The Mentat programming language and architecture

Author

Grimshaw, Andrew S. ; Liu, Jane W S

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA

fYear

1988

Firstpage

426

Lastpage

437

Abstract

An object-oriented macro dataflow system called Mentat is described. The objective of Mentat is to provide an easy-to-use, transparent mechanism to exploit parallelism. Mentat meets these objectives by combining a data-driven computation model, the macro data-flow model, with the object-oriented programming paradigm. A high-level view of Mentat (including the macro data-flow model) is provided, along with Mentat´s graph-representation mechanism called future lists, the Mentat programming language, the Mentat virtual machine, and the implementation status of a prototype Mentat system

Keywords

high level languages; object-oriented programming; parallel architectures; virtual machines; Mentat; Mentat programming language; architecture; data-driven computation model; future lists; graph-representation mechanism; macro data-flow model; object-oriented macro dataflow system; object-oriented programming; parallelism; virtual machine; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Computer languages; Computer science; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming; Parallel processing; Runtime; Virtual machining; Virtual prototyping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems in the 1990s, 1988. Proceedings., Workshop on the Future Trends of

Print_ISBN

0-8186-0897-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FTDCS.1988.26725

Filename

26725