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Paralation views: Abstractions for efficient scientific computing on the connection machine. Technical report

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5005260
An ideal parallel programming language for scientific applications should provide flexible abstraction mechanisms for writing organized and readable programs, encourage a modular programming style that permits using libraries of tested routines, and, above all, permit the programming to write efficient programs for the target machine. These criteria are used to evaluate the languages Lisp, Connection Machine Lisp, and Paralation Lisp for writing scientific programs on the Connection Machine. As a vehicle for this exploration, the authors fix a particular non-trivial algorithm (LU decomposition with partial pivoting) and study code for implementing it in the three languages.
Research Organization:
Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge, MA (USA). Lab. for Computer Science
OSTI ID:
5005260
Report Number(s):
AD-A-213935/0/XAB; MIT/LCS/TM--398
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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