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Chapel Programming Language
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Chapel is a programming language for productive parallel programming, for everyone and at every scale. Learn more about us on our website (https://chapel-lang.org).
@bradcray.bsky.social will give a talk on Chapel tomorrow (Friday, Nov 7) at @seagl.org — 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

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November 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
PSA: The Chapel website has been having some connectivity and security certificate issues over the past day or two. We apologize for the inconvenience and are working with our hosting company to bring it back online and stabilize it.
October 31, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This week’s episode of HPE’s “Technology Now” podcast focuses on Chapel, featuring a discussion between Brad Chamberlain and Michael Bird!

#HPC #OpenSource

Head to hpe.lnk.to/Chapelgu to stream it from your favorite podcast platform.
Why would you programme in Chapel?
What is Chapel? This week, Technology Now explores the programming language, Chapel. We ask what it I, how it was designed, and we explore why people would use it instead of some of the more establish...
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October 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
In case you missed it live, Engin Kayraklioglu's talk at LUMI User Coffee Breaks is now available online. Check it out to learn more about how Chapel makes going from programming a laptop to a supercomputer easy.

#HPC #OpenSource

lumi-supercomputer.github.io/LUMI-trainin...
October 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Should a good parallel language design be minimal in nature? Read @bradcray.bsky.social's take on this question in this month's edition of his "10 Myths About Scalable Parallel Programming Languages" blog series.

chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/1...
October 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Have an idea for the new Chapel logo? Make sure to read github.com/chapel-lang/... and submit your proposal by October 21st!
Chapel Logo Design · Issue #27901 · chapel-lang/chapel
Hello Chapel community! We are entering a new chapter in the language's history and joining HPSF! As we migrate to HPSF, we will be getting a new logo to represent the project. The Chapel Technical...
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October 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Upcoming talk alert: Join Engin Kayraklioglu during the LUMI User Coffee Break on Oct. 15th 9AM ET. He will cover several applications of Chapel and how its language features allow its users to go from laptops to supercomputers with ease.

More info & link: www.lumi-supercomputer.eu/events/userc...
October 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
And that's a wrap on ChapelCon '25! Huge thanks to all the presenters for their hard work and the participants for their engagement. You can catch replays of the tutorials and presentations soon! Until next year 👋
October 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
ChapelCon ’25 Conference Days start today! Join us for four sessions on Chapel applications and algorithms, and a keynote address from Chris Rackauckas of MIT's JuliaLab. The conference begins at 9AM PT.

Register for free here: hpe.zoom.us/j/91206107280
October 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
✅ ChapelCon '25 Day 1 is complete! ✅ Thank you to our presenters and participants. See you tomorrow for tutorials and demos on some of Chapel's advanced features.

Register here: chapel-lang.org/chapelcon25/
October 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Curious about high performance computing? Emanuele Vitali will be speaking at ChapelCon '25 next week about @lumi-supercomputer.eu, one of the fastest supercomputers in Europe. Register to attend for free:

#HPC #Supercomputer

www.chapel-lang.org/chapelcon25
October 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Reposted by Chapel Programming Language
ChapelCon 25 is coming up! 🚀 Join the free, online event from October 7–10 to dive into productive parallel programming with Chapel.

There’s something for everyone: tutorials, coding sessions, office hours, and talks.

Sign up here: hpe.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
September 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
ChapelCon '25 is less than 2 weeks away, and the program is ✨live✨! We've got 4 days of jam-packed activities. Check out the program and register to attend here:

#HPC #OpenSource

chapel-lang.org/chapelcon25/
September 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
We recently added a new public weekly meeting on Thursdays at 10am PT for deep-dives and demos. This week, on September 26th, PhD student Shubh Singhal (Habanero Labs/Ga Tech) will share recent aggregation results on ORNL’s Frontier.

Join us, or propose a topic, at: github.com/chapel-lang/...
September 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Chapel 2.6 is out! A new DynamicLoading module, enabling a whole new way of interoperating with C, and significantly improved debugging experience are
just a few highlights among many!

Read the announcement for more chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/a...
September 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Can higher-level languages like Chapel compete with MPI? For the answer, check out the latest installment of Brad Chamberlain's "10 Myths About Scalable Parallel Programming Languages (Redux)" series:

#HPC #OpenSource

chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/1...
September 18, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Marjan Asgari’s interview on the “7 Questions for Chapel Users” series is now online! Chapel helped Dr. Asgari parallelize large-scale geospatial tasks and datasets in hydrological modeling. Read her interview to learn more.

chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/7...
September 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
As part of preparing to join @hpsf.bsky.social, the newly formed Chapel Technical Steering Committee (TSC) is gearing up for its second meeting! This meeting is public and will be held in the weekly Chapel deep-dive slot, Thursday, September 18th at 10am PT.

Details at: github.com/chapel-lang/...
Discussion topics for Sept 18 TSC meeting · Issue #3 · chapel-lang/TSC
Proposed topics for our second TSC meeting, scheduled for Thursday, Sept 18 at 10am PT, are: for the near-term, are people comfortable taking TSC votes without an anonymizing voting mechanism? timi...
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September 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Sign up for an office hour session for ChapelCon '25 to meet with a Chapel core developer about topics that interest you!

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September 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Want an intro to the Chapel programming language and why you might choose it over other languages? Check out the latest video in the HiRSE "Summer of Programming Languages" series, also featuring Rust, Julia, Python, C++, Fortran, and R:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au6d...
Chapel - HiRSE Summer of Programming Languages
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September 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
ChapelCon '25 is less than a month away! 4 days of tutorials, presentations, and demos for all experience levels. Register for this free, fully virtual event today:

#HPC #OpenSource

chapel-lang.org/chapelcon25
September 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Can GenAI write your Chapel code for you? It can, and with MCP, it can do an even better job! Read more about using MCP to enhance Claude — or your favorite LLM — with the ability to access documentation, compile, and lint Chapel code in our new blog post:

chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/c...
September 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Chapel’s quarterly community newsletter is out! This one has news about ChapelCon, ISC, HPE Discover, IPDPS, and JuliaCon. And, that’s not all! Read on to learn more about what is going on in the Chapel community.

#HPC #OpenSource

chapel.discourse.group/t/chapel-new...
Chapel Newsletter - August 2025
Welcome to the Summer 2025 edition of Chapel’s quarterly newsletter! A lot has happened in the past three months! This month’s newsletter has news from ISC, HPE Discover, IPDPS, JuliaCon, as well as o...
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August 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
ChapelCon '25 registration is live! 100% free, 100% virtual, and 100% guaranteed to be a jam-packed week. Sign up here:

#HPC #OpenSource

hpe.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
August 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Do productive parallel languages like Chapel require magic compilers? Read @bradcray.bsky.social’s take on this question in the latest installment of his “10 Myths about Scalable Parallel Programming Languages” blog series:

chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/1...

#HPC #OpenSource #LangDev
August 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM