Progress report on a system for general-purpose parallel symbolic algebraic computation

  • Authors:
  • B. W. Char

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

  • Venue:
  • ISSAC '90 Proceedings of the international symposium on Symbolic and algebraic computation
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

We discuss on-going work on large-grained parallel symbolic computation using a system based on Maple and Linda. The prototype runs on a Sequent Balance. The approach can be used with most existing algebra/symbol manipulation systems, and provides the potential to deliver of parallel symbolic computation on a variety of architectures (e.g. shared memory, hypercubes, networked workstations). Parallel speedup was achieved on a variety of algebraic problems, although many significant improvements in efficiency remain to be achieved.