Design and implementation of a general purpose parallel programming system

Abstract

There are many non-scientific general purpose applications that could benefit from the modest use of parallelism. Due to the lack of good programming support tools, general purpose applications are unable to make use of parallel computation in workstation networks. In this paper, we present a model for general purpose parallel computation called the Composite Model, and its implementation as a set of portable language extensions. We then present an example of a language extended with composite constructs. Finally, we describe the compiler technology that allows composite programs to run effectively on workstation clusters.