Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Illinois Inst. of Technol., Chicago, IL, USA
Abstract :
A model of parallel computation, message-driven computing (MDC), is presented, along with a language OOMDC/C that implements it. OOMDC/C is an object-oriented version of MDC that has been implemented in a sequential version and in two parallel versions on the Encore multiprocessor, one holding the messages in shared memory and the other copying the messages between processes. It is shown that the model facilitates the use of a variety of parallel data and control structures, including Actors, distributed arrays, communicating processes, remote procedure calls, broadcast and accumulation, data flow graphs, l-structures, streams, active messages, and demand-driven dynamic programming
Keywords :
object-oriented programming; parallel programming; programming theory; Actors; Encore multiprocessor; MDC; OOMDC/C; accumulation; active messages; broadcast; communicating processes; data flow graphs; demand-driven dynamic programming; distributed arrays; l-structures; message driven computing; object-oriented; parallel computation; parallel data; remote procedure calls; shared memory; streams; Broadcasting; Computational modeling; Computer science; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; Dynamic programming; Functional programming; Message passing; Object oriented modeling; Pattern matching;
