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Currently there is no standard operating system suited for large parallel machines with distributed memory. Today's parallel programs have to be tailored to the peculiarities of a parallel machine like sequential programs in the bad old days of assembler programming.
Suitable abstractions for large scale parallelism have to be defined, which can serve as a basis for explicitly parallel programming as well as for very high level (declarative) parallel systems.
We defined a set of abstractions that will be implemented by the kernel of a large parallel machine. This includes a novel process model and a virtually shared store with customized coherency. The concepts will be used as a basis for parallel Lisp, parallel Prolog and a large parallel database system.
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Istavrinos, P., Borrmann, L. (1990). A process and memory model for a parallel distributed-memory machine. 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_126
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