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C**: A large-grain, object-oriented, data-parallel programming language

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Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (LCPC 1992)

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C** is a new data-parallel programming language based on a new computation model called largegrain data parallelism. C** overcomes many disadvantages of existing data-parallel languages, yet retains their distinctive and advantageous programming style and deterministic behavior. This style makes data parallelism well-suited for massively-parallel computation. Large-grain data parallelism enhances data parallelism by permitting a wider range of algorithms to be expressed naturally.

C** is an object-oriented programming language that inherits data abstraction features from C++. Existing scientific programming languages do not provide modern programming facilities such as operator extensibility, abstract datatypes, or object-oriented programming. C**- and its sequential subset C++-support modern programming practices and enable a single language to be used for all parts of large, complex programs and libraries.

This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under grants CCR-9101035 and CDA-9024618.

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  1. Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1210 West Dayton Street, 53706, Madison, WI, USA

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Larus, J. (1993). C**: A large-grain, object-oriented, data-parallel programming language. In: Banerjee, U., Gelernter, D., Nicolau, A., Padua, D. (eds) Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing. LCPC 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 757. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57502-2_56

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