BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
          ID:: STAN//CSL-TR-94-638
       ENTRY:: October 12, 1994
ORGANIZATION:: Stanford University, Computer Systems Laboratory
       TITLE:: The Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Jade: A
               Portable, Implicitly Parallel Programming Language
        TYPE:: Thesis
        TYPE:: Technical Report
      AUTHOR:: Rinard, Martin C.
        DATE:: August 1994
       PAGES:: 224
    ABSTRACT:: Over the last decade, research in parallel computer
               architecture has led to the development of many new parallel
               machines. These machines have the potential to dramatically
               increase the resources available for solving important
               computational problems. The widespread use of these machines,
               however, has been limited by the difficulty of developing
               useful parallel software. This thesis presents the design,
               implementation and evaluation of Jade, a new programming
               language for parallel computations that exploit task-level
               concurrency.

               Jade is structured as a set of constructs that programmers
               use to specify how a program written in a standard
               sequential, imperative language accesses data. The
               implementation dynamically analyzes these specifications to
               automatically extract the concurrency and map the computation
               onto the parallel machine. The resulting parallel execution
               preserves the semantics of the original serial program.

               We have implemented Jade on a wide variety of parallel
               computing platforms: shared-memory multiprocessors such as
               the Stanford DASH machine, homogeneous message-passing
               machines such as the Intel iPSC/860, and on heterogeneous
               networks of workstations. Jade programs port without
               modification between all of these platforms.

               We evaluate the design and implementation of Jade by
               parallelizing several complete scientific and engineering
               applications in Jade and executing these applications on
               several computational platforms. We analyze how well Jade
               supports the process of developing these applications and
               present results that characterize how well they perform.
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