โ Scribed by Bishop, Judy M. ;Thomas, Ken S.
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The transputer Is one of the most cost-effective multicomputer components to buy, but still one of the hardest to program. Even If the parts of a program that are destined for individual transputers are programmed in a familiar high-level language (Ada or Fortran or C), users are forced to be aware of wcam when connecting transputers together with harnesses. Moreover, the design of parallel and distributed algorithms is in itself a challenging field. This paper describes experience with using the Alsys Ada compiler on single and multiple transputer configurations, and considers whether Ada makes it any easler to gain access to the power of multi-transputers. Early performance figures indicate that Ada running on transputer arrays compares favourably with the speed of other languages. An assessment of the Impact of the proposed Ada 9X support for distribution is made.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
This paper is concerned with the implementation of functional languages on a parallel architecture, using graph reduction as a model of computation. Parallelism in such systems is automatically derived by the compiler but a major problem is the fine granularity, illustrated in Divide-and-Conquer pro