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High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF) @hpsf.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Chapel has joined HPSF 🚀👏 Chapel is an open source language for scalable parallel computing, enabling efficient computation across desktops, clusters, & supercomputers. Through HPSF, Chapel will continue to grow as a community-governed project. Learn more: hpsf.io/blog/2025/hp...

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Chapel Programming Language @chapellanguage.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Chapel 2.5 adds a fast new distributed sort implementation to the standard library! It out-scales other distributed Chapel sorts. To use it, pass a Block-distributed array to the standard sort() procedure. See the Chapel 2.5 release notes for more information: chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/a...

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Chapel Programming Language @chapellanguage.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Can one programming language be used to program multicore processors, GPU-packed supercomputers, and everything in between? Chapel can! Engin Kayraklioglu will give a public talk about Chapel's portability at Los Alamos National Laboratory on June 18th, 10AM PT! teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

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mppf.bsky.social @mppf.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I made the new scalable sort routine for the Chapel standard library! Now it's possible to easily sort a distributed array just by calling the standard library 'sort'. Outperforms the best distributed Chapel sort to date, and it performs competitively with the KaDiS AMS sort written in MPI. #HPC

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mppf.bsky.social @mppf.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I made a #blog post comparing memory safety across programming languages, with examples! It covers C, C++, Rust, Python, and Chapel. And it discusses memory safety in the context of distributed-memory programming with MPI, Chapel, or OpenSHMEM for #HPC. chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/m...

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Memory Safety in Chapel

A description of how Chapel’s features for memory safety strike a balance between productivity and performance, with comparisons to other languages

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mppf.bsky.social @mppf.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I’m going to be co-hosting this birds of a feather session at JuliaCon!

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Chapel Programming Language @chapellanguage.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Chapel 2.4 is now available! This release brings powerful new features, including multi-dimensional array literals, [significantly improved] Python interoperability, and CMake support. Learn more in its release announcement: chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/a... #HPC #OpenSource

A screenshot of the "Announcing Chapel 2.4" blog post linked in this post.

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mppf.bsky.social @mppf.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

#HPC does it radix sort? I’ve been exploring the productivity and performance of a few distributed memory parallel programming frameworks, check it out at github.com/mppf/distrib... .

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GitHub - mppf/distributed-lsb: Comparing Distributed Programming Frameworks with LSD Radix Sort

Comparing Distributed Programming Frameworks with LSD Radix Sort - mppf/distributed-lsb

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Chapel Programming Language @chapellanguage.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

How does Chapel stack up against MPI and OpenSHMEM for distributed memory parallel programming? Check out this repo to see implementations and performance measurements of a Least-Significant Digit First Radix Sort in these frameworks. github.com/mppf/distrib... #ChapelLang #MPI #OpenSHMEM

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GitHub - mppf/distributed-lsb: Comparing Distributed Programming Frameworks with LSD Radix Sort

Comparing Distributed Programming Frameworks with LSD Radix Sort - mppf/distributed-lsb

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mppf.bsky.social @mppf.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

This is about to begin! Recording will be available later.

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Michelle Mills Strout @michelle-strout.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

What is the fastest and easiest to write parallel, distributed radix sort? @mppf.bsky.social has implemented it Chapel, MPI, and OpenSHMEM, github.com/mppf/distrib.... Do you know of other versions or ideas for improving the existing ones? #HPC @chapellanguage.bsky.social @sunitachandra.bsky.social

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GitHub - mppf/distributed-lsb: Comparing Distributed Programming Frameworks with LSD Radix Sort

Comparing Distributed Programming Frameworks with LSD Radix Sort - mppf/distributed-lsb

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Chapel Programming Language @chapellanguage.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

The Computer Language Benchmarks Game now has results for Chapel 2.3! These charts show Chapel delivering an attractive mix of performance and clear, concise code when compared to languages like Python, Rust, C and Julia. #HPC Browse the CLBG at: benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksga...

A graph titled "CLBG Summary, Dec 27, 2024", with "Execution Time" on the y-axis and "Compressed Code Size" on the x-axis. Various languages are plotted on this graph.

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mppf.bsky.social @mppf.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I’m very excited about the new Chapel Programming Language website. It’s the little things, right? Have a look if you have not already & I hope you like it.

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mppf.bsky.social @mppf.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I’m looking forward to this talk today at NASA discussing Chapel and CFD for aerodynamic simulations. #HPC

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mppf.bsky.social @mppf.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

If you haven’t see the 7 Questions series interviewing users of #ChapelLang, now is a great time to check it out! The latest post describes how Chapel enabled the rapid development of an interactive data analysis tool that runs on #HPC hardware. Link to series: chapel-lang.org/blog/series/...

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7 Questions for Chapel Users

This series interviews users of Chapel about their experiences with the language.

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Chapel Programming Language @chapellanguage.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Learn about Chapel’s use in cybersecurity by enabling interactive data analysis at HPC scales in our latest “7 Questions for Chapel Users” interview with Bill Reus, one of the original co-developers of Arkouda. chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/7...

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7 Questions for Bill Reus: Interactive Supercomputing with Chapel for Cybersecurity

An interview with Bill Reus about the creation of Arkouda, a Python library supporting interactive data analysis on HPC systems

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mppf.bsky.social @mppf.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

How far does the desire for absurd performance go? I would say, fully absurd performance is only achievable if the program is parallel. Parallel code certainly has additional concerns. Do those represent too much of a cost? 🧵 (1/4)

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Brad Chamberlain @bradcray.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

A number of us on the Chapel project have been enjoying our interactions on BlueSky these past few months, so we have kicked off a new @chapellanguage.bsky.social account to reflect that. Follow the project there, and thanks to all who make BlueSky a great forum for #HPC conversations!

A snapshot of the Chapel Programming Language BlueSky account page.

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mppf.bsky.social @mppf.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I recently learned that Dask has some UCX support. Anybody have experience with this? Would love to hear about it!

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mppf.bsky.social @mppf.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

A mind is a terrible thing to baste

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mppf.bsky.social @mppf.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I didn’t know this was possible but the other day I broke a cast iron griddle. Normally it covers two burners on our induction cooktop. I was was cooking something with just one burner on and I turned it up to 11. Turned around to do something, and then there was a loud bang. A big crack appeared!

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Brad Chamberlain @bradcray.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

We’d like to thank everyone who engaged with our team at #SC24, whether at the HPE booth, one of our talks, or chatting with us in the halls about Arkouda and Chapel. Please reach out about any follow-ups, and we look forward to SC25! chapel-lang.org/community.html

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Laziness

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mppf.bsky.social @mppf.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

#SC24 come by the HPE booth to see some of El Capitan & then wander to the other side of the booth to learn about programmability: I’ll demo Arkouda and Chapel!

Model of El Capitan, the #1 supercomputer on the top 500.

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mppf.bsky.social @mppf.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

#SC24 you can find me at the HPE booth tonight demoing Akouda and Chapel!

An image of the HPE booth demo station. On the top it says “Innovating in HPC, AI, and Analytics. On the screen it says “Interactive Exploratory Data Analytics (EDA) on Petabytes with Python and Arkouda, Powered by Chapel”

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mppf.bsky.social @mppf.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

You otter come to PAW-ATM if you are at #SC24 tomorrow!

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mppf.bsky.social @mppf.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I recommend this talk at PAW-ATM! Eric is a great speaker & I look forward to hearing what he says. #SC24

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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

OK, let's try this to show the HPC community already has momentum and can thrive here on Bluesky ... If #HPC or #supercomputing is of interest to you, please interact with this post in some way - either repost, quote, like, reply with insights or just your fav gif, tag friends, etc.

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mppf.bsky.social @mppf.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I gave a talk at the APL colloquium, now available online! It’s an introduction to the Chapel Programming language aimed at people with some Python programming experience. #hpc

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mppf.bsky.social @mppf.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Tuna has got this. #caturday #ivoted

Cat reaching over a ballot guide that she scribbled on with a pen, looking proud to now have an I Voted sticker

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Semi-regular reminder: Baby open-ocean octopuses sometimes ride on jellyfish like little hats. 📸 Songda Cai bit.ly/2ZmNZZH 🧪🪼🐙🦑🌿

A small paper nautilus octopus female riding on the top of a pink jellyfish.

A dark orange octopus, possibly a male blanket octopus, riding on the top of a four tentacled jellyfish.

A small octopus, possibly a male blanket octopus, riding on an octopus that is only about as large as he is.

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mppf.bsky.social @mppf.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Wow quite a list I’m a big fan of radix sort. So much so that I managed to get a configurable radix sort in the Chapel standard library ( chapel-lang.org/docs/modules... ). I don’t know of any other language stdlib that has done this (there is Boost & many sorting ints only)

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Sort — Chapel Documentation 2.2

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mppf.bsky.social @mppf.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

I guess an LLM somewhere thinks that Simple == Four Needled. ? The “Similar” section looks completely made up.

Duck duck go search for “thesaurus simple” shows many weird “similar words” like deltoid, dolabriform, four-needled.

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mppf.bsky.social @mppf.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

Chapel 2.2 is H O T T O G O chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/a... #OpenSource #ChapelLang #release

Screen shot of the Chapel 2.2 release announcement.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

Every story the Universe tells, is a history. Danish astronomer Ole Rømer was born #OTD in 1644. His observations of Jovian moons confirmed that light propagates at finite speed. This profound conceptual shift opened the door for work by Huygens, Fresnel, and Maxwell. 🧪 🔭 A thread:

Painted portrait of Ole Rømer. He has long, dark, curly hair (possibly a wig) and wears a burgundy jacket with a frilly white collar.

Portrait: Jacob Conring / Wikimedia Commons

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