===== parallelism in lisp =====

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.

===thinking machines===

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 

===PVM===

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

===other===

  * 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]] 

===historical/ /references===

  * 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)