Spar: A programming language for semi-automatic compilation of parallel programs

Concurrency Practice and Experience

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1193-1205

  Van Reeuwijk, Kees ^a   Van Gemund, Arjan J C ^a   Sips, Henk J ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROGRAM COMPILERS;

DATA MAPPING; RUNTIME SYSTEM; SEMI AUTOMATIC COMPILATION; SPAR;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 0031269492     PISSN: 10403108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(199711)9:11<1193::AID-CPE334>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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