Programming is hard. Building a large program is like constructing a steam locomotive
through a hole the size of a postage stamp. An artefact that is the fruit of hundreds of person …

As parallelism on different levels becomes ubiquitous in today's computers, it seems
worthwhile to provide a review of the wealth of models for parallel computation that have …

The paper presents a parallel programming methodology that ensures easy programming,
efficiency and portability of programs to different machines belonging to the class of the …

The major reason for the lack of use'of parallel'computing, is the mismatch between the
complexity and variety of parallel hardware, and the software development tools to program …

Building a cost calculus for a parallel program development environment is difficult because
of the many degrees of freedom available in parallel implementations and because of …

The expense of developing and maintaining software is the major obstacle to the routine use
of parallel computation. Architecture independent programming offers a way of avoiding the …

In recent years, a large number of parallel computation models have been proposed to
replace the PRAM as the parallel computation model presented to the algorithm designer …

This paper addresses the application of a skeleton/template compiling strategy to structured
data parallel computations. In particular, we discuss how data parallelism is expressed and …

We review the many performance metrics that have been proposed for parallel systems (ie,
program {architecture combinations). These include the many variants of speedup, e ciency …

This paper presents a framework of using resource metrics to characterize the various
models of parallel computation. Our framework reflects the approach of recent models to …