Implicitly-threaded parallelism in Manticore

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The increasing availability of commodity multicore processors is making parallel computing available to the masses. Traditional parallel languages are largely intended for large-scale scientific computing and tend not to be well-suited to programming the applications one typically finds on a desktop system. Thus we need new parallel-language designs that address a broader spectrum of applications. In this paper, we present Manticore, a language for building parallel applications on commodity multicore hardware including a diverse collection of parallel constructs for different granularities of work. We focus on the implicitly-threaded parallel constructs in our high-level functional language. We concentrate on those elements that distinguish our design from related ones, namely, a novel parallel binding form, a nondeterministic parallel case form, and exceptions in the presence of data parallelism. These features differentiate the present work from related work on functional data para...

Matthew Fluet, Mike Rainey, John H. Reppy, Adam Sh

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