[project @ 2003-08-01 14:58:47 by panne]

[ghc-hetmet.git] / ghc / docs / users_guide / parallel.sgml

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@@ -28,37 +28,42 @@ a single Unix process on a single processor.
 
 <Para>
 You will find at least one paper about Concurrent Haskell hanging off
-of <ULink URL="http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~simonpj/">Simon Peyton Jones's Web page</ULink>.
+of <ULink URL="http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/">Simon Peyton
+Jones's Web page</ULink>.
 </Para>
 
 <Para>
-Parallel Haskell is about <Emphasis>speed</Emphasis>&mdash;spawning threads onto multiple
-processors so that your program will run faster.  The `threads'
-are always <Emphasis>advisory</Emphasis>&mdash;if the runtime system thinks it can
-get the job done more quickly by sequential execution, then fine.
+Parallel Haskell is about <Emphasis>speed</Emphasis>&mdash;spawning
+threads onto multiple processors so that your program will run faster.
+The `threads' are always <Emphasis>advisory</Emphasis>&mdash;if the
+runtime system thinks it can get the job done more quickly by
+sequential execution, then fine.
 </Para>
 
 <Para>
 A Parallel Haskell program implies multiple processes running on
 multiple processors, under a PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) framework.
+An MPI interface is under development but not fully functional, yet.
 </Para>
 
 <Para>
-Parallel Haskell is still relatively new; it is more about ``research
-fun'' than about ``speed.'' That will change.
+Parallel Haskell is still relatively new; it is more about &ldquo;research
+fun&rdquo; than about &ldquo;speed.&rdquo; That will change.
 </Para>
 
 <Para>
-Again, check Simon's Web page for publications about Parallel Haskell
-(including ``GUM'', the key bits of the runtime system).
+Check the <ULink URL="http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~dsg/gph/">GPH Page</Ulink>
+for more information on &ldquo;GPH&rdquo; (Haskell98 with extensions for
+parallel execution), the latest version of &ldquo;GUM&rdquo; (the runtime
+system to enable parallel executions) and papers on research issues.  A
+list of publications about GPH and about GUM is also available from Simon's
+Web Page.
 </Para>
 
 <Para>
 Some details about Parallel Haskell follow.  For more information
-about concurrent Haskell, see the Concurrent section in the <ULink
-URL="libs.html"
->GHC/Hugs Extension Libraries</ULink
-> documentation.
+about concurrent Haskell, see the module
+<literal>Control.Concurrent</literal> in the library documentation.
 </Para>
 
 <Sect2>
@@ -153,9 +158,9 @@ you'd like to see this with your very own eyes, just run GHC with the
 </Sect3>
 
 <Sect3>
-<Title>Scheduling policy for concurrent/parallel threads
-<IndexTerm><Primary>Scheduling&mdash;concurrent/parallel</Primary></IndexTerm>
-<IndexTerm><Primary>Concurrent/parallel scheduling</Primary></IndexTerm></Title>
+<Title>Scheduling policy for concurrent threads
+<IndexTerm><Primary>Scheduling&mdash;concurrent</Primary></IndexTerm>
+<IndexTerm><Primary>Concurrent scheduling</Primary></IndexTerm></Title>
 
 <Para>
 Runnable threads are scheduled in round-robin fashion.  Context
@@ -180,6 +185,26 @@ of the currently active threads are completed.
 
 </Sect3>
 
+<Sect3>
+<Title>Scheduling policy for parallel threads
+<IndexTerm><Primary>Scheduling&mdash;parallel</Primary></IndexTerm>
+<IndexTerm><Primary>Parallel scheduling</Primary></IndexTerm></Title>
+
+<Para>
+In GUM we use an unfair scheduler, which means that a thread continues to
+perform graph reduction until it blocks on a closure under evaluation, on a
+remote closure or until the thread finishes. 
+</Para>
+ 
+</Sect3>
+
 </Sect2>
 
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