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
Ease of use
Based on logically global, associative object memory called tuple space.
Tuple space provides inter-process communication and synchronisation logically independent of the underlying computer or network
Implements parallelism with a small number of simple operations on tuple space to create and co-ordinate parallel processes
Commercially available - Scientific Computing Associates Inc.

Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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