[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: forthcoming O'Reilly book on Parallel and Concurrent Haskell

[Adam Foltzer]

Hi Takayuki,

I don't think your suggestion is rude at all. In fact, several of us at
Indiana University have been hard at work extending the Par Monad [1] to
support heterogeneous parallelism across SMP, GPU, and distributed
execution resources.

Our system is called Meta-Par; it's available on hackage [2], and a
submitted draft paper is available [3]. Ryan Newton also wrote up a
tutorial in a blog post [4].

Right now the distributed implementation is quite experimental, but the
underlying infrastructure is improving quickly [5]. Hopefully it'll be in
shape to feature in Simon's exciting new project!

Cheers,
Adam

[1]:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/parallel/monad-par.pdf
[2]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/meta-par
[3]: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~rrnewton/papers/meta-par_submission.pdf
[4]:
http://parfunk.blogspot.com/2012/05/how-to-write-hybrid-cpugpu-programs.html
[5]:
https://github.com/haskell-distributed/distributed-process/commits/master

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Takayuki Muranushi <muranushi at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Simon,
>
> I'm Takayuki Muranushi, a researcher in Kyoto university writing a
> domain-specific parallel programming language
> http://paraiso-lang.org/wiki/ in Haskell. I've always been attracted
> to parallel aspects of Haskell and I definitely would like to read the
> book!!
>
> As you encouragingly ask for suggestions let me say something rude ---
> at least ambitious.
>
> One thing I'm interested in is distributed computation in Haskell.
> Haskell's pureness and other aspects have made multicore programming
> as easy as single-thread programming in many ways. How does this apply
> to multiple computer system, that is widely used in business and
> scientific computations.
>
> The other thing I'm interested in is parallel computation in exotic
> hardwares, such as GPUs and FPGAs.
>
> These may exceed the scope of the book --- then I'm looking forward to
> future conferences and development of diverse parallelism in Haskell.
> It have helped me so much.
>
> Best,
>
>
> Takayuki
> 2012/5/17 Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com>:
> > I'm delighted to announce that O'Reilly have agreed to publish a book on
> > Parallel and Concurrent Haskell authored by me.  The plan is to make a
> > significantly revised and extended version of the Parallel and Concurrent
> > Haskell tutorial from CEFP'11:
> >
> >
> http://community.haskell.org/~simonmar/bib/par-tutorial-cefp-2012_abstract.html
> >
> > The book will be published in both hardcopy and electronic formats, and
> will
> > also be available online under a Creative Commons license
> > (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0).  There will be some mechanism
> for
> > people to see and comment on early drafts, but I don't know the details
> yet.
> >
> > When will it be done?  I can't say for sure, but the tentative date for
> > completion is March 2013.
> >
> > I'm really keen for this to be a book that will be useful to people both
> > learning about parallelism and concurrency in Haskell, and coding stuff
> for
> > real-world use.  If there are topics or application areas that you'd
> like to
> > see covered, or any other suggestions, please let me know.  All
> > contributions will be acknowledged, of course!
> >
> > Cheers,
> >        Simon
> >
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>
>
> --
> MURANUSHI Takayuki
> The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University
> http://www.hakubi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/02_mem/h22/muranushi.html
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