Changelog for geopm-0.5.1-1.1.x86_64.rpm :

* Sat Jun 23 2018 Brad Geltz v0.5.1- GEOPM beta hotfix release!- Introduce the PowerGovernorAgent. This agent is implemented and fully featured.- Restoring the MSR values at the end of a run is now best effort since the system whitelist may prevent the write from being allowed.- Allow min/max frequencies to be specified in the EnergyEfficientAgent\'s policy.- Fix geopmread usages for tutorial.- Fix MSR overflow logic, performance counter initialization, and MSR encode/decode functions.- Fix integration tests for geopmwrite use cases.
* Wed May 30 2018 Christopher M. Cantalupo v0.5.0- GEOPM beta release!- Community updates:- New landing page - New Slack channel - New Code of Conduct- New pull request template- Contributing instructions updated with details of gerrit review process.- Modified implementations and interfaces:- Major refactor of the controller and plugin architecture is provided as an optional new code path.- Most of the changes made to the implementation for this release modify the new code path.- The old code path is still available for users as long as the controller is run without the GEOPM_AGENT environment variable set.- The new code path will be active if the user selects an agent by name with the GEOPM_AGENT environment variable when launching the controller.- The old code path is maintained in the current Controller object along with the the Decider / Platform / PlatformImp plugins.- The new code path is maintained in a replacement for the Controller which has been temporarily named the Kontroller.- The Kontroller will be renamed the Controller after this release, and the old code path will no longer be available.- Similar to the Kontroller/Controller replacement, the KprofileIOGroup KprofileIOSample and KruntimeRegulator are temporary replacements for their non-K counterparts and will be renamed.- The beta release enables a new set of plugin interfaces named the IOGroup, Agent, and Comm.- It is through the IOGroup, Agent and Comm plugins that the GEOPM runtime can be extended.- The Decider / Platform / PlatformImp plugin extensions are deprecated and will be removed after this release.- The IOGroup plugin enables a user to add new signal and control mechanisms for an Agent to read and write.- The Agent plugin enables a user to add new monitor and control algorithms to the GEOPM runtime.- MPI use by the GEOPM runtime which is not linked by application has been completely encapsulated in the Comm object.- The tutorial has been extended with two new directories: tutorial/agent and tutorial/iogroup.- The tutorial/iogroup directory documents how to write an IOGroup plugin.- The tutorial/agent directory documents how to write an Agent plugin.- The interface to the resource manager has been made much more flexible for supporting the new Agent interfaces.- The resource manager interface is documented in the geopm_agent_c(3) and geopm_endpoint_c(3) man pages.- Additionally command line tools have been proposed and partially implemented to support the interfaces documented in those man pages.- The geopm_agent_c(3) APIs and geopmagent(1) CLI has software support.- The endpoint interfaces are a work in progress that has not yet been integrated into the mainline source.- The PlatformIO object provides the interface to the IOGroups.- The PlatformIO C++ object will soon have an associated C interface documented as geopm_platformio_c(3).- The geopmread and geopmwrite provide a CLI to the PlatformIO features.- Introducing the MSRIOGroup which provides an implementation of the IOGroup for MSRs.- Introducing the TimeIOGroup which provides an IOGroup for the time signal.- Introducing the CpuinfoIOGroup which provides data from /proc/cpuinfo as signals.- Introducing the ProfileIOGroup which provides profile data collected from the main compute application through the geopm_prof_c(3) APIs.- The release includes three new installed binaries: geopmread, geopmwrite, and geopmagent.- Each of these command line interfaces is documented with a man page and there is a man page for a future command line tool called geopmendpoint.- Deprecated geopm_policy_
*() interfaces that have been replaced with the geopm_agent_
*() and geopm_endpoint_
*() APIs.- Introducing the first three Agent implementations: MonitorAgent, PowerBalancerAgent, and EnergyEfficientAgent.- Introducing PlatformTopo, replacement for PlatformTopology.- Introducing DefaultProfile singleton which supports geopm_prof_c(3) APIs for profiling.- Added documentation for monitor, energy_efficient, and power_balancer Agents, but the implementation is not currently aligned.- The monitor agent is implemented and fully featured.- The energy_efficient agent will soon be extended to match the man page, and currently use of the network is not enabled.- The existing implementation of the energy_efficient agent does currently provide similar functionality to the efficient_freq Decider.- The power_balancer agent is a work in progress that is not well aligned with the man page, but will be feature complete soon.- Reports and traces generated by Agent code path are designed to be backward compatible with reports and traces generated with the Decider code path.- New environment variables documented in geopm(7): GEOPM_ENDPOINT, GEOPM_AGENT, GEOPM_TRACE_SIGNALS, and GEOPM_DISABLE_HYPERTHREADS.- Remove GEOPM_ERROR_AFFINITY_IGNORE environment variable, no longer required for testing.- New plugin registration mechanism has been put in place and new factory has been implemented.- Replace independent factories with single templated class the PluginFactory.- No longer register a plugin using a half instantiated object.- Removed call to dlsym, and plugins now use __attribute__((constructor)) to specify a callback target used when plugin is loaded.- In this callback the plugin should register with its respective factory.- Each plugin type has a make_plugin() static method that creates the plugin object and returns a pointer to the base class.- The make_plugin() function pointer is what is registered with the factory.- Extend the PluginFactory to require a the registration of a dictionary (map) to enable queries of plugin capabilities.- Use stricter criterion for selecting plugin files to load, name must be of the form libgeopmpi
*.so.0.0.0 where 0.0.0 is the GEOPM ABI version.- Moved geopm_plugin_description_s definition to geopm.h.- Add a configure option to enable use of the msr-safe ioctl interface for writing with PlatformIO.- The msr-safe ioctl interface should not be used for writing unless the system has an msr-safe installation that has fixed .- Added APIs for manipulating hint bits in region id hash.- Many changes were made to modernize the use of C++.- Change protected members of all classes to private where possible.- Replace all raw pointer usage with C++11 smart pointers if possible.- Use default keyword for constructors and destructors where appropriate.- Use delete keyword rather than throw to avoid copy constructor.- Add override keyword to derived classes.- Use forward declaration of classes rather than include one header inside of another.- Add and integrate make_unique implementation for C++11.- Confirmed const correctness for all class methods.- Add public interface to register IOGroups with PlatformIO which enables IOGroups to be created at runtime.- Standardize the IOGroup signal and control names so that they are prefixed by the IOGroup name and two colons.- Agents should generally use high level aliases rather than these low level signals and controls.- Introduce functions for converting between signals and bit-fields to allow for PlatformIO to provide full 64 bit integer signals like the region ID.- Add overflow function type to MSR class.- Change frequency APIs to use Hz to enforce uniform use of SI units.- Use instruction offset in OMPT derived region name; this resolves a name ambiguity when more than one OpenMP region is discovered within the same function.- Use gmock archive uploaded to the geopm organization on github.- PlatformTopo is built on top of lscpu and does not require hwloc.- Throw on GlobalPolicy misconfiguration earlier in the runtime execution.- Rename SimpleFreqDecider to EfficientFreqDecider which will be replaced by EnergyEfficientAgent.- Update to efficient Decider and Agent related environment variables according to above name changes.- The json-c library is no longer a dependency, all references have been removed.- Now using the json11 library which is distributed in the \"contrib\" sub-directory.- Updated features:- Enable Agent to augment report and trace.- Enable user to augment trace through environment variable GEOPM_TRACE_SIGNALS in new code path.- Changes to PlatformIO to support non-CPU domains.- Added MSR save/restore functionality to PlatformIO save/reset interfaces.- Allow loading PlatformIO when some IOGroups fail to load.- Add aggregation functions to PlatformIO to encode how to combine signals.- Add PlatformTopo methods for converting domain to string and vice-versa.- Add signal_names() and control_names() to PlatformIO and IOGroup.- Add Skylake server (SKX) as a supported platform.- Add Haswell and SandyBridge MSRs to PlatformIO interface.- OMPT report region names include instruction offset, now two OpenMP regions within the same function can be distinguished.- Add region runtime as default trace column.- Simpler column names in trace; print some columns using old names.- Change region ID to hex in report and trace.- Order regions in report by runtime.- Add application total ignore time to report.- Replace tabs with spaces for report formatting.- Enable PlatformIO to support Epoch based signals.- Add power signals to PlatformIO using derivative calculation previously done in Region object.- Add PlatformIO aliases for region ID, progress, frequency and energy.- Add CombinedSignal class which is used to combine signals from different IOGroups.- Allow for a user provided number of experiment iterations (loops) to perform for each geopmanalysis type- Enable geopmanalysis to provide more detailed information about the results- Allow turbo to be skipped by geopmanalysis when determining the best per-region frequencies.- Updates to geopmanalysis python script to bypass trace parsing if requested and in debug plot ignore check for multiple profile names.- Use hyphen instead of underscore in geopmanalysis options for consistency with other interfaces.- Don\'t require -n and -N with geopmanalysis when skipping launch.- Pass output_dir through to plotter when using geopmanalysis.- Changes to analysis.py for SC17 data: multiply energy percent by 100, have frequency sweep plots use frequencies from profile name.- Add geopmanalysis option to specify controller launch method.- Updated and extended integration tests:- Integration tests validated with the GEOPM_AGENT set to test new code path.- A few problems with the new code path exposed by integration tests have been added to github issues.- A few changes to support integration tests with new code path have been integrated.- Change io.py and integration tests: Allow hex numbers for region ID in report, skip extra lines in report.- Remove Platform plugin registration.- Update EfficientFreqDecider to use new runtime metric for performance.- Update EfficientFreqDecider to use PlatformIO directly and remove method from Policy object for adjusting frequency.- Updated unit tests:- Many unit tests have been added to accompany the new code path which has many new classes.- The new classes were specifically designed to enable unit testing poorly covered code that it refactors.- Refactor Profile constructor into testable functions.- Add unit tests for Profile class.- Simple profile class in test directory for testing and debug: enables profiling of the GEOPM runtime itself.- More detailed checks of messages in unit tests when exceptions are thrown.- Fix test-license to assert that files in MANIFEST.EXEMPT exist.- Remove TestPlugin code that is not used by tests.- Add make check target to tutorial build.- Bug fixes:- Update GEOPM runtime C APIs to print to standard error instead of having the controller suppress error messages.- Handle exceptions that occur during app/controller handshake.- Enable timeout rather than hang if Controller or application fail during execution.- Fix for package-scoped MSRs that will write to all CPUs in a package rather than just one.- Fix HSX and SKX frequency control MSRs to core domain.- Fix issue when running on systems with offline CPUs.- Do not report a completed send if policy or sample contains a NAN.- Fix lscpu parsing for offline CPUs.- Exclude regions with 0 count from report, except unmarked region, which is always 0.- Add verbose error message when PluginFactory::dictionary() is called with plugin name that has not been registered.- Fix get_alloc_nodes for slurm in geopmpy launcher- Fix for test_power_consumption to checks the current platform cpuid to decide power budget.- Fix geopmpy.launcher for Intel\'s mpiexec: does not accept -- as a separator for positional arguments.- Fix for when GEOPM_PLUGIN_PATH contains multiple paths.- Fix tutorial tarball so that it will build out of place.- Fix shared memory issues during start-up when launching the Controller as a separate application.- Remove erroneous double split of the Controller\'s comm; the ppn1 comm is already passed into the constructor.- Fix test to use in-memory file system to avoid adding missing msync() calls.- Fix resource leak in TreeCommunicator constructor.- Fix tracing capability with geopmanalysis.- Leave -- separator in list of arguments to avoid parsing command line arguments intended for application as launcher arguments.
* Fri Jan 12 2018 Christopher M. Cantalupo v0.4.0- Modified implementations and interfaces:- Updated algorithm for choosing CPU affinity in the launcher: fill application CPUs from back to front, and never share physical cores between MPI ranks.- Created new abstraction for interfacing with MSRs and more broadly for abstracting hardware IO (PlatformIO, MSRIO, and MSR classes).- Application region hints are now properly exposed to the decider.- Added geopmanalysis executable to the geopmpy package; this executable runs applications and performs analysis of power and performance based on GEOPM report and trace data.- Added geopmbench to the installed binaries; this is simply an installed version of the tutorial_6 executable.- Added GEOPM_RM environment variable and --geopm-rm command line option to select geopmpy.launcher\'s back end resource manager.- Updated man pages to include geopmanalysis and geopmbench.- Removed handling of SIGCHLD signal in GEOPM runtime (commonly raised in non-error conditions when using popen(3)).- Launcher will guess correct number of OpenMP threads if user has not specified.- Added warning message at start up if report and trace files will not be created due to permissions issues.- Added better error handling to tutorial sources.- Added support for geopmctl to be run as a different user than application.- Added support for user provided shmkey\'s that do not begin with \'/\'.- Added error checking in launcher user requests more ranks per node than there are cores per node.- Added more robust error checking for command line issues in launcher.- Added command line option to launcher to exclude use of hyperthreads: --geopm-disable-hyperthreads.- If a plugin fails at registration time, do not bring down the controller; a warning is printed if debug is enabled.- Remove -s parameter from geopmctl CLI (was being ignored).- Encapsulated use of MPI by GEOPM inside of a class abstraction (IComm), but controller has not been modified to use the new class due to deadlock bug.- Encapsulated in a class the handshake interface between the controller and the application across shared memory.- General clean up of the geompy.plotter implementation.- Added more error checking in Controller.- Some fixes for issues exposed by static analysis.- Updated features:- Added new decider called \"simple_freq\" that adjusts CPU frequency to save energy with a small impact to performance; name will likely change to \"efficient_freq\" in the future.- Added region runtime reporting to traces and Region objects based on the average execution time of a region by all of the ranks on a node.- Added a method to the Region object to give access to the telemetry time stamps to the decider.- Added online learning approach to energy efficient frequency decider.- Added support to geopmpy.launcher for launching with Intel(R) MPI\'s mpiexec.- Added option to plotter to use all samples or just epoch samples.- Modified the tutorials to enable use of the geopmpy launcher.- Improved tutorial Makefile to allow user override of GNU Make standard variables.- Added an RPM spec file for use with the OpenHPC distribution.- Updated and extended integration tests:- Moved Controller death test from the unit tests to the integration tests.- Added integration tests for pthread an application launch of the controller.- Added an isolated hardware test for RAPL power limit functionality.- Updated documentation: both man pages and doxygen have been reviewed and cleaned up.- Updated unit tests:- Added unit test for SubsetOptionParser.- Reduced dependence of unit tests on MPI runtime.- Removed MPIProfileTest unit test which is covered by integration tests, and not really a unit test.- Removed unused MPIControllerTest.- Removed MVAPICH2 Fortran tests.- Bug fixes:- Fixed broken build in tutorials (tutorial_region.c).- Fixed faulty argument parsing by the geopmpy launcher.- Fixed error reporting when using geopmpy with python 3.x.- Fixed issues with affinity when launching the controller as a pthread.- Fixed issue in passing power budgets down a multi-level tree.- Fixed issue in platform choice when head node architecture differs from the compute nodes.- Fixed broken build if --disable-doc configuration option is passed.- Fixed decider setup code to correctly propagate power bounds down tree.- Fixed the way RAPL time window is set.- Fixed the use of cached data by geopmpy.plotter.- Fixed integration test issues related to systems with multiple cluster node partitions.- Fixed process CPU affinity implementation (don\'t use hwloc) and added unit tests for this.- Fixed potential overflow issue with error messages in PlatformImp.cpp.- Fixed race in SharedMemory test.- Fixed markup patch for MiniFE.- Fixed launcher when user explicitly requests OMP_NUM_THREADS=1.- Fixed MPIInterfaceTests so it uses only mocked MPI interfaces, and does not explicitly require MPI.- Fixed memory leaks in GlobalPolicy.- Fixed linking order of libgeopm and libmpi.- Fixed non-performance mode integration test launcher.- Fixed issue where libgeopmpolicy had false dependence on OMPT.cpp- Fixed rpm Makefile target to avoid the rpmbuild -t option to avoid trying to use the OpenHPC spec file.- Fixed issue where platform topology could be determined from nodes other than the ones that run the job.- Fixed Intel(R) MPI launcher\'s use of host files and the --ppn CLI.- Fixed incompatibility between MVAPICH2 affinity and srun affinity.- Fixed test_progress_exit integration test to account for extrapolation error.- Fixed integration test for MPI time accounting.- Fixed launcher problem when node is listed in multiple queues by sinfo.- Fixed and improved affinity assignment in corner cases.- Fixed use of sched_getcpu() for Mac OS X.
* Mon Jun 19 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 05 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 04 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 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 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 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 09 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 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 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 01 2015 Christopher M. Cantalupo v0.0.1- Initial tag which includes initial draft of man pages only.