diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES b/RELEASE_NOTES index cc19e70a8628300ce8c018031c5ce2312470c2a9..676a4a61360ad5e6ab5135d9085bfa57c5f80c43 100644 --- a/RELEASE_NOTES +++ b/RELEASE_NOTES @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ RELEASE NOTES FOR SLURM VERSION 1.2 -3 October 2006 (through 1.2.0-pre3) +28 November 2006 (through 1.2.0-pre7) NEW COMMANDS @@ -34,7 +34,11 @@ CONFIGURATION FILE CHANGES obsolute by the new wiki.conf file. * Several new configuration parameters can be used to specify architectural - details of the node: Sockets, CoresPerSocket, and ThreadsPerCore. + details of the nodes: Sockets, CoresPerSocket, and ThreadsPerCore. + +* For select/cons_res, an assortment of consumable resources can be supported + including: CPUs, cores, socekts and/or memory. See new configuration + parameter SelectTypeParameters. * For BlueGene systems only: Alternate BlrtsImage, LinuxImage, MloaderImage, and RamDiskImage file can be specified along with specific groups that @@ -44,8 +48,8 @@ OTHER CHANGES * Several srun options are available to control layout of tasks across the cores on a node: --extra-node-info, --ntasks-per-node, --sockets-per-node, - --cores-per-socket, --threads-per-core, --minsockets, --mincores, --minthreads, - --ntasks-per-socket, --ntasks-per-core, and --ntasks-per-node. + --cores-per-socket, --threads-per-core, --minsockets, --mincores, + --minthreads, --ntasks-per-socket, --ntasks-per-core, and --ntasks-per-node. * New scontrol, sinfo and squeue options can be used to view socket, core, and task details by job and/or node. @@ -62,6 +66,11 @@ OTHER CHANGES * Added support for OS X operaing system. +* A job step's actual run time is mantained with suspend/resume use. + +* Added support for Portable Linux Processor Affinity in the task/affinity + plugin (PLPA, see http://www.open-mpi.org/software/plpa). + * There is a new version of the Wiki scheduler plugin to interface with the Maui Scheduler and Moab. It can be accessed with the slurm.conf parameter "SchedulerType=sched/wiki2" (it will replace "sched/wiki"