Blog articles/Parallel

Background

• Making the transition from sequential to implicit parallel programming
  • Part 1: How sequential languages obscure parallelism
  • Part 2: How to achieve parallel execution
  • Part 3: Explicit parallel programming with threads and locks
  • Part 4: Explicit parallelism: message-passing programming
  • Part 5: Implicit parallel programming: Declarative languages
  • Part 6: So, why aren't we using functional languages yet?

• More articles about multicores and multiprocessors

Threads

• Threads Considered Harmful (discusses The Problem with Threads)

Transactional memory

• STM and IO
  • STM, IO, and a Simple Persistence Model
  • STM and IO Redux

• Cool stuff: Composable memory transactions

• Synchronised threads with TMVars:
  • part1
  • part2

Nested data paralellism

• Nested Data Parallelism in Haskell (video)
• More Haskell parallelism
• Nested Data Parallelism in Haskell

Actors

• The Actors Model and Haskell

Further reading

• GHC User's guide for parallel programming
• Libraries for parallel programming
• Research on parallel Haskell