Changelog for geopm-0.3.0-1.3.x86_64.rpm :
Mon Jun 19 14:00:00 2017 Christopher M. Cantalupo v0.3.0
- GEOPM alpha release!
- Modified implementations and interfaces:
- Added job launch wrapper script which simplifies GEOPM runtime launch.
- Added plotting support for visual analysis of report and trace data.
- Added python package: geopmpy for supporting python infrastructure (job launch/plotting).
- Added support for OMPT integration with the OpenMP runtime to mark GEOPM region entry and exit.
- Added support for PMPI interface use in fortran applications enabling full support for fortran applications.
- Added support to profile individual MPI functions as distinct regions.
- Added support for transmission of region hints from the application to the controller.
- Removed MPI_Pcontrol() interface for wrapping geopm_prof_
*() interfaces.
- Removed geopm_ctl_spawn() interface.
- Removed geopm_prof_disable() interface.
- Changed to single aggregated report file per run instead of one per node.
- Changed the geopm_tprof_
*() interfaces for thread progress.
- Changed GEOPM classes to derive from a pure virtual interface base class.
- Changed RPM build from RPM makefile in favor of geopm.spec.in/configure.
- Changed the report and trace file format to have headers with meta-data.
- Changed how the GEOPM_PROFILE environment variable is used: now dictates the profile name.
- Changed geopm_ctl_c interface to no longer be application facing.
- Changed requirement for power plane 0 controls: MSR no longer used/needed.
- Changed all application hints from
*POLICY_HINT
* to
*REGION_HINT
*.
- Changed build time wget/curl timeout periods to be longer.
- Updated features:
- Added support for per-cpu progress reporting from application.
- Added hint to ignore time spent in a region such that ignored region times are subtracted from epoch times.
- Added policy information to report.
- Added user id to shmkey prefix to avoid permissions issues with stale keys.
- Added man page for the geopmpy python package, geopmsrun and geopmaprun.
- Added documentation for new features and interface changes.
- Added cache file support to plotter.
- Added interface to Region object to get per-cpu progress.
- Added feature to track mpi runtime per region and print in the report.
- Added feature to treat unmarked code as a real region.
- Added support to resolve OMPT function address to a name in report.
- Added support launcher keeping controller off of Linux CPU 0 if possible.
- Added support for hyper-threads and multi socket system affinity support in launcher.
- Added significant rework of Environment class to avoid security issues.
- Added geopm_env_debug_attach() API.
- Added region hint support in the ModelRegion wrappers for integration tests.
- Added mvapich2 fortran90 test suite for testing GEOPM fortran interfaces.
- Added autotools make check support for python unit tests.
- Added standard PIP packaging of the geopmpy python package and posting on PYPI.
- Added build infrastructure for support for LLVM OpenMP runtime with OMPT enabled.
- Updated and extended integration tests:
- Added support for using launcher wrapper within integration tests.
- Added integration test for OMPT and MPI automatic region detection.
- Added better support for the integration test looping script.
- Added integration test job timeouts.
- Added proper clean up of reports when a test passes.
- Added setting of OMP_NUM_THREADS when running integration test.
- Added test to compare the regions detected in the trace to the report.
- Added integration test for MPI timing.
- Updated unit tests:
- Added unit tests for the Environment and SharedMemory classes.
- Added python unit test for affinity settings in the launcher script.
- Added support for edge cases in unit tests.
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed geopmpolicy to generate a whitelist file without requiring root.
- Fixed critical security issues from static analysis.
- Fixed missing symbol wrappers for init and finalize MPI fortran functions.
- Fixed buffer overflow in MPI API test.
- Fixed missing resize of m_level to the active number of levels per node in the TreeCommunicator.
- Fixed issue where gfortran does not support bit shift operations of more that 32 bits.
- Fixed shared memory cleanup at attach time.
- Fixed issue where PlatformImp was initialized twice.
- Fixed reporting of unmarked regions.
- Fixed bugs in plotter.
- Fixed const issue with MPI-2/MPI-3 interface definitions.
- Fixed big-o scaling for all2all ModelRegion.
- Fixed integration tests for unmarked regions.
- Fixed test_progress_exit integration test.
- Fixed standard directory specificiation in the spec file
- Fixed test_sample_rate integration test.
- Fixed check_run issue in scaling integration test.
- Fixed integration tests and unit tests to handle the new node-combined report with header format.
- Fixed launcher to check for srun affinity plugins before using them.
- Fixed fortran configure test for MPI-3 support.
- Fixed gfortran test to work with ubuntu.
- Fixed mac compile issues.
- Fixed fortran test makefile.
- Fixed documentation to remove all references to geopmkey.

Wed Apr 5 14:00:00 2017 Christopher M. Cantalupo v0.2.3
- Fixed broken OBS build of version 0.2.2.
- Fixed broken integration test for region timing.

Tue Apr 4 14:00:00 2017 Christopher M. Cantalupo v0.2.2
- Modified implementations and interfaces:
- Added environment variable GEOPM_RUN_LONG_TESTS to enable long running integration tests.
- Added environment variable GEOPM_KEEP_FILES to leave temporary files created by unit tests.
- Added environment variable GTEST_XML_DIR to configure location of junit xml output from unit tests.
- Changed documentation for geopm_epoch(): multiple calls per application is okay.
- Changed geopm_epoch() calls in examples to reflect new usage.
- Changed GoverningDecider to use much simpler and more effective algorithm.
- Changed all TreeCommunicator MPI runtime communication to send binary data: do not use MPI data marshaling.
- Changed all TreeCommunicator MPI runtime communication to one-sided MPI_Put() calls.
- Changed tuning for parameters used by BalancingDecider.
- Changed tuning for RAPL time window settings.
- Changed TDP percentage to double throughout code.
- Changed copyright dates for 2017.
- Updated features:
- Added least squared linear regression to calculate derivative.
- Added compiler optimizations for Intel when using Intel toolchain.
- Added environment control GEOPM_PROFILE_TIMEOUT of application timeout when waiting for controller.
- Added warning message about stale keys.
- Added throttling percentage to reports.
- Added GEOPM runtime/memory/network overhead calculation and reporting.
- Added --enable-overhead configure option for heavy-weight overhead measurement.
- Added support for Cray MPI.
- Added region IDs to report files.
- Added junit xml output from unit tests.
- Added energy hardware counter update sample triggering (reduce latency and jitter).
- Added memory buffering for trace object, buffer size is hardcoded to 128 MB (should be configurable).
- Added rpmbuild --nocheck support (check definition in spec file).
- Added minimal documentation about CPU affinity requirements.
- Added an example that will print affinity of MPI processes and OpenMP threads.
- Added a stability fix for power calculation that will be made more robust.
- Updated examples:
- Added CoMD to examples.
- Added QBOX to examples.
- Added AMG to examples.
- Updated and extended integration tests:
- Added support for ALPS to integration tests.
- Added support for resource manager detection.
- Added support for integration test environment configuration options.
- Added support for better signal handling to integration tests.
- Added integration tests that use the trace feature.
- Added integration tests for scaling compute node count.
- Added integration tests for power cap enforcement by GoverningDecider.
- Added integration tests that region entry is always preceded by region exit.
- Added integration tests for sample rate frequency and jitter.
- Added integration test for consistency between report and trace per region run-times.
- Updated unit tests:
- Added data driven unit test for derivative feature.
- Added unit tests for PMPI wrappers.
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed documentation for installing from OBS yum and zypper repos.
- Fixed some objects which were improperly using default copy constructor.
- Fixed issue where unmarked regions (region 0) would report a progress value other than zero.
- Fixed accounting issue when exiting a region and then immediately entering it again.
- Fixed issue where RAPL values would be reset upon PlatformImp destruction (bad behavior for applications that change values and exit like geopmpolicy).
- Fixed error handling in integration test script.
- Fixed issue due to changing return type of json_object_array_length() for different versions of the json-c library.
- Fixed issue preventing samples from being sent up tree beyond level 1.
- Fixed issue with stale shared memory keys by deleting them at start up.
- Fixed missing comm swap call in MPI_Gather() and MPI_Gatherv(): terminal error.
- Fixed TreeCommunicator topology mapping logic.
- Fixed issue with message vector sizing in TreeCommunicator.
- Fixed missing ronn executable documentation build issue.
- Fixed TreeCommunicator unit tests.
- Fixed MPIInterface tests exposed by CLANG.
- Fixed RAPL window MSR interface.
- Fixed user control of GNU standard build variables when running make.
- Fixed missing GEOPM annotation in some MPI wrappers in geopm_pmpi.c.
- Fixed accounting for region entries.
- Fixed issue by skipping TreeCommunicator tests on OpenMPI prior to 1.8.8 where one-sided comm was fixed.

Fri Nov 18 13:00:00 2016 Christopher M. Cantalupo v0.2.1
- Fix for accounting problem with nested MPI exits.
- Fix to thread calculation in integration test to avoid hyper-threads.
- Added script to loop over integration tests.

Fri Nov 11 13:00:00 2016 Christopher M. Cantalupo v0.2.0
- Renamed package to Global Extensible Open Power Manager.
- Improved features, performance, documentation, testing and continuous integration.
- Many bug fixes.
- Modified CONTRIBUTING.md to reflect current work-flow.
- Enabled Travis-CI on github repository.
- Linked Travis-CI to Open SUSE Build Service for automation of multi-distro packaging and testing.
- Removed explicit creation and destruction of geopm_prof_c objects from public interface.
- Introduced new environment variable GEOPM_PROFILE to control profiling.
- Introduced new environment variable GEOPM_DEBUG_ATTACH to enable attaching with a serial debugger.
- Removed geopm_prof_print interface.
- Removed \"-r\" command line option from geopmctl.
- Made the power budget in the policy an average per-node budget instead of a whole job budget.
- Modified report to include geopm version.
- Added accounting in report for the number of entries into each region.
- Added reporting of application totals.
- MPI is no longer explicitly a region and MPI accounting is now part of application totals.
- Refined how the geopm_prof_outer_sync() API works and renamed interface geopm_prof_epoch().
- The epoch start is no longer associated with application synchronization as geopm_prof_outer_sync was.
- Epoch start marks the beginning of the outer most iterative algorithm of the application.
- Added a --disable-doc configuration option for systems without ronn.
- Changed default shmem key base from \"geopm_default\" to \"geopm-shm\".
- Enabled GEOPM profiling without application modification through LD_PRELOAD.
- Appended domain numbers to the trace file column headers.
- Brought policy back to trace output.
- Modified implementation to print warning if controller is not found by the Profile interface.
- Enabled building in the SUSE environment.
- Added an example that prints the geopm hash of any string.
- Added support for Broadwell E Xeon and Knights Landing Xeon Phi platforms.
- Added capability to save/restore MSR values before/after GEOPM runs.
- Major improvements to signal handling and shutdown clean up.
- Improvements to temporary file and shared memory management.
- Added a suite of tutorials that steps through GEOPM features.
- Posted video walk through of the GEOPM tutorials to YouTube.
- Created the ideal \"model\" application for geopm shown in tutorial 6.
- Added integration test infrastructure using python unittest and model application.
- Added patches for GEOPM mark up to MiniFE and Nekbone benchmark source code.
- Added support for batch MSR read through msr-safe ioctl interface.
- Tuned decision making algorithms based on performance of several benchmarks.
- Allowed GoverningDecider to \"unconverge.\"
- Added separate throttling times for sampling and control.
- Moved LockingHashTable template to a non-template implementation.
- Added distinct entries in profile table for MPI and epoch events.
- Switched to one sided communication (MPI_Put/MPI_Get) for passing samples up.
- When a new policy is received at the leaf it is enforced immediately.
- Modified implementation to unlink shared memory regions as soon as all users have attached.
- Added an example which will check if geopm supports the current platform which is used to skip some tests.
- Made check for supported platform more robust.
- Removed all throw calls inside destructor methods.
- Re-implemented application/controller handshake.
- Moved default profile object into Singleton pattern.
- Cleaned up factory registration pattern.
- Added better error checking of user inputs.
- Applied the write mask when writing to a MSR.
- Abstracted the read_bandwidth signal in the PlatformImp classes.
- Made PlatformImp objects abstract to signal topology.
- Added death tests for the controller.
- Removed use of MPI::Exception and all other MPI C++ constructs as they are deprecated.
- Wrote an abstraction of the hwloc interface remove hwloc version specific implementation requirement.
- Introduced XeonPlatformImp which Xeon platforms inherit from.
- Proposed a class interface to abstract MPI usage by GEOPM\'s controller.
- Fixed MSR read to mask off bits read from MSR beyond the overflow bit.
- Fixed possible under/over power budget conditions.
- Fixed a number of issues in report and trace output.
- Fixed issue where hash table could overflow.
- Fixed policy creation so that all the man page examples work correctly.
- Fixed subtraction of MPI time from outer sync time.
- Fixed accounting error in reported per region run-time.
- Fixed msr write logic for multi-socket systems.
- Fixed MSR save/restore.
- Fixed usage of RAPL time window 1 and 2.
- Fixed race condition: use MPI_Isend instead of MPI_Irsend.
- Fixed RAPL interface logic.
- Fixed geopm_time_add() to avoid overflowing nsec field.
- Fixed frequency calculation in report.
- Fixed the region entry count in report.
- Fixed issues around MPI_Request usage in non-blocking MPI calls.
- Fixed decider and accompanying logic.
- Fixed issue related to sending new polices down when new decisions are made.
- Fixed race condition in application/controller handshake.
- Fixed shutdown logic in PMPI wrapper when controller is run as a pthread.
- Fixed test executable so that non-matching test filters give an error.
- Fixed bug in MSR restore from file related to overflow.
- Fixed issue that occurs when using googlemock with gcc 6.
- Fixed issues around incorrect use of PMPI wrappers.
- Fixed a number of issues in the the PMPI wrappers.
- Fixed PMPI wrappers to work with both the MPI-2 and MPI-3 standards.
- Fixed missing dlclose() calls for dynamically opened shared objects.
- Fixed issue related to launching the controller with pthread in PMPI wrapper.
- Fixed multiple platform issues.
- Fixed death test issue due to inconsistent SLURM exit status codes.
- Fixed CPU indexing bug in PlatformImp derived classes.
- Fixed typo in Environment.cpp which was breaking GEOPM_ERROR_AFFINITY_IGNORE environment variable.
- Fixed the mask for getting frequency from IA32_PERF_STATUS.
- Fixed broken download, switched to Fedora URL for downloading gmock 1.7.0.

Mon May 23 14:00:00 2016 Christopher M. Cantalupo v0.1.1
- Fixed race condition in geopm_comm_split_shared().
- Fixed geopmctl so that it works properly (error introduced with policy environment).
- Fixed man page links and Makefile target.
- Fixed automatic detection of Fortran MPI flags for compile and other build fixes.
- Enable application marked with geopm_prof interface to run without controller.
- Better consistency checking in global policy.
- Enabled profile only use of geopm i.e. no power management (now the default).
- Updated STATUS section in README.
- Updated TODO list.
- Converted plugin developers guide to LaTeX and included it in repository.

Mon May 9 14:00:00 2016 Christopher M. Cantalupo v0.1.0
- First geopm release with code complete runtime component.
- Includes a wide range of bug fixes.
- Introduced Fortran interface for application APIs.
- Introduced globally scoped default profile object for geopm_prof_c interface.
- Introduced application tracing capability.
- Added NAS Fourier transform benchmark as an example.
- Fixes for build system.
- Fixes in the documentation.
- Remove thread profiling \"helper APIs\" and replace with geopm_tprof_c interface.
- Improvements in shutdown logic.
- Shared memory key has default value and can be obtained from environment.
- Explicit accounting for time spent in MPI calls through PMPI interface.
- Enable nesting of MPI regions within user defined regions.
- Remove geopm_prof_sample() interface.
- Add some helper APIs for splitting MPI communicators.
- Integrate with PMPI profiling interface to MPI.
- Merges irregular application feedback with periodic hardware telemetry.
- Moves some functionality between classes for better encapsulation.
- Region information is no longer communicated between compute nodes.
- Implemented plug-in selection through the Policy interface.
- Handling of MSR counter overflow.
- Implemented a basic decider for the leaf and the tree.
- Refactor of Platform/PlatformImp implementation.
- Updates to test infrastructure.
- Added a synthetic benchmark with static imbalance injection.

Fri Dec 11 13:00:00 2015 Christopher M. Cantalupo v0.0.3
- Several bug fixes.
- Update to user man pages.
- Switch to ronn for man page generation (roff + html).
- Major update to developer documentation with Doxygen.
- Implemented passing of profile data from application to controller.
- Implemented output of a summary profile report.
- Implemented infrastructure for plug-in extensions.
- Templatized CircularBuffer.
- Extended tests, including addition of integration tests.

Fri Oct 16 14:00:00 2015 Christopher M. Cantalupo v0.0.2
- Initial release to .
- Updates to man pages.
- Support for static power modes.
- Support for Platform abstraction.
- Whitelist generation for MSR driver.
- TreeCommunicator implementation to support hierarchy in MPI.
- Build and test infrastructure (autotools, gtest, gmock).

Thu Oct 1 14:00:00 2015 Christopher M. Cantalupo v0.0.1
- Initial tag which includes initial draft of man pages only.