[Starpu-devel] StarPU v1.3.6 available

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

All,

The release 1.3.6 of StarPU is available, with along bug fixes the
following small changes

  * New STARPU_BACKOFF_MIN and STARPU_BACKOFF_MAX environment variables
to the
    exponential backoff limits of the number of cycles to pause while
drivers
    are spinning.
  * Add STARPU_DISPLAY_BINDINGS environment variable and
    starpu_display_bindings() function to display all bindings on the
machine by
    calling hwloc-ps
  * New function starpu_get_pu_os_index() to convert logical index of a
PU to
    its OS index.
  * New function starpu_get_hwloc_topology() to get the hwloc topology
used by
    StarPU.

We remind you that the 1.3 release serie brings among other functionalities

- a MPI master-slave support,

- a tool to replay execution through SimGrid,

- a HDF5 implementation of the Out-of-core,

- a new implementation of StarPU-MPI on top of NewMadeleine,

- implicit support for asynchronous partition planning,

- a resource management module to share processor cores and accelerator
devices with other parallel runtime systems, ...


The tarball along with the md5sum file and the OpenPGP signature are
available as usual on the starpu web site

https://starpu.gitlabpages.inria.fr/files/

(please note the new address for the website)

Nathalie, for the StarPU team.