Dear developers, Greetings,

We are a new parallel programming research group in Maharishi University of Management and we would like to take a step in ly programming language development. From our perspective, we believe that Non-deterministic programming languages have a great future in the next few years so we would like to participate and share our knowledge with yours to come up with long steps in that field (possibly a paper will be published for the work achieved in this research and technically reviewed by Bruce P. Lester, author of "The Art of Parallel Programming" book). We have a few questions; some of them to emphasize our thoughts and the rest we are asking because we didn't find appropriate answers for them. Please accept our apologies for some trivial questions because we are at the "very first beginning steps" in Ly.

First, here's our system specification I7 Quad core, 16 GB 3 units of 300 GB – Raid 5 for Data

1 Unit of 300 GB – Primary HDD for OS Two NIC cards Notes: 1. RAM – DDR3 1333 2. Processor – i7 2.67 GHz

Are these specification will be appropriate for our research? Note that the university won't be able to buy 16core system now for financial reasons. In this case, What's the most appropriate Operating System which provides good tools to write, compile and debug our code?. Second, Our group already read "Harnessing emergence for manycore programming: early experience integrating ensembles, adverbs, and object-based inheritance" and it provides nice background about ly so our next step is to pick a book which describes the ly syntax. We will be glad if you could provide us good tutorials about Ly. Finally, We would like to know about the current progress to avoid the duplicates and conflicts so we will be glad if you mention the status of your development so we can catch up a new branch to extend the capabilities of this language.

Regards,

Mohamed