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/ |
What does a language built for parallel computing from the ground up look like?
Tomorrow (Thursday, May 21), Brad Chamberlain and Jade Abraham will be giving an overview, update, and demo of Chapel at the Northwest C++ Users’ Group at 7pm PT. Attend in person in Bellevue WA, or online using Microsoft Teams.
This week's episode of Ildikó Váncsa's My Open Source Experience podcast focuses on community-building, featuring clips with Brad and Engin from the Chapel project. Topics include the roles of community, users, portability, trust, and mentorship.
Chapel’s front-end reimplementation, Dyno, has been powering the language’s editor integration. In this HPSFCon presentation, Daniel Fedorin talks about the project’s context, motivation, and goals.
In this #HPSFCon talk, Engin Kayraklioglu argues that Chapel’s expressive parallelism & locality features not only make users’ lives easier, but also simplify compiler optimizations by providing semantic hints.
Check out his talk to learn more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_8wuKXhm6A
If you were unable to attend #HPSFCon this month, slides and video for all of the Chapel-related sessions are now online. Topics include GPU programming, techno-social open-source challenges, user stories, tools, benchmarking, a live demo, and more!
https://chapel-lang.org/presentations/#hpsfcon2026
Video of all HPSFCon talks can be found at https://www.youtube.com/@hpsf-community
Want to know how Chapel got its start? Brad Chamberlain recaps its origins thru discussions with Burton Smith, Cray's Chief Scientist at the time, in this clip from his recent interview on the My Open Source Experience podcast.
