Virtual machine design for parallel dynamic programming languages

Towards a Parallel Virtual Machine for Functional Logic Programming

Functional logic programming is a multi-paradigm programming that combines the best features of functional programming and logic programming. Functional programming provides mechanisms for demand-driven evaluation, higher order functions and polymorphic typing. Logic programming deals with non-determinism, partial information and constraints. Both programming paradigms fall under the umbrella o...

Coordination Languages for Parallel Programming

Dynamic Load Balancing in a Message Passing Virtual Parallel Machine Dynamic Load Balancing in a Message Passing Virtual Parallel Machine

In this paper we will look into the problem of dynamic balancing of tasks in a het-erogenous parallel computing environment. The parallel programs are assumed to be executed in the Single Program Multiple Data (SPMD) style. The criteria for re-balancing the load are discussed; the eeect of data movement required in the load balancing is considered; and novel algorithms of dynamic load balancing...

Supporting dynamic languages on the Java virtual machine

In this note, I propose two extensions to the Java virtual machine (or VM) to allow dynamic languages such as Dylan, Scheme and Smalltalk to be efficiently implemented on the VM. These extensions do not affect the performance of pure Java programs on the machine. The first extension allows for efficient encoding of dynamic data; the second allows for efficient encoding of language-specific comp...

Parallel Programming Languages