Implementing LOGFLOW on a workstation cluster

Author

Kacsuk, Péter ; Puskás, Zsolt ; Németh, Zsolt

Author_Institution

KFKI Res. Inst. for Meas. & Comput. Technol., Budapest, Hungary

fYear

1997

fDate

28 Apr-2 May 1997

Firstpage

145

Lastpage

150

Abstract

LOGFLOW is a distributed Prolog implementation running on transputer networks, developed at KFKI-MSZKI. To improve the capabilities and the power of LOGFLOW the system is ported onto workstation-clusters under the name WS-LOGFLOW. The new platform requires modification in the architecture of the system, in token transportation and in work distribution. This paper presents the modified architecture of WS-LOGFLOW, the new token distribution scheme, some detail of the porting processes, intra-node shared-memory communication and inter-node PVM-based message-passing communication

Keywords

PROLOG; local area networks; logic programming; message passing; parallel programming; program compilers; shared memory systems; transputer systems; LOGFLOW; WS-LOGFLOW; distributed Prolog implementation; inter-node PVM-based message-passing; intra-node shared-memory communication; porting process; token distribution; token transportation; transputer networks; work distribution; workstation cluster; Communication system control; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Engines; Intelligent networks; Machine intelligence; Parallel processing; Pipelines; Transportation; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Computing on the Information Superhighway, 1997. HPC Asia '97

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7901-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPC.1997.592138

Filename

592138