[Haskell-cafe] Looking for final year project - using Haskell, or another functional language

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

bf3:
> Yes, for a newbie like me it was actually the reason to abandon Haskell
> initially; none of the examples at http://www.haskell.org/HOpenGL compiled!
> 
> Another very cool albeit difficult project would be automatic retargeting of
> Haskell code to the graphics processor unit (GPU), or IBM Synergistic
> Processor Unit  (SPU aka Cell processor, if you can get your hands on such a
> board...). I think IBM has been working on something like that for
> imperative languages, but it would be interesting to see how far you one can
> go with Haskell. If this is not yet done of course...

We've got people working on it. Sean Lee[1] was running Haskell functions
on his Nvidia GPU as of yesterday :-)

-- Don

1. http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~seanl