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@@ -1126,15 +1126,18 @@ lower bound for the total execution time of your tasks. If StarPU was compiled
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with the glpk library installed, @code{starpu_bound_compute} can be used to solve it
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immediately and get the optimized minimum.
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-The @code{deps} parameter tells StarPU whether to take tasks and data
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+The @code{deps} parameter tells StarPU whether to take tasks and implicit data
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dependencies into account. It must be understood that the linear programming
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-problem size is quadratic with number of tasks and thus the time to solve it
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+problem size is quadratic with the number of tasks and thus the time to solve it
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will be very long, typically one minute for just 14 tasks. Setting @code{deps}
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-to 0 will only takes into account the actual computations on processing
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+to 0 will only take into account the actual computations on processing
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units. It however still properly takes into account the varying performances of
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kernels and processing units, which is quite more accurate than just comparing
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StarPU performances with the fastest of the kernels being used.
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+Note that all this however doesn't take into account data transfer, which is
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+assumed to be completely overlapped.
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@node More examples
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@section More examples
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