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These are Akihiro's responses (lightly edited) for our 7 questions interview series.

This is a checklist of items that an editor, if not author, should go through prior to publishing a blog article.

  • Consider adding pullquotes?
  • Read through
  • Check title
  • Check summary and its formatting
  • Check slug
  • Check date
  • Check author profiles
  • Review tags
  • Feature article?
  • TOC look good? (can all entries be a single line?)
  • Does start_test work?
  • Check captions
  • Check code comments?
  • Check for console vs. terminal choices and consistency
  • Spellcheck
  • Check hyperlinks
    • If a release announcement, check for docs/main or docs/ vs. docs/x.yz
  • Make sure to commit+push any changes made in this pass

Post-merge:

  • Update website's "news" section
  • HPE Dev card
  • Social media blurb

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@ahayashi: I'm planning to give this one more pass for showstoppers and to check my pre-publication items, but think this is close to being ready to go, if you approve. If you look at the diff between the first commit and the latest, you can see the main tweaks I made to the original text (though I think there was one other that snuck into the original commit: I removed a duplicate mention of the unofficial reward that felt too repetitive too quickly). You should also be able to browse the generated HTML from https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel-blog/actions/runs/23214563610/artifacts/5973211143 or read it in PDF form below.

Here are a few specific things to think about:

  • I made up a description for the title of the article, but you may have a different title that you prefer. See other articles in the series for inspiration
  • I left the "As a side note…" sentence directly in the article, but we could literally move it into a sidenote if you prefer.

A PDF of the article is here:
7 Questions for Akihiro Hayashi_ Early Chapel GPU Support through Multiresolution Abstractions.pdf

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* added a pull-quote and moved another
* rephased a figure caption for clarity
* other minor typographical/wording tweaks

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loops for GPUs, completing the full range of multi-resolution GPU
programming in Chapel!

{{< figure class="fullwide" src="CHAMPS-speedup.jpg" caption="The GPUIterator and GPUAPI modules provide significant performance improvements, while enabling Chapel programmers to continue using Chapel for most tasks other than the kernel. However, even kernel generation can now be fully automated by recent Chapel compilers.">}}
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@ahayashi: Reading it through a last time verbally, this caption caught my attention more than it had before, and I took the liberty of breaking it into two sentences to try and clarify it a bit. Please let me know if that causes any concern.

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@bradcray, the updated caption looks great to me!

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(ironically, catching the most embarrassing mistake, and one not in my
dictionary XD )

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@bradcray, thank you for your revisions. Everything looks great to me!

@bradcray bradcray merged commit 8335efb into main Mar 18, 2026
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