPISyncStart service for auto-filling node ids in configurations
- DirMan is now its own service (previously a child of opbox)
- Lunasa has templated containers for storing a bundle of items in an LDO. The Generic(Sequential|Random)DataBundle classes are optimized for cases where data is accessed (in order|out of order).
- Users can now define webhooks for rendering specific DataObject types
- Bootstrap Start/Stops are much more robust
- General build fixes for use with EMPIRE
Significant User Visible Changes
- Common and services directories renamed to faodel-common and faodel-services
- Kelpie pools now have a "behavior" that controls how data is copied
- Some components/tools changed directories. Check your includes
Update
During the process of getting FAODEL integrated into Spack, there were some minor bug fixes pushed out in a 1.1811.2 release.
2018-10-10 Wed
faodel hpc io pub
We published an unclassified unlimited release (UUR) technical report.
Publications
- SAND Report Matt Bettencourt et. al., "ASC ATDM Level 2 Milestone #6358: Assess Status of Next Generation Components and Physics Models in EMPIRE" SAND2018-10100
