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To get high performance on a distributed-memory multicomputer at present and for the foreseeable future, some explicit control is needed. This paper describes work aimed at harnessing the power of the functional notation in exercising such control. We have developed a declarative annotation scheme which allows explicit control over process placement and communications. The language, called Caliban, has been implemented on a configurable, loosely coupled commercial multicomputer and we describe the compiler and run-time system.
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Cox, S., Huang, SY., Kelly, P., Liu, J., Taylor, F. (1992). An implementation of static functional process networks. In: Etiemble, D., Syre, JC. (eds) PARLE '92 Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe. PARLE 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 605. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55599-4_107
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