v21.11.00

This is the initial public alpha release of Legate Core library. This release supports the initial release of cuNumeric.

Conda packages for this release are available at https://anaconda.org/legate/legate-core.

What's Changed

• CI Infrastructure by @marcinz in #18
• Added ENVVARs for some launcher options. by @jefflarkin in #20
• Support initializing FieldSpace from existing handle by @manopapad in #13
• Development of CI by @marcinz in #19
• Add testing to CI by @marcinz in #22
• Update the core CI to match the other repositories by @marcinz in #28
• Force left alignment for pointers and references by @magnatelee in #30
• Invoke srun in pseudo-terminal mode when using (cuda-)gdb by @manopapad in #32
• A utility for deferred buffers by @magnatelee in #34
• Improve the auto-partitioner, part 1 by @magnatelee in #33
• Clean up install script by @manopapad in #35
• Missing virtual from destructor by @manopapad in #36
• Fix for delinearization's inversion function by @magnatelee in #37
• Fix overzealous checks on dimensions by @magnatelee in #38
• Suppress some -Wswitch warnings by @manopapad in #39
• When generating CI images, name them after the branch by @marcinz in #31
• Remove some operators that were defined in Legion by @manopapad in #41
• Explicit checks for underlying Legion handle equality by @manopapad in #42
• Cache index partitions created for index spaces by @magnatelee in #43
• Formalize "scalar" property on Stores by @manopapad in #46
• Clarify documentation on --python-lib install option by @manopapad in #49
• Process output in a separate step that is always executed by @marcinz in #50
• adding docs for git, versions, and changelog by @mmccarty in #44
• Make sure that images for pull request get named properly by @marcinz in #51
• Revert installation defaults to CUDA & OpenMP off by @manopapad in #52
• Switch the default Legion branch to control_replication by @magnatelee in #55
• Refactor the task wrapper for scalar outputs by @magnatelee in #54
• Stop jobs on forks by @marcinz in #56
• Use data structures with deterministic iteration order in the solver by @manopapad in #58
• Mapping API (part 1) by @magnatelee in #47
• Interface for registering and retrieving reduction operators by @magnatelee in #59
• Fixes for transformations by @magnatelee in #60
• Dead code elimination by @magnatelee in #61
• Reorganizing source files by @magnatelee in #62
• Fix cases where transpose treats axes in the wrong direction by @manopapad in #64
• Functions for debug-printing Transforms on the C++ side by @manopapad in #65
• Improve support for incremental builds by @manopapad in #63
• Update for changes to FutureMap functions in Legion C interface by @manopapad in #66
• Properly count subregion reference destruction towards root region unmapping by @manopapad in #67
• Support attaching onto existing Stores + related cleanups by @manopapad in #68
• Rearrange user flags by @magnatelee in #69
• Mapper fix by @magnatelee in #70
• Remove --no-interpreter by @magnatelee in #71
• Minor fix for launcher by @magnatelee in #72
• Allow scalars to own buffers by @magnatelee in #73
• Support for affine images and store colocation by @magnatelee in #74
• Lazy evaluation support by @magnatelee in #75
• Minor fix for scalar by @magnatelee in #76
• Minor fix for the cost function by @magnatelee in #79
• Field reuse tunables by @magnatelee in #82
• Object cycle fix by @magnatelee in #84
• Fix for Issue 77 by @lightsighter in #78
• Bug fix for base mapper by @magnatelee in #91
• Fix import of legion CFFI by @manopapad in #97
• Fix for deferred detachments by @magnatelee in #99
• Release 21.11.00 by @marcinz in #102

New Contributors

• @marcinz made their first contribution in #18
• @jefflarkin made their first contribution in #20
• @mmccarty made their first contribution in #44
• @lightsighter made their first contribution in #78

Full Changelog: https://github.com/nv-legate/legate.core/commits/v21.11.00