Symbolic computing, Lisp languages, and parallel computing

Author

Furnari, Mario Mango ; Massarotti, Antonio

Author_Institution

Istituto di Cibernetica, CNR, Naples, Italy

fYear

1994

fDate

2-6 May 1994

Firstpage

542

Lastpage

553

Abstract

In this paper we review symbolic parallel programming issues. We start describing the peculiarities of symbolic programming. Next, we review the standard parallel programming framework for the imperative-like languages. Also the autoscheduling environment, proposed by Polychronopoulos (1990), is introduced. The current extensions for symbolic parallel programming are described. The problem how to efficiently manage the parallelism in LISP is addressed, and the Hierarchical Task Graph, an intermediate program representation in which the parallelism is expressed by the task hierarchy, and the associated run-time model are also described. The extensions necessary to manage the parallelism at run-time in a multiprogramming environment are described

Keywords

LISP; multiprocessing programs; parallel languages; parallel programming; symbol manipulation; Lisp languages; autoscheduling environment; multiprogramming environment; parallel computing; parallel programming; symbolic computing; symbolic parallel programming; Computer languages; Concurrent computing; Environmental management; NP-complete problem; Packaging machines; Parallel machines; Parallel processing; Parallel programming; Program processors; Runtime environment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Massively Parallel Computing Systems, 1994., Proceedings of the First International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ischia

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6322-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MPCS.1994.367033

Filename

367033