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  1. Oct 03, 2018
  2. Oct 01, 2018
    • noraabiakar's avatar
      Add CMake options for V100 support (#608) · 2334ada8
      noraabiakar authored and Benjamin Cumming's avatar Benjamin Cumming committed
      Add CMake options for V100 support. fixes #605
      2334ada8
    • noraabiakar's avatar
      Fix GPU installation (#607) · 9129b2eb
      noraabiakar authored and Benjamin Cumming's avatar Benjamin Cumming committed
      Updates the install docs. Fixes #604
      9129b2eb
    • akuesters's avatar
      Integrating Mac OS X and clang compiler into Travis CI (#601) · e755a420
      akuesters authored and Benjamin Cumming's avatar Benjamin Cumming committed
      changes: 
      - .travis.yml:
        - added matrix for different osx's, since enumeration style only works for `env` and `compiler`
      
      - scripts/travis/build.sh:
        - changed getting compiler version from ``${CXX} -dumpversion`` to ``${CXX} --version | grep -m1 ""`` 
        - added `--oversubscribe` flag to `mpiexec` on Mac to allow more processes on a node than processing elements
        - added `--mca btl tcp,self` flag for Open MPI to use the "tcp" and "self" BTLs for transporting MPI messages on Mac
      e755a420
    • Sam Yates's avatar
      Fix double throw of captured exception in thread group. (#606) · d6aec81a
      Sam Yates authored and Benjamin Cumming's avatar Benjamin Cumming committed
      Fixes #603.
      
      * Clear exception pointer in exception_state helper class after move of state.
      * Rename exception_state::get() method to reset().
      * Call std::terminate() if task_group is destroyed before tasks are collected with wait().
      * Do not attempt to collect tasks in destructor for task_group.
      * Do not attempt to rethrow exception in destructor for exception_state.
      * Add unit test to verify correct exception behaviour when a task_group is runs and waits on a series of tasks.
      * Add unit test for terminate behaviour as above.
      
      Code quality fix ups:
      * Remove unused warning variable warning in threading exception tests.
      * Address if-statement spacing in threading.hpp.
      * Use ARB_HAVE_MPI in execution_context.cpp instead of introducing a dependency on generated version header via feature macro ARB_MPI_ENABLED.
      d6aec81a
  3. Sep 26, 2018
    • noraabiakar's avatar
      Threading exceptions (#595) · b5662870
      noraabiakar authored and Benjamin Cumming's avatar Benjamin Cumming committed
      Propagate exceptions generated in `task_group` tasks on different threads in the threading backend, so that they are thrown on the main thread on `task_group.wait()`.
      
      Add tests that verify that exceptions are propagated correctly.
      
      Fixes #310.
      b5662870
  4. Sep 19, 2018
  5. Sep 18, 2018
  6. Sep 17, 2018
    • noraabiakar's avatar
      Dry-run mode (#582) · a2b39382
      noraabiakar authored and Benjamin Cumming's avatar Benjamin Cumming committed
      Dry-run mode: 
      * An implementation of distributed_context that is used to mimic the performance of running an MPI distributed simulation with n ranks.
      * Verifiable against an MPI run with the same parameters. 
      
      Implementation: 
      * Describe the model on a single domain (tile) and translate it to however many domains we want to mimic using arb::tile and arb::symmetric_recipe. This allows us to know the exact behavior of the entire system by only running the simulation on a single node.
      * Mimic communication between domains using arb::dry_run_context
      
      Example: 
      * dryrun in example/ is a verifiable example of using dry-run mode with mc_cells
      
      Other:
      * Documentation of dry-run mode 
      * unit test for dry_run_context 
      a2b39382
  7. Sep 07, 2018
  8. Sep 06, 2018
    • Sam Yates's avatar
      Clarify vectorization-enabled build errors. (#588) · 1ffccf2d
      Sam Yates authored and Benjamin Cumming's avatar Benjamin Cumming committed
      Fixes #587.
      
      * Eliminate Clang warnings from GCC-tree-optimization bug work-around.
      * Error with static-assert if simd type is used with a missing simd abi.
      * Clarify install documentation regarding use of ARB_VECTORIZE with ARB_ARCH.
      1ffccf2d
  9. Sep 05, 2018
  10. Sep 01, 2018
  11. Aug 30, 2018
    • Benjamin Cumming's avatar
      Opaque Public Context (#576) · d637c8bc
      Benjamin Cumming authored
      Make the execution context presented to users an opaque handle, moving all implementation of the gpu, thread and distributed contexts into the back end.
      
      * move `execution_context` and `distributed_context` definitions to the back end
      * create `execution_context` handle called `context` in the public API
      * provide `make_context` helper functions that build different context configurations (default, user-specified local resources, with MPI)
      * update documentation for all parts of the public API that touch contexts
      * move `distributed_context` docs to the developer documentation (from the public API docs)
  12. Aug 29, 2018
  13. Aug 24, 2018
  14. Aug 22, 2018
  15. Aug 20, 2018
    • Sam Yates's avatar
      Global temperature for NMODL mechanisms. (#565) · fa0d7aef
      Sam Yates authored and Benjamin Cumming's avatar Benjamin Cumming committed
      Global temperature for mechanisms.
      
      * Make 'celsius' magic in modcc: now an indexed variable.
      * Add a new temperature data source for indexed variables.
      * Add support to printers for indexed variables that reference a scalar.
      * Check that indexed variables aren't used in PROCEDURE blocks (this is a problem not just for 'celsius').
      * Modify built-in mod files to pass celsius as a parameter to rates() procedures.
      * Add global temperature to shared_state classes, and initialize through backend mechanism superclasses.
      * Add some infrastructure for unit-test only mechanisms.
      * Set modcc flags globally in top level CMakeLists.txt.
      * Add test mechanism/module for checking celsius setting.
      * Add unit test for multicore and gpu mechanism celsius setting.
      * Make common mechanism private field data access helper for unit tests.
      * Use helper in temperature, synapses tests.
      * Fix warning in `distribued_context.hpp` about errant semicolon.
      * Fix global scalar ref for SIMD printing.
      * Use correct ARB_CXXOPT_ARCH instead of incorrect CXXOPT_ARCH in various CMakeLists.txt files.
      * Add special case for no-non scalar indexed variables in API loop in SIMD printing.
      
      Fixes #386
      fa0d7aef
  16. Aug 06, 2018
    • Sam Yates's avatar
      Bugfix/build osx macports (#563) · 3bafa1b3
      Sam Yates authored
      Two MacPorts/gcc7 issues:
      
      std::uint64_t is unsigned long long on OS X, breaking an assumption about size_t in the distributed_context interface.
      Problems with missing errno defines in the standard library headers.
      With MacPorts gcc7, the installed c++config.h defines _GLIBCXX_HAVE_EOWNERDEAD and _GLIBCXX_HAVE_ENOTRECOVERABLE, but the corresponding errno defines are not provided by
      sys/errno.h unless __DARWIN_C_SOURCE, which takes its value from _POSIX_C_SOURCE if defined, is greater than or equal to 200809L. Technically a MacPorts configuration bug? but easily worked around.
      
      Use basic integral types for communication collectives interfaces.
      Define _POSIX_C_SOURCE to be 200809L for glob.cpp.
      Fixes #562.
      3bafa1b3
  17. Jul 31, 2018
    • Sam Yates's avatar
      Split multi_event_stream.cu implementation. (#556) · ac581c6b
      Sam Yates authored
      * Remove dependency on memory library and range utils from `multi_event_stream.cu` source.
      
      Fixes #545
    • noraabiakar's avatar
      Manage distributed_context using shared pointers (#555) · 0d6b365a
      noraabiakar authored and Sam Yates's avatar Sam Yates committed
      * Replace distributed_contest with shared_ptr<distributed_context> in execution_context and pass around the shared pointer instead of a raw pointer.
      * Fix construction of mpi_context
      * Remove num_threads() from arb and arb::threading. Modify mpi_context so it also returns a shared_ptr. proc_allocation is initialized from execution context to determine available resources.
      * Rename threading backend files. Delete useless files.
      * Pass execution_context by const reference or value.
      * Remove code duplication in thread_system constructors.
      0d6b365a
  18. Jul 26, 2018
    • Sam Yates's avatar
      Update install docs for architecture build options. (#489) · 845077e6
      Sam Yates authored and Benjamin Cumming's avatar Benjamin Cumming committed
      * Update the install docs for architecture build options
      * Update to reflect new install target
      845077e6
    • Sam Yates's avatar
      Return view from schedule, replace time_seq. (#536) · 0d20df25
      Sam Yates authored
      Reduce redundant functionality across event_generator, time_seq
      and schedule by providing a low-heap overhead interface to schedule
      and using that for time sequences in event_generator and specialized
      cell groups.
      
      * Have schedule return pair of pointers as view to generated times.
      * Fix missing DEBUG/TRACE functionality.
      * Use rate instead of mean_dt for Poisson schedule.
      * Move merge_events() functionality to simulator.cpp.
      * Migrate event_generator to event span interface.
      * Migrate tourney_tree to event span interface.
      * Only invoke tourney_tree merge if generators have events in the epoch.
      * Use schedule for times in event_generator implementations.
      * Replace seq_generator with explicit_generator that keeps a copy of events.
      * Replace vector_backed_generator and poisson_generator with schedule_generator.
      * Replace time_seq uses with schedule.
      * Add default empty schedule.
      * Move rounding error test for regular time sequence into schedule test.
      * Update sampling API documentation for schedule.
    • noraabiakar's avatar
      Use correct profiling flag (#549) · 487a65e9
      noraabiakar authored and Benjamin Cumming's avatar Benjamin Cumming committed
      Use correct profiling and mpi flags.
      Fix profiler doc
      487a65e9
  19. Jul 25, 2018
    • Benjamin Cumming's avatar
      Remove `memory::array` from `arb::tree` (#547) · af5fe62a
      Benjamin Cumming authored
      This small refactor simplifies the interface and implementation of the `tree` type.
      * use `std::vector` instead of `memory::array` for internal storage in `arb::tree`
      * return a `util::range` intstead of a view for `tree::children(int)`
      * remove unused functionality for changing the root of a tree.
    • noraabiakar's avatar
      fix profiler (#548) · 177cce0d
      noraabiakar authored and Benjamin Cumming's avatar Benjamin Cumming committed
      Add initialize method to the profiler to set up the needed threading parameters given a simulation's task system.
      177cce0d
  20. Jul 24, 2018
    • noraabiakar's avatar
      task_system as part of an execution_context (#537) · 7a6c1031
      noraabiakar authored and Benjamin Cumming's avatar Benjamin Cumming committed
      - Task system is no longer a single system private to the implementation of the threading backend and used everywhere. A separate task_system can be used (with a specified number of threads) for every simulation.
      - arb::execution_context is the interface to task_system  and the previously defined distributed_context
      - TBB and serial support has been removed. Cthreads is the only threading backend available. 
      7a6c1031
  21. Jul 20, 2018
  22. Jul 19, 2018
    • noraabiakar's avatar
      Cthreads: implement task queue per thread with task stealing (#528) · 4d63988a
      noraabiakar authored and Sam Yates's avatar Sam Yates committed
      Cthreads classes:
      - Notification queue : Manages tasks: tries or forces popping and pushing tasks.  
      - Task system : manages the notifications queues; controls which queue to pop from/push to; controls spinning on queues if necessary; manages creating/joining threads. Is a singleton.
      - Task group : manages synchronization on a group of tasks. 
      
      Operation: 
      - Each thread has an associated queue
      - Task system _tries to_ push tasks in one of the available queues. If it is unable to acquire a lock on a queue, it tries the next in a round robin fashion. After it loops all queues if it still hasn't successfully pushed the task, it spins on a single queue until lock is acquired and task is pushed. 
      - Task system _tries to_ pop a task from the calling thread's queue. If it is unable to acquire the lock, it tries to steal the task from another thread's queue, in a round robin loop. If it is still unable to pop a task, it spins on its the calling thread's queue until the lock is acquired. 
      - Task group keeps a counter for the number of tasks in the group which it increments/decrements when calling push/pop on the task system. The counter is used to know when all tasks in the group have been executed. 
      
      Unit tests: 
      - Basic tests to pop/push from notification_queue, task_system and task_group. 
      - Simple tests for deadlock 
      - Simple tests for correctness 
      
      Benchmark: 
      - Benchmarks performance for various task sizes
      4d63988a
  23. Jul 13, 2018
    • noraabiakar's avatar
      fix to compile bench without mpi (#533) · bbe99176
      noraabiakar authored and Benjamin Cumming's avatar Benjamin Cumming committed
      bbe99176
    • Sam Yates's avatar
      Feature/lib install target part 4 (#531) · d6af0c4d
      Sam Yates authored and Benjamin Cumming's avatar Benjamin Cumming committed
      All example code and validation tests no longer require access to private include directories. This provides the minimal requirement for an installable target
      
      Note that it is still not possible to separately build mechanisms from NMODL with just the public includes, and there is not yet any package configuration file creation for use with CMake or pkg-config.
      
      * Replace `hw::node_info` with `proc_allocation`, describing local resources for the purposes of domain decomposition.
      * Group processor counting and gpu counting implementation under `node_info.cpp`.
      * Remove `domain_decomposition` dependency from `cell_group_factory.hpp` so we can use the latter to test for backend support for a cell kind.
      * Add `arb::cell_kind_implementation()` which performs the mapping from cell kind and backend kind to a `cell_group_ptr`-producing function (this will then become the site for custom cell group kind mapping support in future work).
      * Move headers for aux library ...
      d6af0c4d