Emulating a PRAM on a Parallel Computer.

• The PRAM is an important model to study parallel algorithmics, yet this should be supported by the possibility for implementation and experimentation. With the advent of of multicore systems, shared memory programming also has regained importance for applications in practice. For these reasons, a powerful experimental platform should be available. While the language Fork with its development kit allows implementation, the sequential simulator restricts experiments. We develop a simulator for Fork programs on a parallel machine. We report on obstacles and present speedup results of a prototype.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Datavetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Computer Sciences (hsv//eng)

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Parallel programming

simulation of parallel computers

parallel discrete event simulation

parallel random access machine model

Computer science

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