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2024

• [2024-04-19] The release 1.4.5 is now available! The 1.4 release series brings among other functionalities a Python interface for StarPU, a driver for HIP-based GPUs, the possibility to store performance model files in multiple directories, an OpenMP LLVM support, a new sched_tasks.rec trace file which monitors task scheduling push/pop actions.
• [2024-02-02] The release 1.4.4 is now available! The 1.4 release series brings among other functionalities a Python interface for StarPU, a driver for HIP-based GPUs, the possibility to store performance model files in multiple directories, an OpenMP LLVM support, a new sched_tasks.rec trace file which monitors task scheduling push/pop actions.
• [2024-01-29] The release 1.4.3 is now available! The 1.4 release series brings among other functionalities a Python interface for StarPU, a driver for HIP-based GPUs, the possibility to store performance model files in multiple directories, an OpenMP LLVM support, a new sched_tasks.rec trace file which monitors task scheduling push/pop actions.
• [2024-01-12] StarPU is now directly available on the Jean Zay cluster. See this page to find out how to use it.

  2023

• [2023-11-23] The release 1.4.2 is now available! The 1.4 release series brings among other functionalities a Python interface for StarPU, a driver for HIP-based GPUs, the possibility to store performance model files in multiple directories, an OpenMP LLVM support, a new sched_tasks.rec trace file which monitors task scheduling push/pop actions.
• [2023-06-05] The release 1.3.11 of StarPU is now available! 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, …
• [2023-05-24] The release 1.4.1 is now available! The 1.4 release series brings among other functionalities a Python interface for StarPU, a driver for HIP-based GPUs, the possibility to store performance model files in multiple directories, an OpenMP LLVM support, a new sched_tasks.rec trace file which monitors task scheduling push/pop actions.
• [2023-03-29] The release 1.4.0 is now available! The 1.4 release series brings among other functionalities a Python interface for StarPU, a driver for HIP-based GPUs, the possibility to store performance model files in multiple directories, an OpenMP LLVM support, a new sched_tasks.rec trace file which monitors task scheduling push/pop actions.

  2022

• [2022-16-11] The release 1.3.10 of StarPU is now available! 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, …
• [2022-07-01] StarPU is now installed on the IDRIS Jean Zay supercomputer
• [2022-05-02] StarPU is now available in 2012-10-01

  2021

• A ETP4HPC White Paper ‘Task-Based Performance Portability in HPC’ has been published and can be read here or directly downloaded here.
• [2021-10-21] The release 1.3.9 of StarPU is now available! 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, …
• [2021-05-17] The release 1.3.8 of StarPU is now available! 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, …

  2020

• [2020-10-13] The release 1.3.7 of StarPU is now available! 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, …
• [2020-08-31] The release 1.3.5 of StarPU is now available! 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, …
• [2020-06-12] The release 1.2.10 of StarPU is now available! The 1.2 release serie notably brings an out-of-core support, a MIC Xeon Phi support, an OpenMP runtime support, and a new internal communication system for MPI.
• [2020-06-11] The release 1.3.4 of StarPU is now available! 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, …
• [2020-01-27] The release 1.2.9 of StarPU is now available!. The 1.2 release serie notably brings an out-of-core support, a MIC Xeon Phi support, an OpenMP runtime support, and a new internal communication system for MPI.

  2019

• [2019-11-01] A StarPU tutorial will be given as part of the Inria automn school “High Performance Numerical Simulation”.
• [2019-10-24] The release 1.3.3 of StarPU is now available! 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, …
• [2019-06-14] The release 1.3.2 of StarPU is now available! 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, …
• [2019-05-17] The v1.1.8 release of StarPU is now available!. This release notably brings the concept of scheduling contexts which allows to separate computation resources. This is really intented to be the last release for the branch 1.1.
• [2019-04-02] The release 1.3.1 of StarPU is now available! 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, …
• [2019-03-21] The release 1.3.0 of StarPU is now available! 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, …
• [2019-02-27] The 1.2.8 release of StarPU is now available!. The 1.2 release serie 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 release 1.2.7 is broken and should not be used)

  2018

• [2018-09-21] The 1.2.6 release of StarPU is now available!. The 1.2 release serie notably brings an out-of-core support, a MIC Xeon Phi support, an OpenMP runtime support, and a new internal communication system for MPI.
• [2018-08-16] The release 1.2.5 of StarPU is now available!. The 1.2 release serie notably brings an out-of-core support, a MIC Xeon Phi support, an OpenMP runtime support, and a new internal communication system for MPI.
• [2018-04-12] The release 1.2.4 of StarPU is now available!. The 1.2 release serie notably brings an out-of-core support, a MIC Xeon Phi support, an OpenMP runtime support, and a new internal communication system for MPI.
• [2018-03-01] A tutorial “Runtime systems for heterogeneous platform programming” will be given at the Maison de la Simulation in June 2018.

  2017

• [2017-11-09] The release 1.2.3 of StarPU is now available!. The 1.2 release serie notably brings an out-of-core support, a MIC Xeon Phi support, an OpenMP runtime support, and a new internal communication system for MPI.
• [2017-05-02] StarPU is part of the HPCLib project that aims at performing static analysis of the Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest solver stack. See the StarPU page on the sonarqube server of INRIA.
• [2017-05-11] The release 1.2.2 of StarPU is now available!. The 1.2 release serie notably brings an out-of-core support, a MIC Xeon Phi support, an OpenMP runtime support, and a new internal communication system for MPI.
• [2017-04-01] A tutorial “Runtime systems for heterogeneous platform programming” will be given at the Maison de la Simulation in May 2017.
• [2017-03-10] The v1.1.7 release of StarPU is now available!. This release notably brings the concept of scheduling contexts which allows to separate computation resources. This is intented to be the last release for the branch 1.1.
• [2017-03-06] The 1.2.1 release of StarPU is now available!. This 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.

  2016

• [2016-08-25] The v1.1.6 release of StarPU is now available!. This release notably brings the concept of scheduling contexts which allows to separate computation resources.
• [2016-08-25] The 1.2.0 release of StarPU is now available!. This 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.
• [2016-03-01] Engineer job offer at Inria: more details on the job and on how to apply are available here

  2015

• [2015-09-09] The v1.1.5 release of StarPU is now available!. This release notably brings the concept of scheduling contexts which allows to separate computation resources.
• [2015-04-01] A tutorial on runtime systems including StarPU will be given at INRIA Bordeaux in June 2015.
• [2015-03-11] The v1.1.4 release of StarPU is now available!. This release notably brings the concept of scheduling contexts which allows to separate computation resources.

  2014

• [2014-09-12] The v1.1.3 release of StarPU is now available!. This release notably brings the concept of scheduling contexts which allows to separate computation resources.
• [2014-06-03] The v1.1.2 release of StarPU is now available!. This release notably brings the concept of scheduling contexts which allows to separate computation resources.
• [2014-05-01] Open Engineer Position.
• [2014-04-14] The v1.1.1 release of StarPU is now available!. This release notably brings the concept of scheduling contexts which allows to separate computation resources.

  2013

• [2013-12-18] The v1.1.0 release of StarPU is now available!. This release notably brings the concept of scheduling contexts which allows to separate computation resources.
• [2013-05-02] Engineer position open at Inria (Team Runtime + Team Moais): More details here.
• [2013-04-10] StarPU is now featured in the Tools and Libraries section of AMD’s heterogeneous computing application showcase.
• [2013-04-01] Read the new report C Language Extensions for Hybrid CPU/GPU Programming with StarPU to know everything you always wanted to know about the C Languages Extensions for StarPU.
• [2013-02-15] The v1.0.5 release of StarPU is now available!. This release mainly brings bug fixes.
• [2013-01-25] A tutorial on StarPU was given at the ComPAS conference.

  2012

• [2012-11-01] StarPU at SuperComputing’12: A StarPU poster is on display on the Inria booth, Feel free to come & have a chat, at booth #1209!
• [2012-10-15] The v1.0.4 release of StarPU is now available!. This release mainly brings bug fixes.
• [2012-09-25] StarPU was presented at the conference EuroMPI
• [2012-09-17] The v1.0.3 release of StarPU is now available!. This release mainly brings bug fixes.
• [2012-08-10] The v1.0.2 release of StarPU is now available!. This release notably fixes CPU/GPU binding.
• [2012-07-25] StarPU was presented at the GNU Tools Cauldron 2012
• [2012-05-25] The v1.0.1 release of StarPU is now available!. This release mainly brings bug fixes.

• This release provides notably a GCC plugin to extend the C interface with pragmas which allows to easily define codelets and issue tasks, and a new multi-format interface which permits to use different binary formats on CPUs & GPUs. See the announcements on LWN, the GCC mailing list, and Phoronix.

  2011

• [2011-05-13] New release This release provides a reduction mode, an external API for schedulers, theoretical bounds, power-based optimization, parallel tasks, an MPI DSM, profiling interfaces, an initial support for CUDA4 (GPU-GPU transfers), improved documentation and of course various fixes.

  2010

• [2010-09-10] Discover how we ported the MAGMA and the PLASMA libraries on top of StarPU in collaboration with ICL/UTK in this Lapack Working Note.
• [2010-08-25] New release This release provides support for task-based dependencies, implicit data-based dependencies (RAW/WAR/WAW), profiling feedback, an MPI layer, OpenCL and Windows support, as well as an API naming revamp.
• [2012-07-25] StarPU was presented during a tutorial entitled “Accelerating Linear Algebra on Heterogeneous Architectures of Multicore and GPUs using MAGMA and the DPLASMA and StarPU Scheduler” at SAAHPC in Knoxville, TN (USA) (slides)
• [2012-05-25] Want to get an overview of StarPU ? Check out our latest research report!

  2009

• [2009-10-01] StarPU 0.2.901 (0.3-rc1) is now available ! This release adds support for asynchronous GPUs and heterogeneous multi-GPU platforms as well as many other improvements.
• [2009-06-01] NVIDIA granted the StarPU team with a professor partnership and donated several high-end CUDA-capable cards.