JuliaFolds ecosystem supports structured parallelism for Julia with the packages such as Transducers.jl, Folds.jl, and FLoops.jl. It aims at providing parallelism that is easy-to-use, composable,and extensible. Furthermore, it provides a unified interface to different execution mechanisms such as multi-threading, GPU, and distributed parallelisms. In this talk, I discuss the composable design principle of the JuliaFolds packages.

How we currently implement the task parallel API in Julia introduces a couple of obstacles for supporting high-performance parallel programs. In particular, the compiler cannot analyze and optimize the child tasks in the context of the surrounding code. In this talk, I discuss our work on using Tapir (Schardl et al., 2019) to add parallelism to Julia that can be optimized by the compiler.