[Scalablecr-announce] SCR version 1.1-8 Release

[Kathryn M. <ka...@ll...>]

Hi everyone,

We're pleased to announce a new release of the Scalable Checkpoint/Restart
Library, version 1.1.8. Go to: https://github.com/hpc/scr/releases to
download.

What's new since v1.1.7:
- Added support for Cray XT systems with aprun
- Added Fortran interface, and simplified use for C++ applications
- Added SCR index file in prefix directory to track history of datasets,
dropped current and old symlinks
- Added scr_index command to manage datasets
- Simplified single-node use
- SCR metadata and redundancy files moved to hidden .scr subdirectories
- Improved scavenge behavior to avoid wasting time scavenging non-repairable
datasets
- Added new group, store, and redundancy descriptors to express more storage
and failure topologies
- Improved scalability of SCR summary metadata file via new hierarchical
rank2file
- Numerous bug fixes

Hope you enjoy it, and let us know if you have questions or encounter
problems. The discussion mailing list is here:
https://computation.llnl.gov/project/scr/contact.php
or if you're already signed up to the list, just email
sca...@li...

Thanks!
Kathryn - and the whole SCR team!
_________________________________________________________________
Kathryn Mohror, ka...@ll..., http://scalability.llnl.gov/ 
Scalability Team @ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA,
USA