We survey parallel programming models and languages using six criteria to assess their
suitability for realistic portable parallel programming. We argue that an ideal model should …

Programming is hard. Building a large program is like constructing a steam locomotive
through a hole the size of a postage stamp. An artefact that is the fruit of hundreds of person …

This book is a revised version of my Doctoral Dissertation, which was completed at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in November, 1988. The main purpose of the work …

This report describes Nesl, a strongly-typed, applicative, data-parallel language. Nesl is
intended to be used as a portable interface for programming a variety of parallel and vector …

Purely functional, embedded array programs are a good match for SIMD hardware, such as
GPUs. However, the naive compilation of such programs quickly leads to both code …

The major reason for the lack of use'of parallel'computing, is the mismatch between the
complexity and variety of parallel hardware, and the software development tools to program …

If you want to program a parallel computer, a purely functional language like Haskell is a
promising starting point. Since the language is pure, it is by-default safe for parallel …

This paper gives an overview of the implementation of NESL, a portable nested data-parallel
language. This language and its implementation are the first to fully support nested data …

This report describes Nesl, a strongly-typed, applicative, data-parallel language. Nesl is
intended to be used as a portable interface for programming a variety of parallel and vector …

The authors describe an optimized implementation of a set of scan (also called all-prefix-
sums) primitives on a single processor of a CRAY Y-MP, and demonstrate that their use …