Chapel: Past Events

Past Chapel-related Events

2024

December 12: Chapel 2.2 was released today!
December 12 (10–11am PT): Chapel Office Hours

[See the Community Calendar above to join the Teams meeting]

November 20: Pangeo Showcase Presentation at 4pm EST

Arkouda support of Python Array API and XArray, Jeremiah Corrado

November 17-21: Chapel-related Events at SC24 (all times given in ET)
- Sunday, 9am–5pm, PAW-ATM 2024: The 7th Annual Parallel Applications Workshop, Alternatives–MPI+X
  - 2-2:45pm: Distinguished Speaker: A case study for using Chapel within the global aerospace industry
    
    Eric Laurendeau, Polytechnique Montreal
  - 2:45-3pm: User Experience: Exploring Suffix Array Algorithms in Chapel
    Michael P. Ferguson, Bonnie Hurwitz, and Shreyas Khandekar
- Sunday, 9am–12:30pm, EduHPC: Workshop on Education for High-Performance Computing
  - 10am: Engin Kayraklioglu will present a lightning talk entitled Consider an Applications-First Approach for PDC on behalf of Michelle Strout
- Sunday, 6:30pm, CHUG: Chapel Users Group Happy Hour
  - We'll meet at Der Biergarten for our annual get-together. This is a low-key social event. If you are interested in Chapel or parallel productivity, please join us!
- Monday, 2–5:30pm, WACCPD: Eleventh Workshop on Accelerator Programming and Directives
  - 2:46–2:53pm: Engin Kayraklioglu will present on Productive, Vendor-Neutral GPU Programming Using Chapel
- Monday, 2–5:30pm, HPPSS: High Performance Python for Science at Scale
  - 3:30–3:47pm: Ben McDonald will present on Exploring Data at Scale with Arkouda: A Practical Introduction–Scalable Data Science
- Monday–Thursday, Arkouda and Chapel Demo at the HPE Booth (#2219)
  - Interactive Exploratory Data Analytics (EDA) on Petabytes with Python and Arkouda, Powered by Chapel
November 14 (10–11 AM PT): Chapel Office Hours

[See the Community Calendar above to join the Teams meeting]
October 31: (10–11 AM PT): Chapel Demo Session

Topic: GPU programming in Chapel by Engin Kayraklioglu
[See the Community Calendar above to join the Teams meeting]
~~October 17 (10–11 AM PT): Chapel Office Hours~~

[Cancelled due to scheduling conflicts this week]
October 11 (11–12 AM ET): Michael Ferguson's JHU-APL Colloquium talk

Parallel Programming with the Chapel Language
October 3: (10–11 AM PT): Chapel Demo Session

Topic: Jade demonstrating the Image module in Chapel [video]
September 23-27 (10–11 AM PT): Chapel-related Talks at IEEE-HPEC
- VF2-PS: Parallel and Scalable Subgraph Monomorphism in Arachne
  Mohammad Dindoost, Oliver Alvarado Rodriguez (New Jersey Inst. of Tech.), Sounak Bagchi (Edison Academy Magnet School), Palina Pauliuchenka, Zhihui Du, David A Bader (New Jersey Inst. of Tech.)
- A Deployment Tool for Large Scale Graph Analytics Framework Arachne
  Garrett R Gonzalez-Rivas, Zhihui Du, David A Bader (New Jersey Inst. of Tech.)
September 26: Chapel 2.2 was released today!
September 19 (10–11 AM PT): Chapel Office Hours
September 5 (10–11 AM PT): Chapel Demo Session

Topic: Parallel IO in Chapel with Jeremiah Corrado
August 28: paper presentation at Euro-Par 2024:

Investigating Portability in Chapel for Tree-based Optimization on GPU-powered Clusters, Tiago Carneiro
August 22 (10–11 AM PT): Chapel Office Hours
August 8 (10–11 AM PT): Chapel Demo Session [Join Meeting]

Topic: Chapel Language Server in VS Code with Daniel Fedorin
July 31: Vendor-Neutral GPU Programming in Chapel

an HPE Developer Meetup, online and free
July 31: submission deadline for PAW-ATM 2024
July 25 (10–11 AM PT): Chapel Office Hours [Join Meeting]
July 11 (10–11 AM, PT): Chapel Demo Session [Join Meeting]

Topic: Getting Started with Chapel: Functions, Loops, and Arrays
June 27: Chapel 2.1 was released today!
June 5–7: ChapelCon '24
May 27–31: paper presentations at IPDPS 2024:

May 27:

Performance Portability of the Chapel Language on Heterogeneous Architectures, Josh Milthorpe (ORNL / ANU), HCW 2024

May 30:

Adaptive Prefetching for Fine-grain Communication in PGAS Programs, Thomas Rolinger (NVIDIA)

May 31:

GPU-Accelerated Tree-Search in Chapel: Comparing Against CUDA and HIP on Nvidia and AMD GPUs, Guillaume Helbecque (U. Luxembourg, U. Lille), PDCO 2024
May 9: Chapel events at CUG 2024
- talk: Portable Support for GPUs and Distributed-Memory Parallelism in Chapel
- tutorial: Data Science Beyond the Laptop: Handling Data of Any Size with Arkouda
May 7: Chapel talk at PNW PLSE
April 16: LinuxCon / Open Source Summit North America talk:

Vendor-Neutral GPU Programming in Chapel
April 12: talk/demo submissions for ChapelCon '24 due

March 21: Chapel 2.0 was released!

2023

December 14: release date of Chapel 1.33.0
November 12–17: Chapel-related events at SC23
- November 12: Tutorial: Introduction to High-Performance Parallel Distributed Computing Using Chapel, UPC++, and Coarray Fortran
- November 13: Workshop: PAW-ATM 2023
  - Paper Presentation: Implementing Scalable Matrix-Vector Products for the Exact Diagonalization Methods in Quantum Many-Body Physics [using Chapel], Tom Westerhout
  - Paper Presentation: High-Performance Programming and Execution of a Coral Biodiversity Mapping Algorithm Using Chapel, Scott Bachman
  - Panel Discussion: Charting Paths to Success with Alternatives to MPI+X, chaired by Michelle Strout
- November 13: Workshop: EduHPC-23
  - Parallel Assignment: 1D Heat Equation in Chapel, Jeremiah Corrado
- November 13: CHUG 2023 at ~6pm at Rhein Haus
- ad hoc: Meet and talk with members of the Chapel team
September 28: Chapel 1.32.0 was released
September 21: doc freeze for Chapel 1.32.0
September 20: code freeze for Chapel 1.32.0
September 14: feature freeze for Chapel 1.32.0
July 26–27: Virtual Tutorial: Introduction to High-Performance Parallel Distributed Computing using Chapel, UPC++ and Coarray Fortran
July 24: Submission deadline for PAW-ATM 2023
June 26: PASC23 Minisymposium presentation:
Practical Examples of Productivity and Performance in Chapel
(in the Performance Portability Solutions beyond C++ to Support Future Workflows minisymposium)
June 22: Chapel 1.31 was released
June 1–2: CHIUW 2023
May 19 26: 'camera-ready' deadline for CHIUW 2023
May 18: RMACC HPC Sympsosium tutorial:
Chapel Tutorial for Python Programmers: Productivity and Performance in One Language
May 11: LinuxCon/Open Source Summit North America 2023 talk:

Introducing Chapel: A Programming Language for Productive Parallel Computing from Laptops to Supercomputers
May 10: CUG 2023 talk: Arkouda: A High-Performance Data Analytics Framework
May 9: PNW PLSE 2023 talk: Parallel Programming with Chapel
March 23: release date for Chapel 1.30.0
March 16: doc freeze for Chapel 1.30.0
March 15: code freeze for Chapel 1.30.0
March 9: feature freeze for Chapel 1.30.0

2022

December 15: Release date of Chapel 1.29.0
November 14‐17: events at SC22
- Nov 14: PAW-ATM 2022: the 5th annual Parallel Applications Workshop, Alternatives to MPI+X
- Nov 14: CHUG 2022 after PAW-ATM at Sapa House
- Nov 17: Using Chapel to Develop Practical, Scalable Applications BoF
October 13: paper presentation: Compiler Optimization for Irregular Memory Access Patterns in PGAS Programs by Thomas Rolinger et al. at LCPC 2022
September 16: Chapel Choose Your Own Adventure project at the Grace Hopper Celebration Open Source Day
September 15: Release date of Chapel 1.28.0
September 7/8: Code/doc freeze for Chapel 1.28
September 1: Feature freeze for Chapel 1.28
August 22–23: Invited talk on asynchronous task-based aggregation at AMTE 2022 at Euro-Par 2022
June 30: Release date of Chapel 1.27.0
June 23: Code/doc freeze for Chapel 1.27
June 16: Feature freeze for Chapel 1.27
June 9–10: CHIUW 2022
June 3: talk on distributed tree search in Chapel at PDCO 2022 at IPDPS 2022
May 12: participating in Rapid Prototyping for Exascale: from Idea to Performance-Portable Applications, ECP Community BOF Days
April 15 22: submission deadline for CHIUW 2022
April 20: public online talk: Chapel: Making parallel computing as easy as Py(thon), from laptops to supercomputers (HPE DEV Munch & Learn)
March 31: release date of Chapel 1.26.0
March 21: Code/doc freeze for Chapel 1.26
March 14: Feature freeze for Chapel 1.26
February 28–March 1: Brad gives a plenary talk and serves as a panelist at the DOE Programming Systems Research Forum
February 24–26: Chapel participation at SIAM PP22 Minisymposia:
- Achieving Productivity at Scale with Chapel in User Applications
  - Chapel Overview and Future Opportunities and Challenges for Chapel, Michelle Strout and Brad Chamberlain (HPE)
  - Experiences with Chapel in Cosmology from Data Analysis to Simulations, Nikhil Padmanabhan (Yale)
  - Arkouda: Interactive Supercomputing for Data Analytics Made Possible by Chapel, Mike Merrill (U.S. Gov't)
  - A Case Study on the Impact of Chapel within an Academic Computational Aerodynamic Laboratory, Éric Laurendeau (Polytechnique Montreal)
- Code Generation and Transformation in HPC on Heterogeneous Platforms
  - Generating GPU Kernels from Chapel's Features for Parallelism And Locality, Engin Kayraklioglu et al. (HPE)
January 19: Chapel talk for the Northwest C++ Users' Group
January 13: Chapel webinar for Ookami user community

2021

December 9: release date of Chapel 1.25.1
November 19: events at SC21:
- Participation at PAW-ATM 2021 workshop:
- Panel discussion featuring Brad Chamberlain at RSDHA 2021 workshop
October 18: Chapel talk by Brad Chamberlain at Charm++ 2021.
October 13: Chapel talks by Michelle Strout and Engin Kayraklioglu at LCPC 2021.
September 23: Chapel 1.25.0 was released
September 16: keynote on Chapel and Arkouda optimizations at OpenSHMEM and Related Technologies Workshop 2021
September 14: Code/doc freeze for Chapel 1.25
September 7: Feature freeze for Chapel 1.25
July 22: Chapel talk at SIAM AN21 in the Practical and Efficient Partitioned Global Address Space Support for Data Intensive Applications minisymposium.
June 4: CHIUW 2021: the 8th annual Chapel Implementers and Users Workshop
~~April 9~~ April 16: Submissions due for CHIUW 2021
April 15: Chapel 1.24.1 was released
March 18: Chapel 1.24.0 was released
March 8: code/doc freeze for Chapel 1.24
March 1: feature freeze for Chapel 1.24

2020

November 12: PAW-ATM 2020 at SC20 (online / virtual event)
October 15: release date of Chapel 1.23
October 7: keynote at PACT'20 (online), Compiling Chapel: Keys to Making Parallel Programming Productive at Scale by Brad Chamberlain
October 5: code/doc freeze for Chapel 1.23
September 28: feature freeze for Chapel 1.23
~~July 24~~ July 31: paper and talk submission deadline for PAW-ATM 2020
July 6–7: online talk, Arkouda: Terascale Data Science at Interactive Rates at SciPy 2020
May 22: CHIUW 2020 ~~at IPDPS 2020~~ online (due to Covid-19)
April 16: Release date of Chapel 1.22.0
~~March 19:~~ April 9: Release date of Chapel 1.21.0
~~March 23:~~ March 30: Code/doc freeze for Chapel 1.21.0
~~March 16:~~ March 23: Feature freeze for Chapel 1.21.0
February 12: Chapel talk at Puget Sound Programming Python meet-up (PuPPy): Arkouda: Data Science at Massive Scales and Interactive Rates

2019

November 17: Chapel-related events at SC19:

9:00–5:30: PAW-ATM 2019 workshop (full schedule here)

    9:00–9:10: Alternatives to MPI Introduction
                     Brad Chamberlain, Cray/HPE

    11:10–11:30: Simulating Ultralight Dark Matter with Chapel: An Experience Report
                     Nikhil Padmanabhan, Yale University

    3:50–4:10: Arkouda: NumPy-like arrays at massive scale backed by Chapel
                   Mike Merrill, DOD

    4:10–5:30: Panel Discussion: Applications in Alternatives to MPI+X
                     Michael Ferguson, Cray/HPE

6:00–?:??: CHUG 2019: the 10th Annual Chapel Users Group meet-up

Meet up with members of the Chapel team and community for drinks, dinner, discussion, and/or bocce (?) at the Rhein Haus, Denver (location tentative; watch this space or social media for updates).
September 19: Chapel 1.20.0 was released
August 15: Submission deadline for PAW-ATM 2019
June 22: CHIUW 2019, the 6th annual Chapel Implementers and Users Workshop
June 19: Chapel participation in panel at ISC 2019, Frankfurt
June 14: Chapel talk at HPC Knowledge Meeting `19, Barcelona
March 21: Release date for Chapel 1.19.0
February 25: Chapel talk at SIAM CSE19 in the Performance Portability and Numerical Libraries: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Science minisymposium.

2018

December 12: Chapel talk at the Puget Sound Programming Python (PuPPy) meet-up
November 16: Chapel talk and panel participation at the PAW-ATM workshop at SC18, Dallas TX.
September 20: Chapel 1.18.0 was released today!
July 19: Chapel talk at the PuPPy Scientific Computing SIG, Seattle WA (details)
May 25-26: CHIUW 2018: The Fifth Annual Chapel Implementers and Users Workshop, at IPDPS 2018, Vancouver BC, Canada
May 22: CUG 2018 talk: Chapel Comes of Age: Making Scalable Programming Productive, Stockholm, Sweden
May 14: PNW PLSE 2018 talk: Chapel Comes of Age: Productive Parallelism at Scale, Redmond WA
April 5: Chapel 1.17 was released today!
March 8: Chapel: Task-Based Communication in a Productive Langue, at SIAM PP18 Minisymposium: High Performance Communication with Lots of Threads and Tasks, Tokyo, Japan
February 21: talk at the Northwest C++ Users Group: Chapel's Multiresolution Programming Model: Mixing high-level parallel abstractions with lower-level control, Brad Chamberlain, Redmond, WA

2017

December 6: Chapel talk at SeaLang meetup in Bellevue, WA
November 12-16: Chapel events at SC17
- Sunday, Nov. 12 @3:30pm:
  demo: Chapel: Open-Source Productive Parallel Programming at Scale at OpenSuCo 2017
  Ben Albrecht and Brad Chamberlain (Cray Inc.)
- Monday, Nov. 13 @10:30am:
  talk: Cosmological Particle-Mesh Simulations in Chapel at PAW 2017
  Nikhil Padmanabhan (Yale University) and Ben Albrecht (Cray Inc.)
- Monday, Nov. 13 @3:30pm:
  PGAS Languages Panel at PAW 2017
  Brad Chamberlain (Cray Inc.) and other panelists
- Monday, Nov. 13 @5:45pm:
  CHUG: 8th annual Chapel Users Group meet-up / happy hour at Rhein Haus
  Chapel users, developers, and you?
  Join us for beers (and root beers), fresh pretzels, wursts (and veggiewursts), and possibly...bocce?
- Tuesday, Nov. 14-Thursday, Nov. 16, all day:
  poster: Cosmological Particle-Mesh Simulations in Chapel (PGAS booth)
  Ben Albrecht (Cray Inc.) and Nikhil Padmanabhan (Yale University)
October 26: Chapel presentation at Dagstuhl seminar on Performance Portability in Extreme Scale Computing: Metrics, Challenges, Solutions
October 19: Chapel talk at the 2017 US LLVM Developers' Meeting in San Jose, CA
October 5: Chapel 1.16 is released!
June 15: Chapel talk at the Programming on Modern HPC Architectures—Efficiency and Portability workshop at the EAGE 2017 Conference & Exhibition in Paris, France

June 2–3: CHIUW 2017: the 4th annual Chapel Implementers and Users workshop at IPDPS in Orlando, FL

June 2: invited talk, A Language Designer's Perspective on Benchmarking Suites and Competitions at the EMBRACE workshop at IPDPS in Orlando, FL

April 25–29: ACCU 2017 Conference, Bristol UK:
- A Programmers Guide to Chapel workshop/tutorial
- The Audacity of Chapel: Scalable Programming Done Right keynote
April 6: Chapel 1.15 released!
April 3: application deadline for GSoC 2017
March 27: early registration deadline for CHIUW 2017 at IPDPS.
January 20: deadline for CHIUW 2017 submissions.

2016

November 13-17: SC16
- Sunday: Chapel tutorial: Productive Programming in Chapel: A Computation-Driven Introduction, 8:30am–5pm
- Sunday: Women in HPC Workshop, 9am–5:30pm
- Sunday: CHUG Chapel Users Group Happy Hour, ~5:30pm, Settebello Pizzeria Napoletana, 260 200 W, Salt Lake City, UT 84101
- Monday: PAW PGAS Applications Workshop, 2pm–5:30pm
  - A Study of the Bucket-Exchange Pattern in the PGAS Model Using the ISx Integer Sort Mini-Application Jacob Hemstad (University of Minnesota / Sandia), Ulf Hanebutte (Intel), Ben Harshbarger and Brad Chamberlain (Cray)
  - Optimizing PGAS overhead in a multi-locale Chapel implementation of CoMD, David Richards and Riyaz Haque (LLNL)
  - PGAS Applications Panel chaired by Brad Chamberlain (Cray)
  - ...and much more—see the workshop website for further details.
- Tuesday: talk to Engin Kayraklioglu, awesome Chapel intern/student, 10am–noon, The GWU Booth (#4066)
- Wednesday: Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) BoF
- Thursday: talk to a Chapel developer, 10am–noon, PGAS Booth (#537), exhibit floor
October 19: Chapel talk at Northwest C++ Users Group Meeting
October 6: Chapel 1.14.0 was released
August 4: Chapel participation at ATPESC 2016
June 21: Chapel participation in a Parallel Programming Panel at ISC 2016
June 14: Chapel version 1.13.1 released to address bugs in version 1.13.0, particularly a race condition that was introduced in reductions.
June 14: Chapel keynote at ARRAY 2016
May 27-28: CHIUW 2016: The 3rd annual Chapel Implementers and Users Workshop (to be held at IPDPS 2016 in Chicago, IL)
April 7: Chapel 1.13.0 was released

March 25: Google Summer of Code applications due.

March 15: Chapel talk at Pacific Northwest Programming Languages and Software Engineering Meeting 20l6.
March 10: Chapel talk at HPDC 2016 TPC Meeting.
February 19: talk-only submission deadline for CHIUW 2016
February 4: Chapel talk at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
January 19: Chapel talk at Women Techmakers Community Talks meeting, Seattle, WA.
January 15: paper submission deadline for CHIUW 2016

2015

November 15-19: Chapel events at SC15, Austin, TX:

Workshop Talk: LLVM-based Communication Optimizations for PGAS Programs

What? Research talk on LLVM-based optimizations for Chapel
Who's Speaking? Akahiro Hiyashi (Rice University)
What's the Context? LLVM-HPC2015 workshop
Who's Organizing? Hal J. Finkel
Who Can Attend? Anyone with a Sunday workshop registration
When? Sunday, Nov. 15, 10:30-11am (LLVM-HPC2015 runs 9am-5:30pm)
Where? Hilton Salon E

Tutorial: Productive Programming in Chapel: A Computation-Driven Approach

What? Chapel tutorial with hands-on sessions
Who's Organizing Lydia Duncan, Michael Ferguson (Cray Inc.)
Who Can Attend? Anyone with a Sunday tutorial registration
When? Sunday, Nov. 15, 1:30-5pm
Where? room 19B

Q & A: Ask a Chapel Developer

What? Talk to a member of the Chapel team
Who's Organizing? Lydia Duncan, Michael Ferguson (Cray Inc.)
Who Can Attend? Anyone with access to the exhibition floor
When? Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov 17-18, 3:30pm-4pm
Where? Cray Inc. booth (#1833)

BoF: Towards Standardized, Portable and Lightweight User-Level Threads and Tasks

What? Characterization of Chapel tasking as input to community discussion
Who's Speaking? Michael Ferguson (Cray Inc.)
Who's Organizing? Pavan Balaji, Sangmin Seo (Argonne)
Who Can Attend? Anyone with an SC15 registration
When? Wednesday, Nov. 18, 5:30-7pm
Where? room 19AB

Happy Hour: CHUG: 6th Annual Chapel Users Group Happy Hour

What? Social gathering
Who's Organizing? Lydia Duncan, Michael Ferguson (Cray Inc.)
Who Can Attend? Anyone interested in socializing with Chapel-minded folks
When? Wednesday, Nov. 18, 7:15pm-???
Where? The Bonneville

SWAG: Chapel Fortune Cookies!

What? Little cookies that predict your programming future
Who's Organizing? Lydia Duncan (Cray Inc.)
Who Can Partake? Anyone with access to the exhibition floor
When? all week (while supplies last)
Where? PGAS booth (#723)
November 17-20: Chapel participation in NII Shonan Meeting: Putting Heterogeneous High-Performance Computing at the Fingertips of Domain Experts
October 1: Release date for Chapel 1.12.0
September 16-18: Chapel events at PGAS 2015 (Washington DC):
- Tutorial (Sept 16): Productive Programming in Chapel: A Computation-Driven Introduction, Brad Chamberlain and Michael Ferguson, Cray Inc.
- Invited Talk (Sept 17): The Future of PGAS Programming from a Chapel perspective, Brad Chamberlain, Cray Inc.
- Research Paper Talk (Sept 17): Caching Puts and Gets in a PGAS Language Runtime, Michael Ferguson, Cray Inc.
August 6: Chapel presentation and hands-on session at ATPESC 2015
June 24-25: Chapel participation in PADAL Workshop `15
June 13-14: CHIUW 2015 in Portland, OR. The call for participation is currently open.

April 2: Chapel 1.11 released
February 7: The First Workshop on High Performance Scripting Languages will include a talk on our recent Python-Chapel interoperability work (Scripting Language Performance Through Interoperability) (at PPoPP 2015)

2014

November 16th-20th: SC14, New Orleans, LA

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Tutorial: A Computation-Driven Introduction to Parallel Programming in Chapel

What? Half-day tutorial introducing Chapel via sample computations
Who's Organizing? Brad Chamberlain, Greg Titus, Sung-Eun Choi (Cray), Michael Ferguson (LTS)
Who Can Attend? Anyone with a Sunday tutorial registration
When? Sunday, November 16, 8:30am - noon
Where? room 388

Exhibition Floor: Chapel Hierarchical Locales: Adaptable Portability for Exascale Node Architectures

What? Exhibit describing Chapel's hierarchical locale models
Who's Organizing? Greg Titus, Sung-Eun Choi, Brad Chamberlain (Cray)
Who Can Attend? Anyone whose registration gives access to the exhibits
When? Mon 7-9pm, Tue-Wed 10am-6pm, Thurs 10am-3pm
Where? booth #233, exhibition hall

BoF: Chapel Lightning Talks 2014
What? Five-minute talks on Chapel efforts from members of the community
Who's Organizing? Sung-Eun Choi (Cray) and Richard Barrett (Sandia)
Who's Speaking?
- Chapel Overview, Greg Titus (Cray Inc.)
- CoMD in Chapel: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, David Richards (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
- Chapel for Python Programmers: How to stop worrying and love the curly bracket, Simon Lund (University of Copenhagen)
- Chapel Iterators: Providing Tiling for the Rest of Us, Ian Bertolacci (Colorado State University)
- Chapel I/O: Getting to Your Data Wherever It Is, Timothy Zakian (Indiana University)
- LLVM-based Communication Optimizations for Chapel, Akihiro Hayashi (Rice University)
- COHX: CHAPEL ON HSA+XTQ (Adventures of a PGAS Language in a Heterogeneous World), Deepak Majeti (Rice University)
Who Can Attend? Anyone with an SC14 registration
When? Tuesday, November 18, 12:15-1:15pm
Where? room 293
BoF: LLVM in HPC: Uses and Desires

What? Chapel's use of LLVM will be featured as part of a broader panel
Who's Organizing? Hal Finkel (Argonne), Jim Cownie (Intel)
Who's Speaking? Michael Ferguson (LTS) for Chapel
Who Can Attend? Anyone with an SC14 registration
When? Tuesday, November 18, 12:15-1:15pm
Where? room 283-84-85

Talk: Chapel Hierarchical Locales: Adaptable Portability for Exascale Node Architectures

What? Talk describing Chapel's hierarchical locale models
Who's Speaking? Greg Titus (Cray)
Who Can Attend? Anyone whose registration gives access to the exhibits
When? Tuesday, November 18, 4:30-5:00pm
Where? Emerging Technologies Theater, booth 233

Poster: Orthogonal Scheduling of Stencil Computations with Chapel Iterators

What? Use of Chapel abstractions to support tilings
Who's Presenting? Ian Bertolacci (Colorado State University)
Who Can Attend? Anyone with an SC14 Technical Program Registration
When? Tuesday, November 18, 5:15-7pm
Where? Posters session, New Orleans Theater Lobby

BoF: Programming Abstractions for Data Locality

What? Chapel's locality-oriented abstractions, as part of a broader panel
Who's Organizing? Didem Unat (Koç University), John Shalf (LBNL), Torsten Hoefler (ETH Zürich)
Who's Speaking? Brad Chamberlain (Cray) for Chapel
Who Can Attend? Anyone with an SC14 registration
When? Wednesday, November 19, 12:15-1:15pm
Where? room 391-92

BoF: PGAS: The Partitioned Global Address Space Programming Model

What? an introduction to PGAS models, including Chapel
Who's Organizing? Tarek El-Ghazawi (GWU), Lauren Smith (DOD)
Who's Speaking? Sung-Eun Choi (Cray) for Chapel
Who Can Attend? Anyone with an SC14 registration
When? Wednesday, November 19, 12:15-1:15pm
Where? room 273

BoF: Chapel Users Group Meeting

What? General Chapel information session and open Q&A, discussion
Who's Organizing? the Chapel developer community
Who Can Attend? Anyone with an SC14 registration
When? Wednesdsay, November 19, 5:30-7pm
Where? room 383-84-85

Happy Hour: CHUG: 5th Annual Chapel Users Group Happy Hour

What? Social gathering
Who's Organizing? the Chapel developer community
Who Can Attend? Anyone interested in socializing with Chapel-minded folks
When? Wednesday, November 19, 7:15pm-???
Where? Mulate's, 201 Julia St
October 2nd: Chapel 1.10 released
August 3rd-15th: Participation in the Argonne Extreme Scale Computing Training Program
June 3rd-4th: Participation in the DOE ASCR Exascale Computing Systems Productivity Workshop
May 23rd: CHIUW: Chapel Implementers and Users Workshop at IPDPS, Phoenix AZ
April 28th-29th: Participation in the Padal Workshop, Lugano Switzerland
April 25th: Seminar talk at ETH, Zurich Switzerland
~April 17th: release of Chapel 1.9
April 16th: Chapel talk at the Northwest C++ Users' Group, Redmond WA
March 28th-30th: Chapel participation at the (SICM)2 Parallel Computing Workshop
March 8th: Chapel in education workshop at SIGCSE 2014, Atlanta GA
February 18th–21st: Chapel minisymposia talks at PP14: SIAM Conference on Parallel Programming for Scientific Computing
- Chapel Language Features for Hierarchical Tiling and Exascale Architectures at MS10: Hierarchical and Iteration Space Tiling (part 2 of 2)
- Co-Design Via Proxy Applications: MiniMD in Chapel at MS78: Co-Design with Proxy Applications and Programming Abstractions: Results and Experiences (part 2 of 2)

2013

November 17th-22nd: SC13, Denver, CO
Booth Presence: Chapel: An Emerging Parallel Programming Language

What: Chapel poster/handouts/demos in the Emerging Technologies booth
Who: Chapel development team members
When: anytime the show floor is open (and there are no conflicting events)
Where: booth #3547

Poster: Towards Co-Evolution of Auto-Tuning and Parallel Languages

Who: Ray S. Chen, University of Maryland
When: Tuesday 5:15-7:00pm
Where: Posters Session (Mile High Pre-Function)

BoF: Chapel Lightning Talks 2013
What/Who: Five minute talks connecting Chapel to the following topics:
- Education: Programming Zero to Parallel Hero... In Six Hours, Tim Stitt, University of Notre Dame
- MPI-3: Chapel over MPI-3, Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory
- HDFS: Enabling Big Data in Chapel, Michael Ferguson, Laboratory for Telecommunication Sciences
- Autotuning: Competing with the Best, Ray S. Chen, University of Maryland
- Futures: Begin Expressions, Shams Imam, Rice University
- MiniMD: MiniMD in Chapel, Brad Chamberlain, Cray Inc.
When: Wednesday, 12:15-1:15pm
Where: 601/603
Talk: Hierarchical Locales: Exposing the Node Architecture in Chapel

Who: Sung-Eun Choi, Cray Inc.
When: Tuesday, 3:20-3:40pm
Where: KISTI booth #3713

Talk: Chapel: An Emerging Parallel Programming Language

Who: Brad Chamberlain, Cray Inc.
When: Wednesday, 4:30-4:45pm
Where: HPC Impact Theatre (booth #3947)

Happy Hour: CHUG: 4th Annual Chapel Users Group Happy Hour

Who: anyone interested in hanging out with Chapel-minded folks
When: Wednesday, 5pm-???
Where: Pi Bar

HPC Educators Program: High-Level Parallel Programming Using Chapel

Who: David Bunde, Knox College and Kyle Burke, Colby College
When: Thursday, 1:30-5pm
Where: 708/710/712
October 19th: invited talk at Pacific Northwest Numerical Analysis Seminar
October 17th: Chapel version 1.8.0 released
August 1st: Multiresolution Global-View Programming in Chapel lecture at Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing
June 29th-July 2nd: invited talk at Lyon Keynotes on HPC Languages event
May 9th: State of the Chapel Union talk at CUG 2013
April 22nd-25th: attending Salishan Conference on High-Speed Computing
April 15th-16th: Presentation on the Chapel runtime at the 11th Annual Charm++ workshop at UIUC
April 10th-12th: Tutorial and Presentations in Bergen, Norway, sponsored by the Bergen Language Design Laboratory
February 26: presentation on codesign using LULESH in Chapel at SIAM CSE13

2012

November 11-15: SC12, Salt Lake City, UT
- Sunday, Nov 11th, 8:30am-noon: Tutorial: Productive Programming in Chapel: a language for general, locality-aware parallelism, room 251-E.
- Monday, Nov 12th, 5pm-7pm (or later): 3rd annual Chapel Users Group (CHUG) Happy Hour, Squatter's Pub Brewery.
- Tuesday, Nov 13th, 12:15pm-1:15pm: BoF: The 2012 HPC Challenge Awards, room 355-A.
- Tuesday, Nov 13th, 2pm-4pm: Chapel team member at PGAS booth (#2137)
- Wednesday, Nov 14th, 12:15pm-1:15pm: BoF: Chapel Lightning Talks 2012, room 255-A.
- Wednesday, Nov 14th, 3pm-3:20pm Invited talk, "An Overview of Chapel: a productive parallel programming language" at the First KIISE-KOCSEA HPC SIG Joint Workshop on High Performance and Throughput Computing, KISTI Booth, Exhibition Hall
- Wednesday, Nov 14th, 5:30pm-7:00pm: BoF: DARPA's High Productivity Computing Systems Program: A Final Report, room 255-D
- Wednesday, Nov 14th, 5:30pm-7:00pm: BoF: Using Application Proxies for Exascale Preparation, room 250-C
- Thursday, Nov 15th, 10:30am-noon: Chapel team member at PGAS booth (#2137)
- Thursday, Nov 15th, 1:30pm-5:00pm: HPC Educators Program: High-level Parallel Programming Using Chapel, room 255-D
- Thursday, Nov 15th, 2pm-3pm: Chapel team member at PGAS booth (#2137)
October 18: Chapel 1.6.0 release
October 11-12: tentative talk at PGAS 2012 workshop: "State of the Chapel Union"
October 10: talk at PGAS-X 2012 workshop: "Hierarchical Locales"
September 13: talk at HPC Advisory Council Spain Conference 2012: "Multiresolution Parallel Programming with Chapel"
June 12-14: Chapel talk at AMD Fusion Developer Summit
April: Chapel 1.5.0 release
February 6th-8th: Chapel plenary talk and tutorial at the 40th SPEEDUP Workshop on High-Performance Computing, University of Basel, Switzerland
January 26th: Chapel colloquium talk at UW CSE, Seattle, WA

2011

December 14th-15th: Chapel talk, tutorial, and pair programming at LLNL
November 14th-18th: SC11 in Seattle, WA
- November 14th: full-day Chapel tutorial (8:30-5:00)
- November 14th: 2nd annual Chapel Users Group (CHUG) happy hour
- November 15th: HPC Challenge BoF (12:15-1:15)
- November 15th: Chapel staff at PGAS booth (booth #124) (2:00-4:00)
- November 16th: Chapel staff at PGAS booth (booth #124) (10:00-noon)
- November 16th: Chapel Lightning Talks BoF (12:15-1:15)
- November 16th: Chapel staff at PGAS booth (booth #124) (4:00-6:00)
- November 17th: Chapel staff at PGAS booth (booth #124) (10:00-noon)
- November 17th: Punctuated Equilibrium at Exascale Panel/BoF (5:30-7:00)
- November 18th: half-day Chapel outreach tutorial (8:30-12:00)

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