1.9.0-rc2 (August 27, 2020)
Features:
UCX Core
- Added a new class of communication APIs '*_nbx' that enable API extendability while
preserving ABI backward compatibility - Added asynchronous event support to UCT/IB/DEVX
- Added support for latest CUDA library version
- Added NAK-based reliability protocol for UCT/IB/UD to optimize resends
- Added new tests for ROCm
- Added new configuration parameters for protocol selection
- Added performance optimization for Fujitsu A64FX with InfiniBand
- Added performance optimization for clear cache code aarch64
- Added support for relaxed-order PCIe access in IB RDMA transports
- Added new TCP connection manager
- Added support for UCT/IB PKey with partial membership in IB transports
- Added support for RoCE LAG
- Added flow control for RDMA read operations
- Improved endpoint flush implementation for UCT/IB
- Improved UD timer to avoid interrupting the main thread when not in use
- Improved latency estimation for network path with CUDA
- Improved error reporting messages
- Improved performance in active message flow (removed malloc call)
- Improved performance in ptr_array flow
- Improved performance in UCT/SM progress engine flow
- Improved I/O demo code
- Updated examples code
UCX Java (API Preview)
- Added support for UCX shared library loading from both classpath and LD_LIBRARY_PATH
- Added configuration map to ucp_params to be able to set UCX properties programmatically
Bugfixes:
- Fixes for most resent versions of GCC, CLANG, ARMCLANG, PGI
- Fixes in UCT/IB for strict order keys
- Fixes in memory barrier code for aarch64
- Fixes in UCT/IB/DEVX for fork system call
- Fixes in UCT/IB for rand() call in rdma-core
- Fixed in group rescheduling for UCT/IB/DC
- Fixes in UCT/CUDA bandwidth reporting
- Fixes in rkey_ptr protocol
- Fixes in lane selection for rendezvous protocol based on get-zero-copy flow
- Fixes for ROCm build
- Fixes for XPMEM transport
- Fixes in closing endpoint code
- Fixes in RDMACM code
- Fixes in memcpy selection for AMD
- Fixed in UCT/UD endpoint flush functionality
- Fixes in XPMEM detection
- Multiple fixes in RPM spec file
- Multiple fixes in UCP documentation
- Multiple fixes in socket connection manager
- Multiple fixes in gtest
- Multiple fixes in JAVA API implementation