[Haskell-cafe] Re: Paralelism and Distribution in Haskell

Don Stewart writes:

Note that DPH is a programming model, but the implementation currently targets shared memory multicores (and to some extent GPUs), not distributed systems.

Yes. I understand that's only part of what the original poster wanted, but I'd sure want to use ghc-generated code on a (non-distributed) GPU. I keep telling students and colleagues that functional/declarative code "automatically" parallelizes, with basically "no extra effort" from the programmer (because it's all in the compiler) - but I would feel better with some real code and benchmarks to back that up. GPU computing via ghc could be a huge marketing opportunity - if it works, it should be all over the front page of haskell.org? J.W.