New name

gpars Groovy Parallel Systems

Finalists

1. GParallel - 6
2. GRAND - 4
3. GRACE - 4
4. gpars - 4
5. GRIP - 5

First round results

1. GParallel - G P A R W V - 6
2. Gras (Grass) - A V - 2
3. Tractor - G - 1
4. Attractor - G A - 2
5. Atractor
6. GRAND - D P A W - 4
7. GRACE - D A W V - 4
8. Grapa - D - 1
9. gp - P - 1
10. gpars - D P R W - 4
11. gconch - R - 1
12. gcamp - W - 1
13. Gektor - G - 1
14. GRIP - D G P R V - 5
15. GRANDPAR -
16. GRILLA - R V = 2

Proposals

1. GParallel - limit brand change
2. Gras (Grass) - "Groovy ASynchronously" or "Groovy Actors and Synchonization"
3. Tractor - a play on words with Actor in it
4. Attractor
5. Atractor
6. GRAND (GRoovy Actor N Dataflow)
7. GRACE (Groovy Actor Concurrency Executor?)
8. Grapa
9. gp (groovy parallelism - pronounced jeep)
10. gpars (as above - pronounced jeepers)
11. gconch (groovy concurrency handling - similar to jconch)
12. gcamp (groovy concurrency, actors, multi-threading, parallelism)
13. Gektor - sounds like Hector, Troy war hero, also is pronounced like it has "actor" in it
14. GRIP - GRoovy Intuitive Parallelism (or just GRoovy In Parallel)
15. GRANDPAR - as before for GRAND but with PARallelism added
16. GRILLA - (GRoovy In paraLLel with Actors, allows PILLA to be the Python version for Russel)

Turned down proposals

1. ParallelG
2. aGtor
3. aligActor
4. ActorG
5. Clap
6. Comedian
7. Grad - Groovy Async & Distributed
8. gChic - CHores Initiated Concurrency
9. GRACI (GR Actor Concurrency Implementation)
10. GAO (Groovy Actor Object), Gao also means tall in chinese
11. Gractor - Groovy actor
12. Acting (Actors in Groovy)
13. Groar

General guidelines

Below you can find the list of preferences that the new name should take into consideration:

• The name should not emphasize one particular model of parallelism (there are more coming ;) )
• it should be short
• it should be easy to remember
• it may be read as an acronym
• it may best not be a valid english word, but sound like one
• it should have a conotation to the "many things at once"