Hello, This can be totzlly silly and i don't know if it hs been already done but pure functionnal languages, like Haskell, make some parallelism appears, because the order of evaluation of expression isn't important for the result in evaluation. I think you could try to use that in order to fill well a VLIW or SIMD architecture (like multimedia extension of common processors). Maybe this isn't original at all or silly or not usefull. I'm not a specialist. Best regards, Nicolas Oury

Hi All,

I'm currently taking a class in compiler optimization for high performance computing (i.e., parallel architectures, including VLIW, FPGA, multimedia extension architectures, systems-on-a-chip, etc). It's the second of two graduate level compiler courses, and it purely project based. And the project is of our choosing.

The professor has made some suggested projects, which I could do, but none of them are really FP specific. I'm curious if anyone has any ideas of a project I could do. I'm looking for something that's open, yet constrained, etc (standard semester-long-project-course stuff), hopefully having to do with optimizations specifically for FPLs, or at least ones that would benefit them.

I'm open to all ideas...

- Hal