UPC Operations Microbenchmarking Suite

V0.1 November 2008
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Guillermo Lopez Taboada:
Initial release for internal use.
Additional contributions by Carlos Teijeiro and Jose Manuel Andion.

V0.2 December 2008
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Damian Alvarez Mallon:
Efficient Timers for IA64
Switch to nanoseconds timers

V0.3 March 2009
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Damian Alvarez Mallon:
UPC asynchronous memory copy operations test.

V1.0rc1 November 2009 
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Damian Alvarez Mallon:
Code cleanup and reorganization.
Automatic number of cores detection.
Local operations included for all the core affinity setups.
Barrier added after timming synchronization

V1.0rc2 March/April 2010 
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Damian Alvarez Mallon:
Added benchmarking of upc_all_alloc and upc_free
Added benchmarking of all the reduce and prefix reduce operations
Bug fix in reduce operations
Now the number of bytes indicates the block size rather than the problem size
Cache invalidation switchable at runtime
Warmup iteration switchable at runtime
User selectable message sizes
User selectable minimum and maximum sizes
User selectable list of benchmarks
User selectable synchronization mode
Help flag added
Version flag added
Code reorganization
Number of iterations now depends on THREADS and cache invalidation
Added documentation in PDF
Changed the "times" variable name in UOMS.upc. It seems to interfere with the math library in some platforms
Removed the <upc_strict.h> header