Multi-microprocessor that executes pure LISP in parallel
The architecture presented allows parallel computation of high level languages, with some advantages: (1) the programmer is unaware that he is writing programs for a parallel computer; (2) the processors communicate little with each other, so that interconnection problems are minimised; (3) a given processor is unaware of how many other processors there are, or what they are doing; (4) a processor never waits for another process to have finished, nor does it awake or interrupt another processor. The machine processes in parallel programs written in high level languages capable of being expressed in the lambda notation (applicative languages). It is formed by a collection of general purpose processors which are weakly coupled and without hierarchy. Asynchronous computation is permitted by each processor evaluating a part of a program. 17 references.
- OSTI ID:
- 5302841
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-830190-
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: International conference on system science, Honolulu, HI, USA, 5 Jan 1983
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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