Chapel: Accessible Parallel Programming from the Desktop to the Supercomputer
Date: May 13th, 2025 at 4pm
Location: Building 4, Level 5, Room 5220 & Online
Register: https://tiny.cc/Chapel_Webinar_May2025
Light refreshment will be served.
The KAUST Supercomputing Core Laboratory (KSL) is organizing with Brad Chamberlain, a Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (formerly Cray Inc.); a seminar on Chapel: Accessible Parallel Programming from the Desktop to the Supercomputer.
Chapel is a programming language designed to support code that is as readable and writable as Python, while also resulting in performance that matches languages like Fortran, C, and C++. Chapel was designed with parallelism and locality in mind, making it capable of targeting the multicore CPUs and GPUs of laptops while also scaling to the largest supercomputers.
Beyond introducing some of Chapel’s key features and concepts, Brad will also introduce a few of the impressive user applications and performance results that have been accomplished with it, in fields as diverse as modeling the physical world, performing interactive data analysis for coral reefs biodiversity, and doing satellite image analysis for climate science.
Please register here: https://tiny.cc/Chapel_Webinar_May2025
Contact: bilel.hadri@kaust.edu.sa
Biography: Brad Chamberlain is a Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (formerly Cray Inc.) who has spent his career focused on user productivity for HPC systems. He is a founding member of the Chapel programming language project (https://chapel-lang.org) and serves as its technical lead. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Washington in 2001, where his work focused on the ZPL parallel array language. Brad remains
associated with the department as an affiliate professor of the Paul G. Allen School