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Revision as of 15:04, 19 November 2020
Contents
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
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:
- 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.
