Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: siamakr@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Siamak Rezaei)
Subject: Re: Parallel Prolog
Keywords: prolog, parallel, transputer, csp
Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 1994 13:00:51 GMT
Message-ID: <Ctws6p.4yz@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>

In article <31iph9$m3d@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> fraber@cs.tu-berlin.de (Frank Bergmann) writes:
>As a result of three year work, we can present a parallel Prolog system for
>Transputer networks. Brain Aid Prolog (BAP) is a Concurrent Sequential
>Processes (CSP) based standart Prolog and uses its own MS-Windows or X server
>for I/O. Special features are automatic topology adapation and concurrent
>source level debugging (see several processes exchange messages). Performance
>is pretty high, comparable to other known Prolog compilers. We archived good
>results (>80% efficiency) executing applications like N-queens or checkers in
>parallel on an 8 processor network. 
>
>If you are interested, please drop a message and I will try to put it somewhere
>on the net.

Could you please elaborate on type of message passing (channel, stream
...).

Regards
MC
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