DataMPI Changelog
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This file briefly describes the changes to the DataMPI software package. The
logs are organized in the "most recent first" order.

DataMPI 0.6.0 (04/15/2014)
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* Following new features are included in this release:
  - Optimized design for MPI DPM based process spawn
  - Optimized buffer management with efficient support for point-to-point based
    data movement 
  - Support for BigDataBench micro-benchmarks (WordCount, Sort, Grep)
  - Support for configurable compression and decompression of data movement

* Other enhancements are included in this release:
  - Support for HDFS 1.2.1 as the underlying storage
  - Add MPI-D based Grep benchmark into DataMPI Micro-Benchmark Suite

* Bug fixes
  - Fix an issue in DataMPI-RPC closing
  - Fix an issue in TeraSort benchmark
    - Thanks to Billy Yang from CSIE KUAS for the report


DataMPI 0.5.0 (05/10/2013) 
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* The first release

* Following features are included in this release:
  - The first high-performance implementation of the Common mode in the MPI-D
    specification
  - Support high-speed and flexible key-value pair communication
  - Provide object-oriented Java interfaces
  - Easy to program data-intensive computing applications
  - Support hybrid programming with MPI and MPI-D
  - MPI-1.1 compliance and support the feature of dynamic process management in
    MPI-2 
  - Support performance tuning with advanced configurations
  - Easy to build and config
  - Tested with
    - Multiple backend MPI implementations (MVAPICH2, MPICH2, etc.)
    - Various multi-core platforms 
    - Different file systems (ext3/4, HDFS 0.20.2, etc.)