[Haskell-cafe] GSoC and Data Parallel Haskell

[Ryan Newton]

The big topic would seem to be using Geoff Mainland's new simd-ghc support.

    http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/SIMD

Geoff, is that already under way or is it too big a project for a GSOC?

Dmitry, do you already have GHC-internals hacking experience?

  -Ryan


On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Dmitry Dzhus <dima at dzhus.org> wrote:

> How are you gentlemen.
>
> I'm interested about what additions to DPH would really benefit
> the community.
>
> The only ticket on DPH in GSoC Trac seems a bit stale:
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/ticket/1537.
> Any new tips?
>
> My field is currently molecular simulation. (I'm doing a Direct Simulation
> Monte-Carlo implementation for rarefied gas dynamics with application
> to space satellites&stuffs aerodynamics in Haskell for my Master's thesis,
> I believe using DPH as well would be my final goal as molecular simulations
> vectorize nicely. Simulation domain is partitioned into cells and
> stochastic
> collision sampling (as in DSMC) may be performed in every cell in
> parallel.)
>
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