The Chapel Programming Language is an open source project to make parallel programming easier, portable and fast.
| Project Website | https://chapel-lang.org/ |
| GitHub | https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/ |
HPE is hiring Visiting Scholars. This is a great opportunity for graduate students to work alongside our team and tackle challenging problems in HPC using tools like GenAI/LLM, Chapel, and Arkouda.
If interested, you can get more info and apply here: https://careers.hpe.com/us/en/job/1203686
Chapel tech lead, @bradcray is the guest on this week’s My Open Source Experience podcast. Tune in to hear about Chapel’s inception and relationship to open source, covering topics like governance, trust, and HPSF.
https://youtu.be/ENivDRCFr5w?si=soPmS88dowyWRXbd
(or wherever you find podcasts)
The collaborative nature of OSS is often overlooked by both individuals and companies at first. Contrary to that, developing projects in an open and collaborative environment is often the key to their success, think about programming languages as an example.
I had the opportunity to ask Brad Chamberlain about the history of the Chapel OSS project, which was created over 20 years ago.
Check out the latest MOSE podcast episode with Brad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENivDRCFr5w
Our quarterly newsletter is out! Check it out to catch up on recent developments in the Chapel world, including upcoming events at HPSFCon 2026, an SC25 recap, a blog update, and more...
https://chapel.discourse.group/t/chapel-newsletter-february-2026/
If you missed Jade Abraham's talk on Chapel and Arkouda at FOSDEM 2026, the recording is now available!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEQArjdcwgo
The slides are also available: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/JRDVNU-chapel/
📢 First Modules Project Technical Steering Committee (TSC) meeting — Feb 18, 5:00 PM CET. Open to everyone! We’ll discuss the roadmap for version 5.7.
Ildiko Vancsa
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