Software/parallel processing-Linda on the networks

The use of the coordination language Linda to facilitate the division of software tasks among several processors in parallel programming is considered. Linda's coordination facilities depend on a view of memory as object-oriented, associative, symmetric, and virtually shared, i.e., data are stored as simple data objects, with type signature and other properties, rather than as bits and bytes. To produce a parallel version of a language like C or Fortran, Linda adds just four major operations-in, out, rd, and eval.-to that language. The base language does the chores, such as arithmetic, loop control, I/O, and so on, for which it was designed, while Linda performs only coordination functions: process creation, interprocess communication and control.<
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