Title: Assessing Modern Parallel Programming Languages
Proposer: Hans-Wolfgang Loidl  Suggested supervisors: Hans-
Wolfgang Loidl  Goal: Compare modern parallel languages in terms
of programmer productivity and performance.   A new generation
of parallel programming languages, such as Fortress, X10 and
Chapel, brings several advanced programming language features to
the mainstream of parallel programming. Building on an object-
oriented programming model, they provide a high level of
abstraction, reducing the programming effort required to develop
a parallel application.  The aim of this project is to compare
the languages Fortress, X10 and Chapel, by implementing symbolic
applications, such as sparse matrix multiplication, in each of
these languages, and assessing the performance on (clusters of)
multi-core machines. Main criteria for the evaluation are the
raw performance of the parallel program, its scalability, as
well as the ease of implementation and maintainability of the
code.  Resources required: Linu