SISAL reference manual. Language version 2.0

Conference · Tue May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1990

OSTI ID:10104282

Oldehoeft, R R ^[1]; Boehm, A P.W.; Grit, D H ^[2]; Cann, D C ^[1]; Feo, J T ^[3]

---

1. ed.
2. Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO (United States). Dept. of Computer Science
3. Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)

In this report we describe the SISAL 2.0 programming language. The project began in 1982 as a cooperative venture by Digital Equipment Corporation, the University of Manchester (England), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Colorado State University. The project`s goals evolved to become: Define a general-purpose functional language that can run efficiently on conventional and novel parallel architectures; define a dataflow graph intermediate form independent of language and target architecture; develop optimization techniques for high-performance applicative computing;develop a thread management environment to support dataflow-style parallel computing on conventional shared-memory multiprocessors; achieve sequential and parallel execution performance competitive with programs written in conventional languages; and validate the functional style of programming for large-scale scientific applications.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 10104282
• Report Number(s): UCRL-JC--104008; CONF-9006328--2; ON: DE92004660
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
990200
ARRAY PROCESSORS
MANUALS
MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS
PARALLEL PROCESSING
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES