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The paper reviews the problems inhibiting the widespread use of parallel processing by both industry and by software houses. The two key issues of portability of code and of generality of parallel architectures are discussed. An overview of useful computational models and programming paradigms for parallel machines is presented along with some detailed case studies implemented on transputer arrays. Valiant's results on optimally universal parallel machines are reviewed along with the prospects of building truly general-purpose parallel computers. Some remarks on language and software tool developments for parallel programming form the conclusion to the paper.
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Hey, A.J.G. (1989). Experiments in mimd parallelism. In: Odijk, E., Rem, M., Syre, JC. (eds) PARLE '89 Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe. PARLE 1989. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 366. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-51285-3_31
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