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For context, *Lisp (pronounced "star Lisp") was a parallel programming extension to lisp on the Connection Machine System, which was a series of supercomputers.
by hvs 12y ago
For context, *Lisp (pronounced "star Lisp") was a parallel programming extension to lisp on the Connection Machine System, which was a series of supercomputers. The front-end machine for talking to the CM was either a Unix box or a Symbolics Lisp machine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine
- kourt 12y agoThanks. How do current Lisps (CL, Racket) compare to *Lisp on parallelism?
- _delirium 12y agoThey aren't targeting similar hardware, so aren't very similar. The constructs introduced by *Lisp are designed mainly for issuing SIMD-style instructions to a grid of 256+ processors (in some versions, 10k+).
- nialo 12y agoDo you know how similar the Connection Machine was to a modern GPU? The descriptions I've seen sound similar, but I don't really know enough to say how similar.