
Hi all, I'm doing an internship at Cray Inc this summer and I might get the opportunity of some computer time on a T3E machine. Now I am also a great Haskell fan and have been wondering about the possibility of getting parallel Haskell running on a real super-computer. I've read that someone is working on porting ghc's parallel features to an MPI implementation and also that someone recently got the alpha port working again. In case you don't know a T3E is a distributed memory alpha based super-computer. It supports MPI & pthreads. So my question is, what is the state of the art? What is the state of the MPI port? Does the alpha port work sufficiently well. One potential problem I can see is that I'm not sure gcc is avaliable on the T3E and I'm not sure how dependant ghc is upon the various GNU C extensions. So, if I can get an account, I'll have untill the end of September to test anything anyone can give me. You know they still program these machines in C, C++ & Fortran. Shocking! ;-) Duncan