Gamma is a kernel programming language with an elegant chemical reaction metaphor in whichprograms are described in terms of multiset rewriting. Gamma formalism allows one to describe analgorithm without introducing a...Gamma is a kernel programming language with an elegant chemical reaction metaphor in whichprograms are described in terms of multiset rewriting. Gamma formalism allows one to describe analgorithm without introducing artificial sequentiality and leads to the derivation of a parallel solution to agiven problem naturally. However, the difficulty of incorporating control strategies makes Gamma not onlyhard for one to define any sophisticated approaches but also impossible to reach a decent level of efficiencyin any direct implementation. Recently, a higherorder multiset programming paradigm, named higher--order Gamma, is introduced by Metayer to alleviate these problems. In this paper, we investigate the possibility of implementing higherorder Gamma on Maspar, a massively data parallel computer. The results showthat a program written in higher--order Gamma can be transformed naturally toward an efficientimplementation on a real parallel machine.展开更多
文摘Gamma is a kernel programming language with an elegant chemical reaction metaphor in whichprograms are described in terms of multiset rewriting. Gamma formalism allows one to describe analgorithm without introducing artificial sequentiality and leads to the derivation of a parallel solution to agiven problem naturally. However, the difficulty of incorporating control strategies makes Gamma not onlyhard for one to define any sophisticated approaches but also impossible to reach a decent level of efficiencyin any direct implementation. Recently, a higherorder multiset programming paradigm, named higher--order Gamma, is introduced by Metayer to alleviate these problems. In this paper, we investigate the possibility of implementing higherorder Gamma on Maspar, a massively data parallel computer. The results showthat a program written in higher--order Gamma can be transformed naturally toward an efficientimplementation on a real parallel machine.
