Parallel Lisp: Languages and Systems : US/Japan Workshop on Parallel Lisp, Sendai, Japan, June 5-8, 1989, Proceedings

by Takayasu Ito (Editor)

New ideas in parallel Language design, implementation, and programming tools.- A parallel lisp language PaiLisp and its kernel specification.- Continuing into the On the interaction of futures and first-class continuations.- Speculative computation in multilisp.- Garbage collection in multischeme.- An Interim Report.- Low-cost process creation and dynamic partitioning in Qlisp.- Concurrent scheme.- The design of automatic parallelizers for symbolic and numeric programs.- A reflective object oriented concurrent language ABCL/R.- Optimistic and pessimistic synchronization in distributed computing.- Toward a new computing model for an open distributed environment.- Concurrent programming in TAO - Practice and experience.- A pseudo network approach to inter-processor communication on a shared-memory multi-processor MacELIS.- A high-performance parallel lisp.- Integrating parallel lisp with modern unix-based operating systems.- a lisp dialect for parallel processing.- PM1 and An experimental machine and its lisp system for research on MIMD massively parallel computation.- Design of the shared memory system for multi-processor lisp machines and its implementation on the evlis machine.- TOP-1 multiprocessor workstation.

384 pages, Paperback

First published July 13, 1990