Parallel programming with Sklml

Writing parallel programs is not easy, and debugging them is usually a nightmare. To cope with these difficulties, the skeleton programming approach uses a set of predefined patterns for parallel computations. The skeletons are higher order functional templates that describe the program underlying parallelism. Sklml (["sk@lEmEl]) is a new framework for parallel programming that embeds an innovative compositional skeleton algebra into the OCaml language. Thanks to its skeleton algebra, Sklml provides two evaluation regimes to programs: a regular sequential evaluation (merely used for prototyping and debugging) and a parallel evaluation obtained via a recompilation of the same source program in parallel mode. Sklml was specifically designed to prove that the sequential and parallel evaluation regimes coincide.

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INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt

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