In reference to this critical bug, there are implications for the current 1.3.x release schedule that are alluded to in Jeff's message. In particular, there are two time-critical issues at play: 1) getting a fix for #1853 in time for inclusion for OFED-1.4.1 2) getting in Sun's changes/CMRs in time for their next test/release cycle
Given those two time-constrained goals, we have decided to proceed as follows: - Sun's desired changes are either already in the 1.3 branch, or the CMRs have already been approved for inclusion - hold off non-Sun related CMRs until a fix for #1853 is available, hopefully sometime next week - release this combination as 1.3.2 - the windows functionality will then follow as a separate release: 1.3.3 I know that this, once again, pushes out the windows functionality, but I think that this is necessary in order to get this critical fix in. Thanks, --Brad ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jeff Squyres <jsquy...@cisco.com> List-Post: devel@lists.open-mpi.org Date: Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:34 PM Subject: [Open MPI Announce] Critical bug notice To: Open MPI Announcements <annou...@open-mpi.org>, Open MPI Developers < de...@open-mpi.org>, Open MPI Users <us...@open-mpi.org> The Open MPI team has uncovered a serious bug in Open MPI v1.3.0 and v1.3.1: when running on OpenFabrics-based networks, silent data corruption is possible in some cases. There are two workarounds to avoid the issue -- please see the bug ticket that has been opened about this issue for further details: https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1853 We strongly encourage all users who are using Open MPI v1.3.0 and/or v1.3.1 on OpenFabrics-based networks to read this ticket and use one of the workarounds described there. The Open MPI team is working on a fix; it will be included in the v1.3.2 release. Updates will be posted to the ticket. -- Jeff Squyres Cisco Systems _______________________________________________ announce mailing list annou...@open-mpi.org http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/announce
