The Chapel Parallel Programming Language, Hacker News

What is Chapel?

Chapel is a modern programming language that is …

• parallel: contains first- class concepts for concurrent and parallel computation
• ) productive: designed with programmability and performance in mind
• portable: Runs on laptops, clusters, the cloud, and HPC systems
• scalable: supports locality-oriented features for distributed memory systems
• (open-source: hosted on (GitHub) , permissively licensed
  
  

  New to Chapel?

  As an introduction to Chapel, you may want to …

  • read a

  blog                         article or

book                         chapter   

watch an overview                         talk or browse its slides   

) download the release                            

browse sample                         programs   

view other resources to learn                         how to trivially write distributed programs                         like this:

         

  use  CyclicDist;  // use the Cyclic distribution library   config const  n=;  // use  --n=when executing to override this default    forall  i  in   {1..n}  dmapped  Cyclic (startIdx=1)  do    writeln ("Hello from iteration", i, "of", n, "running on node",  here  .id);      

   What’s Hot?

• Chapel 1. is now available – download a copy or browse its (release notes
• Browse presentations from      PuPPy , PAW-ATM ’27 , CLSAC ‘

, NIST , and     others

  

• Read recent papers     from HPCS , ICCS , CCGrid , (HPEC , CUG , and others

  

• Watch talks from HPCKP , (ACCU)
• CHIUW , and others    on YouTube   
• Also see: What’s New?

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