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From: bakken@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Bakken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Re: Could we run a C++ program on several processors in parallel ?
Message-ID: <20862@megaron.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 3 May 90 02:09:15 GMT
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Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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In article <3529@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> qyl@cs.strath.ac.uk writes:
 
>Could we write a C++ program and then run it on several processors
>of Sequent in parallel ? If we could, how can we write that program ?
>I tried to combine C++ with Parallel Programming Library. However,
>C++ seems to have the problem to recognize the keywords such as "shared".

Check out Presto, a package by Brian Bershad at the UW.  It is a slick
package that will do what you want and then more.  It is available via
ftp from cs.washington.edu.  Caution - you will need ATT C++ 1.2.1 to
get it running on a Sequent.  Hopefully some day it will be ported to
g++.  Good luck!
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