HOPSA | a High-level Programming Language for Parallel Computations
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چکیده
The use of massive parallel computer architectures for the solution of compu tation intensive tasks requires speci c programming concepts and thus makes pro gramming more di cult This is because the parallel execution and the particular properties of the chosen machine architecture must be taken into consideration An abstract programming language more closely re ecting the speci cation notation is therefore desirable Programs written in this language should allow a translation into e cient code for massive parallel computers In that connection one may ask which aspects of parallel programming should be treated explicitly in the source code and which aspects like load balancing parallelization and process admin istration should be generated by a translator with certain analyzing capabilities Our long term goal is the implementation of such a language based for example on the operating system MMK Multitasking Multiprocessing Kernel which has been developed at the Technische Universit at M unchen
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