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Experiences with poker

Authors:

Lawrence Snyder,

Mary L. Bailey,

Bruce Forstall,

Willian G. Griswold,

Thomas J. Holman,

Gemini Lasswell,

Robert Mitchell,

Philip A. NelsonAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 23, Issue 9

Pages 10 - 20

https://doi.org/10.1145/62116.62118

Published: 01 January 1988 Publication History

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Experience from over five years of building nonshared memory parallel programs using the Poker Parallel Programming Environment has positioned us to evaluate our approach to defining and developing parallel programs. This paper presents the more significant results of our evaluation of Poker. The evaluation is driving our next effort in parallel programming environment; many of the results should be sufficiently general to apply to other related efforts.

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 23, Issue 9

Proceedings of the ACM/SIGPLAN PPEALS 1988

Sept. 1988

246 pages

ISSN:0362-1340

EISSN:1558-1160

DOI:10.1145/62116

Editor:
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PPEALS '88: Proceedings of the ACM/SIGPLAN conference on Parallel programming: experience with applications, languages and systems
January 1988
246 pages
ISBN:0897912764
DOI:10.1145/62115
Editor:
Richard L. Wexelblat
Philips Labs., Briarcliff Manor, NY

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