Reframe-hpc

ReFrame 2.6.1 release notes

API changes

None.

Framework

* Automatic cancellation of jobs blocked in a pending state due to reasons that require intervention of system administrators
* Support for canceling jobs
* Print detailed failure info for the sanity and performance checking algorithm
* Bugfix: Module load instructions are now emitted correctly
* Refactoring and coding style adjustments
* CI improvements

Reframe 2.6 release notes

API changes

* New field `exclusive_access` is added that lets a check require exclusive access to compute nodes by the underlying scheduler

Framework

None

Reframe 2.5 release notes

API changes

* `sourcesdir` may now be `None` in which case the regression test is resourceless

Framework

* Treat properly stage and output directories if they alias each other
* Improvements of the internal launcher API to allow users to create custom launchers
* Addition of a `VisitLauncher` for the VisIt visualisation software
* Support for custom execution modes
* `--notimestamp` and `--timefmt` options replaced by a single `--timestamp TIMEFMT` option; no timestamp directory components are appended anymore
* Bug fix: crash when printing system listing and the current system was not auto-detected
* Bug fix: Environment names with slashes are now treated correctly
* Bug fix: asynchronous execution policy unit tests are now more robust
* Bug fix: job launcher options were not emitted in the job script file

Reframe 2.4 release notes

API changes

* Support for OS variable expansion in the `variables` field
* Fixed environment loading: modules are loaded first and variables are set
afterwards
* Default value of the `use_multithreading` field is now `None`, in which case
no hint is emitted

Framework

* Brand new frontend
* Google Test look-and-feel
* Less verbose output
* Better error handling and management
* Better test statistics management
* Support for pluggable execution policies of regression tests
* New command line option `--exec-policy` for setting the execution policy of
the regression tests
* Regression checks are **not** reused anymore across partitions and programming environments. Instead, they are cloned for every case.
* Support for asynchronous execution of regression tests
* The running phase of regression tests is executed in parallel
* Support for different maximum pending jobs per partition
* Full logging support
* Multiple logging levels
* Multiple log record handlers
* Easily configured in `reframe/settings.py`
* New command line option `--save-log-files` for saving the produced log files
in the output directory of the run
* More robust user check validation
* The regression test file is first parsed for the correct definition of the
`_get_checks()` method and is then loaded and further validated

Reframe 2.3 release notes

API changes

* Sanity checking returns `True` if `sanity_patterns` are empty
* Introduction of `readonly_files` variable in `RegressionTest` API to allow symlinking of target files
* New `propagate` member variable of `ProgEnvironment` that enables/disables the propagation of compilation flags to the underlying `make` invocation
* Default value for programming environment flags is now `None`. See [Reference Guide](https://eth-cscs.github.io/reframe/reference/) for more information on the actual behaviour.

Framework

* More robust behaviour when no modules are loaded
* Support for virtual copying of directories
* Ability to invoke `make` without passing it the environment's flags
* Fixed sandboxing of system partitions
* Unit test and CI improvements
* Other bug fixes

First public release.