GpH/GdH Parallel & Distributed Haskell Research

[Phil Trinder]

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

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Phil Trinder
Department of Computing and Electrical Engineering
Heriot Watt University
Riccarton
Edinburgh, EH14 4AS

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