Parallel Haskell Hackathon

Organisation

Dates : 10-12 December

Location : St Andrews

Participants

Vladimir Janjic (Host), Hans-Wolfgang Loidl, Kevin Hammond, Mustafa Aswad, Henrique Ferreiro Garcia, Philip W Trinder, Patrick Maier, Abyd Al Zain, Mischa Dieterle, Thomas Horstmeyer, Jost Berthold, Simon Marlow (virtual),

Source code

Important: if you can, please prepare a setup of the latest sources in advance. A darcs repository has been set up on the server in Marburg, please read here how to get a working setup:  Repository Briefing.

You should contact Mischa (dieterle@mathematik...) in order to get access, or check out read-only via http (which is of course not what we want later). If you have questions or problems, edit the page or mail Jost (berthold@mathematik...)

Agenda

Topics to cover in the Hackathon:

• Short overview sessions on implementation internals (KH: these should not all be on the first afternoon!):
  • GUM (Mustafa)
  • Eden (Jost)
  • Globus (Abyd)
  • Migration/Load Balancing (Vladimir)
  • ghc HEAD developments (Simon)
  • GUM/Eden Compilation and Debugging (Vladimir?)
• GUM-6 port
• Merging GUM and Eden implementations
  • Packing code
  • Scheduler
  • GC interface
  • Tagging
• Usage of new tracing infrastructure
• Development infrastructure
  • Unified revision control (darcs)
  • Debugging infrastructure
  • Packaging
  • Setup for automatic tests
• Parallel nofib-suite
• Planned extensions and applications
  • Integration with GHC/SMP
  • Integrating migration
  • Globus interface
  • pre-SCSCP GAP interface
  • Micro-kernel/substrate approach to the RTS
• Nominating people in charge of sub-projects
  • parallel nofib suite
  • Eden/GUM code maintenance
  • testing framework
• Prize for the most awkward bug fixed in the Hackaton. _{Jost: I am non-competitive in this contest, since my task is to introduce them ;) HWL: Clearly you are at an disadvantage: you first have to introduce the bug; we don't have that problem;-)}

Expected Outcomes

• Unified repository, containing Eden and GUM code
• Common test platform
• List of people in charge of sub-projects