[Starpu-devel] starpu v1.0.0rc1 released

[Nathalie Furmento <nathalie.furmento@labri.fr>]

The StarPU team is pleased to announce the first release candidate for 
v1.0.0

   https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/?group_id=1570

This release provides notably a gcc plugin to extend the C interface 
with pragmas which allows to easily define codelets and issue tasks, and 
a new multi-format interface which permits to use different binary 
formats on CPUs & GPUs.

Please test and let us know if you find any issue.

Nathalie

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Change Log
  * Increase default value for STARPU_MAXCPUS -- Maximum number of
        CPUs supported -- to 64.
  * Libtool interface versioning has been included in libraries names
        (libstarpu-1.0.so, libstarpumpi-1.0.so and
        libstarpufft-1.0.so)
  * Enable by default the SOCL extension.
  * Enable by default the GCC plug-in extension.
  * 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.
  * 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.
  * 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.
  * 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
  * Install headers under $includedir/starpu/1.0.
  * 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
  * Fields xxx_func of struct starpu_codelet are made deprecated. One
        should use instead fields xxx_funcs.
  * Applications can provide several implementations of a codelet for the
        same architecture.
  * 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).
  * Add a gcc plugin to extend the C interface with pragmas which allows to
        easily define codelets and issue tasks.
  * Add codelet execution time statistics plot.
  * Add bus speed in starpu_machine_display.
  * Add a StarPU-Top feedback and steering interface.
  * Documentation improvement.
  * Add a STARPU_DATA_ACQUIRE_CB which permits to inline the code to be
        done.
  * Permit to specify MPI tags for more efficient starpu_mpi_insert_task
  * Add SOCL, an OpenCL interface on top of StarPU.
  * Add gdb functions.
  * Add complex support to LU example.
  * Add an OpenMP fork-join example.
  * Permit to use the same data several times in write mode in the
        parameters of the same task.
  * Some types were renamed for consistency. The tools/dev/rename.sh
        script can be used to port code using former names. You can also
        choose to include starpu_deprecated_api.h (after starpu.h) to keep
        using the old types.