Parallel Lisp: Languages and Systems: US/Japan Workshop on Parallel Lisp Sendai, Japan, June 5–8, 1989 Proceedings

Robert H. Halstead Jr. (auth.), Takayasu Ito, Robert H. Halstead Jr. (eds.)3540527826, 9783540527824

This volume presents the proceedings of a workshop at which major Parallel Lisp activities in the US and Japan were explained. Work covered includes Multilisp and Mul-T at MIT, Qlisp at Stanford, Lucid and Parcel at Illinois, PaiLisp at Tohoku University, Multiprocessor Lisp on TOP-1 at IBM Tokyo Research, and concurrent programming in TAO. Most papers present languages and systems of Parallel Lisp and are in particular concerned with: – Language constructs of Parallel Lisp and their meanings from the standpoint of implementing Parallel Lisp systems; – Some important technical issues such as parallel garbage collection, dynamic task partitioning, futures and continuations in parallelism, automatic parallelization of Lisp programs, and the kernel concept of Parallel Lisp. Some performance results are reported that suggest practical applicability of Parallel Lisp systems in the near future. Several papers on concurrent object-oriented systems are also included.

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Table of contents :
New ideas in parallel lisp: Language design, implementation, and programming tools….Pages 1-57
A parallel lisp language PaiLisp and its kernel specification….Pages 58-100
Continuing into the future: On the interaction of futures and first-class continuations….Pages 101-102
Speculative computation in multilisp….Pages 103-137
Garbage collection in multischeme….Pages 138-160
Qlisp: An Interim Report….Pages 161-181
Low-cost process creation and dynamic partitioning in Qlisp….Pages 182-199
Concurrent scheme….Pages 200-234
The design of automatic parallelizers for symbolic and numeric programs….Pages 235-253
A reflective object oriented concurrent language ABCL/R….Pages 254-256
Optimistic and pessimistic synchronization in distributed computing….Pages 257-260
Toward a new computing model for an open distributed environment….Pages 261-268
Concurrent programming in TAO — Practice and experience….Pages 269-299
A pseudo network approach to inter-processor communication on a shared-memory multi-processor MacELIS….Pages 300-305
Mul-T: A high-performance parallel lisp….Pages 306-311
Integrating parallel lisp with modern unix-based operating systems….Pages 312-315
mUtilisp: a lisp dialect for parallel processing….Pages 316-321
PM1 and PMLisp: An experimental machine and its lisp system for research on MIMD massively parallel computation….Pages 322-347
Design of the shared memory system for multi-processor lisp machines and its implementation on the evlis machine….Pages 348-352
TOP-1 multiprocessor workstation….Pages 353-363