ivo@Feuerbach.first.gmd.de (Ivo Haulsen) (02/19/91)
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 angela@gmdtub.uucp GMD FIRST ...!uunet!unido!gmdtub!angela Hardenbergplatz 2 D-1000 Berlin 12 Germany