The European Declarative System (EDS) as a platform for parallel logic programming

Author

Wong, K.-F. ; Baron, U.C. ; Benker, H. ; Bescos, S. ; Cheese, A.B. ; Cosquer, F.J.N. ; Delgado-Rannauro, S.A. ; Dorochevsky, M. ; Heuzé, P. ; Ibanez-Espiga, M. ; Noyé, J. ; Paci, M. ; Ratcliffe, M.J. ; Reeve, M.J. ; Schuerman, K. ; Sexton, A. ; Veron, A.

Author_Institution

Eur. Comput.-Ind. Res. Centre GmbH, Munich, Germany

fYear

1990

fDate

9-13 Dec 1990

Firstpage

339

Lastpage

342

Abstract

The overall architecture of the European Declarative System (EDS), ESPRIT II Project 2025 is briefly described. The aim of the project is to design and implement both the hardware and software for a parallel information server. The final system will be used to develop advanced business information systems. The EDS machine is designed to be a high speed backend accelerator, primarily for data/knowledge base applications, serving a range of host computers. It is a message passing multiprocessor with a distributed store, commonly referred to as a shared nothing architecture. Whilst shared nothing architectures are not novel, their application to declarative/symbolic languages is relatively new. The authors describe the EDS software activities at ECRC. A conclusion reporting the current status of the project is given

Keywords

logic programming; message switching; multiprocessing systems; multiprocessor interconnection networks; parallel programming; programming environments; ECRC; EDS; ESPRIT II Project 2025; ElipSys; European Declarative System; distributed store; high speed backend accelerator; message passing multiprocessor; parallel information server; parallel logic programming; shared nothing architecture; symbolic programming; Application software; Communication switching; Computer architecture; Dairy products; Hardware; Logic programming; Message passing; Network interfaces; Packet switching; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Processing, 1990. Proceedings of the Second IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2087-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SPDP.1990.143560

Filename

143560