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From: "Eric Van Hensbergen" <ericvh@gma...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] speaking of kenc
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:12:17 -0500

On 4/28/07, Rodrigo Miranda <rodrigo.c.miranda@gma...> wrote:
> There's Fortress being developed by Guy Steele at Sun, and others (IBM
> has one as well).
>
> http://fortress.sunsource.net/
>

IBM's is X10 (http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/x10.index.html)
-- but like Fortress, its so new that there isn't much of an existing
install base and it remains to be seen if there ever will be.

Cray also has been working on a new langauge called Chapel
(http://chapel.cs.washington.edu/)

All three (Chapel, Fortress and X10) were developed for the DARPA HPCS program.

         -eric