ReFrame 2.18 Release Notes

New features and enhancements

Print performance variable name in case of performance errors (#791)
Print task allocation type (standard or flexible) for tests in detailed listing (#786)
Do not use absolute paths in generated batch scripts (#779)
Add option to print performance report (#733)
Remove deprecated --logdir command-line option and the corresponding attribute in the logging configuration (#741)
Enable environment variable substitution in shell code emitted by build systems (#744)

Fix crash when using syslog logging handler with the -v option (#808)
Add version checks for TMod and TMod4 (#794)
Fix exception message formatting in reservation node extraction (#793)
Fix filename order in build error message (#790)
Do not crash when invalid regular expressions are passed to the test selection options (#757)
Force units in gperftools report (#759)
Fix gdb4hpc failure with C++ (#747)
Fix failure in Intel Advisor Roofline check (#745)
Fix duplicate module commands emitted while executing test cases (#740)
Fix typo in Likwid bandwidth benchmark (#735)
Fix crash in flexible task allocation due to refactoring of SystemPartition (#729)
Remove unnecessary module from the "Hello, World" tests (#726)
Fix string error in header file of CUDA memtest (#718)
Fix deprecation warning in check filter functions unit tests (#723)

Revise MAGMA library benchmark (#783)
Add simple FFTW benchmark (#776)
Make OSU tests check generic (#801)
Make the STREAM test generic (#799)
Make alloc_speed check generic (#800)
Make CUDA kernel latency tests generic (#796)
Hardcode version in Intel Vtune test to prevent failure when default changes (#785)
Add Roofline check of the GPP code using NVIDIA nvprof (#778)
Add ert roofline check (gpu) (#775)
Add ert roofline check (#773)
Add sde roofline check (#774)
Fix ddt+cuda/10.0 check (#772)
Add CUDA shared memory bandwidth benchmark (#770)
Adapt TensorFlow+Horovod test to CrayGNU-19.03 (#771)
Update Tensorflow check to r1.12.0 (#768)
Add flexible HPCG GPU benchmark test (#762)
Update Score-P check for PE/19.03 (#767)
Update IPM check for PE/19.03 (#766)
Adapt Paraview GPU check to CLE7 (#758)
Update magma tests (#754)
Update Jacobi test for CLE7 (#727)
Fix ldflags for nvprof, cuda_gdb tests (#751)
Update boost python test to use the latest module (#748)
Update libsci_acc_symlink tests for PE19.03 (#734)
Update Nvidia35Resolve test for the new PE (#732)
Update perftools check for CLE7 (#731)
Rename for loop variable to fix warnings in kernel latency test (#750)
Add test for gdb4hpc (#603)
Enable small scale application tests also on Daint (#738)
Sort cores list in affinity test before comparing (#739)
Add Intel Advisor Roofline test (#721)
Add mpiP parallel test (#720)
Add gperftools parallel test (#719)