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StarPU is a runtime system that offers support for heterogeneous multicore
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machines. While many efforts are devoted to design efficient computation kernels
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for those architectures (eg. to implement BLAS kernels on GPUs or on Cell's
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-SPUs), StarPU not only takes care to offload such kernels (and to implement
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+SPUs), StarPU not only takes care of offloading such kernels (and implementing
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data coherency accross the machine), but it also makes sure the kernels are
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executed as efficiently as possible.
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@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ also affect the overall performance to a great extent.
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StarPU is especially helpful when considering multiple heterogeneous processing
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resources: statically mapping and synchronizing tasks in such a heterogeneous
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-environment is very difficult, but making it in a portable way is virtually
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+environment is already very difficult, making it in a portable way is virtually
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impossible. On the other hand, the scheduling capabilities of StarPU makes it
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possible to easily exploit all processors at the same time while taking
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advantage of their specificities in a portable fashion.
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