Re: [Starpu-devel] StarPU : my letter to santa

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>]

SYLVAND Guillaume, le Wed 24 Apr 2013 09:14:54 +0200, a écrit :
> - in starpu_config.h, have a #define STARPU_RELEASE_VERSION for the last
> number in 1.0.5
> - have a function "starpu_get_version" that returns (in 3 integers) the 3
> numbers STARPU_(MAJOR/MINOR/RELEASE)_VERSION. Indeed, starpu_config.h allows
> to know the version of starpu used at compilation, whereas
> starpu_get_version() would allow to know the version of starpu used at
> execution (which can be different).

We can do that yes.

> - in configure, have an option to disable mpi ("--disable-mpi"). For the
> moment, to do this, you need to provide a dummy mpicc  to override the
> existing one (--with-mpicc="sbrodj")

--without-mpicc should already be doing it.

> Another (bigger) request would be to have a dynamically allocated number of
> buffers per task, because right now we need to put
> "--enable-maxbuffers=1000" at configuration :/

This particular one could be not so hard actually. For compatibility
we'd just need to add another field for that feature, so the user
allocates the array of handles, instead of using the preallocated array
in the task structure (ditto for the access modes in the codelet).

Samuel