[PRL] The Manticore Project | Lambda the Ultimate

[Mitchell Wand]

Another project worth covering in seminar, I suspect.  Any takers? --Mitch

Status Report: The Manticore
Project<http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/%7Ejhr/papers/2007/ml-manticore.pdf>.
> Along the lines of Concurrent ML comes a new language design that is aimed
> at the parallelism of multicore CPUs.
>
> The Manticore project is an effort to design and implement a new
> functional language for parallel programming. Unlike many earlier parallel
> languages, Manticore is a heterogeneous language that supports parallelism
> at multiple levels. Specifically, we combine CML-style explicit concurrency
> with fine-grain, implicitly threaded, parallel constructs. We have been
> working on an implementation of Manticore for the past six months; this
> paper gives an overview of our design and a report on the status of the
> implementation effort.
>
> Interesting material in terms of approach and implementation based on an
> ML style language (sans mutable variables). But the underlying assumption
> that language design offers the best path to solving parallelism is probably
> the key appeal for LtU:
>
> The problem posed by such processors is how to effectively exploit the
> different forms of parallelism provided by the hardware. We believe that
> mechanisms that are well integrated into a programming language are the best
> hope for achieving parallelism across a wide range of applications, which is
> why we are focusing on language design and implementation.
>
>

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