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authorChristian Chilan <chilan@hdfgroup.org>2009-04-29 06:45:27 (GMT)
committerChristian Chilan <chilan@hdfgroup.org>2009-04-29 06:45:27 (GMT)
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[svn-r16887] Update to include modification to the parallel tests.
-rw-r--r--release_docs/RELEASE.txt13
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
index e47c6bf..9ee4baf 100644
--- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
@@ -86,8 +86,12 @@ New Features
Parallel Library
----------------
- - None
-
+ - Modified parallel tests to run with arbitrary number of processes. The
+ modified tests are testphdf5 (parallel dataset access), t_chunk_alloc
+ (chunk allocation), and t_posix_compliant (posix compliance). The rest of
+ the parallel tests already use in the code the number of processes
+ available in the communicator. (CMC - 2009/04/28)
+
Tools
-----
- h5diff new flag, -c, --compare, list objects that are not comparable.
@@ -419,6 +423,11 @@ Cray XT3 2.0.41 n n n n
Known Problems
==============
+* Parallel tests failed with 16 processes with data inconsistency at testphdf5
+ / dataset_readAll. Parallel tests also failed with 32 and 64 processes with
+ collective abort of all ranks at t_posix_compliant / allwrite_allread_blocks
+ with MPI IO. (CMC - 2009/04/28)
+
* There is a known issue in which HDF5 will change the timestamp on a file
simply by opening it with read/write permissions, even if the file is not
modified in any way. This is due to the way in which HDF5 manages the file