Parallel Execution of PLEX programs

Divisions:

Division of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Division of Networked and Embedded Systems

Research Group:

Programming Languages

Status:

finished

Start date:

2004-04-01

In any system with shared data and concurrent activities, there is a need to guarantee exclusive access to the shared data. If parallel processing, and synchronization, wasn’t an issue at the time of designing the system, non-preemptive execution on a single-processor architecture, automatically guarantees exclusive access to the shared data. While legacy software systems, developed and maintained over many years, contains large amounts of sequential software (executed on single-processor architectures), there is a development towards different forms of parallel hardware. The problem arises when the singleprocessor architecture is to be replaced by a multi-processor ditto; the independent parts, may now access and update the same data concurrently. A naive solution would be to re-implement the system, but since a legacy software system may contain several million lines of code, this solution is infeasible. A more reasonable solution would be criteria that ensures correct parallel execution. To ensure the correctness of such criteria, the formal semantics of the language in question need to be considered.

First NameLast NameTitle
Björn Lisper Professor
Jan Gustafsson Associate Professor,Senior Lecturer
Janet Wennersten (Ericsson AB)
Johan Lindhult
Ole Köller (Ericsson AB)

Björn Lisper, Professor

Email: bjorn.lisper@mdu.se
Room: U1-091
Phone: +46-21-151709

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