Download or read book An Architecture for Combinator Graph Reduction written by Philip John Koopman and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Architecture for Combinator Graph Reduction examines existing methods of evaluating lazy functional programs using combinator reduction techniques, implementation, and characterization of a means for accomplishing graph reduction on uniprocessors, and analysis of the potential for special-purpose hardware implementations. Comprised of eight chapters, the book begins by providing a background on functional programming languages and existing implementation technology. Subsequent chapters discuss the TIGRE (Threaded Interpretive Graph Reduction Engine) methodology for implementing combinator graph reduction; the TIGRE abstract machine, which is used to implement the graph reduction methodology; the results of performance measurements of TIGRE on a variety of platforms; architectural metrics for TIGRE executing on the MIPS R2000 processor; and the potential for special-purpose hardware to yield further speed improvements. The final chapter summarizes the results of the research, and suggests areas for further investigation. Computer engineers, programmers, and computer scientists will find the book interesting.

Download or read book Research Directions in Parallel Functional Programming written by Kevin Hammond and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Programming is hard. Building a large program is like constructing a steam locomotive through a hole the size of a postage stamp. An artefact that is the fruit of hundreds of person-years is only ever seen by anyone through a lOO-line window. In some ways it is astonishing that such large systems work at all. But parallel programming is much, much harder. There are so many more things to go wrong. Debugging is a nightmare. A bug that shows up on one run may never happen when you are looking for it - but unfailingly returns as soon as your attention moves elsewhere. A large fraction of the program's code can be made up of marshalling and coordination algorithms. The core application can easily be obscured by a maze of plumbing. Functional programming is a radical, elegant, high-level attack on the programming problem. Radical, because it dramatically eschews side-effects; elegant, because of its close connection with mathematics; high-level, be cause you can say a lot in one line. But functional programming is definitely not (yet) mainstream. That's the trouble with radical approaches: it's hard for them to break through and become mainstream. But that doesn't make functional programming any less fun, and it has turned out to be a won derful laboratory for rich type systems, automatic garbage collection, object models, and other stuff that has made the jump into the mainstream.

Download or read book Graph Reduction written by Joseph H. Fasel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1987-10-07 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume describes recent research in graph reduction and related areas of functional and logic programming, as reported at a workshop in 1986. The papers are based on the presentations, and because the final versions were prepared after the workshop, they reflect some of the discussions as well. Some benefits of graph reduction can be found in these papers: - A mathematically elegant denotational semantics - Lazy evaluation, which avoids recomputation and makes programming with infinite data structures (such as streams) possible - A natural tasking model for fine-to-medium grain parallelism. The major topics covered are computational models for graph reduction, implementation of graph reduction on conventional architectures, specialized graph reduction architectures, resource control issues such as control of reduction order and garbage collection, performance modelling and simulation, treatment of arrays, and the relationship of graph reduction to logic programming.

Download or read book The Organization of Reduction Data Flow and Control Flow Systems written by Werner Kluge and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In light of research over the last decade on new ways of representing and performing computations, this book provides a timely reexamination of computer organization and computer architecture. It systematically investigates the basic organizational concepts of reduction, data flow, and control flow (or state transition) and their relationship to the underlying programming paradigms. For each of these concepts, Kluge looks at how princip1es of language organization translate into architectures and how architectural features translate into concrete system implementations, comparing them in order to identify their similarities and differences. The focus is primarily on a functional programming paradigm based on a full-fledged operational &-calculus and on its realization by various reduction systems. Kluge first presents a brief outline of the overall configuration of a computing system and of an operating system kernel, introduce elements of the theory of Petrinets as modeling tools for nonsequential systems and processes, and use a simple form of higher-order Petri nets to identify by means of examples the operational and control disciplines that govern the organization of reduction, data flow, and control flow computations. He then introduces the notions of abstract algorithms and of reductions and includes an overview of the theory of the &-calculus. The next five chapters describe the various computing engines that realize the reduction semantics of a full-fledged &-calculus. The remaining chapters provide self-contained investigations of the G-machine, SKI combinator reduction, and the data flow approach for implementing the functional programming paradigm. This is followed by a detailed description of a typical control flow (or von Neumann) machine architecture (a VAX11 system). Properties of these machines are summarized in the concluding chapter, which classifies them according to the semantic models they support.

Download or read book Implementation of Functional Languages written by Chris Clack and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1998-08-26 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Implementation of Functional Languages, IFL'97, held in St. Andrews, Scotland, UK, in September 1997. The 21 revised full papers presented were selected from the 34 papers accepted for presentation at the workshop during a second round of thorough a-posteriori reviewing. The book is divided in sections on compilation, types, benchmarking and profiling, parallelism, interaction, language design, and garbage collection.

Download or read book Functional Programming Languages and Computer Architecture written by Jean-Pierre Jouannaud and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1985-09 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings of the 1995 International Conference on Parallel Processing written by Prithviraj Banerjee and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1995-08-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set of technical books contains all the information presented at the 1995 International Conference on Parallel Processing. This conference, held August 14 - 18, featured over 100 lectures from more than 300 contributors, and included three panel sessions and three keynote addresses. The international authorship includes experts from around the globe, from Texas to Tokyo, from Leiden to London. Compiled by faculty at the University of Illinois and sponsored by Penn State University, these Proceedings are a comprehensive look at all that's new in the field of parallel processing.

Download or read book RIMS Symposium on Software Science and Engineering II written by Eiichi Goto and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1986 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book New Computing Environments written by Arthur Wouk and published by SIAM. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this book were presented at a research workshop on "New Computing Environments : Parallel, Vector, and Systolic" which was held at Stanford University on November 7-9, 1984, under the sponsorship of the Army Research Office with the assistance and cooperation of the Department of Computer Science. The workshop's content was determined by the attempt to survey, as much as possible, work accomplished in real computing environments which involve a heavy degree of parallelism, and still to take account of some potential new developments in computer architectures and their prospective influence on algorithms and software.

Download or read book Algorithms And Architectures For Parallel Processing Proceedings Of The 1997 3rd International Conference written by Andrzej Marian Goscinski and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1997-11-15 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The IEEE Third International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP-97) will be held in Melbourne, Australia from December 8th to 12th, 1997. The purpose of this important conference is to bring together developers and researchers from universities, industry and government to advance science and technology in distributed and parallel systems and processing.

Download or read book Functional Programming Glasgow 1990 written by Simon L. Peyton Jones and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the papers presented at the 3rd Glasgow Workshop on Functional Programming which was held in Ullapool, Scotland, 13-15 August 1990. Members of the functional programming groups at the universities of Glasgow and Stirling attended the workshop, together with a small number of invited participants from other universities and industry. The papers vary from the theoretical to the pragmatic, with particular emphasis on the application of theoretical ideas to practical problems. This reflects the unusually close relationship between theory and practice which characterises the functional programming research community. There is also material on the experience of using functional languages for particular applications, and on debugging and profiling functional programs.

Download or read book Future Parallel Computers written by Philip C. Treleaven and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1987-08-12 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized by the University of Pisa on behalf of the European Strategic Programme for Research and Development in Information Technology (ESPRIT)

Download or read book ESOP 92 written by Bernd Krieg-Brückner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1992-02-19 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains selected papers presented at the European Symposium on Programming (ESOP) held jointly with the seventeeth Colloquium on Trees in Algebra and Programming (CAAP) in Rennes, France, February 26-28, 1992 (the proceedings of CAAP appear in LNCS 581). The previous symposiawere held in France, Germany, and Denmark. Every even year, as in 1992, CAAPis held jointly with ESOP. ESOP addresses fundamental issues and important developments in the specification and implementation of programming languages and systems. It continues lines begun in France and Germany under the names "Colloque sur la Programmation" and the GI workshop on "Programmiersprachen und Programmentwicklung". The programme committee received 71 submissions, from which 28 have been selected for inclusion in this volume.

Download or read book Graph Reduction on Shared memory Multiprocessors written by K. G. Langendoen and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics written by Stephen Brookes and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1994-05-20 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics, held in New Orleans in April 1993. The focus of the conference series is the semantics of programming languages and the mathematics which supports the study of the semantics. The semantics is basically denotation. The mathematics may be classified as category theory, lattice theory, or logic. Recent conferences and workshops have increasingly emphasized applications of the semantics and mathematics. The study of the semantics develops with the mathematics and the mathematics is inspired by the applications in semantics. The volume presents current research in denotational semantics and applications of category theory, logic, and lattice theory to semantics.

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Download or read book Trends in Functional Programming written by Hans Wolfgang Loidl and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed revised selected papers of the 13th International Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming, TFP 2012, held in St Andrews, Scotland, UK in June 2012. The 18 revised full papers included in this volume were carefully and selected from 49 submissions and are complemented with an invited paper. They cover various aspects of trends in functional programming.