Cloud Haskell

Cloud Haskell is a domain-specific language for developing programs for a distributed computing environment. Implemented as a shallow embedding in Haskell, it provides a message passing communication model, inspired by Erlang, without introducing incompatibility with Haskell’s established shared-memory concurrency.

Availability

Cloud Haskell is available from Hackage as distributed-process. You might also want to install distributed-process-simplelocalnet. The cutting edge development version is on github.

There is also the older prototype implementation remote (also available from github).

Documentation

For an overview of Cloud Haskell it's probably a good idea to read Towards Haskell in the Cloud (details below). The relevant documentation (in order of importance is)

• Control.Distributed.Process
• Control.Distributed.Process.Closure
• Control.Distributed.Process.Node

and

• Control.Distributed.Process.SimpleLocalnet

If you want to know more details about Closure or Static (without the Template Haskell magic on top) you might want to read

• Control.Distributed.Static

Blog Posts

Cloud Haskell intros

• A Cloud Haskell Appetiser (Parallel Haskell Digest 11)

Alen Ribic has a series of blog posts about (Cloud) Haskell on the Raspberry Pi

• Running Haskell on Raspberry Pi

• Raspberry Pi in a Haskell Cloud

Papers

• Towards Haskell in the Cloud, Jeff Epstein, Andrew Black, and and Simon Peyton Jones. Haskell Symposium, Tokyo, Sept 2011.
• Functional programming for the data centre, Jeff Epstein. Masters Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011