[Haskell] Parallel Haskell: 2-year project to push real world use

[Duncan Coutts]

GHC HQ and Well-Typed are very pleased to announce a 2-year project
funded by Microsoft Research to push the real-world adoption and
practical development of parallel Haskell with GHC.

We are seeking organisations to take part: read on for details.

In the last few years GHC has gained impressive support for parallel
programming on commodity multi-core systems. In addition to traditional
threads and shared variables, it supports pure parallelism, software
transactional memory (STM), and data parallelism. With much of this
research and development complete, and more on the way, the next stage
is to get the technology into more widespread use.

This project aims to do the engineering work to solve whatever remaining
practical problems are blocking organisations from making serious use of
parallelism with GHC.  The driving force will be the *applications*
rather than the *technology*.

We will work in partnership with a small number of commercial or
scientific users who are keen to make use of parallel Haskell. We will
work with these partners to identify the issues, major or minor, that
are hindering progress. The project is prepared to handle system issues,
covering everything from compiler and runtime system through to more
mundane platform and tool problems.  Meanwhile our partners will
contribute their domain-specific expertise to use parallel Haskell to
address their application.

We are now seeking organisations to take part in this project.
Organisations do not need to contribute financially but should be
prepared to make a significant commitment of their own time.  We expect
to get final confirmation of the project funding in June and to start
work shortly thereafter.

Well-Typed will coordinate the project, working directly with both the
participating organisations and the Simons at GHC HQ. If you think your
organisation may be interested then get in touch with me, Duncan Coutts,
via info at well-typed.com.

-- 
Duncan Coutts, Haskell Consultant
Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/