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From: Roman Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] speaking of kenc
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:10:22 -0700

On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 15:12 -0500, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote:
> 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.

  And the biggest issue all these languages will have to address would
be -- scalability. How do you make it easier for compiler to generate
code for 128+ core CPUs and 1000+ nodes cluster. That's a [multi]million
dollar question, not how assignments and such are encoded in the source
file.

Thanks,
Roman.