As someone interested in parallel computing but bewildered by some of the options in C, I've spent some free time the past few days learning about Chapel. I think there is a lot to like about the language. It looks well thought out.
I have a few questions: 1) The latest benchmark I can find (also on the Chapel website) is from October 2013. It does not show particularly strong performance. I imagine that there has been a lot of improvements since then. Are there any more recent performance evaluations? 2) Does/will Chapel support SIMD? What about GPUs? 3) I see a lot of development, at various stages, on parallel linear algebra libraries. For instance, PBLAS, CLBLAS, ScaLAPAK, PLASMA, MAGMA. I did some cursory search for Chapel's support for either these libraries (like maybe with a wrapper to C or something) or similar functionality natively, but I didn't see anything. If this support is available, can you direct me to some of it. Alternately, what is the timeline for Chapel to have comparable functionality (by whatever means)? Thanks.
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