The Chapel team is excited to be a part of HPSFCon! Stop by the Chapel project meeting, or see talks by Engin, Jade, and Daniel (@endofunctor.bsky.social).
04.03.2026 22:36 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0The Chapel team is excited to be a part of HPSFCon! Stop by the Chapel project meeting, or see talks by Engin, Jade, and Daniel (@endofunctor.bsky.social).
04.03.2026 22:36 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Our quarterly newsletter is out! Check it out to catch up on recent developments in the Chapel world, including upcoming events at HPSFCon 2026, an SC25 recap, a blog update, and more...
chapel.discourse.group/t/chapel-new...
Core Chapel devs are looking to write more Chapel code! Do you have a favorite library you wish Chapel had? What about a bite-sized application you want to see implemented in Chapel? Comment under github.com/chapel-lang/... to tell us about it!
#HPC #OpenSource
If you missed Jade Abraham's talk on Chapel and Arkouda at @fosdem.org 2026, the recording is now available!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEQA...
The slides are also available: fosdem.org/2026/schedul...
π’ First Modules Project Technical Steering Committee (TSC) meeting β Feb 18, 5:00 PM CET. Open to everyone! Weβll discuss the roadmap for version 5.7.
Details π github.com/envmodules/m...
We just surpassed 300 followers on LinkedIn β if you use LinkedIn, be sure to follow us! www.linkedin.com/company/chap...
04.02.2026 18:35 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
For the first time, Chapel will be represented at @fosdem.org!
If you will be at FOSDEM 2026, make sure to stop by the HPC, Big Data & Data Science track on Sunday and see Jade Abraham talk about Productive Parallel Computing in Chapel and Arkouda.
fosdem.org/2026/schedul...
Do you have a project or research that involves Chapel? Do you want to share a success story or announcement about it with the community? To highlight your work in the Chapel projectβs social media channels (like this one), simply fill out this form:
forms.gle/HFecAmZukJSU...
Joining the HPSF has been one of the highlights of the year for Chapel, and we're looking forward to what's next!
23.01.2026 23:59 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Read about how Oliver Alvarado Rodriguez used Chapel to implement large-scale exploratory graph analysis for his Ph.D. dissertation in our latest "7 Questions for Chapel Users" interview on the Chapel blog:
chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/7...
Interested in language design? Join the Chapel developers in discussing various language features during our public deep dive meeting this Thursday, January 22nd at 10:00am Pacific Time.
Find the details at github.com/chapel-lang/...
Intrigued by the High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF, @hpsf.bsky.social) and projects like ours that are members of it? Be sure to check out the following article, which reviews highlights of 2025 and what weβre all working on in the year to come.
hpsf.io/blog/2026/ch...
We are proud to be a member of the High Performance Software Foundation (@hpsf.bsky.social) among many great open-source projects!
09.01.2026 17:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Today, we are releasing Chapel 2.7, our first new version since joining @hpsf.bsky.social. Highlights include a new flag for vector libraries, improved support for debugging, and advances to the Mason package manager.
Learn more about these changes, and others, at: chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/a...
Chapel 2.7 is now live! π
This release marks an important milestone for the project, as 2.7 is the first version released since Chapel joined the HPSF as an established project in November.
Check out all the highlights in our latest blog post: hpsf.io/blog/2025/ch...
Interested in doing exploratory analytics interactively on data sets that exceed your workstationβs capacity? Learn about Arkouda, and how it compares to Pandas, Dask, and Spark, in this talk and demo given at the @uwescience.bsky.social Data Science Seminar:
www.youtube.com/watch?si=c_o...
Can Chapel be used to write transformers? How does the resulting performance compare against C++ or PyTorch? Check out the second and final article in Thitrin Sastarasadhitβs βTransformers from Scratch in Chapel and C++β series on the Chapel blog: chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/t...
15.12.2025 21:29 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"With HPSF, the #HPC community now has what I consider to be the largest and healthiest forum for developing and nurturing open source software that it ever has," says
@bradcray.bsky.social in Chapel blog: chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/1...
HPSFCon 2026 focuses on open-source software for HPC, to be held in Chicago IL, March 16β20.
If you have Chapel work to show off, or other topics related to HPC SW, community building, etc., submit a talk, poster, or panel discussion by January 11th at: events.linuxfoundation.org/hpsf-confere...
Chapel is at HPE Discover Barcelona this week! Stop by the High Performance Software demo station (#227) on December 3rd and 4th to chat with Daniel Fedorin about Chapel and Arkouda.
03.12.2025 19:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
With #SC25 wrapped and the U.S. Thanksgiving break behind us, it is time to gear up for the final stretch of 2025. Make sure to recap recent Chapel events featured in the November newsletter.
chapel.discourse.group/t/chapel-new...
For those in the Seattle area, Brad Chamberlain will be speaking at the UW Data Science Seminar tomorrow, Dec 2, introducing Arkoudaβthe Chapel-based framework supporting interactive data science at scale from Python.
For details, see: escience.washington.edu/events/uw-da...
uwescience.bsky.social
This article is notable in that itβs the first written by a student and also the first to be submitted directly by an external contributor now that the Chapel blogβs repository is public:
github.com/chapel-lang/...
New on the Chapel blog: Read part 1 of Thitrin Sastarasadhitβs experience implementing Transformers from scratch in Chapel and C++, comparing to Python. This work was done as an undergraduate summer internship at University of Tokyo under Kenjiro Taura.
chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/t...
If youβre at #SC25 and havenβt had the chance to talk to Oliver or Engin about Chapel and Arkouda yet, be sure to stop by the High Performance Software demo station at the HPE booth while the show room floor is open today or tomorrow!
19.11.2025 17:48 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The French paper magazine @magazineprogrammez.bsky.social has printed an article on GPU programming in Chapel by @endofunctor.bsky.social! Grab a digital copy and check out this and other articles here:
www.programmez.com/magazine/art...
Weβre so excited to share that HPSF has been recognized as the Best HPC Collaboration in the 22nd edition of the HPCwire Readersβ Choice Awards! π
Thank you to everyone who voted for HPSF. Weβre excited for what the future of HPC holds!
hpsf.io/blog/2025/hp...
The Chapel team at HPE is proud to announce that we are now an official @hpsf.bsky.social project! For details, please see HPSFβs announcement below:
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Chapelβs November Newsletter is out! As with last yearβs edition, this one features a special section for events at #SC25. It also has news from ChapelCon β25, talks, articles, and other community events.
chapel.discourse.group/t/chapel-new...
@bradcray.bsky.social will give a talk on Chapel tomorrow (Friday, Nov 7) at @seagl.org β the Seattle GNU/Linux Conference dedicated to open-source software, hardware, and culture. To attend this free conference in person or remotely, please see:
seagl.org/attend
#SeaGL2025