[Starpu-devel] StarPU v1.2.0rc6 released

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

All,

The StarPU team is pleased to announce the sixth release candidate of
v1.2.0. We are really hoping this to be the last release candidate
before being able to release 1.2.0. So please give it a try and let us
know (if) everything works smoothly.

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 rc6 specifically provides a preliminary framework for native Fortran
support for StarPU, and a specific new flag to save memory when using
the simulation mode. 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/

Nathalie, for the StarPU team.

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StarPU 1.2.0rc6 (svn revision 18480)
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New features:
  * Add STARPU_MALLOC_SIMULATION_FOLDED flag to save memory when simulating.
  * Include application threads in the trace.
  * Add starpu_task_get_task_scheduled_succs to get successors of a task.
  * Add graph inspection facility for schedulers.
  * New STARPU_LOCALITY flag to mark data which should be taken into account
    by schedulers for improving locality.
  * Experimental support for data locality in ws and lws.
  * Add a preliminary framework for native Fortran support for StarPU

Small features:
  * New function
    void starpu_opencl_load_program_source_malloc(const char
*source_file_name, char **located_file_name, char **located_dir_name,
char **opencl_program_source)
    which allocates the pointers located_file_name, located_dir_name
    and opencl_program_source.
  * Add submit_hook and do_schedule scheduler methods.
  * Add starpu_sleep.
  * Add starpu_task_list_ismember.
  * Add _starpu_fifo_pop_this_task.
  * Add STARPU_MAX_MEMORY_USE environment variable.
  * Add starpu_worker_get_id_check().
  * New function starpu_mpi_wait_for_all(MPI_Comm comm) that allows to
    wait until all StarPU tasks and communications for the given
    communicator are completed.
  * New function starpu_codelet_unpack_args_and_copyleft() which
    allows to copy in a new buffer values which have not been unpacked by
    the current call
  * Add STARPU_CODELET_SIMGRID_EXECUTE flag.
  * Add STARPU_CL_ARGS flag to starpu_task_insert() and
    starpu_mpi_task_insert() functions call