Hi Takayuki, I don't think your suggestion is rude at all. In fact, several of us at Indiana University have been hard at work extending the Par Monad [1] to support heterogeneous parallelism across SMP, GPU, and distributed execution resources. Our system is called Meta-Par; it's available on hackage [2], and a submitted draft paper is available [3]. Ryan Newton also wrote up a tutorial in a blog post [4]. Right now the distributed implementation is quite experimental, but the underlying infrastructure is improving quickly [5]. Hopefully it'll be in shape to feature in Simon's exciting new project! Cheers, Adam [1]: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/parallel/monad-... [2]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/meta-par [3]: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~rrnewton/papers/meta-par_submission.pdf [4]: http://parfunk.blogspot.com/2012/05/how-to-write-hybrid-cpugpu-programs.html [5]: https://github.com/haskell-distributed/distributed-process/commits/master On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Takayuki Muranushi <muranushi@gmail.com>wrote:
Hi Simon,
I'm Takayuki Muranushi, a researcher in Kyoto university writing a domain-specific parallel programming language http://paraiso-lang.org/wiki/ in Haskell. I've always been attracted to parallel aspects of Haskell and I definitely would like to read the book!!
As you encouragingly ask for suggestions let me say something rude --- at least ambitious.
One thing I'm interested in is distributed computation in Haskell. Haskell's pureness and other aspects have made multicore programming as easy as single-thread programming in many ways. How does this apply to multiple computer system, that is widely used in business and scientific computations.
The other thing I'm interested in is parallel computation in exotic hardwares, such as GPUs and FPGAs.
These may exceed the scope of the book --- then I'm looking forward to future conferences and development of diverse parallelism in Haskell. It have helped me so much.
Best,
Takayuki 2012/5/17 Simon Marlow <marlowsd@gmail.com>:
I'm delighted to announce that O'Reilly have agreed to publish a book on Parallel and Concurrent Haskell authored by me. The plan is to make a significantly revised and extended version of the Parallel and Concurrent Haskell tutorial from CEFP'11:
http://community.haskell.org/~simonmar/bib/par-tutorial-cefp-2012_abstract.h...
The book will be published in both hardcopy and electronic formats, and
will
also be available online under a Creative Commons license (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0). There will be some mechanism for people to see and comment on early drafts, but I don't know the details yet.
When will it be done? I can't say for sure, but the tentative date for completion is March 2013.
I'm really keen for this to be a book that will be useful to people both learning about parallelism and concurrency in Haskell, and coding stuff for real-world use. If there are topics or application areas that you'd like to see covered, or any other suggestions, please let me know. All contributions will be acknowledged, of course!
Cheers, Simon
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