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Pre-release
Pre-release
Dragon 0.9 Release Summary
This release augments scalability and performance for launching 10k or more processes and greatly improves distributed dictionary performanace. Other highlighted features are:
- Improvements to ProcessGroup to provide better user experience and performance
- Improve launch time for large numbers of processes by enabling batch launch
- New implementation for distributed dictionary that improves performance and scalability
- Support for placement of processes via Policy API
- Bug fix for launching a Pool of pools
Two sets of packages are below. The ones with "CRAYEX" in the name include the RDMA-based transport feature and are for Cray EX systems only. The other packages use the TCP-based transport and will work on generic clusters and single node/laptops/etc. Note that the TCP-based transport package may not scale for some use cases above 16 nodes.