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Update RELEASE_NOTES and news web page for version 2.6

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for sets of similar jobs. This man necessitate changes in prolog and/or for sets of similar jobs. This man necessitate changes in prolog and/or
epilog scripts due to change in the job ID format, which is now of the form epilog scripts due to change in the job ID format, which is now of the form
"<job_id>_<index>" for job arrays. "<job_id>_<index>" for job arrays.
- Added mpi/pmi2 plugin with much better more scalable performance for MPI
implementations using PMI communications interface.
- Added slurmctld/dynalloc plugin for MapReduce+ support. - Added slurmctld/dynalloc plugin for MapReduce+ support.
- Added prolog and epilog support for advanced reservations. - Added prolog and epilog support for advanced reservations.
- Much faster throughput for job step execution with --exclusive option. The - Much faster throughput for job step execution with --exclusive option. The
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<h2>Index</h2> <h2>Index</h2>
<ul> <ul>
<li><a href="#25">SLURM Version 2.5, November 2012</a></li> <li><a href="#26">SLURM Version 2.6, June 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="#26">SLURM Version 2.6, scheduled for April 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="#27">SLURM Version 2.7 and beyond</a></li> <li><a href="#27">SLURM Version 2.7 and beyond</a></li>
<li><a href="#security">Security Patches</a></li> <li><a href="#security">Security Patches</a></li>
</ul> </ul>
<h2><a name="25">Major Updates in SLURM Version 2.5</a></h2>
<p>SLURM Version 2.5 was release in November 2012.
Major enhancements include:
<ul>
<li>Support added for Intel&reg; Many Integrated Core (MIC) processors.</li>
<li>User control over CPU frequency of each job step.</li>
<li>Recording power usage information for each job.</li>
<li>Advanced reservation of cores rather than whole nodes.</li>
<li>Integration with IBM's
<a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/software/parallel/">Parallel Environment</a>
including POE (Parallel Operating Environment) and NRT (Network Resource Table) API.</li>
<li>Highly optimized throughput for serial jobs in a new "select/serial"
plugin.</li>
<li>CPU load is information available</li>
<li>Configurable number of CPUs available to jobs in each SLURM partition,
which provides a mechanism to reserve CPUs for use with GPUs.</li>
</ul>
<h2><a name="26">Major Updates in SLURM Version 2.6</a></h2> <h2><a name="26">Major Updates in SLURM Version 2.6</a></h2>
<p>SLURM Version 2.6 is scheduled for release in April 2013. <p>SLURM Version 2.6 was released in June 2013.
Major enhancements planned include: Major enhancements planned include:
<ul> <ul>
<li>Support for job arrays, which increases performance and ease of use <li>Support for job arrays, which increases performance and ease of use
for sets of similar jobs.</li> for sets of similar jobs.</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapReduce">MapReduce</a> support <li>Support for MPICH2 using PMI2 communications interface with much greater
(launches ~1000x faster, runs ~10x faster).</li> scalability.</li>
<li>Prolog and epilog support for advanced reservations.</li> <li>Prolog and epilog support for advanced reservations.</li>
<li>Much faster throughput for job step execution with --exclusive option. The <li>Much faster throughput for job step execution with --exclusive option. The
srun process is notified when resources become available rather than srun process is notified when resources become available rather than
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reservations (e.g. specific different core count for each node).</li> reservations (e.g. specific different core count for each node).</li>
<li>Finer-grained BlueGene resouce management (partitions/queues and advanced <li>Finer-grained BlueGene resouce management (partitions/queues and advanced
reservations containing less than a whole midplane).</li> reservations containing less than a whole midplane).</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapReduce">MapReduce+</a> support
(launches ~1000x faster, runs ~10x faster).</li>
</ul> </ul>
<h2><a name="27">Major Updates in SLURM Version 2.7 and beyond</a></h2> <h2><a name="27">Major Updates in SLURM Version 2.7 and beyond</a></h2>
...@@ -92,6 +74,6 @@ trojan library, then that library will be used by the SLURM daemon with ...@@ -92,6 +74,6 @@ trojan library, then that library will be used by the SLURM daemon with
unpredictable results. This was fixed in SLURM version 2.1.14.</li> unpredictable results. This was fixed in SLURM version 2.1.14.</li>
</ul> </ul>
<p style="text-align:center;">Last modified 6 March 2013</p> <p style="text-align:center;">Last modified 18 June 2013</p>
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