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The documentation page has been updated to include links to site-specific Darshan documentation for ALCF, NERSC, NCSA, and OLCF facilities.  Please let us know if you would like to have documentation for your deployment added to the list.

Darshan (along with MPI-IO, PnetCDF, HDF5, and Globus) was featured in the “HPC I/O for Computational Scientists” portion of the Argonne Training Program on Extreme Scale Computing (ATPESC) 2015 agenda on August 13, 2015.  See the tutorial page for details and links to curriculum material.

Darshan version 2.3.1 is now available for download.  This release includes several bug fixes and enhancements, including improvements for Cray, IBM Blue Gene, and Linux cluster environments.   One of the most notable new features is that Darshan now supports the MPICH profiling configuration file method for instrumentation, which simplifies installation on some platforms.  This release also includes a new regression testing framework.
The full changelog since 2.3.0:
darshan-2.3.1
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* added documentation and example configuration files for using the -profile or $MPICC_PROFILE hooks to add instrumentation to MPICH-based MPI implementations without generating custom wrapper scripts
* Add wrappers for mkstemp(), mkostemp(), mkstemps(), and mkostemps() (reported by Tom Peterka)
* Change OPEN_TIMESTAMP field to report timestamp right before open() is invoked rather than after timestamp after open is completed. NOTE: updated log format version to 2.06 to reflect this change.
* Change start_time and end_time fields in job record to use min and max (respectively) across all ranks
* Fix bug in write volume data reported in file system table in darshan-job-summary.pl (reported by Matthieu Dorier)
* Clean up autoconf test for zlib and make zlib mandatory (reported by Kalyana Chadalavada)
* add –start-group and –end-group notation to Darshan libraries for Cray PE 2.x environment to fix link-time corner cases (Yushu Yao)
* improve y axis labels on time interval graphs in darshan-job-summary.pl (reported by Tom Peterka)
* misc. improvements to darshan-parser –perf output (reported by Shane Snyder)
– indicate which rank was slowest in unique file results
– label I/O vs. meta time more clearly
– include unique file meta time in agg_perf_by_slowest calculation
* added regression test script framework in darshan-test/regression/
– currently support platforms include:
– Linux with static linking and generated compiler wrappers
– Linux with static linking and profiler configuration files
– Linux with dynamic linking and LD_PRELOAD
– Blue Gene/Q with static linking and profiler configuration files
* update darshan-gen-fortran.pl and darshan-gen-cxx.pl to support new library naming conventions in MPICH 3.1.1 and higher
* update documentation to reflect known issues with some versions of MPICH
* Cray platforms: modify darshan-runtime so that link-time instrumentation options are only used when statically linking via Libs.private. (reported by Kalyana Chadalavada)

Darshan 2.3.1-pre2 is now available on the download page for testing and feedback.  The most significant changes since 2.3.1-pre1 are better support for recent MPICH releases, examples and documentation for the -profile hooks in MPICH, and the addition of a regression testing framework.  Our plan is to feature freeze at this point and focus on platform testing for the final 2.3.1 release.
The full changelog since 2.3.0 is as follows:
darshan-2.3.1-pre2
=============
* added documentation and example configuration files for using the -profile or $MPICC_PROFILE hooks to add instrumentation to MPICH-based MPI
implementations without generating custom wrapper scripts
* Add wrappers for mkstemp(), mkostemp(), mkstemps(), and mkostemps() (reported by Tom Peterka)
* Change OPEN_TIMESTAMP field to report timestamp right before open() is invoked rather than after timestamp after open is completed. NOTE: updated log format version to 2.06 to reflect this change.
* Change start_time and end_time fields in job record to use min and max (respectively) across all ranks
* Fix bug in write volume data reported in file system table in darshan-job-summary.pl (reported by Matthieu Dorier)
* Clean up autoconf test for zlib and make zlib mandatory (reported by Kalyana Chadalavada)
* add –start-group and –end-group notation to Darshan libraries for Cray PE 2.x environment to fix link-time corner cases (Yushu Yao)
* improve y axis labels on time interval graphs in darshan-job-summary.pl (reported by Tom Peterka)
* misc. improvements to darshan-parser –perf output (reported by Shane Snyder)
– indicate which rank was slowest in unique file results
– label I/O vs. meta time more clearly
– include unique file meta time in agg_perf_by_slowest calculation
* added regression test script framework in darshan-test/regression/
– workstation-static and workstation-dynamic test environments supported
* update darshan-gen-fortran.pl and darshan-gen-cxx.pl to support new library naming conventions in MPICH 3.1.1 and higher
* update documentation to reflect known issues with some versions of MPICH

Darshan 2.3.1-pre1 is now available for download, and the release changelog is listed below. Please let us know if you have any feedback or suggestions. We’ll be working to turn this into a stable release in the coming weeks.
darshan-2.3.1-pre1

• Add wrappers for mkstemp(), mkostemp(), mkstemps(), and mkostemps() (reported by Tom Peterka)
• Change OPEN_TIMESTAMP field to report timestamp right before open() is invoked rather than after timestamp after open is completed.
  NOTE: updated log format version to 2.06 to reflect this change.
• Change start_time and end_time fields in job record to use min and max (respectively) across all ranks
• Fix bug in write volume data reported in file system table in darshan-job-summary.pl (reported by Matthieu Dorier)
• Clean up autoconf test for zlib and make zlib mandatory (reported by Kalyana Chadalavada)
• add –start-group and –end-group notation to Darshan libraries for Cray PE 2.x environment to fix link-time corner cases (Yushu Yao)
• improve y axis labels on time interval graphs in darshan-job-summary.pl (reported by Tom Peterka)
• misc. improvements to darshan-parser –perf output (reported by Shane Snyder)
  • indicate which rank was slowest in unique file results
  • label I/O vs. meta time more clearly
  • include unique file meta time in agg_perf_by_slowest calculation

• October 26, 2014, Raleigh NC: “Darshan – I/O Workload Characterization for MPI Applications” tutorial to be held at IISWC 2014.  The presenters are Yushu Yao of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Phil Carns of Argonne National Laboratory.  For more information see the tutorial website (http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/darshan/tutorials/iiswc2014/) or the conference web site (http://www.iiswc.org/iiswc2014/index.html).
• November 20, 2014, New Orleans LA: “Analyzing Parallel I/O” BOF at SC 2014.  This BOF will include a discussion of multiple I/O instrumentation tools, including Darshan.  The session leaders are Julian Kunkel (German Climate Computing Center), Phil Carns (Argonne National Laboratory), and Alvaro Aguilera (Technical University Dresden).  For more information see the SC BOF website (http://sc14.supercomputing.org/schedule/event_detail?evid=bof121).

The Darshan source repository has been migrated to git.  You can find information about how to access the new repository here:
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/darshan/developer-access/
Access to the old svn repository will be disabled shortly.

Darshan 2.3.0 is a minor update from Darshan 2.2.9.  It fixes incorrect version numbering in the darshan-runtime component.
darshan-2.3.0

• Fix incorrect version numbering in darshan-runtime component of Darshan  2.2.9, reported by Jean-Guillaume Piccinali

Darshan 2.2.9 is now available for download on the Darshan web site. This is primarily a maintenance and bug fix release.  It also includes support for versions 2.0 and newer of the Cray Programming Environment. The full change log is listed below:
darshan-2.2.9

• Bug fixes:
  • Fix mnt table overflow if a large number of file systems are mounted, reported by David Shrader.
  • Fix argument parsing for darshan-convert, reported by Mouhamed Gueye.
  • Fix metadata annotation overflow in darshan-convert, reported by Mouhamed Gueye.
  • Fix const-correctness in dynamic library when built against MPI 3.x libraries.
  • Fix “undefined symbol: dlsym” error when using preloaded dynamic library on some platforms, reported by Florin Isaila.
  • Normalize timestamps to always be relative to MPI_Init().
  • Better library name matching in compiler wrappers to handle more MPICH variations on Blue Gene systems.
  • Fixed header dependency problems when using darshan-logutils.h in external programs (Shane Snyder).
• Enhancements:
  • Add support (both in documentation and in provided module files) for Cray PE 2.x.
  • Honor CC variable to allow darshan-util to be built with other compilers besides gcc.
  • Update documentation to clarify the interaction between rpath and LD_PRELOAD when instrumenting dynamic libraries, issue reported and investigated by Davide Del Vento.
  • Ability to disable shared-file reduction by setting the DARSHAN_DISABLE_SHARED_REDUCTION environment variable.
  • More thorough output from darshan-parser –perf, suggested by Huong Luu.
  • Increased metadata annotation room from 64 bytes to 1KiB in header.
  • CP_F_{FASTEST/SLOWEST}_RANK_TIME counters now take MPI-IO time into account, not just POSIX time, issue reported by Huong Luu.
  • Better handling of systems with many mounted file systems (after which point Darshan will assume file resides on / file system), issue reported and investigated by David Shrader:
  • Track up to 64 rather than 32 mounted file systems at runtime.
  • Increase header space available for storing mount point information in log file from approximately 1 KiB to approximately 3 KiB.
  • Prioritize storing information about non-NFS volumes over NFS volumes if too many file systems are mounted to record them all.
  • Added darshan-util pkgconfig file (Shane Snyder).
  • Added –enable-shared configure option to darshan-util to build and a shared library version of libdarshan-util

A poster and presentation entitled “I/O characterization of large-scale applications with Darshan” was presented at the SciDAC Institute of Scalable Data Management, Analysis and Visualization All Hands Meeting in February 2014 at Georgia Tech.  The poster and presentation are available for download on the publications page.