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From a programming point of view, StarPU is not a new language but a library
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that executes tasks explicitly submitted by the application. The data that a
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-task manipulates are automatically transferred onto the accelerator so that the
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-programmer does not have to take care of complex data movements. StarPU also
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-takes particular care of scheduling those tasks efficiently and allows
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+task manipulates are automatically transferred onto the accelerator so that
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+the programmer does not have to take care of complex data movements. StarPU
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+also takes particular care of scheduling those tasks efficiently and allows
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scheduling experts to implement custom scheduling policies in a portable
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-fashion.
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+fashion. The target audience is typically developers of compilers or computation
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+libraries which want to seamlessly extend them to support heterogeneous
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+architectures.
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@c explain the notion of codelet and task (i.e. g(A, B)
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@node Codelet and Tasks
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