Workshop on Parallel Functional Programming

University College London, September 8, 1998
 
 

Programme

 9:00 Welcome

 9:05 - 10:40 Language Design I

Ricardo Peña:  Looking for Eden in the land of parallel-functional languages 

Paul Kelly:  Abstract, declarative control over partitioning in  parallel functional programs: experiences with Caliban 

Pascal Serrarens:  More or Less Explicit Parallelism in Concurrent Clean 

10:40 - 11:20 Coffee Break

11:20 - 13:00 Language Design II

Cyrus F. Nourani: A Parallel Functional Modular Language 

Manuel Chakravarty:  Parallel and Distributed Computing with Haskell 

Kevin Hammond:  Strategic SPMD 

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:40 Methodology & Discussion

Thomas Nitsche:  Parallel Programming with Data Distribution Algebras 

DISCUSSION:  Parallel Functional Programming - Where do we go?

15:40 - 16:20 Coffee Break

16:20 - 18:00 Implementation

Chris Clack:  DIGRESS - an object-oriented design for "plug-and-play"  distributed-memory graph reduction 

Phil Trinder:  Architecture-independence of Glasgow Parallel Haskell (GpH) 

Rita Loogen:  From (sequential) Haskell to (parallel) Eden:  An Implementation Point of View 

18:00 Close

Mon Aug 31 13:33:50 MET DST 1998