Parallel Haskell HackSprint

Organisation

Dates : 12-14 December 2010

Location : Heriot-Watt

Participants

So far:  Hans-Wolfgang Loidl (Host), Mischa Dieterle, Thomas Horstmeyer,  Jost Berthold,  Henrique Ferreiro, David Castro Pérez

To be confirmed: Vladimir Janjic,  Kevin Hammond, Chris Brown, Mustafa Aswad, Malak Aljabri,  Philip W Trinder, Patrick Maier, Robert Stewart

Agenda

• Reports on recent software releases
• Updates on work at each of the sites
• Tests & benchmarks
  • Repo
  • System-tests
  • Benchmarks
  • Larger applications
• Interfaces to on-going projects (SCIEnce, HPC-GAP)
  • CASH
  • SC skeletons
  • fault-tolerance
• Packaging
• Roadmap for future development
  • Following  ghc HEAD: status report, coordination and planning
  • Status of/ Plans for existing branches
    • migration,
    • tracing,
    • data locality
    • ...
  • Planned extensions and applications
    • Integration with GHC/SMP
    • Integrating migration
    • Globus interface
    • pre-SCSCP  GAP interface
    • Micro-kernel/substrate approach to the RTS

Eventlog

Sunday sessions:

• Tracing:
  • overview (TH,MD)
  • integration into GUM build (MKA,MD)
• Test programs: systemtests (HWL)
• MultiCore? Challenge application in GpH and Eden (TH,MSA)

Tuesday session:

• Reports and updates on activities
• Hacking Activities
  • CAF bug fixed in eden-6.12 (MD,TH)
  • problem in ghc-HEAD (JB)
  • systemtests on GUM build (HWL)
  • changes in packing code (HWL,JB)
• Eden usage for Symb Comp (CB,JB)
  • CASH
  • SC skeletons
• Integration
  • migration, (VJ)
  • tracing, (MKA)
  • data locality (MKA)
• Strategic issues
  • Plans on ghc-HEAD integration
  • Usage in projects
  • Pri for new developments
• Benchmarks:
  • nofib/parallel
  • Strategies examples
  • Other new programs (karatsuba)