Minor revsions to plans.

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@@ -74,9 +74,12 @@ Major enhancements included:
 <p>SLURM Version 0.5 became available in July 2005.
 Major enhancements included:
 <ul>
+<li>Moved slurm process tracking options to plugin (ProctrackType).</li>
 <li>Support for the IBM Federation switch.</li>
 <li>Manage consumable resources</li>
 <li>Perform job accounting (record resource utilization).</li>
+<li>Added BlueGene bglblock freeing tool, sfree.</li>
+<li>Added AIX checkpoint plugin (CheckpointType).<li>
 </ul>
 
 <h3>Major Updates in SLURM Version 0.6</h3>
@@ -84,8 +87,10 @@ Major enhancements included:
 Major enhancements include:
 <ul>
 <li>Support for Infiniband</li>
-<li>Support for configurable resource limit propagation</li>
-<li>MPI support moved into plugin</li>
+<li>Support for configurable resource limit propagation.</li>
+<li>MPI support moved into plugin (substantive configuration changes required for MPICH-GM).</li>
+<li>Srun options can be specified in job script (#SLURM ...)</li>
+<li>Names (not just numbers) for job step identifcation.</li>
 </ul>
 
 <h3>Major Updates in SLURM Version 1.0</h3>
@@ -95,11 +100,10 @@ Major enhancements include:
 <li>I/O streams for all tasks on a node are transmitted through one pair of
 sockets instead of distinct sockets for each task. This improves performance
 and scalability.</li>
-<li>Support for task communication/synchronization primitives.</li>
-<li>Srun options can be specified in job script</li>
-<li>Launch different executables with different arguments on different nodes</li>
-<li>E-mail notification on job state changes</li>
-<li>Names (not just numbers) for job step identifcation</li>
+<li>Support for task communication/synchronization primitives (PMI).</li>
+<li>Launch different executables with different arguments on different nodes.</li>
+<li>E-mail notification on job state changes.</li>
+<li>Better control over task distribution.</li>
 </ul>
 
 <h3>Major Updates in SLURM Version 1.1 and beyond</h3>
@@ -120,7 +124,7 @@ to coordinate activies. Future development plans includes:
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-Last modified 20 July 2005</p></td>
+Last modified 14 September 2005</p></td>
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