Re: Multicore Haskell user experiences

Hey Scott, Yes, I think this is the appropriate place. The Data Parallel Haskell team, and the GHC rts team are watching! -- Don scooter.phd:

[Sorry if this is the wrong place to hold this discussion... I'll move it if told to do so...]

Simon P-J (et. al.) did recently publish a paper on making the Haskell runtime more multicore friendly, addressing the GC issue (among many things.)

More broadly, though, there are two opportunities for multicore Haskell presentations:

a) An IEEE conference in Pasedena, CA, July 19-21. The major theme is multicore in space (if you're familiar with OPERA/MAESTRO), but as a one of the conference-within-a-conference organizers, I'm interested in multicore programmability. Work on runtime environments, new language features, good-bad-and-ugly experiences, and "hard technical topics" are welcome. Looking for one or two presentations for this.

b) Supercomputing '09 in Portland, OR next November. Focus here is primarily on user experience programming multicore with up-and-coming languages/environments.

Any suggestions or presentation pitches are welcome.

-scooter

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Johannes Waldmann wrote:

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PS: Anyone got a multicore Haskell experience they want to share at Supercomputing this year? The guys from Galois did a great job shocking the audience last year.

well, this is my shocking experience: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.glasgow.user/16809

where of course the conclusion is that parallelism does not work "out of the box". No surprise? While I completely would buy this statement for Java, C# etc I hoped it was different for Haskell. I don't want to rewrite my programs to make them less depend on GC. Sure it could be done but then I could use Java from the start.

J.W.

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