Comparing Parallel Functional Languages: Programming and Performance
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چکیده
This paper presents a practical evaluation and comparison of three state-of-the-art parallel functional languages. The evaluation is based on implementations of three typical symbolic computation programs, with performance measured on a Beowulf-class parallel architecture. ∗This work is primarily supported by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (APART fellowship 624), the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Postdoctoral fellowship P00778), and UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (grant nos. GR/L 93379, GR/M 32351 and GR/L 42889).
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation
دوره 16 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2003