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Hi,

Can anyone point me to a survey paper for approaches to parallel computation?

Googling, I've found Models and Languages for Parallel Computation (Skillicorn and Talia) which is a pretty good example of what I'm looking for (from an initial skim through). However, that's from 1996 - I'm wondering if there's anything newer (or just complementary).

Thanks,
Andrew

By andrew cooke at 2004-07-15 13:30 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 18924 reads

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A couple of references

Here are some references I have close at hand that might be useful:

Bal Henry E., A comparative study of five parallel programming languages, EurOpen spring 1991 Conference on Open Distributed System in prespective, Tromso, 20-24 May 1991.

Bal Henry E., Steiner Jennifer G., Tanenbaum Andrew S., Programming Languages for Distributed Computing Systems. ACM Computing Surveys, Vol.21, No.3, 3, September 1989.

Pingali K., Parallel Languages, Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering( John Webster ,ed.),John Wiley 1998.

By Ehud Lamm at Thu, 2004-07-15 13:46 | login or register to post comments

thanks!

thanks!

By andrew cooke at Fri, 2004-07-16 16:20 | login or register to post comments

Secret language?

Beefing up your secret language? :-)
Just single-site parallelism, or heavily distributed?

By Andris Birkmanis at Sat, 2004-07-17 07:09 | login or register to post comments

the more i learn, the more my

the more i learn, the more my secret language sucks. :o)

By andrew cooke at Sat, 2004-07-17 13:21 | login or register to post comments

Don't feel too bad

The whole industry is in exactly the same situation...

By Ehud Lamm at Sat, 2004-07-17 15:22 | login or register to post comments

Is industry...

Do you mean they are learning? :-)

Speaking of secret little projects - oh, I better post it separately...

By Andris Birkmanis at Sat, 2004-07-17 15:59 | login or register to post comments

Before anyone objects...

Perhaps what I wrote is open to misunderstanding: I meant the entire field, not just the high-tech industry.

By Ehud Lamm at Sat, 2004-07-17 16:04 | login or register to post comments

There's an old book by Filman

There's an old book by Filman and Friedman called Coordinated Computing, now on the web: http://ic.arc.nasa.gov/people/filman/text/dpl/dpl.html

It's more about distributed than parallel.

[Edited to make the link into an href. Didn't the old LtU do that automatically?]

By Darius Bacon at Mon, 2004-07-19 11:27 | login or register to post comments