[Starpu-devel] StarPU comparison with other libraries

[Paritosh Bairagi <paritosh.bairagi411@gmail.com>]

Hello StarPU team,

I am Paritosh Bairagi, a master student from TU Chemnitz.

I am working on OpenCL and parallel programming. I looking for libraries supporting OpenCL for the purpose of abstraction layer between application and OpenCL.

I came across StarPU , which has features I was looking forward to. 

I am still analysing it and trying to understand the working from its well defined examples.

But while going through it, I have few questions to ask

    - As I am comparing it with other competetive libraries, I need its layered architecture or diagramitical representation to help visualize working of StarPU and compare( whether OpenCL is existing in parallel or in lower layer  or inside whole package. As far as I know it uses codelets similar to kernel of OpenCL, perhaps OpenCL exist in lower layer)

    - Is it a high level (as OpenMP) or low level (as OpenCL, though it is supporting OpenCL) 

    - For comparison, technical description of StarPU is detailed , but who is the community responsible for its development, some history and relaibility regarding its use . ( So that I can recommend it for further use)

Apologies for any wrong understanding. 

Please clear these queries as soon as possible .

Thank you and waiting for your answer.

Thanks and regards,

Paritosh Bairagi