# DARPA looks to propel parallelism with PAPPA

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/darpa-looks-to-propel-parallelism-with-pappa/28421>\
**Category:** Julia at Scale\
**Created:** [September 5, 2019, 9:36am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/darpa-looks-to-propel-parallelism-with-pappa/28421 "2019-09-05T09:36:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![johnh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/johnh/32/3615_2.png) [@johnh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnh)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 9:36am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/darpa-looks-to-propel-parallelism-with-pappa/28421/1 "2019-09-05T09:36:43Z")

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> **[DARPA Looks to Propel Parallelism](https://www.hpcwire.com/2019/09/04/darpa-looks-to-propel-parallelism/)**
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> As Moore’s law runs out of steam, new programming approaches are being pursued with the goal of greater hardware performance with less coding. The Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency is launching a new programming effort aimed at leveraging the...

[https://t.co/iybdsybN0l](https://t.co/iybdsybN0l)

PAPPA specifically seeks to fill the gap between programing frameworks that automate parallelism but lack the ability to scale and popular data science programming languages like [Python and R](https://www.datanami.com/2019/08/15/is-python-strangling-r-to-death/) that nevertheless have shown little ability to scale on massively parallel systems.

Cough. JULIA. Cough.  
Seriously though - should Julia Computing put in an application?

Also the 10000x speedup rather ignores those pesky serial parts which can’t be speeded up.

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**Author:** ![Nosferican](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nosferican/32/9275_2.png) [@Nosferican](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Nosferican)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 12:51pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/darpa-looks-to-propel-parallelism-with-pappa/28421/2 "2019-09-05T12:51:41Z")

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I work on the SocialSim [project](https://www.darpa.mil/program/computational-simulation-of-online-social-behavior). Some of the code for the next challenge (December) will likely be Julia so I will let the new P.I. know about it. 🙂

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**Author:** ![cpfiffer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cpfiffer/32/208747_2.png) [@cpfiffer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cpfiffer)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 5:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/darpa-looks-to-propel-parallelism-with-pappa/28421/3 "2019-09-06T17:38:27Z")

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Yeah, this seems like an obvious way for Julia Computing to fund some advanced compiler development with DARPA money, and show everyone Julia’s abilities in this space. With the budget DARPA notes they could just hire some full-time engineers to work exclusively on the project, and Julia’s mostly already pretty excellent at working on this kind of project.