Programming languages

Chapel

A Productive Parallel Programming Language

cc++chapelhigh-performance computingpython

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5 GSoC years

2021 2020 2019 2017 2016

2021

3 projects

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Go-Style Channels

This project aims to add support of Go-Style Channels to the Chapel language. In Go, a channel is used to synchronize and communicate between...

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Matrix Exponentials

Matrix Exponentials are used in solving systems of linear differential equations. It is also widely used in Quantum Mechanics (Schrodinger's...

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Socket Library

The Proposal contains details for implementation of Socket Module to be completed within the timeline of GSOC in the summers. Key elements of the...

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2020

4 projects

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Improve Mason Package Manager

A package manager is a programming language's tool to create environments for projects and easily use external dependencies. It allows users or...

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Native Distribute Linear Algebra Implementations

Provide a distributed implementation of the Linear Algebra package in Chapel, which is currently restricted to a single node/locale

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Sequential Data Structures

Provide a new mason package implementing various parallel safe sequential data structures.

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Protocol Buffers Integration

Google Protocol Buffers is a language-neutral serialization library. However Chapel support for Protocol Buffers has not been investigated....

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2019

4 projects

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Improvements to Chapel LLVM Backend

The Chapel compiler optionally can produce LLVM IR and use LLVM optimizations with –llvm. Going forward, Chapel will use LLVM more and more because...

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Distributed Sparse Linear Algebra Library in Chapel

This project includes adding BLAS, Sparse linear algebra and iterative solvers into Chapel.

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Concurrent-Safe Memory Reclamation Systems

Currently Chapel has support for ‘shared’ lifetime-managed objects, which is implemented using reference-counting. Unfortunately reference counting...

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Unit Test Framework

Deployment is the last stage in the application development process and before that, any application undergoes a comprehensive testing process to...

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2017

3 projects

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To write a new cryptography module for Chapel that provides an interface to standard cryptography libraries that support common algorithms.

This project aims to enable Chapel with its own module which would be a collection of both secure hash functions(such as SHA256) and various...

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Distributed Data Structures

Built-in data structures are a necessity for any budding language, and in a language where distributed computing is at its core, data structures that...

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Improve LLVM backend for Chapel compiler

This project is about improving LLVM backend for chapel compiler. Improvements consist of improving loop vectorization by adding proper metadata and...

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2016

2 projects

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Reporting stack traces on halt

Chapel is a programming language that wants to make the development of parallel applications easier. This project wants to extend the Chapel runtime...

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Incremental Compilation

Currently, re-compiling a Chapel program would mean re-compiling the parts that haven’t changed, including the functions that haven’t been altered...

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