Prompted by Simon PJ, here's a bulletin on GpH/GdH parallel and distributed Haskell research at Heriot-Watt and St Andrews Universities. Kevin Hammond has recently had an EPSRC project funded to use GpH as parallel coordination layer for large GAP (symbolic algebra) computations. We're also part of an EU framework VI Network bid on parallel symbolic computation. Jan Nystrom will join us at Heriot-Watt in November from Upsala as the RA on a new EPSRC/Motorola Research Labs project investigating Erlang & GdH for distributed telecoms applications. We're maintaining collaboration with the Eden (another parallel Haskell) groups at Marburg in Germany and Madrid, funded by Britsh Council ARC and Accion Integradas respectively. Hans Wolfgang Loidl has just returned to Germany after completing his 3-year Post-Doc. He's been working on improving the architecture independence of GpH, and participates part time. There are 5 research students working on GpH and GdH: - Robert Pointon (Finishing PhD) has designed & implemented GdH and is now evaluating it. - Alvaro Rebon (Finishing PhD) is implementing the granularity anaylsis proposed in Hans Wolfgang Loidl's thesis as a free standing tool. - Andre Du Bois (Entering 2nd year PhD) is designing and planning to construct a mobile Haskell by extending GdH. - Abyd Al Zain (Starting PhD) is designing and planning to construct a GRID implementation for GpH on networks of HPCs. The key problems are to extend GpH's existing dynamic adaption mechanisms to the hierarchical, heterogeneous and shared architecture. - Mustafa Aswad (Completing MPhil) is investigating developing GpH programs for multiple architectures, based on a GpH gene-sequence alignment program. More details including a raft of publications is available from http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~dsg/gph/ http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~dsg/gdh/ http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/communities/ Phil -------------------------------------------------- Phil Trinder Department of Computing and Electrical Engineering Heriot Watt University Riccarton Edinburgh, EH14 4AS E-mail: trinder@cee.hw.ac.uk Teleph: +44 (0)131 451 3435 Depart: +44 (0)131 451 3328 Fasmly: +44 (0)131 451 3327 Intrnt: http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~trinder