Flagship: a parallel architecture for declarative programming

The Flagship project aims to produce a computing technology based on the declarative style of programming. A major component of that technology is the design for a parallel machine which can efficiently exploit the implicit parallelism in declarative programs. This paper describes the computational...

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Published in:Computer architecture news 1988-05, Vol.16 (2), p.124-130
Main Authors: Watson, I., Woods, V., Watson, P., Banach, R., Greenberg, M., Sargeant, J.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:The Flagship project aims to produce a computing technology based on the declarative style of programming. A major component of that technology is the design for a parallel machine which can efficiently exploit the implicit parallelism in declarative programs. This paper describes the computational models which expose this implicit parallelism, and outlines an architecture designed to exploit it. The operational issues, such as dynamic load balancing, which arise in such a system are discussed, and the mechanisms being used to evaluate the architecture are described.
ISSN:0163-5964
DOI:10.1145/633625.52415