MEMORY SYSTEMS AND MASSIVE PARALLEL SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION
Mario Mango Furnari · International Journal of High Speed Computing · 1993
In this paper we describe the experience gained working on a non conventional memory model for a LISP system. It seems to us that the results obtained may offers an useful strategy to design a new memory model exhibiting a sort of active behaviour in the computations. We start describing the current LISP implementations of parallelism, pointing out some of the problems that have to be solved. Special attention is given to the problem of user overloading on parallelizing a program. It is also shown that there are problem exhibiting simultaneously different form of parallelism that are not captured from the current parallel languages extensions. Then we describe experimental testbed for an hashed LISP memory system, and the results obtained.