chapel

a Productive Parallel Programming Language (by chapel-lang)

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  • Introduction to GPU Programming in Chapel
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jan 2024
    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-...

  • Mojo is now available on Mac
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Oct 2023
    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
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Oct 2023
  • Rust vs. Julia in Scientific Computing
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jul 2023
    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.

  • What languages are we missing on devenv.sh?
    5 projects | /r/NixOS | 27 Jun 2023
    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
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jun 2023
  • Getting Past “Ampersand-Driven Development” in Rust
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Mar 2023
    See Val for a possible step into that direction.

    https://www.val-lang.dev/

    Or how the Chapel language for HPC is going at it,

    https://chapel-lang.org/

  • Ask HN: How do I get the most benefit out of my programming language?
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jan 2023
    I suggest posting to a PLT focused resource, such as http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/

    That said, a bit confused about the languages you reference in this context (Python, C#, JS) - didn't see any mention here or at your github repo of languages (some relatively ancient) in this space designed.

    Sandia: Programming Languages for HPC [high performance computing] - is there life after MPI?

    https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/179/2022/04/SOS10-T...

    Chapel:

    https://chapel-lang.org/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Array_programming_lan...

  • Twelve Days of Chapel: Advent of Code 2022
    1 project | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 21 Dec 2022
    We needed the implicit conversion to `uint` in order for the overload resolution rules to make reasonable choices when faced with binary overloads for all of the numeric types. The document I linked talks through the examples. The case we were facing is something that we shared with `C#` -- in `C#` terms, if I make overloads for `f` for all numeric types (see https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/blob/main/test/types/coerce/allNumericsBinary.cs if you want to know exactly what I am talking about), then `f( myInt, myUlong )` runs `f(float, float)` which makes no sense. Especially if you care about numerical accuracy or program performance.
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    208 projects | /r/adventofcode | 7 Dec 2022
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