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-* TODO List
-** migrate chameleon svn to gitlab
-   https://gitlab.inria.fr/help/workflow/importing/migrating_from_svn.md
-** update the documentation
-** release sources of chameleon directly with CMake/CPack
-** too many options for users: hide some advanced options
-** validate parsec

README.md

+Chameleon: A dense linear algebra software for heterogeneous architectures
+====================
+
+Chameleon is a C library providing parallel algorithms to perform
+BLAS/LAPACK operations exploiting fully modern architectures.
+
+Chameleon dense linear algebra software relies on sequential
+task-based algorithms where sub-tasks of the overall algorithms are
+submitted to a Runtime system. Such a system is a layer between the
+application and the hardware which handles the scheduling and the
+effective execution of tasks on the processing units. A Runtime system
+such as [StarPU](http://starpu.gforge.inria.fr/) is able to manage
+automatically data transfers between not shared memory area
+(CPUs-GPUs, distributed nodes).
+
+This kind of implementation paradigm allows to design high performing
+linear algebra algorithms on very different type of architecture:
+laptop, many-core nodes, CPUs-GPUs, multiple nodes. For example,
+Chameleon is able to perform a Cholesky factorization
+(double-precision) at 80 TFlop/s on a dense matrix of order 400 000
+(i.e. 4 min). Chameleon is a sub-project of
+[MORSE](http://icl.cs.utk.edu/morse/) specifically dedicated to dense
+linear algebra.
+
+Get Chameleon
+---------------------
+
+To use last development states of Chameleon, please clone the master
+branch hosted here, /i.e./:
+
+    git clone git@gitlab.inria.fr:solverstack/chameleon.git
+
+Last releases of Chameleon are hosted on the
+[gforge.inria.fr](https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/?group_id=2884) for now.
+Future releases will be available on this gitlab project.
+
+Documentation
+---------------------
+
+There is no up-to-date documentation of Chameleon.  We would like to
+provide a doxygen documentation hosted on
+[gitlab](https://about.gitlab.com/2016/04/07/gitlab-pages-setup/) in
+the future.
+
+The documentation of Chameleon's last release is available here:
+[chameleon-0.9.1
+documentation](http://morse.gforge.inria.fr/chameleon/0.9.1/chameleon_users_guide-0.9.1.html)
+
+Installation
+---------------------
+
+### Build and install with CMake
+
+Chameleon can be built using [CMake](https://cmake.org/). This
+installation requires to have some library dependencies already
+installed on the system.
+
+Please refer to the
+[chameleon-0.9.1](http://morse.gforge.inria.fr/chameleon/0.9.1/chameleon_users_guide-0.9.1.html#Installing-CHAMELEON)
+to get configuration information.
+
+### Distribution of Chameleon
+To get support to install a full distribution (Chameleon +
+dependencies) we encourage users to use the morse branch of
+*Spack*.
+
+Please read these documentations:
+
+* [Spack Morse](http://morse.gforge.inria.fr/spack/spack.html).
+* [Section Chameleon](http://morse.gforge.inria.fr/spack/spack.html#sec-2-1).
+
+Get involved!
+---------------------
+
+### Mailing list
+
+TODO
+
+### Contributions
+
+TODO
+
+### Authors
+
+TODO
+
+### Citing Chameleon
+
+TODO
+
+### Licence
+
+TODO