Title :
Architectures within the ESPRIT SPAN project
Author :
Rounce, Peter ; Delgado, Jose
Author_Institution :
Dept. of comput. Sci., Univ. Coll., London, UK
Abstract :
An overview is given of the SPAN project, which pooled the resources of numerous researchers in several countries to integrate symbolic and numeric computing on parallel systems. The resulting Kernel System architectures provided a central model for which two programming languages and two parallel-system architectures were developed. The Kernel System architecture, Parle high-level procedural language, Virtual Machine Code, Sprint processor architecture, and DICE distributed memory architecture are examined.<>
Keywords :
parallel architectures; symbol manipulation; DICE distributed memory architecture; ESPRIT SPAN project; Kernel System architectures; Parle high-level procedural language; Sprint processor architecture; Virtual Machine Code; parallel systems; parallel-system architectures; symbolic and numeric computing; Application software; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Educational institutions; Hardware; Kernel; Parallel architectures; Parallel processing; Power system modeling; Very large scale integration;
Journal_Title :
Micro, IEEE
