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Data-parallel portable software platform: Principles and implementation

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PARLE '93 Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe (PARLE 1993)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 694))

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Abstract

A unified approach to the implementation of data-parallel programming languages on a variety of platforms is presented. It is based on a formally defined intermediate language (f-code), which was developed to represent the semantics of data-parallel processing in full as well as data management and control primitives inherent in the most widely used languages: Fortran, Pascal and C. Among the innovative features of f-code are a consistent set of nonscalar operations more generic than in APL yet easy to use and a semi-strong type system accounting for both strong typing as in Pascal and soft typing as in C and Fortran. The implementation principles of f-code and an example implementation for the i860 are discussed.

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  1. Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Surrey, GU2 5XH, England

    V. B. Muchnick, A. V. Shafarenko & C. D. Sutton

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Arndt Bode Mike Reeve Gottfried Wolf

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Muchnick, V.B., Shafarenko, A.V., Sutton, C.D. (1993). Data-parallel portable software platform: Principles and implementation. In: Bode, A., Reeve, M., Wolf, G. (eds) PARLE '93 Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe. PARLE 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 694. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-56891-3_13

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