Readme and Release notes for release 1.2.0.2 Parallel Environment Developer Edition 1.2.0.2 PEDE-1.2.0.2-power-Linux Readme

Readme file for:PEDE-1.2.0.2-power-Linux
Product/Component Release:1.2.0.2
Update Name:PEDE-1.2.0.2-power-Linux
Fix ID:PEDE-1.2.0.2-power-Linux
Publication Date:10 April 2013
Last modified date:10 April 2013

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Contents

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Prerequisites and co-requisites

Installation information

Additional information
Copyright and trademark information

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Fix Download for Linux

Product/Component Name:	Platform:	Fix:
Parallel Environment Developer Edition	Linux 64-bit,pSeries RHEL Linux 64-bit,pSeries SLES	PEDE-1.2.0.2-power-Linux

Prerequisites and co-requisites

None

Installation information

Installing a PE Developer Edition update for Linux
1. Download an IBM PE Developer Edition update package into any directory on your system.
2. Unzip and extract the RPM image(s) from the *.tar.gz file.
3. Install the IBM PE Developer Edition updates on your system using the rpm -i command.
For further installation documentation, refer to the Installing the IBM HPC Toolkit on Linux Systems section of the PE Developer Edition HPC Toolkit Installation and Usage Guide.

Additional information

Package Contents

IBM Parallel Environment Developer Edition RPMs:

ppedev_hpct_rh6p-1.2.0.2.ppc64.rpm
ppedev_runtime_rh6p-1.2.0.2.ppc64.rpm
ppedev_ptp_rh6p-1.2.0.2.ppc64.rpm
ppedev_ptp_rte_rh6p-1.2.0.2.ppc64.rpm

Changelog
History of problems fixed

The following fixes apply to IBM PE Developer Edition.

IBM PE_DE 1.2.0.2 [Apr 5, 2013]

HPC Toolkit:
1. Correct HPM derived metric calculation for AVX vector operations
2. Various HPM plug-in fixes
3. Various fixes relating to linking libmpitrace with an MPICH2 MPI app on pLinux
PE DE Workbench:
1. Update to Eclipse Juno Service Release 2 (SR2, 4.2.2)
2. Update to Parallel Tools Platform (PTP) 6.0.5 - includes several bug fixes including improved support for and visualization of more target machines in system monitoring views
3. Support for IBM Platform LSF
IBM PE_DE 1.2.0.1 [Dec 17, 2012]

HPC Toolkit:
1. Fix for seg fault when running program containing both open and open64 calls that is instrumented with mio.
2. A program instrumented for OMP and MPI then launched using hpcrun now correctly produces OMP .viz output files.
3. An MPI program which passes argc as 0 and argv as NULL to MPI_Init and instrumented with libmpitrace produces correct results.
4. Fix for hpccount, hpmInit, hpctInst and the HPCT plugin gathering counters from a program with a large bss segment.
5. Fix for encountering an SCI_Initialize error when launching a program on greater than 2000 tasks with hpcrun that was instrumented with hpm
6. Fix for hpctInst failure when instrumenting a 32 bit MPI application.
7. Programs instrumented with the HPC Toolkit I/O profiling and trace libraries support multiple opens and closes of the same file.
PTP:
1. Update to PTP 6.0.3 along with its scalable debug manager (SDM) component
2. Fix for HPC Toolkit Plugin failure in synchronized project creation wizard when the Target Name does not match the Host name.
3. Fix for an intermittant blank MPI trace view when trying to open an MPI trace file by the HPC Toolkit Plugin.
4. Fix 'Select MPI', 'Deselect MPI', and 'Add to HPM' menu item capability in an HPC Toolkit Plugin editor view when selecting, deselecting, or instrumenting a region of one or more lines.
5. The HPC Toolkit Plugin now generates a correct .viz output file when running a 64-bit program instrumented for MIO.

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