Matching language and hardware for parallel computation in the Linda Machine

Journal Article · Mon Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1988 · IEEE Trans. Comput.; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/12.2244· OSTI ID:6902291

Ahuja, S; Carriero, N J; Gelernter, D H; Krishnaswamy, V

The Linda Machine is a parallel computer that has been designed to support the Linda parallel programming environment in hardware. Programs in Linda communicate through a logically shared, associative memory called tuple space. Physically shared memory seems, however, to be a more complicated and less scalable basis for a multicomputer architecture than distributed memory, but the goal of the Linda Machine project is accordingly to implement Linda's high-level shared-memory abstraction efficiently on a nonshared-memory architecture. The authors describe the machine's special-purpose communication network and its associated protocols, the design of the Linda coprocessor, and the way its interaction with the network supports global access to tuple space. The Linda Machine has been designed and is in the process of fabrication. They discuss the machine's projected performance and compare this to software versions of Linda.

• Research Organization: AT and T Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ (US)
• OSTI ID: 6902291
• Journal Information: IEEE Trans. Comput.; (United States), Journal Name: IEEE Trans. Comput.; (United States) Vol. 37:8; ISSN ITCOB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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