I agree, and this is something I am investigating also. Data Parallel Haskell is an awesome base for something like this, but it is hard to tell if anyone is a

I agree, and this is something I am investigating also. Data Parallel Haskell is an awesome base for something like this, but it is hard to tell if anyone is actually still working on it - and even harder to tell how one would contribute. Especially since there are so many spin off projects like Repa which have some of the functionality but just don't quite make the cut (lack primitives, hard to implement new parallel operations, etc...). The potential is there, it just needs to be exploited.