nobody@acsu.buffalo.edu (10/06/89)
In article <477@schaefer.MATH.WISC.EDU> wayne@schaefer.MATH.WISC.EDU (Rick Wayne) writes: > >since objects decompose so nicely into independent entities (at least ^^^^^^^^^^----> Isn't it better : since objects are independent entities (at least ? >abstractly), wouldn't this provide an excellent hook for introducing >parallelism? could be loosely or tightly coupled; message passing would >either be memory-to-memory transfer or network sends. > >this sounds so obvious that i'm sure SOMEBODY must be doing it what about actors? > comments? I think this could be a real interesting topic for further discussions (also for comp.parallel). Hopefull Giancarlo charmi@cs.buffalo.edu [ I certainly second the motion that this group has a real interest in the subject. Steve ]
jxw@RODS.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU (John Willis) (10/10/89)
Philips Research is actively building a parallel processor system structured around objects. The machine / system is called DOOM, while the language is called POOL. A 100 processor system is already reported operational. Several non-trivial applications have been written for the machine by other organizations. If you are interested in the potential of objects for structuring parallel computation, find out more about DOOM. There was a good survey article in IEEE Computer or IEEE Micro about 2 years ago in the issue on International Computing. Also see the 1987 and 1989 proceedings of the PARLE conference (available from Springer -Verlag).