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Dino: summary and examples

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M. Rosing,

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C³P: Proceedings of the third conference on Hypercube concurrent computers and applications: Architecture, software, computer systems, and general issues - Volume 1

Pages 472 - 484

https://doi.org/10.1145/62297.62353

Published: 01 January 1988 Publication History

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Dino is a new language, consisting of high level modifications to C, for writing numerical programs on distributed memory multiprocessors. Our intent is to raise interprocess communication and process control to a higher and more natural level than using messages. We achieve this by allowing the user to define a virtual machine onto which data structures can be distributed. Interprocess communication is implicitly invoked by reading and writing the distributed data. Parallelism is achieved by making concurrent procedure calls. This paper provides a summary of the syntax and semantics of Dino, and illustrates its features through several sample programs. We also briefly discuss a prototype of the language we have developed using C++.

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C³P: Proceedings of the third conference on Hypercube concurrent computers and applications: Architecture, software, computer systems, and general issues - Volume 1

January 1988

895 pages

ISBN:0897912780

DOI:10.1145/62297

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California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

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