An environment for painless MIMD system development

Author

Lopez, Leonard A. ; Valimohamed, Karim A. ; Schub, Linda G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Civil Eng., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA

Volume

9

Issue

6

fYear

1992

Firstpage

67

Lastpage

76

Abstract

An environment that lets system applications be expressed as virtual machines, through which architecture-independent multiple-instruction, multiple-data stream (MIMD) programs are written, is described. The virtual machine hides the hardware configuration from the programmer so that the MIMD programming environment always appears the same, regardless of the actual hardware. The data-definition and procedural high-level languages used in the environment and the generation of object code in the environment are discussed. The runtime configuration of the system and an implemented prototype of the system are described.<>

Keywords

high level languages; parallel programming; programming environments; virtual machines; MIMD programming environment; MIMD system development; architecture-independent; data-definition; multiple-data stream; multiple-instruction; object code generation; procedural high-level languages; runtime configuration; system applications; virtual machines; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Costs; Finite element methods; Hardware; Manufacturing; Multiprocessing systems; Parallel processing; Process control; Time of arrival estimation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0740-7459

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/52.168860

Filename

168860