Cloud Haskell

We are pleased to welcome Laurent René de Cotret, Chair of the Haskell Foundation. He will give a presentation and demo of Cloud Haskell. There will be time after for discussion and socializing.
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Cloud Haskell is a framework to write distributed applications, inspired by Erlang. In Cloud Haskell, an application is made up of lightweight processes, running locally or distributed across a network, that communicate exclusively through message-passing.

Such processes have two fundamental capabilities:

• Two processes can communicate safely using statically typed channels;
• A process can spawn computations on other nodes;

In this practical talk, we will build a simple distributed application that takes advantage of these capabilities to compute prime numbers. We will also see how Cloud Haskell's pluggable networking backend allows tuning the performance of applications to the workload.