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From: dciem!array!len@uunet.UU.NET (Leonard Vanek)
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Subject: Re: "Molecule: Language Construct for Development Parallel Programs"
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Date: 29 May 89 12:08:28 GMT
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In article <5593@hubcap.clemson.edu> cline@sunshine.ece.clarkson.edu (Marshall Cline) writes:
>
>Did ya'all see the article in May's IEEE Transactions Software Engineering?
>     "Molecule: A Language Construct for Development of Parallel Programs",
>      by Z. Xu & K. Hwang, pages 587-599.
>
>Personally, I'm interested in the concept of allowing _one_ parallel
>program to compile on _many_ hardware platforms regardless of the
>hardware's underlying mechanisms.  I'd like to discuss this issue if
>others are also interested.
...
>
>QUESTION #5: Anyone know of any _other_ work being done in this area (ie:
>any other methods for "parallelization-schema-independence"?).

Check out "The Parallation Model: Architecture-Independent Parallel
Programming" by Gary Sabot. This book, published by the MIT Press and
based on the author's thesis, describes a model and implementation of
a simulator for this model. The prototyping work was all done in LISP
so LISP is used for most of the examples in the book. This tends to
support the use of dataflow notation in Molecule. However, Sabot
claims that the model is language-independent and to illustrate that
point does include some examples in C.

Len
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