[Starpu-devel] StarPU v1.2.0rc5 released

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

All,

The StarPU team is pleased to announce the fifth release candidate of 
v1.2.0.

This new branch 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 rc5 specifically enables more tests for Simgrid and the Xeon Phi 
architecture, along with some fixes for MacOS and XeonPhi. The whole 
Changelog is available below.

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/

We are hoping this to be the last release candidate before being able to 
release 1.2.0

Best season's greetings,

Nathalie, for the StarPU team.

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StarPU 1.2.0rc5 (svn revision 16709)
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New features:
  * Add asynchronous partition planning. It only supports coherency through
    the home node of data for now.

Small features:
  * Add configure option to disable fortran --disable-fortran
  * Add configure option to give path for smpirun executable --with-smpirun
  * Add configure option to disable the build of tests 
--disable-build-tests
  * Add starpu-all-tasks debugging support

Small changes:
  * Update starpu_task_build() to set starpu_task::cl_arg_free to 1 if
    some arguments of type ::STARPU_VALUE are given.
  * Simplify performance model loading API
  * Better semantic for environment variables STARPU_NMIC and
    STARPU_NMICDEVS, the number of devices and the number of cores.
    STARPU_NMIC will be the number of devices, and STARPU_NMICCORES
    will be the number of cores per device.