101 parallel languages list


.	101 Parallel Programming Languages
.	Copyright Greg Pfister 2008
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.	initial lists came from:
.		"Nan's Parallel Computing page":			http://www.cs.rit.edu/~ncs/parallel.html
.		Jonathan Hardwick's "Supercomputing and Parallel Computing Research Groups"			http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~scandal/research-groups.html
.	They are, of course, not to be held responsible for the content here.
.	Note that this list is incomplete and inexact, as well as being obsolete the minute I created it.
.	Its purpose is simply to make the point that a many parallel languages have been developed.
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.	Date	who/where	language	Description
.			ABCPL	An object-Based Concurrent Language. Model of concurrency based on parallel active objects.
.	1983	DoD	ADA	The Ada language of DoD fame
.			Adl	Data parallel functional programming languages for distributed memory architectures.
.			Adsmith	Object-Based DSM Environment on PVM.
.			Alewife	Large-scale multiprocessor with shared memory and message passing.
.	1990	NYU	ALLOY	support functional, object oriented and logic programming styles in a unified and controlled framework.
.			AM	Active Messages. Simple primitives exposing full hardware performance to higher communication layers.
.			AMDC	Active-Message Driven Computing. Computational model and system based on computation at abstract locations, and built on active messages.
.			APAR	Parallel Architectures group. Portable parallel programming environment, parallel 3D terrain analysis and visualization.


.			AppLeS	Application Level Scheduling. Scheduling agents for resource control on production heterogeneous systems.
.			Automap	Task parallel coordination language for dynamic applications.
.	1987		BLAZE	Language for shared-memory using data distribution descriptions
.			BSP	Bulk Synchronous Parallel model research group.
.	1994	U. Wisc	C**	extends C++ for large-grain data parallelism; syntax defining aggregate operations, reductions, and subset selection (slices).
.			C4	Canonical Classes for Concurrency Control. C++ classes for parallel programming.
.	1992	Cal Tech	CC++	parallel programs to be developed from simpler components using sequential, parallel, and concurrent composition.
.			Chant	A talking threads package -- lightweight threads communicating between processors.
.	1995	UIUC	Charm	A Portable Concurrent Object Oriented System based on C++
.			Cid	Parallel extension of C that provides a programming model of MIMD threads plus shared objects.
.	1998	MIT	Cilk	Efficient execution of multithreaded computations.
.	1998	SGI	Co-Array Fortran	explicit notation for data decomposition, such as that often used in message-passing models; decomp to be added to F95
.	1996	UT	CODE	abstract declarative graphical environment for parallel programming
.			Code	Visual parallel programming system.
.	1993	UIUC	Concurrent Aggregates language	dynamically-typed concurrent object-oriented language for programming large-scale parallel machines;a programming model similar to Actors
.			Concurrent Pascal
.			Concurrent Prolog
.			Craft	Cray's parallel programming language ("better than HPF")
.			CRL	C Region Library. All-software distributed shared memory system.
.	1978	Oxford	CSP	(Communicating Sequential Processes) language for describing patterns of interaction. It is supported by an elegant, mathematical theory, a set of proof tools, and an extensive literature


.	1996	U. Parma	CUBL	concurrent object language
.	1994	Dartmouth	Dapple	C++ class library designed to provide the illusion of a data-parallel programming language on conventional hardware
.			DDD	Dynamic Distributed Data. Parallel programming model based on dynamic graph-like datastructures.
.	1985	Eiffel Software	Eiffel	OO-based parallelism; one of the first
.	1995	Erlang	Erlang	functional programming, programmer-explicit messages, transparent distribution
.			Excalibur	Compiling array-oriented languages onto parallel machines.
.			Express
.	1984	ICOT	FGHC	(Flat Guarded Horn Clauses) a concurrent logic language, that supports committed-choice non-determinism and stream communication
.			FM	Fortran M. Task-parallel extensions to Fortran; integration of task and data parallelism.
.			Fork95	C-based parallel programming language, targetted at SB-PRAM.
.	1995		Fortran 95	introduced FORALL, parallel do-loop; and INDEPENDENT directive for DO loops
.	1991	Rice, CT	Fortran D	Fox & Kennedy: a language extension for distributed-memory systems. This is later one of the parents of High Performance FORTRAN (HPF).
.	1978	IBM	FP	John Backus’ original functional programming language (some claim it was penance for Fortran)
.			Fx	Parallelizing Fortran compilers and applications.
.			GA	Global Arrays. Shared-memory programming interface for distributed-memory computers.
.	1993	NRAO	Glish	C++ library for distributed applications
.			GLU	Granular Lucid. Programming system for constructing parallel and distributed applications.
.	1990	U. Glasgow	Haskell	polymorphicly typed, lazy, purely functional language based on Lambda calculus
.	1999	UIUC	HPC++	A standard model for parallel programming using C++.
.	1993	Rice	HPF	High Performance Fortran. Data-parallel and data distribution extensions to Fortran.


.	1996	UIUC	ICC++	object-oriented programming style (fine-grained data structures and concurrency) which supports a wide variety of irregular and regular parallel applications.
.	1978	UCIrvine	Id	Arvind's original Dataflow language (originally "Irvine Dataflow"), moved to MIT.
.	1996	Erlangen	JavaParty	extends the capabilities of Java to distributed computing environments.
.	1997	WoTUG	JavaPP	introduces the CSP/occam model into Java threads
.	1976	ONERA	LAU	Static dataflow language for the LAU machine
.	1995	Lucent	Limbo	a programming language intended for applications running distributed systems on small computers
.			Linda - Ada-linda	Linda in Ada
.			Linda - Glenda	Linda on PVM
.			Linda - Javelin	Distributed Linda Using Java
.	1985	Yale	Linda Original	The original language of get & put tuples and operating on them
.			Linda - POSYBL	public-domain implementation of the Linda parallel processing environment,
.	1977		Lucid	functional language making iteration "mathemetically respectable"; became dataflow language
.		U VA	Mentat	Object-oriented parallel language based on C++
.			Modula-2*	High-level explicitly parallel imperative programming language.
.		RAS	mpC	A parallel superset of C for programming distributed memory machines built on MPI
.			MPC++	Massively Parallel, Message Passing, Meta-level Processing C++ designed to exploit multithreading and message-driven execution on RWC-1 MPP .
.	2001	U AZ	MPD	C extension supporting all three of multithreaded, parallel, distributed programming.
.	1980	MIT	Multilisp	A version of the Lisp dialect Scheme extended with constructs for parallel execution.
.		CMU	NESL	SCANDAL - Super Compilers and Advanced Languages. Nested data parallel languages (NESL), efficient parallel algorithms.
.	1984	Oxford	Occam	The canonical language expession of Hoare's CSP


.			OOF90	High performance object-oriented programming in Fortran 90.
.			Orca	Parallel programming language for distributed systems, based on shared data-object model.
.	2004	U.Edinb.	P#	Concurrent Prolog for .NET
.			P3L	Skeleton-based parallel programming language with template-based implementation.
.			Para++	Portable C++ bindings for message passing libraries.
.		U. Stuttgart	Parallaxis-III	A Structured Data-Parallel Programming Language
.	1995	UT	Parlance	Lisp extension supporting medium-scale parallelism on SMPs.
.	1986	Imp. Coll.	Parlog	An AND-parallel Prolog, with guards and committed choice nondeterminism
.		IN	pC++/Sage++	Portable parallel C++ for high performance computers.
.			PET	Message passing, parallel I/O, checkpointing, and run-time tools and monitoring.
.			PETSc	Portable, Extensible, Toolkit for Scientific Computation. Parallel software for the numerical solution of PDEs.
.			pH	A parallel, eagerly-evaluated version of Haskell.
.	1987	UW	PRESTO	C++ based environment for writing object-oriented parallel programs for shared-memory multiprocessors.
.			Proteus	Prototyping language and environment for high-level parallel programs.
.	1996	UCB / ICSI	pSather	extends Sather (OOL) with threads, synchronization and data distribution
.			PSI	Parallel algebraic reductions on array expressions based on psi calculus.
.	1989	ORNL	PVM	Parallel Virtual Machine. Programming a heterogeneous network of machines as a single distributed memory parallel machine.
.	1998	EPFL	sC++	C++ with a very few new keywords defining active objects and synchronization primitives
.		Delftware	Scriptic	expression based extension to Java, targeted at shared memory systems; extras mainly founded on the theory of Process Algebra;
.	1983	LLNL	Sisal	Dataflow / functional language


.			Split-C	Parallel extension to C with global address space for distributed-memory multiprocessors.
.			SR	Synchronizing Resources. Concurrent programming language.
.	1997	MIT	Star-P Parallel MATLAB	MATLAB modified to exploit parallelism in its output evaluation forms; now at Interactive Supercomputing of Waltham,MA
.			Synergy	Parallel programming using passive object flow.
.		NEU	TOP-C	Task-oriented Parallel C.
.			UC	A set-based data-parallel programming language.
.			uC++	Light-weight concurrency in C++.
.	1999	UCB/LBNL	UPC	Unified Parallel C
.			V	Nested data-parallel extension of C.
.	1979	MIT	VAL	Value-oriented Algorithmic Language; a dataflow language; iteration and error handling, lacking in recursion and I/O
.	1996	ZH Micro	Z++	object-oriented extension of C++ to multi-threading and distributed computing.
.			ZPL	Portable data-parallel array language for scientific and engineering computation.
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