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  1. # StarPU --- Runtime system for heterogeneous multicore architectures.
  2. #
  3. # Copyright (C) 2009-2014 Université de Bordeaux 1
  4. # Copyright (C) 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
  5. #
  6. # StarPU is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  7. # it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
  8. # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at
  9. # your option) any later version.
  10. #
  11. # StarPU is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
  12. # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  13. # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
  14. #
  15. # See the GNU Lesser General Public License in COPYING.LGPL for more details.
  16. StarPU 1.2.0 (svn revision xxxx)
  17. ==============================================
  18. Small features:
  19. * New function starpu_sched_ctx_display_workers() to display worker
  20. information belonging to a given scheduler context
  21. * The option --enable-verbose can be called with
  22. --enable-verbose=extra to increase the verbosity
  23. StarPU 1.1.2 (svn revision xxxx)
  24. ==============================================
  25. The scheduling context release
  26. New features:
  27. * The reduction init codelet is automatically used to initialize temporary
  28. buffers.
  29. StarPU 1.1.1 (svn revision 12638)
  30. ==============================================
  31. The scheduling context release
  32. New features:
  33. * Xeon Phi support
  34. * SCC support
  35. * New function starpu_sched_ctx_exec_parallel_code to execute a
  36. parallel code on the workers of the given scheduler context
  37. * MPI:
  38. - New internal communication system : a unique tag called
  39. is now used for all communications, and a system
  40. of hashmaps on each node which stores pending receives has been
  41. implemented. Every message is now coupled with an envelope, sent
  42. before the corresponding data, which allows the receiver to
  43. allocate data correctly, and to submit the matching receive of
  44. the envelope.
  45. * New STARPU_COMMUTE flag which can be passed along STARPU_W or STARPU_RW to
  46. let starpu commute write accesses.
  47. * Out-of-core support, through registration of disk areas as additional memory
  48. nodes.
  49. * StarPU-MPI: new function
  50. starpu_mpi_irecv_detached_sequential_consistency which allows to
  51. enable or disable the sequential consistency for the given data
  52. handle (sequential consistency will be enabled or disabled based
  53. on the value of the function parameter and the value of the
  54. sequential consistency defined for the given data)
  55. * New functions starpu_mpi_task_build() and starpu_mpi_task_post_build()
  56. * New functions starpu_pause() and starpu_resume()
  57. * New codelet specific_nodes field to specify explicit target nodes for data.
  58. * Use streams for all CUDA transfers, even initiated by CPUs.
  59. * Add STARPU_CUDA_ASYNC and STARPU_OPENCL_ASYNC flags to allow asynchronous
  60. CUDA and OpenCL kernel execution.
  61. * Add paje traces statistics tools.
  62. * Add CUDA concurrent kernel execution support through
  63. the STARPU_NWORKER_PER_CUDA environment variable.
  64. * Use streams for GPUA->GPUB and GPUB->GPUA transfers.
  65. Small features:
  66. * New functions starpu_data_acquire_cb_sequential_consistency() and
  67. starpu_data_acquire_on_node_cb_sequential_consistency() which allows
  68. to enable or disable sequential consistency
  69. * New configure option --enable-fxt-lock which enables additional
  70. trace events focused on locks behaviour during the execution
  71. * New function starpu_perfmodel_directory() to print directory
  72. storing performance models. Available through the new option -d of
  73. the tool starpu_perfmodel_display
  74. * New batch files to execute StarPU applications under Microsoft
  75. Visual Studio (They are installed in path_to_starpu/bin/msvc)/
  76. * Functions starpu_insert_task and starpu_mpi_insert_task are
  77. renamed in starpu_task_insert and starpu_mpi_task_insert. Old
  78. names are kept to avoid breaking old codes.
  79. * New configure option --enable-calibration-heuristic which allows
  80. the user to set the maximum authorized deviation of the
  81. history-based calibrator.
  82. * Tasks can now have a name (via the field const char *name of
  83. struct starpu_task)
  84. * New STARPU_EXECUTE_ON_WORKER flag to specify the worker on which
  85. to execute the task.
  86. * New STARPU_DISABLE_PINNING environment variable to disable host memory
  87. pinning.
  88. * New STARPU_DISABLE_KERNELS environment variable to disable actual kernel
  89. execution.
  90. * New starpu_memory_get_total function to get the size of a memory node.
  91. * New starpu_parallel_task_barrier_init_n function to let a scheduler decide
  92. a set of workers without going through combined workers.
  93. * Allow application to provide the task footprint itself.
  94. Changes:
  95. * Data interfaces (variable, vector, matrix and block) now define
  96. pack und unpack functions
  97. * StarPU-MPI: Fix for being able to receive data which have not yet
  98. been registered by the application (i.e it did not call
  99. starpu_data_set_tag(), data are received as a raw memory)
  100. * StarPU-MPI: Fix for being able to receive data with the same tag
  101. from several nodes (see mpi/tests/gather.c)
  102. * StarPU-MPI: Fix overzealous allocation of memory.
  103. * Interfaces: Allow interface implementation to change pointers at will, in
  104. unpack notably.
  105. Small changes:
  106. * Rename function starpu_trace_user_event() as
  107. starpu_fxt_trace_user_event()
  108. StarPU 1.1.0 (svn revision 11960)
  109. ==============================================
  110. The scheduling context release
  111. New features:
  112. * OpenGL interoperability support.
  113. * Capability to store compiled OpenCL kernels on the file system
  114. * Capability to load compiled OpenCL kernels
  115. * Performance models measurements can now be provided explicitly by
  116. applications.
  117. * Capability to emit communication statistics when running MPI code
  118. * Add starpu_data_unregister_submit, starpu_data_acquire_on_node and
  119. starpu_data_invalidate_submit
  120. * New functionnality to wrapper starpu_insert_task to pass a array of
  121. data_handles via the parameter STARPU_DATA_ARRAY
  122. * Enable GPU-GPU direct transfers.
  123. * GCC plug-in
  124. - Add `registered' attribute
  125. - A new pass was added that warns about the use of possibly
  126. unregistered memory buffers.
  127. * SOCL
  128. - Manual mapping of commands on specific devices is now
  129. possible
  130. - SOCL does not require StarPU CPU tasks anymore. CPU workers
  131. are automatically disabled to enhance performance of OpenCL
  132. CPU devices
  133. * New interface: COO matrix.
  134. * Data interfaces: The pack operation of user-defined data interface
  135. defines a new parameter count which should be set to the size of
  136. the buffer created by the packing of the data.
  137. * MPI:
  138. - Communication statistics for MPI can only be enabled at
  139. execution time by defining the environment variable
  140. STARPU_COMM_STATS
  141. - Communication cache mechanism is enabled by default, and can
  142. only be disabled at execution time by setting the
  143. environment variable STARPU_MPI_CACHE to 0.
  144. - New variable STARPU_MPI_CACHE_STATS to print statistics on
  145. cache holding received data.
  146. - Initialisation functions starpu_mpi_initialize_extended()
  147. and starpu_mpi_initialize() have been made deprecated. One
  148. should now use starpu_mpi_init(int *, char ***, int). The
  149. last parameter indicates if MPI should be initialised.
  150. - Collective detached operations have new parameters, a
  151. callback function and a argument. This is to be consistent
  152. with the detached point-to-point communications.
  153. - When exchanging user-defined data interfaces, the size of
  154. the data is the size returned by the pack operation, i.e
  155. data with dynamic size can now be exchanged with StarPU-MPI.
  156. - New function starpu_mpi_data_register() which sets the rank
  157. and tag of a data, and also allows to automatically clear
  158. the MPI communication cache when unregistering the data. It
  159. should be called instead of both calling
  160. starpu_data_set_tag() and starpu_data_set_rank()
  161. * Add experimental simgrid support, to simulate execution with various
  162. number of CPUs, GPUs, amount of memory, etc.
  163. * Add support for OpenCL simulators (which provide simulated execution time)
  164. * Add support for Temanejo, a task graph debugger
  165. * Theoretical bound lp output now includes data transfer time.
  166. * Update OpenCL driver to only enable CPU devices (the environment
  167. variable STARPU_OPENCL_ONLY_ON_CPUS must be set to a positive
  168. value when executing an application)
  169. * Add Scheduling contexts to separate computation resources
  170. - Scheduling policies take into account the set of resources corresponding
  171. to the context it belongs to
  172. - Add support to dynamically change scheduling contexts
  173. (Create and Delete a context, Add Workers to a context, Remove workers from a context)
  174. - Add support to indicate to which contexts the tasks are submitted
  175. * Add the Hypervisor to manage the Scheduling Contexts automatically
  176. - The Contexts can be registered to the Hypervisor
  177. - Only the registered contexts are managed by the Hypervisor
  178. - The Hypervisor can detect the initial distribution of resources of
  179. a context and constructs it consequently (the cost of execution is required)
  180. - Several policies can adapt dynamically the distribution of resources
  181. in contexts if the initial one was not appropriate
  182. - Add a platform to implement new policies of redistribution
  183. of resources
  184. * Implement a memory manager which checks the global amount of
  185. memory available on devices, and checks there is enough memory
  186. before doing an allocation on the device.
  187. * Discard environment variable STARPU_LIMIT_GPU_MEM and define
  188. instead STARPU_LIMIT_CUDA_MEM and STARPU_LIMIT_OPENCL_MEM
  189. * Introduce new variables STARPU_LIMIT_CUDA_devid_MEM and
  190. STARPU_LIMIT_OPENCL_devid_MEM to limit memory per specific device
  191. * Introduce new variable STARPU_LIMIT_CPU_MEM to limit memory for
  192. the CPU devices
  193. * New function starpu_malloc_flags to define a memory allocation with
  194. constraints based on the following values:
  195. - STARPU_MALLOC_PINNED specifies memory should be pinned
  196. - STARPU_MALLOC_COUNT specifies the memory allocation should be in
  197. the limits defined by the environment variables STARPU_LIMIT_xxx
  198. (see above). When no memory is left, starpu_malloc_flag tries
  199. to reclaim memory from StarPU and returns -ENOMEM on failure.
  200. * starpu_malloc calls starpu_malloc_flags with a value of flag set
  201. to STARPU_MALLOC_PINNED
  202. * Define new function starpu_free_flags similarly to starpu_malloc_flags
  203. * Define new public API starpu_pthread which is similar to the
  204. pthread API. It is provided with 2 implementations: a pthread one
  205. and a Simgrid one. Applications using StarPU and wishing to use
  206. the Simgrid StarPU features should use it.
  207. * Allow to have a dynamically allocated number of buffers per task,
  208. and so overwrite the value defined --enable-maxbuffers=XXX
  209. * Performance models files are now stored in a directory whose name
  210. include the version of the performance model format. The version
  211. number is also written in the file itself.
  212. When updating the format, the internal variable
  213. _STARPU_PERFMODEL_VERSION should be updated. It is then possible
  214. to switch easily between differents versions of StarPU having
  215. different performance model formats.
  216. * Tasks can now define a optional prologue callback which is executed
  217. on the host when the task becomes ready for execution, before getting
  218. scheduled.
  219. * Small CUDA allocations (<= 4MiB) are now batched to avoid the huge
  220. cudaMalloc overhead.
  221. * Prefetching is now done for all schedulers when it can be done whatever
  222. the scheduling decision.
  223. * Add a watchdog which permits to easily trigger a crash when StarPU gets
  224. stuck.
  225. * Document how to migrate data over MPI.
  226. * New function starpu_wakeup_worker() to be used by schedulers to
  227. wake up a single worker (instead of all workers) when submitting a
  228. single task.
  229. * The functions starpu_sched_set/get_min/max_priority set/get the
  230. priorities of the current scheduling context, i.e the one which
  231. was set by a call to starpu_sched_ctx_set_context() or the initial
  232. context if the function has not been called yet.
  233. * Fix for properly dealing with NAN on windows systems
  234. Small features:
  235. * Add starpu_worker_get_by_type and starpu_worker_get_by_devid
  236. * Add starpu_fxt_stop_profiling/starpu_fxt_start_profiling which permits to
  237. pause trace recording.
  238. * Add trace_buffer_size configuration field to permit to specify the tracing
  239. buffer size.
  240. * Add starpu_codelet_profile and starpu_codelet_histo_profile, tools which draw
  241. the profile of a codelet.
  242. * File STARPU-REVISION --- containing the SVN revision number from which
  243. StarPU was compiled --- is installed in the share/doc/starpu directory
  244. * starpu_perfmodel_plot can now directly draw GFlops curves.
  245. * New configure option --enable-mpi-progression-hook to enable the
  246. activity polling method for StarPU-MPI.
  247. * Permit to disable sequential consistency for a given task.
  248. * New macro STARPU_RELEASE_VERSION
  249. * New function starpu_get_version() to return as 3 integers the
  250. release version of StarPU.
  251. * Enable by default data allocation cache
  252. * New function starpu_perfmodel_directory() to print directory
  253. storing performance models. Available through the new option -d of
  254. the tool starpu_perfmodel_display
  255. * New batch files to execute StarPU applications under Microsoft
  256. Visual Studio (They are installed in path_to_starpu/bin/msvc)/
  257. * Add cl_arg_free, callback_arg_free, prologue_callback_arg_free fields to
  258. enable automatic free(cl_arg); free(callback_arg);
  259. free(prologue_callback_arg) on task destroy.
  260. * New function starpu_task_build
  261. * New configure options --with-simgrid-dir
  262. --with-simgrid-include-dir and --with-simgrid-lib-dir to specify
  263. the location of the SimGrid library
  264. Changes:
  265. * Rename all filter functions to follow the pattern
  266. starpu_DATATYPE_filter_FILTERTYPE. The script
  267. tools/dev/rename_filter.sh is provided to update your existing
  268. applications to use new filters function names.
  269. * Renaming of diverse functions and datatypes. The script
  270. tools/dev/rename.sh is provided to update your existing
  271. applications to use the new names. It is also possible to compile
  272. with the pkg-config package starpu-1.0 to keep using the old
  273. names. It is however recommended to update your code and to use
  274. the package starpu-1.1.
  275. * Fix the block filter functions.
  276. * Fix StarPU-MPI on Darwin.
  277. * The FxT code can now be used on systems other than Linux.
  278. * Keep only one hashtable implementation common/uthash.h
  279. * The cache of starpu_mpi_insert_task is fixed and thus now enabled by
  280. default.
  281. * Improve starpu_machine_display output.
  282. * Standardize objects name in the performance model API
  283. * SOCL
  284. - Virtual SOCL device has been removed
  285. - Automatic scheduling still available with command queues not
  286. assigned to any device
  287. - Remove modified OpenCL headers. ICD is now the only supported
  288. way to use SOCL.
  289. - SOCL test suite is only run when environment variable
  290. SOCL_OCL_LIB_OPENCL is defined. It should contain the location
  291. of the libOpenCL.so file of the OCL ICD implementation.
  292. * Fix main memory leak on multiple unregister/re-register.
  293. * Improve hwloc detection by configure
  294. * Cell:
  295. - It is no longer possible to enable the cell support via the
  296. gordon driver
  297. - Data interfaces no longer define functions to copy to and from
  298. SPU devices
  299. - Codelet no longer define pointer for Gordon implementations
  300. - Gordon workers are no longer enabled
  301. - Gordon performance models are no longer enabled
  302. * Fix data transfer arrows in paje traces
  303. * The "heft" scheduler no longer exists. Users should now pick "dmda"
  304. instead.
  305. * StarPU can now use poti to generate paje traces.
  306. * Rename scheduling policy "parallel greedy" to "parallel eager"
  307. * starpu_scheduler.h is no longer automatically included by
  308. starpu.h, it has to be manually included when needed
  309. * New batch files to run StarPU applications with Microsoft Visual C
  310. * Add examples/release/Makefile to test StarPU examples against an
  311. installed version of StarPU. That can also be used to test
  312. examples using a previous API.
  313. * Tutorial is installed in ${docdir}/tutorial
  314. * Schedulers eager_central_policy, dm and dmda no longer erroneously respect
  315. priorities. dmdas has to be used to respect priorities.
  316. * StarPU-MPI: Fix potential bug for user-defined datatypes. As MPI
  317. can reorder messages, we need to make sure the sending of the size
  318. of the data has been completed.
  319. * Documentation is now generated through doxygen.
  320. * Modification of perfmodels output format for future improvements.
  321. * Fix for properly dealing with NAN on windows systems
  322. * Function starpu_sched_ctx_create() now takes a variable argument
  323. list to define the scheduler to be used, and the minimum and
  324. maximum priority values
  325. * The functions starpu_sched_set/get_min/max_priority set/get the
  326. priorities of the current scheduling context, i.e the one which
  327. was set by a call to starpu_sched_ctx_set_context() or the initial
  328. context if the function was not called yet.
  329. * MPI: Fix of the livelock issue discovered while executing applications
  330. on a CPU+GPU cluster of machines by adding a maximum trylock
  331. threshold before a blocking lock.
  332. Small changes:
  333. * STARPU_NCPU should now be used instead of STARPU_NCPUS. STARPU_NCPUS is
  334. still available for compatibility reasons.
  335. * include/starpu.h includes all include/starpu_*.h files, applications
  336. therefore only need to have #include <starpu.h>
  337. * Active task wait is now included in blocked time.
  338. * Fix GCC plugin linking issues starting with GCC 4.7.
  339. * Fix forcing calibration of never-calibrated archs.
  340. * CUDA applications are no longer compiled with the "-arch sm_13"
  341. option. It is specifically added to applications which need it.
  342. * Explicitly name the non-sleeping-non-running time "Overhead", and use
  343. another color in vite traces.
  344. * Use C99 variadic macro support, not GNU.
  345. * Fix performance regression: dmda queues were inadvertently made
  346. LIFOs in r9611.
  347. * Use big fat abortions when one tries to make a task or callback
  348. sleep, instead of just returning EDEADLCK which few people will test
  349. * By default, StarPU FFT examples are not compiled and checked, the
  350. configure option --enable-starpufft-examples needs to be specified
  351. to change this behaviour.
  352. StarPU 1.0.3 (svn revision 7379)
  353. ==============================================
  354. Changes:
  355. * Several bug fixes in the build system
  356. * Bug fixes in source code for non-Linux systems
  357. * Fix generating FXT traces bigger than 64MiB.
  358. * Improve ENODEV error detections in StarPU FFT
  359. StarPU 1.0.2 (svn revision 7210)
  360. ==============================================
  361. Changes:
  362. * Add starpu_block_shadow_filter_func_vector and an example.
  363. * Add tag dependency in trace-generated DAG.
  364. * Fix CPU binding for optimized CPU-GPU transfers.
  365. * Fix parallel tasks CPU binding and combined worker generation.
  366. * Fix generating FXT traces bigger than 64MiB.
  367. StarPU 1.0.1 (svn revision 6659)
  368. ==============================================
  369. Changes:
  370. * hwloc support. Warn users when hwloc is not found on the system and
  371. produce error when not explicitely disabled.
  372. * Several bug fixes
  373. * GCC plug-in
  374. - Add `#pragma starpu release'
  375. - Fix bug when using `acquire' pragma with function parameters
  376. - Slightly improve test suite coverage
  377. - Relax the GCC version check
  378. * Update SOCL to use new API
  379. * Documentation improvement.
  380. StarPU 1.0.0 (svn revision 6306)
  381. ==============================================
  382. The extensions-again release
  383. New features:
  384. * Add SOCL, an OpenCL interface on top of StarPU.
  385. * Add a gcc plugin to extend the C interface with pragmas which allows to
  386. easily define codelets and issue tasks.
  387. * Add reduction mode to starpu_mpi_insert_task.
  388. * A new multi-format interface permits to use different binary formats
  389. on CPUs & GPUs, the conversion functions being provided by the
  390. application and called by StarPU as needed (and as less as
  391. possible).
  392. * Deprecate cost_model, and introduce cost_function, which is provided
  393. with the whole task structure, the target arch and implementation
  394. number.
  395. * Permit the application to provide its own size base for performance
  396. models.
  397. * Applications can provide several implementations of a codelet for the
  398. same architecture.
  399. * Add a StarPU-Top feedback and steering interface.
  400. * Permit to specify MPI tags for more efficient starpu_mpi_insert_task
  401. Changes:
  402. * Fix several memory leaks and race conditions
  403. * Make environment variables take precedence over the configuration
  404. passed to starpu_init()
  405. * Libtool interface versioning has been included in libraries names
  406. (libstarpu-1.0.so, libstarpumpi-1.0.so,
  407. libstarpufft-1.0.so, libsocl-1.0.so)
  408. * Install headers under $includedir/starpu/1.0.
  409. * Make where field for struct starpu_codelet optional. When unset, its
  410. value will be automatically set based on the availability of the
  411. different XXX_funcs fields of the codelet.
  412. * Define access modes for data handles into starpu_codelet and no longer
  413. in starpu_task. Hence mark (struct starpu_task).buffers as
  414. deprecated, and add (struct starpu_task).handles and (struct
  415. starpu_codelet).modes
  416. * Fields xxx_func of struct starpu_codelet are made deprecated. One
  417. should use fields xxx_funcs instead.
  418. * Some types were renamed for consistency. when using pkg-config libstarpu,
  419. starpu_deprecated_api.h is automatically included (after starpu.h) to
  420. keep compatibility with existing software. Other changes are mentioned
  421. below, compatibility is also preserved for them.
  422. To port code to use new names (this is not mandatory), the
  423. tools/dev/rename.sh script can be used, and pkg-config starpu-1.0 should
  424. be used.
  425. * The communication cost in the heft and dmda scheduling strategies now
  426. take into account the contention brought by the number of GPUs. This
  427. changes the meaning of the beta factor, whose default 1.0 value should
  428. now be good enough in most case.
  429. Small features:
  430. * Allow users to disable asynchronous data transfers between CPUs and
  431. GPUs.
  432. * Update OpenCL driver to enable CPU devices (the environment variable
  433. STARPU_OPENCL_ON_CPUS must be set to a positive value when
  434. executing an application)
  435. * struct starpu_data_interface_ops --- operations on a data
  436. interface --- define a new function pointer allocate_new_data
  437. which creates a new data interface of the given type based on
  438. an existing handle
  439. * Add a field named magic to struct starpu_task which is set when
  440. initialising the task. starpu_task_submit will fail if the
  441. field does not have the right value. This will hence avoid
  442. submitting tasks which have not been properly initialised.
  443. * Add a hook function pre_exec_hook in struct starpu_sched_policy.
  444. The function is meant to be called in drivers. Schedulers
  445. can use it to be notified when a task is about being computed.
  446. * Add codelet execution time statistics plot.
  447. * Add bus speed in starpu_machine_display.
  448. * Add a STARPU_DATA_ACQUIRE_CB which permits to inline the code to be
  449. done.
  450. * Add gdb functions.
  451. * Add complex support to LU example.
  452. * Permit to use the same data several times in write mode in the
  453. parameters of the same task.
  454. Small changes:
  455. * Increase default value for STARPU_MAXCPUS -- Maximum number of
  456. CPUs supported -- to 64.
  457. * Add man pages for some of the tools
  458. * Add C++ application example in examples/cpp/
  459. * Add an OpenMP fork-join example.
  460. * Documentation improvement.
  461. StarPU 0.9 (svn revision 3721)
  462. ==============================================
  463. The extensions release
  464. * Provide the STARPU_REDUX data access mode
  465. * Externalize the scheduler API.
  466. * Add theoretical bound computation
  467. * Add the void interface
  468. * Add power consumption optimization
  469. * Add parallel task support
  470. * Add starpu_mpi_insert_task
  471. * Add profiling information interface.
  472. * Add STARPU_LIMIT_GPU_MEM environment variable.
  473. * OpenCL fixes
  474. * MPI fixes
  475. * Improve optimization documentation
  476. * Upgrade to hwloc 1.1 interface
  477. * Add fortran example
  478. * Add mandelbrot OpenCL example
  479. * Add cg example
  480. * Add stencil MPI example
  481. * Initial support for CUDA4
  482. StarPU 0.4 (svn revision 2535)
  483. ==============================================
  484. The API strengthening release
  485. * Major API improvements
  486. - Provide the STARPU_SCRATCH data access mode
  487. - Rework data filter interface
  488. - Rework data interface structure
  489. - A script that automatically renames old functions to accomodate with the new
  490. API is available from https://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/starpu/scripts/renaming
  491. (login: anonsvn, password: anonsvn)
  492. * Implement dependencies between task directly (eg. without tags)
  493. * Implicit data-driven task dependencies simplifies the design of
  494. data-parallel algorithms
  495. * Add dynamic profiling capabilities
  496. - Provide per-task feedback
  497. - Provide per-worker feedback
  498. - Provide feedback about memory transfers
  499. * Provide a library to help accelerating MPI applications
  500. * Improve data transfers overhead prediction
  501. - Transparently benchmark buses to generate performance models
  502. - Bind accelerator-controlling threads with respect to NUMA locality
  503. * Improve StarPU's portability
  504. - Add OpenCL support
  505. - Add support for Windows
  506. StarPU 0.2.901 aka 0.3-rc1 (svn revision 1236)
  507. ==============================================
  508. The asynchronous heterogeneous multi-accelerator release
  509. * Many API changes and code cleanups
  510. - Implement starpu_worker_get_id
  511. - Implement starpu_worker_get_name
  512. - Implement starpu_worker_get_type
  513. - Implement starpu_worker_get_count
  514. - Implement starpu_display_codelet_stats
  515. - Implement starpu_data_prefetch_on_node
  516. - Expose the starpu_data_set_wt_mask function
  517. * Support nvidia (heterogeneous) multi-GPU
  518. * Add the data request mechanism
  519. - All data transfers use data requests now
  520. - Implement asynchronous data transfers
  521. - Implement prefetch mechanism
  522. - Chain data requests to support GPU->RAM->GPU transfers
  523. * Make it possible to bypass the scheduler and to assign a task to a specific
  524. worker
  525. * Support restartable tasks to reinstanciate dependencies task graphs
  526. * Improve performance prediction
  527. - Model data transfer overhead
  528. - One model is created for each accelerator
  529. * Support for CUDA's driver API is deprecated
  530. * The STARPU_WORKERS_CUDAID and STARPU_WORKERS_CPUID env. variables make it possible to
  531. specify where to bind the workers
  532. * Use the hwloc library to detect the actual number of cores
  533. StarPU 0.2.0 (svn revision 1013)
  534. ==============================================
  535. The Stabilizing-the-Basics release
  536. * Various API cleanups
  537. * Mac OS X is supported now
  538. * Add dynamic code loading facilities onto Cell's SPUs
  539. * Improve performance analysis/feedback tools
  540. * Application can interact with StarPU tasks
  541. - The application may access/modify data managed by the DSM
  542. - The application may wait for the termination of a (set of) task(s)
  543. * An initial documentation is added
  544. * More examples are supplied
  545. StarPU 0.1.0 (svn revision 794)
  546. ==============================================
  547. First release.
  548. Status:
  549. * Only supports Linux platforms yet
  550. * Supported architectures
  551. - multicore CPUs
  552. - NVIDIA GPUs (with CUDA 2.x)
  553. - experimental Cell/BE support
  554. Changes:
  555. * Scheduling facilities
  556. - run-time selection of the scheduling policy
  557. - basic auto-tuning facilities
  558. * Software-based DSM
  559. - transparent data coherency management
  560. - High-level expressive interface
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