[Starpu-devel] StarPU v1.2.0rc2 released

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

All,

The StarPU team is pleased to announce the second release candidate of 
v1.2.0. This new release notably brings an out-of-core support, a MIC 
Xeon Phi support, an OpenMP runtime support, and a new internal 
communication system for MPI.

The tarball along with the md5sum file and the OpenPGP signature are 
available on the Gforge web site

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

or on the secondary web site

http://starpu.gforge.inria.fr/files/

Nathalie, for the StarPU team.

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StarPU 1.2.0rc2 (svn revision 15435)
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New features:
  * Anticipative writeback, to flush dirty data asynchronously before
     the GPU device is full. Disabled by default.
     Use STARPU_MINIMUM_CLEAN_BUFFERS and
     STARPU_TARGET_CLEAN_BUFFERS to enable it.
  * Add starpu_data_wont_use to advise that a piece of data will not
     be used in the close future.
  * Enable anticipative writeback by default.
  * New scheduler 'dmdasd' that considers priority when deciding on
    which worker to schedule

Small features:
  * Add starpu_memory_pin and starpu_memory_unpin to pin
    memory allocated another way than starpu_malloc.