Accession Number:

ADA278377

Title:

Program Composition

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. 1 Nov 1990-31 Oct 1993

Corporate Author:

CALIFORNIA INST OF TECH PASADENA DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

Personal Author(s):

• Chandy, K. M.

Report Date:

1994-01-31

Pagination or Media Count:

6.0

Abstract:

Work done under this grant falls under four main areas 1 Theory of Concurrent Systems - has led to much simpler ways of demonstrating the correctness of concurrent programs, 2 Use of Ada in Parallel Programming - exploring simple extensions of Ada that would make it suitable for shared-memory multiprocessor machines, 3 Parallel Pradigm Integration - researchers developed software and methods that help in developing large parallel applications incorporating both functional and data parallelism, 4 Language Development - this grant initiated work on PCN Program Composition Notation, a very simple language for composing programs in Fortran and CPCN has been ftpd at over 300 sites, including Air Force Laboratories, and is being used at several universities for teaching parallel programming.

Descriptors:

• *COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
• *PARALLEL PROCESSING
• *ADA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
• SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
• CONCURRENT ENGINEERING
• INTEGRATION
• MULTIPROCESSORS

Subject Categories:

• Computer Programming and Software

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE