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- The Chapel Programming Language
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Comparing Parallel Functional Array Languages: Programming and Performance
@yubblegum: I'm afraid we don't have an update on support for Apple GPUs since last year's comment. While it comes up from time-to-time, nobody has opened an issue for it yet (please feel encouraged to!), and it isn't something we've had the chance to prioritize, where a lot of our recent work has focused on improving tooling support and addressing user requests.
I'll take your feedback about simplifying GPU-based installs back to our team, and have noted it on this thematically related issue: https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/issues/25187#issuecomm...
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High-performance computing, with much less code
idk if Mojo is 'the answer', but eventually, a compiled language with first class tensors and concurrency is necessary to simultaneously support heterogeneity, performance, and usability. https://chapel-lang.org is the only other one I know of that's currently in active development (?)
- Chapel 2.2 Release
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Introduction to GPU Programming in Chapel
Thanks, @subharmonicon!
While Chapel can run on many different systems, the main goal is making HPC programming much easier. Therefore, we are currently focusing on hardware that you can find in HPC systems (NVIDIA, AMD and Intel). Metal doesn't fall into that category, unfortunately. So far, the name came up infrequently in our discussions IIRC (especially targetting SPIRV), but we haven't heard from any [potential] user who may be interested in it. I would encourage you or anybody else interested in it to create an issue asking for the feature: https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/issues/new. Seeing public interest in that direction can change our prioritization.
One thing that I wanted to add that's not in the blogpost is the "cpu-as-device" mode. With that mode, you can use any machine, even one without a GPU, to write applications using Chapel's GPU features. That mode is for those who want to do initial development/debugging on their personal laptops before putting their application on an HPC system. In other words, while you can't use Metal directly, you can still write GPU-enabled applications in your Mac using Chapel, if the end goal is to run it on an HPC system. More details on cpu-as-device: https://chapel-lang.org/docs/main/technotes/gpu.html#cpu-as-...
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Mojo is now available on Mac
Agreed. Here is a serious contender[0] minus all the hype and the $100M in VC money. You would expect a minimum of interest given how Mojo is received by the community, but not really in practice.
[0]: https://chapel-lang.org/
- Chapel 1.32.0 Released
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Rust vs. Julia in Scientific Computing
Cray is pushing their own language as well, Chapel.
https://chapel-lang.org/
As for Julia on Cray,
"Julia — The Newest Petaflop Family Language We Have Started to Love"
https://www.avenga.com/magazine/julia-programming-language
> Julia is one of the few languages that are in the so-called PetaFlop family; the other languages are C, C++ and Fortrant. It achieved 1.54 petaflops with 1.3 million threads on the Cray XC40 supercomputer.
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What languages are we missing on devenv.sh?
https://chapel-lang.org if possible, Nix was also recently mentioned in Chapel Workshop https://chapel-lang.org/CHIUW2023.html https://github.com/twesterhout/nix-chapel
- Chapel: Programming Language for Parallel Computing
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