See also:

• Computers: Programming: Languages  (12,682)
• Computers: Programming: Languages: Concurrent  (16)

Acute  www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/acute Experimental high-level language for distributed computing, focus: typing, naming, version change; designed, formally specified, implemented; extends OCaml core to support distributed development, deployment, execution, type-safe interaction between separately-built programs.

BERT 77  www.basement-supercomputing.com/content/view/24/50 Parallelizing compiler for Fortran 77. Software download, reference manual, mailing list. Free.

Charm++  charm.cs.uiuc.edu An object-oriented portable parallel language built on top of C++. Source code, binaries, manuals, and publications.

The Cilk Project  supertech.csail.mit.edu/cilk A language for multithreaded parallel programming based on ANSI C. Source code, manual, papers, and research into parallel chess programs.

Jade  suif.stanford.edu/~scales/sam.html Jade is a parallel extension to C that allows transparent access to shared memory. Papers, manual, and source code.

JavaParty  www.ipd.uka.de/JavaParty A minimal extension to Java easing distributed parallel programming of cluster computers. A source code transformation automatically generates a distributed pure Java program based on RMI or KaRMI.

Maisie  may.cs.ucla.edu/projects/maisie C-based simulation language that can be used for sequential and parallel execution of discrete-event simulation models. Papers, source code, sample models. Replaced by PARSEC language.

Mentat  www.cs.virginia.edu/~mentat/index.html Object-oriented parallel language based on C++. Documentation, source code and binaries, and sample programs.

Mesham  www.mesham.net By using type based parallelism the programmer can write very efficient, simple, code targeted at Grids, Clusters or SMPs in this language. Full online documentation and source/binaries available for download.

mpC  www.ispras.ru/~mpc Parallel extension to C designed for applications development for heterogeous networks. Source code and documentation.

NESL  www.cs.cmu.edu/~scandal/nesl.html A functional parallel language. Tutorial, source code, algorithm library, animations, and reference manual.

Orca  www.cs.vu.nl/orca Language for parallel programming on distributed systems, based on the shared data-object model, a portable form of object-based distributed shared memory. Papers and manual.

Parallaxis-III  robotics.ee.uwa.edu.au/parallaxis Structured language for data-parallel programming (SIMD systems), based on sequential Modula-2, extended. Source code, binaries, sample code, documents.

PARLANSE  www.semdesigns.com/Products/Parlanse/index.html A parallel programming language supporting symbolic computation on SMP workstations.

PARSEC  pcl.cs.ucla.edu/projects/parsec PARallel Simulation Environment for Complex systems. C-based simulation language for sequential and parallel execution of discrete-event simulation models. Online technical support, manuals, source code. Replaced Maisie language.

The SR Programming Language  www.cs.arizona.edu/sr Synchronizing Resources is a language for writing concurrent programs. Source code, mailing list archive, and documentation.

Unified Parallel C at George Washington University  upc.gwu.edu Community site: projects, news, FAQ, documents, publications, tutorials, forum, mail list, work groups, events, downloads.

Unified Parallel C: UPC  upc.lbl.gov Extensions to C to support distinctions between local and shared data structures, and pointers to them; for high performance computing on large-scale parallel machines, uniform programming model for shared and distributed memory.

Z++  www.zhmicro.com An extension of C++ to platform-free distributed computing. It enhances C++ with invariants, threading, database, GUI and conponent-oriented design. Z++ virtual processor supports the entire language on many platforms.

ZPL  www.cs.washington.edu/research/zpl/index.html An array programming language. Sample code, papers, recipes, reference manual, and source code.