A Parallel Object-Oriented Language OCore

We propose a parallel object-oriented language, called OCore. OCore is designed to generate efficient code especially for multi-computers. As a research vehicle for massively parallel computation models, advanced communication models, and optimization techniques, OCore supports the notion of community, meta-level architecture, and a distributed garbage collection mechanism on top of a fundamental concurrent object-oriented layer. OCore supports both control- and data-parallel programming. A prototype language processing system for the Intel Paragon XP/S and Sun SPARC stations is currently available.

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