fpst@hubcap.clemson.edu (Steve Stevenson) (02/19/91)
Please, put the following article on comp.parallel. Thanks, Angela Sodan
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Can anyone provide information about non-numerical applications
which might be appropriate for parallelization on a distributed
memory architecture being augmented with a virtual shared memory
concept? We are developing a parallel Lisp for such an architecture
and are looking for non-toy problems to get realistic requirements.
Are there any applications available as public domain software or is
anybody who is working on the application side interested in a sort of
cooperation? Lisp applications would be preferred (Common Lisp would
be the best choice because we can run and measure such applications
in our current environment), C and C++ applications, however, would
also be interesting. We plan to concentrate on symbolic processing in
contrary to numerical processing and consider Lisp as the vehicle. We will
try to simulate the behaviour of the machine, the virtual shared memory
and the applications by Petri nets. Information about communication and
data access patterns in non-numerical applications would also be
interesting. A colleague of mine already posted a query about the latter
subject on comp.benchmarks and comp.lang.lisp but we have got little
response.
Please, send mail directly to me. I will post a summary.
Angela Sodan
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Steve Stevenson {steve,fpst}@hubcap.clemson.edu
Department of Computer Science, comp.parallel
Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1906 (803)656-5880.mabellsitarama@cps.msu.edu (02/20/91)
I think air line traffic simulation is one of the applications. Swamy P.S: If you are interested on any info on this I will send the E-mail address of a local graduate student who have been working on this. BTW he is using Lisp too.
vu0208@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (02/23/91)
Hi, There are some AI applications that you might be interested to test on your model such as semantic networks, logic programming based query-response, and information retrieval from the data base..and so forth. We simulated the "logic programming in multiprocessor environment" using serial common lisp..on serial machine..! I would be interested in your work in Parallel lisp..! What particular distributed memory architecture, are you using for the simulations.. Please summarize your results... thanks Ahmed SUNY-Bing. NY