*Result*: Language and library support for practical PRAM programming
Title:
Language and library support for practical PRAM programming
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The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Publisher Information:
IEEE
Publication Year:
1997
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CiteSeerX
Document Type:
*Academic Journal*
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application/postscript
Language:
English
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Accession Number:
edsbas.6D80ED55
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BASE
*Further Information*
*We investigate the well-known PRAM model of parallel computation as a practical parallel programming model. The two components of this project are a general-purpose PRAM programming language called Fork95, and a library, called PAD, of efficient, basic parallel algorithms and data structures. We outline the primary features of Fork95 as they apply to the implementation of PAD. We give a brief overview of PAD and sketch the implementation of library routines for prefix-sums and bucket sorting. Both language and library can be used with the SBPRAM, an emulation of the PRAM in hardware.*