Realising a concurrent object-based programming model on parallel virtual shared memory architectures

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the suitability of parallel architectures for the realisation of a novel object-based computational model encapsulated within programming languages such as ConcurrentMeteteM. This model incorporates objects, groups, broadcast message-passing and asynchronous execution. As such it provides a high-level architecture-independent representation for a variety of concurrent systems. The class of parallel architectures which we consider are logically shared but physically distributed memory systems.