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Hierarchical concurrency in Jade

  • I. Explicitly Parallel Languages
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Jade is a data-oriented language for exploiting coarse-grain parallelism. A Jade programmer simply augments a serial program with assertions specifying how the program accesses data. The Jade implementation dynamically interprets these assertions, using them to execute the program concurrently while enforcing the program's data dependence constraints. Jade has been implemented as extensions to C, FORTRAN, and C++, and currently runs on the Encore Multimax, Silicon Graphics IRIS 4D/240S, and the Stanford DASH multiprocessors. In this paper, we show how Jade programmers can naturally express hierarchical concurrency patterns by specifying how a program uses hierarchically structured data.

This research was supported in part by DARPA contract N00014-87-K-0828.

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  1. Stanford University, USA

    D. Scales, M. Rinard, M. Lam & J. Anderson

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Utpal Banerjee David Gelernter Alex Nicolau David Padua

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Scales, D., Rinard, M., Lam, M., Anderson, J. (1992). Hierarchical concurrency in Jade. In: Banerjee, U., Gelernter, D., Nicolau, A., Padua, D. (eds) Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing. LCPC 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 589. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0038657

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