Empirical Study of a Dataflow Language on the CM-5

This paper presents empirical data on the behavior of large dataflow programs ona distributed memory multiprocessor. The programs, written in the dataflow language Id90, arecompiled via a Threaded Abstract Machine (TAM) for the CM-5. TAM refines dataflow executionmodels by addressing critical constraints that modern parallel architectures place on the compilationof general-purpose parallel programming languages. It exposes synchronization, scheduling, andnetwork access so that the compiler ...