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From: jxw@RODS.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU (John Willis)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: Parallelism and OOPSs
Summary: Object-structured Parallel Systems
Keywords: Coupling, Decomposition, Networks
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Date: 10 Oct 89 15:19:29 GMT
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Philips Research is actively building a parallel processor system
structured around objects.  The machine / system is called DOOM,
while the language is called POOL.  A 100 processor system is
already reported operational.  Several non-trivial applications
have been written for the machine by other organizations.  If you
are interested in the potential of objects for structuring
parallel computation, find out more about DOOM.  There was a good
survey article in IEEE Computer or IEEE Micro about 2 years ago
in the issue on International Computing.  Also see the 1987 and
1989 proceedings of the PARLE conference (available from Springer
-Verlag).