Parallel Haskell: 2-year project to push real world use

Ben Lippmeier benl at ouroborus.net
Mon May 3 20:25:23 EDT 2010


On 03/05/2010, at 10:04 PM, Johan Tibell wrote:

> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:
> | Does this mean DPH is ready for abuse?
> |
> | The wiki page sounds pretty tentative, but it looks like it's been awhile
> | since it's been updated.
> |
> | http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC/Data_Parallel_Haskell
> 
> In truth, nested data parallelism has taken longer than we'd hoped to be ready for abuse :-).   We have not lost enthusiasm though -- Manual, Roman, Gabi, Ben, and I talk on the phone each week about it.  I think we'll have something usable by the end of the summer.
> 
> That's very encouraging! I think people (me included) have gotten the impression that the project ran into problems so challenging that it stalled. Perhaps a small status update once in a while would give people a better idea of what's going on. :)
> 

I'm currently working full time on cleaning up Repa and adding more examples. 

I'll do a proper announcement on the mailing lists once I've got the wiki set up. It would have been today but community.haskell.org was flaking out yesterday.

Ben.


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