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  1. StarPU 0.2.901 aka 0.3-rc1 (svn revision 1236)
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  3. The asynchronous heterogeneous multi-accelerator release
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  4. 

  5.   * Many API changes and code cleanups
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  6.     - Implement starpu_get_worker_id
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  7.     - Implement starpu_get_worker_name
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  8.     - Implement starpu_get_worker_type
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  9.     - Implement starpu_get_worker_count
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  10.     - Implement starpu_display_codelet_stats
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  11.     - Implement starpu_prefetch_data_on_node
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  12.     - Expose the starpu_data_set_wb_mask function
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  13.   * Support nvidia (heterogeneous) multi-GPU
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  14.   * Add the data request mechanism
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  15.     - All data transfers use data requests now
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  16.     - Implement asynchronous data transfers
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  17.     - Implement prefetch mechanism
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  18.     - Chain data requests to support GPU->STARPU_RAM->GPU transfers 
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  19.   * Make it possible to bypass the scheduler and to assign a task to a specific
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  20.     worker
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  21.   * Support restartable tasks to reinstanciate dependencies task graphs
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  22.   * Improve performance prediction
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  23.     - Model data transfer overhead
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  24.     - One model is created for each accelerator
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  25.   * Support for CUDA's driver API is deprecated
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  26.   * The STARPU_WORKERS_CUDAID and STARPU_WORKERS_CPUID env. variables make it possible to
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  27.     specify where to bind the workers
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  28.   * Use the hwloc library to detect the actual number of cores
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  30. StarPU 0.2.0 (svn revision 1013)
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  31. ==============================================
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  32. The Stabilizing-the-Basics release
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  34.   * Various API cleanups
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  35.   * Mac OS X is supported now
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  36.   * Add dynamic code loading facilities onto Cell's SPUs
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  37.   * Improve performance analysis/feedback tools
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  38.   * Application can interact with StarPU tasks
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  39.     - The application may access/modify data managed by the DSM
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  40.     - The application may wait for the termination of a (set of) task(s)
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  41.   * An initial documentation is added
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  42.   * More examples are supplied
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  45. StarPU 0.1.0 (svn revision 794)
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  46. ==============================================
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  47. First release.
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  49. Status:
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  50.  * Only supports Linux platforms yet
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  51.  * Supported architectures
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  52.    - multicore CPUs
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  53.    - NVIDIA GPUs (with CUDA 2.x)
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  54.    - experimental Cell/BE support
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  55. 

  56. Changes:
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  57.  * Scheduling facilities
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  58.    - run-time selection of the scheduling policy
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  59.    - basic auto-tuning facilities
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  60.  * Software-based DSM
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  61.    - transparent data coherency management
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  62.    - High-level expressive interface
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