Release v1.7

Feature highlight:

• Alternative configuration using environmental variables
• Asynchronous POSIX caching (can be used to hide the overhead of I/O to external storage using node-local storage)
• Serialization and C++ interface improvements
• Performance and scalability improvements

Release v1.6

Feature highlight:

• Support for custom storage modules (enables non-POSIX external storage)
• Preliminary support for DAOS
• Better support for the threaded mode (VELOC backend runs as an application thread instead of a separate process)
• Performance improvements

Release v1.5

Feature highlight:

• C++ and Python interface
• Serialization support for C++ (see example here: test/serial_test.cpp)
• Threaded mode (VELOC backend runs as an application thread instead of a separate process)
• Performance improvements

Release v1.4

Highlights:

• async mode automatically starts VELOC backend if not already running, which brings two advantages:
  • can generate the VELOC config file dynamically at runtime before calling VELOC_Init
  • no need to do extra scripting to start the VELOC backend on each node
• VELOC backend starts as a daemon and logs by default into /dev/shm/veloc-backend-$HOSTNAME-$UID.log

Release v1.3

Highlights and API changes:

• Many fixes and performance improvements, upgrade highly recommended
• Alternative communication protocols between clients and active backend (UNIX sockets, Thallium)
• Fully asynchronous MD5 checksumming (as a separate module in the checkpointing pipeline)
• VELOC_Finalize(bool): flag toggles wait for checkpoints to flush (previously it remove checkpoints on finish)

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https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/veloc-users

Release v1.2

Highlights and API changes:

• non-collective checkpointing does not need MPI
• file-based mode can restart with custom file names
• Python bindings

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https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/veloc-users

Release v1.1

Several new features and API changes:

• non-collective checkpoint-restart
• selective recovery in memory mode
• lots of improvements

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https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/veloc-users

Release v1.0

First public release.
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https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/veloc-users