Hi Chapel users, developers, and educators --
[Apologies if this is your second copy of this announcement. It appears that the chapel-announce mailing list no longer automatically mails to chapel-users, -developers, and -education, so I'm doing it manually...]
Cray Inc. and the Chapel open-source community are proud to announce the release of Chapel version 1.16! This release includes the following highlights: * an initial version of Mason, Chapel's package manager (written in Chapel!) * a new 'c2chapel' tool, useful for converting C header files into Chapel 'extern' declarations to help simplify interoperability * significant improvements in error-handling support, including the ability to throw errors across tasks and locales * a new 'defer' statement to help with cleaning up resources regardless of control flow * improved 'reduce' intent semantics that fold in the variable's initial value * a number of standard library and package module improvements, including: - a new 'Crypto' module based on OpenSSL - new 'Collection' modules, 'DistributedBag' and 'DistributedDeque' - distributed guided and dynamic iterators that partition work across locales - improved support for mixing MPI with ugni, gasnet/aries, and/or qthreads - ongoing improvements to the 'LinearAlgebra' module * significant performance improvements due to: - locality tuning of distributed sparse domains and arrays - serializing records across locales to cache them and avoid communication - improved NUMA locality for 'ugni' by dynamically registering arrays - better integration with the LLVM back-end, enabling its optimizations - reduced locking in associative array accesses * other improvements include: - generalization of the CSR layout to also include CSC storage - improved behavior and features for the 'Replicated' distribution - interoperability improvements for those working with C pointers and memory And of course, Chapel 1.16 contains a very large number of other feature enhancements, bug fixes, and documentation improvements. To see a far more complete list of its changes, refer to CHANGES.md within the release or online: https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/blob/release/1.16/CHANGES.md To download and install the release, see: http://chapel.cray.com/download.html For a list of those who contributed to the release, refer to: https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/blob/release/1.16/CONTRIBUTORS.md As always, we're interested in feedback on how we can make the Chapel language, implementation, libraries, and tools more useful to you. On behalf of the Chapel development team, -Brad Chamberlain ------------------------------------ For further information about Chapel ------------------------------------ Whether you're a Facebook or Twitter user, or might simply enjoy stalking us online, check our project's social media pages for a steady stream of informal posts about the project and language: https://www.facebook.com/ChapelLanguage https://twitter.com/ChapelLanguage https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHmm27bYjhknK5mU7ZzPGsQ/ Our development repository is hosted at GitHub, making it the best place to track or contribute to ongoing Chapel development: https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel Our project page continues to be hosted at: http://chapel.cray.com and remains the best place to find Chapel-related information such as videos, papers, presentations, blog posts, tutorials, and the like. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Chapel-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/chapel-users
