DISTRIBUTED EXECUTION OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
Bo Lu, Peter D. Grogono, Joey Paquet · 2003
We describe a technique for executing highly-parallel programs on a network and a prototype system that uses the technique. The programs are written in the Lucid family of programming languages. Lucid is a multidimensional declarative programming language in which computations are performed in an implicit evaluation context. The execution engine is using a demand-driven execution model and operates in a client/server environment. High-level Lucid code is translated at compile-time into an object-oriented representation in which each Lucid identifier is represented by a class and each Lucid value (identifier in a context) is an instance of this class. The execution engine uses a cache to improve the overall performance and is designed to achieve both flexibility and efficiency.