Easy-to-use object-oriented parallel processing with Mentat

Author

Grimshaw, Andrew S.

Author_Institution

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

Volume

26

Issue

5

fYear

1993

fDate

5/1/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

39

Lastpage

51

Abstract

Mentat, an object-oriented parallel processing system designed to directly address the difficulty of developing architecture-independent parallel programs, is discussed. The Mentat system consists of two components: the Mentat programming language and the Mentat runtime system. The Mentat programming language, which is based on C++, is described. Performance results from implementing the Mentat runtime system on a network of Sun 3 and 4 workstations, the Silicon Graphics Iris, the Intel iPSC/2, and the Intel iPSC/860 are presented.<>

Keywords

high level languages; object-oriented programming; parallel processing; parallel programming; C++; Intel iPSC/2; Intel iPSC/860; Mentat; Mentat programming language; Mentat runtime system; Silicon Graphics Iris; Sun 3; Sun 4 workstation; architecture-independent parallel programs; object-oriented parallel processing; Computer languages; Concurrent computing; Environmental management; Object oriented programming; Parallel architectures; Parallel processing; Parallel programming; Program processors; Programming profession; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/2.211896

Filename

211896