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Project Triton: Towards improved programmability of parallel machines

Philippsen et al., 1993

Document ID
16824357686465237497
Author
Philippsen M
Warschko T
Tichy W
Herter C
Publication year
Publication venue
[1993] Proceedings of the Twenty-sixth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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The approach taken in the Triton project is to let a high-level machine-independent parallel programming language drive the design of parallel hardware. This approach permits machine-independent parallel programs to be compiled into efficient machine code. The …
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