Mentat

Abstract

Mentat is an object-oriented parallel processing system designed to directly address the difficulty of developing architecture-independent parallel programs. The fundamental objectives of Mentat are to (1) provide easy-to-use parallelism, (2) achieve high performance via parallel execution, and (3) facilitate the execution of applications across a wide range of platforms. The Mentat approach exploits the object-oriented paradigm to provide high-level abstractions that mask the complex aspects of parallel programming, including communication, synchronization, and scheduling, from the programmer. The programmer uses application domain knowledge to specify those object classes that are of suffi ient computational complexity to warrant parallel execution

DateOfInformation

Tue Jun 9 15:31:13 1998

Domain

Parallel Processing Tools!Parallel Programming Languages and Compilers

Keyword

parallel programming language; parallel runtime system; dependency analysis; architecture dependence

Name

Mentat

TargetEnvironment

The systems supported in this release are the Sun 4 w/ SunOS 4.x, Sun 4 w/ SunOS 5.x (Solaris), Silicon Graphics, HP 9000/700, IBM RS6000, and Linux.

Version

3.0

Webpage

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~mentat/index.html

ContactIs

Mentat Help