MPI4Dask Change Log
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This file briefly describes the changes to the MPI4Dask software package. 
The logs are arranged in the "most recent first" order.

Release 0.2 - 2021-01-29

  NEW FEATURES
 
    - Support for MPI-based communication for CPU-based Dask applications

    - Built on top of mpi4py over MVAPICH2, MVAPICH2-X, and MVAPICH2-GDR libraries

    - Tested with
      - CPU-based Dask applications using numPy and Pandas data frames
      - GPU-based Dask applications using cuPy and cuDF

Release 0.1 - 2021-01-25

  NEW FEATURES

    - Based on Dask Distributed 2021.01.0

    - Compliant with user-level Dask APIs and packages

    - Support for MPI-based communication in Dask for cluster of GPUs
      - Implements point-to-point communication co-routines
      - Efficient chunking mechanism implemented for large messages

    - Built on top of mpi4py over the MVAPICH2-GDR library

    - Supports starting execution of Dask programs using Dask-MPI

    - Tested with
      - Mellanox InfiniBand adapters (FDR and EDR)
      - Various multi-core platforms
      - NVIDIA V100 and Quadro RTX 5000 GPUs