VMPP: a virtual machine for parallel processing

Author

Loyot, Edmond C., Jr. ; Grimshaw, Andrew S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Virginia Univ., Charlottesville, VA, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

13-16 Apr 1993

Firstpage

735

Lastpage

740

Abstract

In the field of parallel processing, there is a great diversity of languages and architectures which become obsolete at a rapid pace. In this environment, portability is an important issue. Unfortunately, most parallel languages are not portable. This portability problem can be solved using a virtual machine approach. In this approach, front-end translators translate various parallel source languages into code for a virtual machine. Back-end translators translate the virtual machine code into executable codes for a variety of parallel architectures. The Virtual Machine for Parallel Processing (VMPP) is designed to provide portability for a variety of high-level parallel programming languages without significantly sacrificing performance

Keywords

parallel languages; program interpreters; software portability; virtual machines; VMPP; front-end translators; parallel processing; parallel source languages; portability; virtual machine; Computer architecture; Computer science; Concurrent computing; Investments; Parallel architectures; Parallel languages; Parallel processing; Parallel programming; Virtual machining; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Processing Symposium, 1993., Proceedings of Seventh International

Conference_Location

Newport, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3442-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPPS.1993.262790

Filename

262790