Dino: summary and examples

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Open Access

1 January 1988

conference paper
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

p. 472-484
DOI:10.1145/62297.62353

Abstract

Dino is a new language, consisting of high level modifications to C, for writing numerical programs on distributed memory multiprocessors. Our intent is to raise interprocess communication and process control to a higher and more natural level than using messages. We achieve this by allowing the user to define a virtual machine onto which data structures can be distributed. Interprocess communication is implicitly invoked by reading and writing the distributed data. Parallelism is achieved by making concurrent procedure calls. This paper provides a summary of the syntax and semantics of Dino, and illustrates its features through several sample programs. We also briefly discuss a prototype of the language we have developed using C++.

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