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Jade Parallel Programming Language

Abstract

Included with the SAM system is an implementation of the Jade parallel language for distributed memory machines using SAM. Jade is a parallel programming language (an extension to C) for exploiting coarse-grain concurrency in sequential, imperative programs. Jade provides the convenience of a shared memory model by allowing any task to access shared objects transparently. Jade programmers augment their sequential programs with constructs that decompose the computation into tasks and declare how tasks access shared objects. The Jade implementation dynamically interprets this information to execute the program in parallel while preserving the sequential semantics -- if there is a data dependence between tasks, tasks run in the same order as in the sequential execution.

DateOfInformation

Thr Oct 29 16:23:46 1998

Domain

Parallel Processing Tools!Parallel Programming Languages and Compilers

TargetEnvironment

This release is designed for networks of workstations (SUN4, SGI, and DECStation) using PVM, for the Intel iPSC/860 hypercube, for the Stanford DASH multiprocessor, and for the SGI family of shared-memory multiprocessors.

Webpage

http://www.cag.lcs.mit.edu/~rinard/jade/index.html

ContactIs

Martin C. Rinard