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Most parallel object oriented languages (OOL) are currently using a general parallelism model based on communicating sequential processes. This approach makes it difficult to program massively parallel systems in an easy and efficient way. So we propose to use another form of parallelism, known as data parallelism. We describe how it can be integrated in a given OOL in a clean and elegant fashion, using only already existing concepts -i.e. without modifying the OOL syntax and semantic to exploit the potential power of massively parallel systems. To illustrate our ideas, we present an application of this approach to a well known parallel paradigm, along with experimental performance results.
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Jézéquel, J.M., Bergheul, F., André, F. (1992). Programming massively parallel architectures with sequential object oriented languages. In: Etiemble, D., Syre, JC. (eds) PARLE '92 Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe. PARLE 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 605. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55599-4_97
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