I'm looking for the "right" concurrency library/semantics for what should be a reasonably simple problem. I have a little simulator: runWorldSim :: MTGen -> SimState -> IO SimState it takes about a second to run on a PC. It's functional except it whacks the rng, which needs IO. I run 5-10 of these jobs, and then use: mergeWorld :: [SimState] -> SimState to pick the best features of the runs and build another possible world (state). Then I use this new world to run another 5-10 jobs and so on. I run this through ~20000 iterations. It's an obvious place for parallelism. I'm looking for a concurrency library with something like: forkSequence :: Int -> [IO a] -> IO [a] which I could call with something like this: forkSequence 4 (take 10 (repeat (runWorldSim g ss))) this would construct 4 threads, then dispatch the 10 jobs onto the threads, and pack up the results into a list I could run through my merger. It strikes me as something someone would already have done, but I can't find anything in hackage. Probably I've missed something obvious? Any pointers? If not, what would be the best/easiest existing package to write an extension to? Thanks, Patrick.