http://chapel.cray.com/In this this video from the 2016 Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing, Brad Chamberlain from Cray presents: Chapel – Productive, Multiresolution Parallel Programming.
“Parallel computing has resulted in numerous significant advances in science and technology over the past several decades. However, in spite of these successes, the fact remains that only a small fraction of the world’s programmers are capable of effectively using the parallel languages and programming models employed within HPC and mainstream computing. Chapel is an emerging parallel language being developed at Cray Inc. with the goal of addressing this issue and making parallel programming far more productive and generally accessible. Chapel originated from the DARPA High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS) program, which challenged vendors like Cray to improve the productivity of high-end computing systems. Engineers at Cray noted that the HPC community was hungry for alternative parallel programming languages and developed Chapel as part of our response. The reaction from HPC users so far has been very encouraging—most would be excited to have the opportunity to use Chapel once it becomes production-grade.”
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