GPU621/The Chapel Programming Language

Project Description

The Chapel is a portable, scalable, open-source modern parallel programming language designed to be productive. The Chapel is a high-level programming language that tends to be more human-readable and writable with some similarity to Python. The Chapel's performance can compete or even surpass MPI/OpenMP. This project will introduce the main functionality of Chapel programming language, compare the code and performance to C++ MPI/OpenMP, analysis the pros and cons of the Chapel.

Team Members

1. Xi Weng
2. Ivan Huang
3. Yu Li
4. eMail All

Installation

The Chapel is an open-source language that still constantly updates. The latest version as of the creation of this project is 1.23.0 released on October 15, 2020.

Pre-packaged Chapel installations are available for:

• Cray® XC™ systems
• Docker users (Requires to install Docker Engine, available on Linux, MAC, Windows 10)
• Mac OS X Homebrew users

GitHub source code download available here.

Users can also try The Chapel online here, though the version is currently stuck on Chapel 1.20.

References

• https://chapel-lang.org/