Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: brunzema@dbresearch-berlin.de (Martin Brunzema)
Subject: Re: [Q] Any PRAM simulators out there?
Keywords: m2*, modula, forall, programming
Organization: Daimler-Benz AG, Forschung Systemtechnik
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 1995 13:05:18 GMT
Message-ID: <Y0ZWBKDN@DBresearch-berlin.de>

gauweil@i41s16.ira.uka.de (Thomas Gauweiler) writes:

>Hello Bob Keller,

>In article <3g735t$3oe@jaws.cs.hmc.edu>, keller%muddcs@uunet.uu.net (Robert M. Keller) writes:
>|> I am interested in a PRAM (Parallel Random-Access Machine) simulator
>|> for use in a class.  Ideally this would come with a relatively
>|> high-level programming language front-end, possibly consistent with
>|> one of the texts which uses PRAMs.  The purpose is to help debug PRAM
>|> algorithms (a theoretical endeavor), not run production code.
>|> 
>|> If you have something you'd be willing to let us use (should run on a
>|> Sun or SGI), I would appreciate hearing from you.

>I recommend you to take a look to our Modula-2* system.
>It bases on a modula-2 to c compiler and is extended with statements
>for parallel semantics.

>Below our description.

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there is also a real pram-simulator available at
	unix.hensa.ac.uk in the directory
	/pub/parallel/software/simulators/pram

martin

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