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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
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

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