Parallel Hacker Meetings

What's it?

This is a series of informal meetings of people actively working on parallel Haskell implementations, mainly GpH and Eden. Physically these meetings involve mainly people from Heriot-Watt and St Andrews Univ, with others joining in over Skype.

Meetings

March 8th, 2010

Where: EM 1.58 (Mountbatten building), Heriot-Watt Univ, Edinburgh  Web Map

When: 1:30 - 4:00 pm, March 8th, 2010.

Agenda (this intentionally gives only a rough structure for the discussions at the mtg):

• Strategic discussion on GpH:
  • Community support (Book, strategies module etc)
  • Visibility (Web pages, tutorial etc)
  • Project integration (Current and future projects)
  • Define focus for future developments:
    • Pick your top 3 tools etc that would help your research
    • Pick your top 3 challenge applications  SICSA Multi-core Challenge
    • Pick your top 3 arguments why a Fortran programmer should switch to Haskell
• Technical discussion on GpH:
  • Updates on GpH/Eden sub-tasks (see  GpHEden Wiki)
  • Status reports on GpH-related hacking
  • Discussions on:
    • Application-level abstractions for parallelism
    • Language-level primitives for controlling parallelism
    • RTS-level implementation
• Future directions:
  • Next steps in Eden/GUM integration
  • Roadmap towards serialisation integration
  • Future mtgs