A Prototype Functional Language Implementation for Hierarchical-Memory Architectures. Revision 1

Conference · Tue Jan 07 00:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:10120829

Wolski, Rich ^[1]; Feo, John ^[1]; Cann, David ^[1]

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1. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Programming languages are the most important tool at a programmer's disposal. All other tools correct, visualize, or evaluate the product crafted by this tool. The ad vent of multiprocessor computer systems has greatly complicated the programmer's task and increased his need for high-level languages capable of automatically taming these architectures. In this paper, we describe a prototype implementation of Sisal for multiprocessor, hierarchical memory systems. The implementation includes explicit compiler and runtime control that effectively exploits the different levels of memory and manages inter process communications (IPC). We give preliminary performance results for this system on the BBN TC2000.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 10120829
• Report Number(s): UCRL-JC--107437-Rev.1; CONF-920114--1-Rev.1; ON: DE92007308
• Resource Type: Conference paper/presentation
• Conference Information: 25. Hawaii international conference on system sciences genome mapping and dequencing minitrack, Kauai, HI (United States), 7-10 Jan 1992
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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