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The GRIP architecture allows efficient execution of functional programs on a multi-processor built from standard hardware components. State-of-the-art compilation techniques are combined with sophisticated runtime resource-control to give good parallel performance. This paper reports the results of running GRIP on an application which is apparently unsuited to the basic functional model: a database transaction manager incorporating updates as well as lookup transactions. The results obtained show good relative speedups for GRIP, with real performance advantages over the same application executing on sequential machines.
This work is supported by the ESPRIT FIDE Project (BRA 3070), the SERC Bulk Data Type Constructors Project, the SERC GRASP Project and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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Akerholt, G., Hammond, K., Jones, S.P., Trinder, P. (1993). Processing transactions on GRIP, a parallel graph reducer. 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_51
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