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POOMA, POOL and parallel symbolic computing: An assessment

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CONPAR 90 — VAPP IV (VAPP 1990, CONPAR 1990)

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Parallel processing has been the topic of extensive research over the past decade. Three factors stimulating this are the advent of cheap and powerful dataprocessing architectures, advances in the theory of concurrency and the computing demands of novel applications. This paper describes a parallel object-oriented machine, POOMA, primarily designed for symbolic and data-intensive applications. The paper outlines the characteristics of POOMA at the level of the parallel programming language POOL and of the architecture. The second part relates these characteristics to the above factors, and provides an informal assessment of the achievements. Finally, some conclusions will be drawn and directions for further research will be pointed out.

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Odijk, E.A.M. (1990). POOMA, POOL and parallel symbolic computing: An assessment. In: Burkhart, H. (eds) CONPAR 90 — VAPP IV. VAPP CONPAR 1990 1990. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 457. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-53065-7_85

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