Semi-structured portable library for multiprocessor servers

The MiPPS library supports a hybrid model of parallel programming. The library is targeted at commodity multiprocessors, with support for clusters. The implementation of the concurrency routines reveals discrepancies between popular operating systems. Tests on suitable applications also reveal similar discrepancies in performance across different multiprocessors. The MiPPS library has also been the basis of a parallelization of the Active Chart Parsing algorithm for speech understanding.