Parallel Symbolic Computing: Languages, Systems, and Applications: US/Japan Workshop, Cambridge, MA, USA, October 14-17, 1992. Proceedings

Parallel and distributed computing are becoming increasingly

important as cost-effective ways to achieve high

computational performance. Symbolic computations are notable

for their use of irregular data structures and hence

parallel symbolic computing has its own distinctive set of

technical challenges.

The papers in this book are based on presentations made at a

workshop at MIT in October 1992. They present results in a

wide range of areas including: speculative computation,

scheduling techniques, program development tools and

environments, programming languages and systems, models of

concurrency and distribution, parallel computer

architecture, and symbolic applications.