BaLinda: a simple parallel programming model

Abstract

This paper argues for the development of more general and user-friendly parallel programming models, independent of hardware structures and concurrency concepts of operating systems theory, leading to portable programs and easy to use languages. It then presents the BaLinda model, based on last in/first out threads that interact via a shared tuplespace, and argues that it is simple enough to be both general and easy to use. It also discusses the idea of using function-based objects as the basic unit of parallel execution and the hierarchical structure to partition tuplespaces.