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Functional Programming eXchange 2011: Simon Peyton Jones on Managing parallelism: embrace diversity, but control side effects
Managing parallelism: embrace diversity, but control side effects
If you want to program a parallel computer, it obviously makes sense to start with a computational paradigm in which parallelism is the default (ie functional programming), rather than one in which computation is based on sequential flow of control (the imperative paradigm). And yet, and yet ... functional programmers have been singing this tune since the 1980s, but do not yet rule the world.
In this talk I’ll say why I think parallelism is too complex a beast to be slain at one blow, and how we are going to be driven, willy-nilly, towards a world in which side effects are much more tightly controlled than now. I’ll sketch a whole range of ways of writing parallel program in a functional paradigm (implicit parallelism, transactional memory, data parallelism, DSLs for GPUs, distributed processes, etc, etc), illustrating with examples from the rapidly moving Haskell community, and identifying some of the challenges we need to tackle.
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ABOUT SIMON PEYTON JONES
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Simon Peyton Jones, MA, MBCS, CEng, graduated from Trinity College Cambridge in 1980. After two years in industry, he spent seven years as a lecturer at University College London, and nine years as a professor at Glasgow University, before moving to
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PODCAST MANAGING PARALLELISM: EMBRACE DIVERSITY, BUT CONTROL SIDE EFFECTS
This session took part at the Functional Programming eXchange 2011. You can view the other 9 podcasts here.
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