Research Directions in Parallel Functional Programming

Research Directions in Parallel Functional Programming
Author: Kevin Hammond
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 507
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1447108418

Programming is hard. Building a large program is like constructing a steam locomotive through a hole the size of a postage stamp. An artefact that is the fruit of hundreds of person-years is only ever seen by anyone through a lOO-line window. In some ways it is astonishing that such large systems work at all. But parallel programming is much, much harder. There are so many more things to go wrong. Debugging is a nightmare. A bug that shows up on one run may never happen when you are looking for it - but unfailingly returns as soon as your attention moves elsewhere. A large fraction of the program's code can be made up of marshalling and coordination algorithms. The core application can easily be obscured by a maze of plumbing. Functional programming is a radical, elegant, high-level attack on the programming problem. Radical, because it dramatically eschews side-effects; elegant, because of its close connection with mathematics; high-level, be cause you can say a lot in one line. But functional programming is definitely not (yet) mainstream. That's the trouble with radical approaches: it's hard for them to break through and become mainstream. But that doesn't make functional programming any less fun, and it has turned out to be a won derful laboratory for rich type systems, automatic garbage collection, object models, and other stuff that has made the jump into the mainstream.

Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing

Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing
Author: David Padua
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 2211
Release: 2014-07-08
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 038709766X

Containing over 300 entries in an A-Z format, the Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing provides easy, intuitive access to relevant information for professionals and researchers seeking access to any aspect within the broad field of parallel computing. Topics for this comprehensive reference were selected, written, and peer-reviewed by an international pool of distinguished researchers in the field. The Encyclopedia is broad in scope, covering machine organization, programming languages, algorithms, and applications. Within each area, concepts, designs, and specific implementations are presented. The highly-structured essays in this work comprise synonyms, a definition and discussion of the topic, bibliographies, and links to related literature. Extensive cross-references to other entries within the Encyclopedia support efficient, user-friendly searchers for immediate access to useful information. Key concepts presented in the Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing include; laws and metrics; specific numerical and non-numerical algorithms; asynchronous algorithms; libraries of subroutines; benchmark suites; applications; sequential consistency and cache coherency; machine classes such as clusters, shared-memory multiprocessors, special-purpose machines and dataflow machines; specific machines such as Cray supercomputers, IBM’s cell processor and Intel’s multicore machines; race detection and auto parallelization; parallel programming languages, synchronization primitives, collective operations, message passing libraries, checkpointing, and operating systems. Topics covered: Speedup, Efficiency, Isoefficiency, Redundancy, Amdahls law, Computer Architecture Concepts, Parallel Machine Designs, Benmarks, Parallel Programming concepts & design, Algorithms, Parallel applications. This authoritative reference will be published in two formats: print and online. The online edition features hyperlinks to cross-references and to additional significant research. Related Subjects: supercomputing, high-performance computing, distributed computing

Central European Functional Programming School

Central European Functional Programming School
Author: Zoltán Horváth
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2006-11-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540468455

This volume presents eight carefully revised texts of selected lectures given by leading researchers of the field at the first Central European Functional Programming School, CEFP 2005, held in Budapest, Hungary, in July 2005. The eight revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement for inclusion in the book. The lectures cover a wide range of topics such as new programming language concepts for subtyping.

Process Algebra for Parallel and Distributed Processing

Process Algebra for Parallel and Distributed Processing
Author: Michael Alexander
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2008-12-22
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1420064878

Collects the Latest Research Involving the Application of Process Algebra to ComputingExploring state-of-the-art applications, Process Algebra for Parallel and Distributed Processing shows how one formal method of reasoning-process algebra-has become a powerful tool for solving design and implementation challenges of concurrent systems. Parallel Pr

High-Level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments

High-Level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments
Author: Frank Mueller
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2003-05-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540454012

On the 23rd of April, 2001, the 6th Workshop on High-Level Parallel P- gramming Models and Supportive Environments (LCTES’98) was held in San Francisco. HIPShas been held over the past six years in conjunction with IPDPS, the Internation Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium. The HIPSworkshop focuses on high-level programming of networks of wo- stations, computing clusters and of massively-parallel machines. Its goal is to bring together researchers working in the areas of applications, language design, compilers, system architecture and programming tools to discuss new devel- ments in programming such systems. In recent years, several standards have emerged with an increasing demand of support for parallel and distributed processing. On one end, message-passing frameworks, such as PVM, MPI and VIA, provide support for basic commu- cation. On the other hand, distributed object standards, such as CORBA and DCOM, provide support for handling remote objects in a client-server fashion but also ensure certain guarantees for the quality of services. The key issues for the success of programming parallel and distributed en- ronments are high-level programming concepts and e?ciency. In addition, other quality categories have to be taken into account, such as scalability, security, bandwidth guarantees and fault tolerance, just to name a few. Today’s challenge is to provide high-level programming concepts without s- ri?cing e?ciency. This is only possible by carefully designing for those concepts and by providing supportive programming environments that facilitate program development and tuning.

Implementation of Functional Languages

Implementation of Functional Languages
Author: Markus Mohnen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2003-06-29
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 354045361X

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Implementing Functional Languages, IFL 2000, held in Aachen, Germany in September 2000. The 15 revised full papers presented have gone through a thorough round of post-workshop reviewing and were selected from 33 workshop presentations. Among the topics covered are language concepts, type checking, compilation techniques, abstract interpretation, automatic program generation, abstract machine architectures, array processing, concurrent and parallel processing, heap management, runtime profiling, performance measurement, debugging and tracing, and tools and programming techniques.

Implementation and Application of Functional Languages

Implementation and Application of Functional Languages
Author: Viktória Zsók
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2007-08-14
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540741305

This volume constitutes the post-proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Implementation and Applications of Functional Languages. Fifteen full papers are presented. Each one was submitted to two rounds of reviews to ensure accuracy, thoroughness, and readability. The papers address all current theoretical and methodological issues in functional and function-based languages.

Parallel And Distributed Computing For Symbolic And Irregular Applications - Proceedings Of The International Workshop Pdsia ’99

Parallel And Distributed Computing For Symbolic And Irregular Applications - Proceedings Of The International Workshop Pdsia ’99
Author: Takayasu Ito
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2000-04-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9814543217

PDSIA '99 was the fourth in a series of international workshops on parallel symbolic computing, a basic yet challenging area with wide applications in high-performance computing. As in the previous meetings, parallel symbolic languages and systems were the major topics. However, reflecting the latest advances in distributed computing systems, the workshop also encompassed wider perspectives in parallel and distributed computing for symbolic and irregular applications.

High-Performance Computing

High-Performance Computing
Author: Laurence T. Yang
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 818
Release: 2005-11-18
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0471732702

The state of the art of high-performance computing Prominent researchers from around the world have gathered to present the state-of-the-art techniques and innovations in high-performance computing (HPC), including: * Programming models for parallel computing: graph-oriented programming (GOP), OpenMP, the stages and transformation (SAT) approach, the bulk-synchronous parallel (BSP) model, Message Passing Interface (MPI), and Cilk * Architectural and system support, featuring the code tiling compiler technique, the MigThread application-level migration and checkpointing package, the new prefetching scheme of atomicity, a new "receiver makes right" data conversion method, and lessons learned from applying reconfigurable computing to HPC * Scheduling and resource management issues with heterogeneous systems, bus saturation effects on SMPs, genetic algorithms for distributed computing, and novel task-scheduling algorithms * Clusters and grid computing: design requirements, grid middleware, distributed virtual machines, data grid services and performance-boosting techniques, security issues, and open issues * Peer-to-peer computing (P2P) including the proposed search mechanism of hybrid periodical flooding (HPF) and routing protocols for improved routing performance * Wireless and mobile computing, featuring discussions of implementing the Gateway Location Register (GLR) concept in 3G cellular networks, maximizing network longevity, and comparisons of QoS-aware scatternet scheduling algorithms * High-performance applications including partitioners, running Bag-of-Tasks applications on grids, using low-cost clusters to meet high-demand applications, and advanced convergent architectures and protocols High-Performance Computing: Paradigm and Infrastructure is an invaluable compendium for engineers, IT professionals, and researchers and students of computer science and applied mathematics.

Parallel Computing Technologies

Parallel Computing Technologies
Author: Victor Malyshkin
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 582
Release: 2003-08-21
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540406735

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Parallel Computing Technologies, PaCT 2003, held in Novosibirsk, Russia in September 2003. The 38 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited papers and 10 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on theory, software, applications, and tools. A broad variety of parallel processing issues and distributed computing in general are addressed.