A Comparative Study of Parallel Programming Languages: the Salishan Problems

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Front Cover; A Comparative Study of Parallel Programming Languages: The Salishan Problems; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction to the Series; Preface; Chapter 1. The Salishan Problems; 1. Introduction; 2. Instructions to the authors; 3. Hamming's Problem (extended); 4. Paraffins Problems; 5. The Doctor's Office; 6. Skyline Matrix Solver; Acknowledgements; Disclaimer; References; Chapter 2. Ada Solutions to the Salishan Problems; 1. Language Features Relevant to the Salishan Problems; 2. Hamming's Problem (Extended); 3. The Paraffins Problem; 4. The Doctor's Office Problem.;As execution speeds reach the physical limits of single cpu computers, the only hope of achieving greater computing power is with parallel systems. Researchers have proposed countless new programming languages, but their differences, similarities, strengths, weaknesses and problem domains are subtle and often not well understood. Informed comparison of parallel languages is difficult. This volume compares eight parallel programming languages based on solutions to four problems. Each chapter includes a description of the language's philosophy, semantics and syntax, and a solution to each proble. Front Cover A Comparative Study of Parallel Programming Languages: The Salishan Problems Copyright Page Table of Contents Introduction to the Series Preface Chapter 1. The Salishan Problems 1. Introduction 2. Instructions to the authors 3. Hamming's Problem (extended) 4. Paraffins Problems 5. The Doctor's Office 6. Skyline Matrix Solver Acknowledgements Disclaimer References Chapter 2. Ada Solutions to the Salishan Problems 1. Language Features Relevant to the Salishan Problems 2. Hamming's Problem (Extended) 3. The Paraffins Problem 4. The Doctor's Office Problem. 5. The Skyline Matrix ProblemAcknowledgements Footnotes References Chapter 3. The C* Parallel Programming Language 1. Background 2. Hamming's Problem Extended 3. Paraffins Problem 4. A Doctor's Office 5. Skyline Matrix Solver Footnotes References Appendix Chapter 4. Haskell Solutions to the Language Session Problems at the 1988 Salishan High-Speed Computing Conference 1. Introduction 2. Brief Overview of Haskell 3. Hamming's Problem (Extended) 4. The Paraffin Problem 5. A Doctor's Office 6. Skyline Matrix Solver Acknowledgements Footnotes References. Chapter 5. Id: a language with implicit parallelism1. Introduction 2. Hamming's problem, extended 3. The paraffins problem 4. A doctor's office 5. Skyline matrix solver Acknowledgements Footnotes References Chapter 6. OCCAM 1. Introduction 2. Processes 3. Types and Variables 4. Channel Communications 5. Procedures and Functions 6. Configuration 7. Examples References Appendix Chapter 7. Program Composition Notation 1. Introduction 2. Data Types 3. Composition 4. Examples 5. Hamming's Problem 6. Paraffins 7. Doctors' Office 8. Skyline Matrix References Appendix. Chapter 8. The Scheme Programming Language1. History and Features of Scheme 2. The Syntax of Scheme 3. Hamming's Problem Extended 4. The Paraffin Problem 5. The Doctor-Patient Problem 6. The Skyline-Matrix Problem 7. Conclusions and Issues Acknowledgements References Appendix Chapter 9. Sisal 1. Introduction 2. Language Definition 3. Hamming's Problem, Extended 4. The Paraffins Problem 5. The Doctor's Office 6.0. Skyline Matrix Problem 7. Conclusions Acknowledgements Disclaimer References Appendix.