This paper is a general overview of the Skipper project, run at Blaise Pascal University
between 1996 and 2002. The main goal of the Skipper project was to demonstrate the …

In this work we present Lithium, a pure Java structured parallel programming environment
based on skeletons (common, reusable and efficient parallelism exploitation patterns) …

We discuss the implementation of a minimalist parallel library in OCaml. The library provides
parallel map and fold (reduce) higher order functions and targets standard cache coherent …

We describe a new, Java based, structured parallel programming environment. The
environment provides the programmer with the ability to structure his parallel applications by …

This paper presents SKiPPER, a programming environment dedicated to the fast prototyping
of parallel vision algorithms on MIMD-DM platforms. SKiPPER is based upon the concept of …

We implemented a skeleton library allowing the C programmer to write parallel programs
using skeleton abstractions to structure and exploit parallelism. The library exploits a SPMD …

Recent publications have emphasised map-reduce as a general programming model
(labelled Google map-reduce), and described existing high-performance implementations …

Parallel programming has proved to be an effective technique to increase the performance
of computationally intensive applications. However, writing parallel programs is not easy …

Multi-core computing systems are becoming increasingly parallel and heterogeneous.
Parallelism exploitation is today the primary instrument for improving application …

In many parallel applications high performance figures are reached at the expenses of
software quality. The parallel structure of an application is decided by the programmer and …