Dedicated and General-Purpose Systems for Parallel Application Development

After a discussion on the main problems related to parallel architectures and concurrent programming environments, the approaches to software development on dedicated and general purpose systems are presented. As for dedicated systems, we will refer to the OCCAM-IDS commercial development system; as for general purpose systems, we will consider the DISC prototype, developed at the Computer Science Department of University of Naples. In particular, the efficiency of system implementations for Transputer networks are investigated. With reference to a real case, the previous approaches will be evaluated and compared on the basis of the proposed programming methodology by measuring the efficiency achieved in the actual implementation.

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