Implementing PRISMA/DB in an OOPL

PRISMA/DB is implementedin a parallelobject-orientedlanguage to gain insight in the usage of parallelism. This environment allows us to experiment with parallelism by simply changing the allocation of objects to the processors of the PRISMA machine. These objects are obtained by a strictly modular design of PRISMA/DB. Communication between the objects is required to cooperatively handle the various tasks, but it limits the potential for parallelism. From this approach, we hope to gain a better understanding of parallelism, which can be used to enhance the performance of PRISMA/DB.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1989
• Where: IWDM
• Authors: Annita N. Wilschut, Paul W. P. J. Grefen, Peter M. G. Apers, Martin L. Kersten
• Keywords: Database, IWDM 1989, Modular Design, PRISMA Machine, Various Tasks