angela@Lessing.first.gmd.de (Angela Sodan) (03/07/91)
Thanks to all those who replied to my query about non-numerical applications. There have been only a few answers referring to concrete applications. Below follows a summary of them. Angela _______________________________________________________________________________ From: Anurag Acharya <unido!DRAVIDO.SOAR.CS.CMU.EDU!acha> Try Common Lisp OPS5 implementation available from carnegie mellon. there are a small number of benchamrks available too. let me know if you are interested. anurag _______________________________________________________________________________ Cc: jap@maths.bath.ac.uk A student of Paul Hilfinger at Berekeley was collecting parallel Lisp applications a little while ago. He also contributed one of his own--some kind of expert system I think. His name, as I recall, was Kinson Ho, so you could try sending mail to ho@berkeley.edu. As you probably know, our preferred dialect here is EuLisp, for which we now have a reasonably portable implementation for multiprocessors, with a base written in C and a Lisp to C compiler. We only have relatively small parallel programs at present in order to test out the concurrency features. However, we do have a large simulation system called PSE (Persistent Simulation Environment ) which is a port of the Lisp part (originally Common Lisp) to EuLisp of the Picasso+Postgres system from Berkeley. Within this system we have persistence coupled with event, process and Petri net based simulation facilities. The next significant step for this system is to insert parallel constructs (manually). --Julian. _______________________________________________________________________________ Cc: priol@irisa.fr (Thierry Priol) We have developped a SVM, named KOAN, on an iPSC/2 hypercube in order to parallelize a non-numerical application in image synthesis (ray-tracing). The ray-tracing algorithm (VM_pRAY) is in public domain. We have also several numerical algorithms running with KOAN. All these algorithms are written in C language. Thierry _______________________________________________________________________________ *** please, use mail address provided below, do not apply return path *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Angela Sodan angela@gmdtub.uucp GMD Berlin ...!uunet!unido!gmdtub!angela Hardenbergplatz 2 D-1000 Berlin 12 Germany phone (49) (30) 25499 275 fax (49) (30) 25499 172 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------