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, integration into GUM build * Test programs * MultiCore? Challenge application in GpH and Eden