2014

Aug 27

• Proposals / work in progress
• Github etc

June 16

• Git/mailing lists etc
• proposal

May 12

• IR&D proposal
• Progress and co-resident
• NA_Addr_to_string/NA_Addr_self on server
• Size of buffer passed to NA_Addr_to_string
• Merging HG_Bulk and HG
• stdatomic

Jan 26

• Progress and co-resident
• Cancel
• IR&D proposal
• Ideas for mercury

Dec 1

• Release 0.8.2
• branch next / cci
• Cancel
• Verbs plugin
• Performance
• IR&D proposal

Oct 31

• Blocking progress (eventually stuck)
• Polling loop timeout 0
• proc for size_t
• Ticket #23
• Release 0.8.2 / 0.9.0
• Users
• verbs plugin

Sept 19

• Callback interface
• Handle interface / access class, context etc from RPC callback
• Ways of posting unexpected recv (now in HG_Progress / listen flag for NA)
• Ways of making progress and trigger / request emulation for tests
• HG Progress for bulk and NA (timeout)
• HG proc and HG_Bulk_deserialize (call NA layer)

Jul 10

• na_class / na_context / default NA context
• mercury roadmap

June 13

• meetings
• NA verbs
• callbacks

May 22

• Added memcheck / valgrind
• Added NA_Publish/NA_Unpublish
• Added Bulk callbacks
• HG callbacks now
• Multiple register (ticket #36)
• Error return when exceeding unexpected limit (ticket #35)
• Other discussions

May 14

• Old item: NA Mem Create/register/publish
• HG Bulk to callbacks
• Verbs plugin

May 09

• NA_Initialize changes
• BMI over IB
• Performance bulk / threads
• Callbacks

May 02

• CTest
• SSM
• Clone/sync changes
• Switch interface to callbacks
• ...
• NA_Addr_self attached to bulk handle

April 25

• Revisions to Bulk interface
• Callabcks in bulk interface
• Reworked test suite
• Posix function shipping
• mercury-legal

April 18

• Papers from Quincey
• Feedback from JB
• RDMA using bulk mirror
• Use only bulk mirror ? add support for scatter/gather
• Add example directory
• Documentation

April 9

• Coresident stack (also adding bulk mirror for extra input buffer)
• SSM plugin
• HG callbacks

April 2

• hg_bulk_segment_t
• Bulk mirror and Bulk sync
• Separate branches
• PRogress with CB (server/client)

March 28

• Review HG and HG_Handler public routines after unification

March 26

• unifying HG_Handler and HG (API modifications)
• Bulk_ptr convenience routines
• Switching HG and HG Bulk to callbacks
• paper-datatransport

February 19

• test mercury-legal alias
• request emulation checked in
• co-residency / unify HG_handler and HG
• make new release

February 12

• request emulation
• testing on cray
• ibverbs plugin in standby
• release / tickets

February 5

• progress / timeout
• finishing some cleanup / testing

January 28

• MPI plugin
• eliding mercury (NA plugin?!)
• mem_create/mem_register/publish
• progress + timeout
• mercury 0.8.1

January 22

• eliding mercury layer to execute call locally
• request emulation
• legal stuff
• website / trac website

2013

December 2

• request emulation
• atomics (openpa dependency)
• VAR_ARG log error macro (make ticket)
• NA SSM changes

November 27

• mercury bulk interface changes
• progress in mercury
• NA parallel progress
• NA BMI changes
• put with notify
• cancel
• topic_callback

November 13

• private data for plugins
• NA_Cancel
• any other topic_callback issues?
• other topics

November 6

• callback interface
• routing / proxy

October 29

• Test system
• Server-to-server comm changes in NA MPI / testing framework / added test
• Error_to_string and error handling (negative error code)
• HG_Bulk_init
• SSM
• Removed addr self
• ...callbacks and NA BMI issues...

October 22

• Visit
• Multiple servers (More changes to NA MPI)
• Addr_to_string / addr_self etc (needed to get actual ip/port used after NA_Initialize call)
• NA callback interface
• HG_Init and HG_Bulk_init (multiple na_class etc)
• Bulk data optimization and variable length bulk data

October 8

• Discuss visit
• BMI patch
• Protocol in mercury header
• Checksum library
• NA Changes (callback etc)
• ...

September 10

• Mercury website
• HG_Request_free feedback
• Added proc_extra
• Checksum for metadata and bulk data: Checksum enabled with option for metadata / checksum size / algorithm / bulk data

   /* Set checksum */
   int HG_Bulk_handle_set_checksum(hg_bulk_t handle, hg_checksum_t checksum);
   /* Get checksum */
   hg_checksum_t HG_Bulk_handle_get_checksum(hg_bulk_t handle);
  

• Other issues (progress in NA_BMI etc)
• Sumit: mercury init na pass through, na char abstraction, na reverse lookup (+ prefix change)

September 3

• Mercury website
• Need mechanism to free memory allocated by decoder on client side (ticket #8) / HG_Request_free
• Ticket #11 (Excess stderr output on communication failure) and #12 (na_bmi_wait deadlock after communication failure)
• paper-datatransport

August 20

• Paper / conference schedule online
• Add const version of proc functions (related to ticket #9)
• Functions with variable arguments
• Need mechanism to free memory allocated by decoder on client side (ticket #8)
• Converting na addr into string (for debugging/log purposes)
• Same for error codes (both mercury and na, though more relevant for NA)
• Add mercury_posix repo
• Duplicate calls issues
• (Cancel operations)
• paper-datatransport