Abstract
PARLE is a language for expressing parallelism and integrating symbolic and numeric computations. It is used as the Target Machine Language for the kernel system of the ESPRIT-1588 SPAN project, in which a parallel logic, a parallel functional, and a parallel object-oriented language are compiled onto PARLE and then onto a number of parallel architectures. PARLE is also used as parallel systems programming language to express numeric algorithms for partial differential equations solutions. In this paper, we present and discuss the main features of PARLE regarding parallelism and its support for integrated symbolic and numeric processing.
This paper describes research 50% funded by the European Community's ESPRIT Programme under ESPRIT Project-1588, otherwise known as "SPAN: Parallel Computer Systems for Integrated Symbolic and Numeric Processing".
S.C. McCabe is an employee of THORN EMI Central Research Labs, Hayes, England.
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Refenes, A.N., Eberbach, E., McCabe, S.C., Treleaven, P.C. (1989). Parle: A parallel target language for integrating symbolic and numeric processing. In: Odijk, E., Rem, M., Syre, JC. (eds) PARLE '89 Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe. PARLE 1989. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 366. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-51285-3_41
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