Title :
Flagship-a parallel reduction machine for declarative programming
Author :
Greenberg, M. ; Woods, Viv
Author_Institution :
Manchester Univ., UK
fDate :
3/1/1990 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The Flagship project aimed to develop a scalable parallel machine for declarative programming. A packet reduction model of computation was developed to exploit the implicit parallelism found in declarative languages and a work distribution and scheduling scheme was devised to utilise the resources of the parallel machine efficiently. The article outlines the model of computation and the mechanisms which dynamically control and exploit program parallelism. It also describes the architecture of the machine and presents some performance results which were extracted from detailed simulations
Keywords :
parallel architectures; parallel machines; parallel programming; Flagship project; architecture; computation; declarative languages; declarative programming; implicit parallelism; packet reduction model; parallel reduction machine; performance results; program parallelism; resources; scalable parallel machine; scheduling; simulations; work distribution;
Journal_Title :
Computing & Control Engineering Journal
