frazier@CS.UCLA.EDU (07/24/89)
Hi, Everybody. I am examining the primitives used to
implement parallelism/concurrency/etc. in distributed
computers. As I recall, about a month ago there were
a spate of postings about concurrency control packages -
the only one whose name I recall is Linda (I hope the
rest of you will forgive me! :-). I would appreciate
it if somebody would email me the names of some of these
packages, as well as from whom the packages are available.
I hope I am not mis-representing these products by
referring to them as concurrency control packages - they
seem to be either languages or language add-ons which
which allow the user to either directly or indirectly
take advantage of the underlying parallelism of a
distributed architecture. My interest is both in the
interface these packages provide the user _and_ the
interface between these packages and the underlying
architecture. Any pointers would be appreciated. Oh,
and some of you software jocks out there could email
me what primitives you would like to see available to
you for distributed programming - I'll even send you
a thank you note! :-)
Greg Frazier
PS I'll summarize and post if there's interest
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