I just came across this library of algorithms: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~scandal/nesl/algorithms.html and found the code to be written in NESL, which until then I have never heard of. It turns out, that it is a functional parallel programming language with bindings to MPI. At least that's what the website states (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~scandal/nesl.html).
The newest version of the interpreter/compiler is from 1995 (sic!). I tried to build it and got the interpreter to work. It is based on lisp (SIC!). I did not get the compiler to work though...
Does anyone have experience with this language? Any hints on how to use it on modern hardware/software is appreciated.
I don't have any experience with NESL -- such persons are very rare.
You should contact its main author, Guy Blelloch ( blelloch at cs dot cmu dot edu ).
However, most work on functional parallel programming nowadays is based on Haskell,
and I suggest you use one of the parallel versions of Haskell.
Functional programming, parallel calculations - are all contained in Mathematica. Well, it may be not as clear and innocent as Haskell is, but if you are interested in results...
Recent work has been carried about in the context of NESL, have a look at:
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2502330
http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~jhr/papers/2012/icfp-gpu.pdf
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