ReFrame 2.16 Release Notes

New features and enhancements

Add support for setting a minimum number of required tasks in tests with flexible task allocation (#652)
Add command line option for increasing the verbosity level of output (#650)
Add command line options for showing the system and environments configuration (#633)
Print error information when a modules system operation fails (#628)
Add support for units in performance references (#576)
Add a new count_uniq() sanity function (#584)

Improve handling of bad tests to avoid frontend crashing (#623)
Fix bug in variable names in Slurm backend (#639)
Do not crash if Slurm node does not contain partition information (#621)
Check if 'UnavailableNodes' are down to cancel job (#599)
Fix deadlock in the flexible task allocation when the node list output is too large (#614)

Port remaining tests to the new syntax (#656)
Add Likwid benchmarks for cache, memory and cross-socket bandwidths (#647)
Add new MPI_Init_thread() check (#620)
Add benchmark measuring CUDA kernel launch latency (#646)
Add HPX 1D stencil tests (#617)
Add tests for SPEC-ACCEL benchmarks (#618)
Add test for distributed training with TensorFlow and Horovod (#637)
Add flexible HPCG test (#604)
Add HPX hello world test (#616)
Add allocation speed check (#597)
Fail if test is not compiled with OpenACC (#615)
Convert GpuBandwidthCheck to a flexible diagnostic check (#586)
Testing the environment of the login nodes when accessed remotely over SSH (#583)
Promote DGEMM to a multi-node check (#530)
Enable NCO and CDO for the C2SM-RCM environments (#624)
Make Alltoallv tests non-strict (#622)
Add specific tag for MCH tests (#594)
Remove ifdef USE_MPI from the MCH OpenACC/CUDA/MPI/C++ test (#585)
Set exclusive_access for Kesch tests (#591)
Adapt MCH regression tests to C2SM-RCM environments (#513)
Adapt CP2K test (#596)