starpu-max/ChangeLog

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StarPU 1.0 (svn revision xxxx)
==============================================
The extensions-again release

New features:
  * Add SOCL, an OpenCL interface on top of StarPU.
  * Add a gcc plugin to extend the C interface with pragmas which allows to
	easily define codelets and issue tasks.
  * Add reduction mode to starpu_mpi_insert_task.
  * A new multi-format interface permits to use different binary formats
	on CPUs & GPUs, the conversion functions being provided by the
	application and called by StarPU as needed (and as less as
	possible).
  * Deprecate cost_model, and introduce cost_function, which is provided
	with the whole task structure, the target arch and implementation
	number.
  * Permit the application to provide its own size base for performance
	models.
  * Applications can provide several implementations of a codelet for the
	same architecture.
  * Add a StarPU-Top feedback and steering interface.
  * Permit to specify MPI tags for more efficient starpu_mpi_insert_task

Changes:
  * Make environment variables take precedence over the configuration
        passed to starpu_init()
  * Libtool interface versioning has been included in libraries names
        (libstarpu-1.0.so, libstarpumpi-1.0.so,
        libstarpufft-1.0.so, libsocl-1.0.so)
  * Install headers under $includedir/starpu/1.0.
  * Make where field for struct starpu_codelet optional. When unset, its
	value will be automatically set based on the availability of the
	different XXX_funcs fields of the codelet.
  * Define access modes for data handles into starpu_codelet and no longer
	in starpu_task. Hence mark (struct starpu_task).buffers as
	deprecated, and add (struct starpu_task).handles and (struct
	starpu_codelet).modes
  * Fields xxx_func of struct starpu_codelet are made deprecated. One
	should use fields xxx_funcs instead.
  * Some types were renamed for consistency. when using pkg-config libstarpu,
        starpu_deprecated_api.h is automatically included (after starpu.h) to
        keep compatibility with existing software. Other changes are mentioned
        below, compatibility is also preserved for them.
        To port code to use new names (this is not mandatory), the
        tools/dev/rename.sh script can be used, and pkg-config starpu-1.0 should
        be used.

Small features:
  * Allow users to disable asynchronous data transfers between CPUs and
	GPUs.
  * Update OpenCL driver to enable CPU devices (the environment variable
	STARPU_OPENCL_ON_CPUS must be set to a positive value when
	executing an application)
  * struct starpu_data_interface_ops --- operations on a data
        interface --- define a new function pointer allocate_new_data
        which creates a new data interface of the given type based on
        an existing handle
  * Add a field named magic to struct starpu_task which is set when
        initialising the task. starpu_task_submit will fail if the
        field does not have the right value. This will hence avoid
        submitting tasks which have not been properly initialised.
  * Add a hook function pre_exec_hook in struct starpu_sched_policy.
        The function is meant to be called in drivers. Schedulers
        can use it to be notified when a task is about being computed.
  * Add codelet execution time statistics plot.
  * Add bus speed in starpu_machine_display.
  * Add a STARPU_DATA_ACQUIRE_CB which permits to inline the code to be
	done.
  * Add gdb functions.
  * Add complex support to LU example.
  * Permit to use the same data several times in write mode in the
	parameters of the same task.

Small changes:
  * Increase default value for STARPU_MAXCPUS -- Maximum number of
        CPUs supported -- to 64.
  * Add man pages for some of the tools
  * Add C++ application example in examples/cpp/
  * Add an OpenMP fork-join example.
  * Documentation improvement.


StarPU 0.9 (svn revision 3721)
==============================================
The extensions release

  * Provide the STARPU_REDUX data access mode
  * Externalize the scheduler API.
  * Add theoretical bound computation
  * Add the void interface
  * Add power consumption optimization
  * Add parallel task support
  * Add starpu_mpi_insert_task
  * Add profiling information interface.
  * Add STARPU_LIMIT_GPU_MEM environment variable.
  * OpenCL fixes
  * MPI fixes
  * Improve optimization documentation
  * Upgrade to hwloc 1.1 interface
  * Add fortran example
  * Add mandelbrot OpenCL example
  * Add cg example
  * Add stencil MPI example
  * Initial support for CUDA4

StarPU 0.4 (svn revision 2535)
==============================================
The API strengthening release

  * Major API improvements
    - Provide the STARPU_SCRATCH data access mode
    - Rework data filter interface
    - Rework data interface structure
    - A script that automatically renames old functions to accomodate with the new
      API is available from https://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/starpu/scripts/renaming
      (login: anonsvn, password: anonsvn)
  * Implement dependencies between task directly (eg. without tags)
  * Implicit data-driven task dependencies simplifies the design of
    data-parallel algorithms
  * Add dynamic profiling capabilities
    - Provide per-task feedback
    - Provide per-worker feedback
    - Provide feedback about memory transfers
  * Provide a library to help accelerating MPI applications
  * Improve data transfers overhead prediction
    - Transparently benchmark buses to generate performance models
    - Bind accelerator-controlling threads with respect to NUMA locality
  * Improve StarPU's portability
    - Add OpenCL support
    - Add support for Windows

StarPU 0.2.901 aka 0.3-rc1 (svn revision 1236)
==============================================
The asynchronous heterogeneous multi-accelerator release

  * Many API changes and code cleanups
    - Implement starpu_worker_get_id
    - Implement starpu_worker_get_name
    - Implement starpu_worker_get_type
    - Implement starpu_worker_get_count
    - Implement starpu_display_codelet_stats
    - Implement starpu_data_prefetch_on_node
    - Expose the starpu_data_set_wt_mask function
  * Support nvidia (heterogeneous) multi-GPU
  * Add the data request mechanism
    - All data transfers use data requests now
    - Implement asynchronous data transfers
    - Implement prefetch mechanism
    - Chain data requests to support GPU->RAM->GPU transfers
  * Make it possible to bypass the scheduler and to assign a task to a specific
    worker
  * Support restartable tasks to reinstanciate dependencies task graphs
  * Improve performance prediction
    - Model data transfer overhead
    - One model is created for each accelerator
  * Support for CUDA's driver API is deprecated
  * The STARPU_WORKERS_CUDAID and STARPU_WORKERS_CPUID env. variables make it possible to
    specify where to bind the workers
  * Use the hwloc library to detect the actual number of cores

StarPU 0.2.0 (svn revision 1013)
==============================================
The Stabilizing-the-Basics release

  * Various API cleanups
  * Mac OS X is supported now
  * Add dynamic code loading facilities onto Cell's SPUs
  * Improve performance analysis/feedback tools
  * Application can interact with StarPU tasks
    - The application may access/modify data managed by the DSM
    - The application may wait for the termination of a (set of) task(s)
  * An initial documentation is added
  * More examples are supplied


StarPU 0.1.0 (svn revision 794)
==============================================
First release.

Status:
 * Only supports Linux platforms yet
 * Supported architectures
   - multicore CPUs
   - NVIDIA GPUs (with CUDA 2.x)
   - experimental Cell/BE support

Changes:
 * Scheduling facilities
   - run-time selection of the scheduling policy
   - basic auto-tuning facilities
 * Software-based DSM
   - transparent data coherency management
   - High-level expressive interface