Parallel Haskell Hackathon

Organisation

Dates : 10-12 December

Location : St Andrews

Agenda

Topics to cover in the Hackathon:

• Short overview sessions on implementation internals
• Usage of new tracing infrastructure
• GUM-6 port
• Merging GUM and Eden implementations
  • Packing code
  • Scheduler
  • GC interface
  • Tagging
• Maintenance and packaging
  • Unified revision control
  • 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
• 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;-)