GPU621/The Chapel Programming Language
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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.
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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.