Glypnir—a programming language for Illiac IV
Communications of the ACM
The working set model for program behavior
Communications of the ACM
Computer structures: Readings and examples (McGraw-Hill computer science series)
Computer structures: Readings and examples (McGraw-Hill computer science series)
Theories of abstract automata (Prentice-Hall series in automatic computation)
Theories of abstract automata (Prentice-Hall series in automatic computation)
Data structure models for programming languages
ACM SIGPLAN Notices
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Compiler Optimizations for Adaptive EPIC Processors
EMSOFT '01 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Embedded Software
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A processing system is presented that implements simultaneously the efficiency of the special-purpose processor and the total applicability of the general-purpose computer characteristics commonly thought of as being mutually exclusive. This is achieved through specializing the machine by programming the hardware structure, rather than by adding software systems to it. Data are organized in circulating pages which form a multiplicity of local dynamic memories for each process. Programs are made up of modules, each describing a transient special-purpose machine. A characteristic of this approach is that the processes are data-driven, rather than program-driven. The programming language presents significant flexibility and efficiency in modeling certain classes of problems, and it may be of interest as an implementation model in a broader context. Applications to real-time processing of radar signals are reported. The relevance of characteristics of this system to problems in multiprogramming and multiprocessing systems is discussed.