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= 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==
# [mailto:xweng11@myseneca.ca?subject=GPU621 Xi Weng]
# [mailto:hbhuang2@myseneca.ca?subject=GPU621 Ivan Huang]
# [mailto:yli593@myseneca.ca?subject=GPU621 Yu Li]
# [mailto:xweng11@myseneca.ca;hbhuang2@myseneca.ca;yli593@myseneca.ca?subject=GPU621 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.

There is currently no official support for The Chapel Programming Language in major known IDE like Visual Studio, which is a downside compared to other languages in terms of usability.

Select one of the following options to install The Chapel Programming Language.


Pre-packaged Chapel installations are available for:

* [https://chapel-lang.org/install-cray.html Cray® XC™ systems]
* [https://chapel-lang.org/install-docker.html Docker users (Requires to install Docker Engine, available on Linux, MAC, Windows 10)]
* [https://chapel-lang.org/install-mac.html Mac OS X Homebrew users]

GitHub source code download available [https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/releases/tag/1.23.0 here].

Users can also try The Chapel online [https://tio.run/#chapel here], though the version is currently stuck on Chapel 1.20.

= The Chapel Programming Language =

== Main Functionality ==
 //https://chapel-lang.org/docs/primers/
=== Language Basics ===
=== Iterators ===
=== Task Parallelism ===
=== Locality ===
=== Data Parallelism ===
=== Library Utilities ===
=== Numerical Libraries ===

== Code Comparesion to MPI & OpenMP ==

= References =

* The Chapel Programming Language official page: https://chapel-lang.org/
* The Chapel Documentation: https://chapel-lang.org/docs/#
* Full-Length Chapel Tutorial: https://chapel-lang.org/tutorials.html
* Learn Chapel in Y Minutes: https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/chapel/
* Specific Chapel Concepts or Features: https://chapel-lang.org/docs/primers/
* October 2018 Chapel Tutorial: https://chapel-lang.org/tmp/OctTut2018/slides.html
* The Chapel Promotional Video: https://youtu.be/2yye1yJPcsg
* The Chapel Overview Talk Video: https://youtu.be/ko11tLuchvg
* The Chapel Overview Talk Slide: https://chapel-lang.org/presentations/ChapelForHPCKM-presented.pdf