starpu-max/README

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|| I. Introduction ||
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| I.a. What is StarPU ?

StarPU is a runtime system that offers support for heterogeneous multicore
machines. While many efforts are devoted to design efficient compute kernels
for those architectures (eg. to implement BLAS kernels on GPUs or on Cell's
SPUs), StarPU not only takes care to offload such kernels (and to implement
data coherency accross the machine), but it also makes sure the kernels are
executed as efficiently as possible.

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| I.b. What StarPU is not

StarPU is not a new langage, and it does not extends existing langages either.
StarPU does not help to write compute kernels.

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| I.c. (How) Could StarPU help me?

TODO

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|| II. Requirements ||
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 * make
 * gcc (version >= 4)
 * if CUDA support is enabled
   * CUDA (version >= 2.0)
   * CUBLAS (version >= 2.0)
 * extra requirements for the svn version
   * autoconf (version >= 2.60)

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|| III. Getting StarPU ||
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StarPU is available on https://gforge.inria.fr/projects/starpu/.

It is also possible to access the latest svn version:
  $ svn checkout svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/starpu/trunk/
or via http (DAV):  
  $ svn checkout https://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/starpu/trunk/

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|| IV. Building and Installing ||
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| IV.a. For svn version only

  $ autoreconf

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| IV.b. For all versions:

  $ ./configure
  $ make
  $ make install

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|| V. Contact ||
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For any questions regarding StarPU, please contact Cédric Augonnet
(cedric.augonnet@inria.fr).