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Foil 44 Interpreters versus Compilers -- Domain Specific Environments

From NII(Web) Services Overview CPS616 Basic Information Track for Computational Science -- Winter-Spring Semester 96. by Geoffrey Fox * See also color IMAGE
This implies that we should allow hybrid model not just for task (interpreted) versus data parallelism(compiled)
  • Rather should support full data parallelism in interpreter
  • NPAC demonstrated a protype HPF interprter at SC93
Current Web Interpreters include Java TCL and PERL(5) which are optimized for different application domains
  • For instance PERL is optimized for documents/files and Java for browsers
This leads to WebScript Concept of interoperable interpreters optimized for different domains
  • WebHPL (High Performance Language) is then script optimized for computing which links compiled HPL modules on tightly coupled MPP's
  • This naturally suggests that we can link domain specific systems (e.g. partial differential equation toolkit) to HPF future and WebHPL
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