[cosmic-users] CoSMIC 0.8.1 released

[James H. Hill]

Hi folks,

We are pleased to announce that CoSMIC 0.8.1 has been released. You can 
download it from the following location:

   http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/cosmic/html/download.php

Below is a list of the changes that went into this version. As always, 
if you experience any problems, please let us know!

Thanks,

James


. Delegation of extended/mirror ports. An extended/mirror
   port can be delegated to 0..1 delegation ports. Supporting
   delegation to multiple delegation ports will results in
   deployments that are not able to deploy via DAnCE.

. Support for generating valid descriptor information for
   ami4ccm connectors. The ami4ccm support works similar to
   the dds4ccm support. To generate the necessary pragma
   statements in IDL for ami4ccm, you must enable the async
   attribute on both the Object and RequiredRequestPort.

. First version of supporting process/thread specification for
   plan locality managers. Right now, PICML treats locality manager
   as regular components. This means you set the process/thread
   affinity using properties attached to a locality manager
   instance. The property names are as follows:

   - LocalityManager.ProcessName (String)
   - LocalityArguments (String)

   As more is learned about locality managers, the design and
   implementation of locality managers will be improved.

. First version of supporting specification of CPU or CPU core
   affinity for each process/thread. The realization of this is
   similar to the process/thread specification above. The name
   of the property for specifying affinity is:

   - edu.vanderbilt.dre.DAnCE.LocalityManager.CPUAffinity

. Complete support for managing ComplexType elements via the
   Property Manager, and expose the Property Manager icon on
   the toolbar. In particular, you can move elements in a array
   up/down and delete them. In you must close the dialog and
   re-open it after you add a new element to an array consisting
   of complex types to view the members of the newly added complex
   type.

. Generation of a nodemap.dat file in conjunction with the
   auto-generated .cdd file. The name of the auto-generated file
   will be the same as the deployment plan. To include an entry
   in a .nodemap, attach a Property element of type String to the
   target NodeReference element, and set its name to StringIOR.
   The value of the Property element is a valid string IOR (i.e.,
   corbaname:, corbaloc:, IOR:).

. When making a connection between a Facet/Receptacle and
   Connector the PICML Model Intelligence either (1) auto-complete
   the connection name or (2) display a dialog for selecting the
   correct connection name.

. Support for deployment of ComponentAssembly elements under
   the new modeling semantics for PICML.

. Implemented the the first version of the ConnectorInstance
   decorator that displays the name and implementation type of a
   connector instance.