System and method for parallel processing with mostly functional

Details System and method for parallel processing with mostly functional System and method for parallel processing with mostly functional

1986-07-30

1989-04-25

Shaw, Gareth D.

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G06F 1500

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ABSTRACT:
A parallel processing system is receptive of a program and has at least two processors connected in parallel to a shared main memory. Each processor executes instructions of the program which includes side-effecting instructions which modify the contents of a location in main memory and functional instructions which reference locations in main memory. The program is compiled into a series of independent instruction blocks each of which includes predominantly functional instructions and terminates in a side-effecting instruction and the processors execute the blocks in parallel.

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