The P4 Parallel Programming System, the Linda Environment, and Some Experiences with Parallel Computation

The first digital computers consisted of a single processor acting on a single stream of data. In this so-called "von Neumann" architecture, computation speed is limited mainly by the time required to transfer data between the processor and memory. This limiting factor has been referred to...

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Main Author: Allan R. Larrabee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 1993-01-01
Series:Scientific Programming
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1993/817634