Abstract: Writing good parallel software can be difficult and time-consuming. Our work towards addressing these difficulties led our Navy research group to compare the readability and performance of several implementations of an algorithm of Navy interest (acoustic ray tracing). The implementations were written in C++ and two functional languages: Erlang and MLTON. This talk will cover our benchmark results and other observations from our effort.

Bio: Christian Convey is a PhD student in the University of Rhode Island's computer science program, and an employee at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) in Newport, RI.