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@@ -156,6 +156,12 @@ New Features
Parallel Library:
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+ - Special Collective IO (IO when some processes do not contribute to the
+ IO) and Complex Derived Datatype MPI functionalities are no longer
+ conditionally enabled in the library by configure. They are always
+ enabled in order to take advantage of performance boosts from these
+ behaviors. Older MPI implementations that do not allow for these
+ functionalities can no longer by used by HDF5. (MAM - 2011/07/08).
- 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