Basic HTML version of Foils prepared May 7 1996

Foil 100 Linda - Overview

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part I:Concepts and Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
1 Ease of use
2 Based on logically global, associative object memory called tuple space.
3 Tuple space provides inter-process communication and synchronisation logically independent of the underlying computer or network
4 Implements parallelism with a small number of simple operations on tuple space to create and co-ordinate parallel processes
5 Commercially available - Scientific Computing Associates Inc.
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