Parallel/Reading

Tutorials

• See "Real World Haskell" chapter 24, for an introduction to the most common forms of concurrent and parallel programming in GHC.
• Step by step guide to implicit and explicit parallelism in Haskell, and transactional memory - “A Tutorial on Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell”, Peyton Jones and Singh. 2008
• Improving concurrent Haskell performance

Papers to learn with

See also Parallel/Research if you'd like to dig into the more research-oriented papers on Parallel Haskell

• “Runtime Support for Multicore Haskell”, Marlow, Peyton Jones, Singh. 2009. Describes the architecture of the sparks and parallel GC
• “Parallel Performance Tuning for Haskell”, Jones, Marlow, Singh, 2009 Introduces ThreadScope, and methodical parallel performance advice
• “Harnessing the Multicores: Nested Data Parallelism in Haskell”, Peyton Jones, Leshchinkskiy, Keller, Chakravarty, 2008. the Barnes-Hut algorithm in Data Parallel Haskell
• “Haskell on a Shared-Memory Multiprocessor”, Harris, Marlow, Peyton Jones, 2005 The original SMP runtime implementation paper
• “Beautiful Concurrency”, Peyton Jones, O’Reilly 2007 Introduction to software transactional memory
• “Composable memory transactions“, Harris, Marlow, Peyton Jones, and Herlihy, 2005 - Introduces composable software transactional memory
• “Algorithm + Strategy = Parallelism”, Trinder, Hammond, Loidl, Peyton Jones, 1998. Introduces parallel sparks and strategies
• “Concurrent Haskell”, Peyton Jones, Gordon, Finne, 1996. Introduces concurrent Haskell and forkIO.
• “Tackling the Awkward Squad”, Peyton Jones, 2001. Classic introduction to concurrency in Haskell (and IO), and how to use MVars and Channels.

Surveys

• A reading list for parallelism in Haskell.
• The status of parallel and concurrent programming in Haskell.