High-level parallel software development with Python and BSP

Parallel Processing Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 473-484

  Hinsen, Konrad ^a  

^a CENTRE DE BIOPHYSIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Bulk synchronous parallelism; High level parallel programming; Python

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; PARALLEL PROGRAMS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0347528600     PISSN: 01296264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0129626403001434     Document Type: Article

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