You can use CloudExample.hs to see if Cloud Haskell is installed properly. Simply runhaskell CloudExample.hs
for ghc base < 5, download from hackage:
cabal update
cabal install cabal-install
cabal install distributed-process
cabal install distributed-process-simplelocalnet
for ghc base >= 5, download from:
http://haskell-distributed.github.io
To set up a chat server and three clients with the cabal sandbox
(after cabal build):
base< < 5:
runhaskell Chat.hs server 127.0.0.1 10001
runhaskell Chat.hs client 127.0.0.1 10002
runhaskell Chat.hs client 127.0.0.1 10003
runhaskell Chat.hs client 127.0.0.1 10004
base >= 5:
dist/build/the-chat/the-chat server 127.0.0.1 10001
dist/build/the-chat/the-chat client 127.0.0.1 10002
dist/build/the-chat/the-chat client 127.0.0.1 10003
dist/build/the-chat/the-chat client 127.0.0.1 10004
relevant papers:
A unified semantics for future Erlang:
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1863514
Towards Haskell in the Cloud:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/parallel/remote.pdf