Recent developments in butterfly™ LISP

Authors:
Donald C. Allen;Seth A. Steinberg;Lawrence A. Stabile
Affiliations:
BBN Advanced Computers, Inc.,Cambridge, Massachusetts;BBN Advanced Computers, Inc.,Cambridge, Massachusetts;BBN Advanced Computers, Inc.,Cambridge, Massachusetts
Venue:
AAAI'87 Proceedings of the sixth National conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Year:
1987

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Abstract

This paper describes recent enhancements to the Common Lisp system that BBN is developingl for its Butterfly multiprocessor. The BBN Butterfly is a shared memory multiprocessor that contains up to 256 processor nodes. The system provides a shared heap, parallel garbage collector, and window based I/O system. The 'future' construct is used to specify parallelism.