Manticore: a heterogeneous parallel language

The Manticore project is an effort to design and implement a new functional language for parallel programming. Unlike many earlier parallel languages, Manticore is a heterogeneous language that supports parallelism at multiple levels. Specifically, we combine CML-style explicit concurrency with NESL/Nepal-style dataparallelism. In this paper, we describe and motivate the design of the Manticore language. We also describe a flexible runtime model that supports multiple scheduling disciplines (e.g., for both finegrain and course-grain parallelism) in a uniform framework. Work on a prototype implementation is ongoing and we give a status report.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: POPL
• Authors: Matthew Fluet, Mike Rainey, John H. Reppy, Adam Shaw, Yingqi Xiao
• Keywords: CML-style Explicit Concurrency, Earlier Parallel Languages, Flexible Runtime Model, POPL 2007, Programming Languages