Parallel and distributed (and concurrent ( and … )) using/related to LISP.

Bill Clementson made quite a few blog entries that are worth digesting. ,

• http://bc.tech.coop/blog/050716.html
• http://bc.tech.coop/blog/050125.html
• http://bc.tech.coop/blog/040427.html
• http://bc.tech.coop/blog/050117.html
• http://bc.tech.coop/blog/050119.html
• http://bc.tech.coop/blog/060111.html
• http://bc.tech.coop/blog/060122.html [termite update]

( .. and more Link To Links To Links)

“cl-muproc - Erlang-inspired multi-processing in Common LISP” via Klaus Harbo , Mu Aps.

Connection Machine LISP - LISP with a parallel data structure, the xapping, an array of values assigned to an array of sites.

• G.L. Steele et al, “Connection Machine LISP: Fine-Grained Parallel Symbolic Processing”, in Proc 1986 ACM Conf on LISP and Functional Prog, Aug 1986, http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=319870
• “Connection Machine LISP Reference Manual”, Thinking Machines Corp, Feb 1987.
• the *lisp (star lisp) simulator
  • http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3e8b0e4f.41600072%40netnews.attbi.com
  • http://examples.franz.com/id/massar/Starsim-f20_s0/Starsim-f20.zip

• an introduction to PVM programming > http://www.csm.ornl.gov/pvm/intro.html
• LPVM via uffi > http://lispnik.newmail.ru/lpvm/

• mosquito-lisp
  • http://www.ephemeralsecurity.com/mosquito-lisp/
• p-lisp
  • http://www.thinkartlab.com/pkl/tm/plisp/
• termite
  • Termite is an Erlang-like distributed programming system written in Scheme.
  • http://toute.ca/
  • http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~germaing/termite.pdf
  • http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/view/841
• erlisp
  • http://common-lisp.net/project/erlisp/
• cl-muproc
  • a Common Lisp library which strives to offer some of the multiprocessing abstractions found in Erlang. http://www.mu.dk/cl-muproc
• see also; Distributed Computing

• Parallel Lisp: Languages and Systems, US/Japan Workshop on Parallel Lisp, Sendai, Japan, June 1989.
  • Qlisp, Ron Goldman, Richard Gabriel, Carol Sexton, a scheme-like
  • Multilisp, Robert Halstead, an extended Scheme-version
  • PaiLisp, paper by Takayasu Ito and Manabu Matsui, a kernel-language
  • gc-algorithms, James Miller, Barbera Epstein
  • Concurrent Scheme, Robert Kessler, Mark Swanson, concurrent threads in seperate domains
  • the Boyer benchmark, W.Ludwell Harrison, (compiler-notes)
  • ABCL, An Object-Oriented Concurrent System, Akinori Yonezawa (workshop), Etsuya Shibanyama and Yonezawa (book)
  • TAO, Ikuo Takeuchi, practical expirience, runs on ELIS Lisp machine, (namespace problems - symbol packages)
  • MacELIS, Ken-ichiro Murakami
  • Mul-T, David Kranz, Robert Halstead, Eric Mohr (optimizing compiler generating code for Encore Multimax)
  • Utilisp, (University of Tokyo Interactive Lisp), Hideya Iwasaki, (mutilisp, implementation, simulat parallelism by time-slicing)
  • PM!, PMLisp, Taiichi Yuasa, Takafumi Kawana, (8-bit Z80, first prototype of “P-machine”), Scheme-like
  • EVLIS, Hiroshi Yasui, Tashikazu Sakaguchi, Kohichi Kudo, Nobuyuki Hironishi, (multiport mem-sys)
  • TOP-1, Norihisa Suzuki, ongoing project of parallel Common Lisp
  • GHC (guarded-Horn-clause), Kazunori Ueda (comments: Akikazu Takeuchi), (variables in p-languages)
  • OPS-5, Hiroshi Okuno, (parallelizing 2 large AI systems)