Parallelising your OCaml Code with Multicore OCaml (OCaml 2020) - ICFP 2020

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Thu 20 - Fri 28 August 2020

Who

Sadiq Jaffer, Sudha Parimala, KC Sivaramakrishnan, Tom Kelly, Anil Madhavapeddy

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Fri 28 Aug 2020 08:00 - 08:30 at OCaml - Ecosystem Chair(s): Florian Angeletti
Fri 28 Aug 2020 17:00 - 17:30 at OCaml - Recitation Chair(s): Chris Casinghino

Abstract

With the availability of multicore variants of the recent OCaml versions (4.10 and 4.11) that maintain backwards compatibility with the existing OCaml C-API, there has been increasing interest in the wider OCaml community for parallelising existing OCaml code. We propose a presentation which will take the attendees through the following steps aimed at developing parallel programs with Multicore OCaml:

Installing the latest Multicore OCaml compiler
Brief overview of the low-level API for parallel programming
A tour of domainslib – a high-level parallel programming library for Multicore OCaml
Common pitfalls when parallelising
Tools for diagnosing Multicore OCaml performance issues

Link to Preprint

https://github.com/ocaml-multicore/ocaml2020-workshop-parallel

Sadiq Jaffer

Opsian and OCaml Labs

United Kingdom

Sudha Parimala

IIT Madras

KC Sivaramakrishnan

IIT Madras

India

Tom Kelly

OCaml Labs

Anil Madhavapeddy

OCaml Labs

United Kingdom

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Session Program

Conference Day
Fri 28 Aug
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	05:30 - 08:30	EcosystemOCaml at OCaml Chair(s): Florian AngelettiInria Infrastructure, tooling, and ecosystem in general.

	05:30 60m Keynote		The OCaml Platform OCaml Anil MadhavapeddyOCaml Labs
	06:30 30m Talk		OCaml-CI : A Zero-Configuration CI OCaml Thomas LeonardOCaml Labs, Craig FergusonTarides, Kate DeplaixOCaml Labs, Magnus SkjegstadTarides and OCaml Labs, Anil MadhavapeddyOCaml Labs
	07:00 30m Talk		The final pieces of the OCaml documentation puzzle OCaml Jonathan LudlamUniversity of Cambridge, Gabriel RadanneInria, Leo WhiteJane Street
	07:30 30m Talk		API migration: compare transformed OCaml Joseph HarrisonUniversity of Kent, UK, Steven VaroumasUniversity of Kent, Simon ThompsonUniversity of Kent, Reuben RoweUniversity College London
	08:00 30m Talk		Parallelising your OCaml Code with Multicore OCaml OCaml Sadiq JafferOpsian and OCaml Labs, Sudha ParimalaIIT Madras, KC SivaramakrishnanIIT Madras, Tom KellyOCaml Labs, Anil MadhavapeddyOCaml Labs Pre-print

	15:30 - 17:30	RecitationOCaml at OCaml Chair(s): Chris CasinghinoDraper Laboratory Repeats Session I for those who weren’t able to attend the earlier time slot.

	15:30 30m Talk		API migration: compare transformed OCaml Joseph HarrisonUniversity of Kent, UK, Steven VaroumasUniversity of Kent, Simon ThompsonUniversity of Kent, Reuben RoweUniversity College London
	16:00 30m Talk		OCaml-CI : A Zero-Configuration CI OCaml Thomas LeonardOCaml Labs, Craig FergusonTarides, Kate DeplaixOCaml Labs, Magnus SkjegstadTarides and OCaml Labs, Anil MadhavapeddyOCaml Labs
	16:30 30m Talk		The final pieces of the OCaml documentation puzzle OCaml Jonathan LudlamUniversity of Cambridge, Gabriel RadanneInria, Leo WhiteJane Street
	17:00 30m Talk		Parallelising your OCaml Code with Multicore OCaml OCaml Sadiq JafferOpsian and OCaml Labs, Sudha ParimalaIIT Madras, KC SivaramakrishnanIIT Madras, Tom KellyOCaml Labs, Anil MadhavapeddyOCaml Labs Pre-print