Release Notes#

This section includes significant changes, new features, performance improvements and various issues.

NVPL ScaLAPACK 0.2.2#

Released with NVPL 25.5.

New Features#

N/A

NVPL ScaLAPACK 0.2.1#

Released with NVPL 25.1.

Resolved Issues#

mpich>=4.2.0 is supported. Note that if mpich is configured with ucx, the ucx also needs to be installed (some package managers do not install it as its dependency).

NVPL ScaLAPACK 0.2.0#

Released with NVPL 24.7.

Known Issues#

mpich>=4.2.0 is not yet supported.

Resolved Issues#

Bugfix: NVPL ScaLAPACK no longer exposes symbols from libgfortran which caused runtime issues for applications compiled with older gfortran releases.

NVPL ScaLAPACK 0.1.1#

Released with NVPL 24.03.

New Features#

Bugfix for the integer overflow for large memory allocation; adopted Reference-ScaLAPACK solution.

Known Issues#

Requires a minimum version of mpich 4.1.
- mpich<=4.0 includes incorrect flags on some OS’s, e.g., rockylinux, ubuntu and debian, as observed with mpicc --show.

Resolved Issues#

Bugfix: Issues with iterative refinements i.e., p?porfs and p?gerfs are resolved.

NVPL ScaLAPACK 0.1.0#

The first beta release of ScaLAPACK library as part of NVPL 23.10.

New Features#

Includes the functionality of the reference ScaLAPACK 2.2.0.
Supports various MPI’s via BLACS interface including openmpi3, openmpi4, mpich and hpcx.
Supports lp64 and ilp64 interface.

Known Issues#

Testing with iterative refinements i.e., p?porfs and p?gerfs, the code may hang intermittently.