Concurr-a problem solving language for parallel systems

Author

Weisbecker, James R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., London Univ., UK

Volume

2

fYear

1989

fDate

3-6 Jan 1989

Firstpage

726

Abstract

The Concurr language for parallel systems is designed as an easy-to-use parallel programming facility. It provides constructs for expressing parallelism explicitly as well as constructs from which parallelism can be extracted implicitly by the compiler. Thus is offers a framework to evaluate the potential of the explicit and implicit approaches to parallelism within the same programming language. The language also attempts to overcome some restrictions of previous, sequential languages. Concurr can be used to prepare code for either multiprocessor parallel (MIMD) or data parallel (SIMD) architectures

Keywords

high level languages; parallel programming; Concurr language; MIMD; SIMD; architectures; compiler; constructs; data parallel; multiprocessor parallel; parallel programming; parallel systems; parallelism; problem solving language; Computer architecture; Computer science; Concurrent computing; Educational institutions; Hardware; Parallel languages; Parallel processing; Parallel programming; Problem-solving; Supercomputers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1989. Vol.II: Software Track, Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kailua-Kona, HI

Print_ISBN

0-8186-1912-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1989.48080

Filename

48080