Implicitly-threaded parallelism in Manticore

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...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: ICFP
• Authors: Matthew Fluet, Mike Rainey, John H. Reppy, Adam Shaw
• Keywords: ICFP 2008, Implicitly-threaded Parallel Constructs, Parallel Language Designs, Programming Languages, Traditional Parallel Languages