DocumentCode
1267914
Title
Architectures within the ESPRIT SPAN project
Author
Rounce, Peter ; Delgado, Jose
Author_Institution
Dept. of comput. Sci., Univ. Coll., London, UK
Volume
10
Issue
6
fYear
1990
Firstpage
24
Lastpage
27
Abstract
An overview is given of the SPAN project, which pooled the resources of numerous researchers in several countries to integrate symbolic and numeric computing on parallel systems. The resulting Kernel System architectures provided a central model for which two programming languages and two parallel-system architectures were developed. The Kernel System architecture, Parle high-level procedural language, Virtual Machine Code, Sprint processor architecture, and DICE distributed memory architecture are examined.<>
Keywords
parallel architectures; symbol manipulation; DICE distributed memory architecture; ESPRIT SPAN project; Kernel System architectures; Parle high-level procedural language; Sprint processor architecture; Virtual Machine Code; parallel systems; parallel-system architectures; symbolic and numeric computing; Application software; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Educational institutions; Hardware; Kernel; Parallel architectures; Parallel processing; Power system modeling; Very large scale integration;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Micro, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0272-1732
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/40.62727
Filename
62727
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