Parallel execution of multi-set constraint rewrite rules

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Parallel execution of multi-set constraint rewrite rules

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Proceedings of the 10th international ACM SIGPLAN conference on Principles and practice of declarative programming table of contents

Valencia, Spain

SESSION: Concurrency & parallelism table of contents

Pages 20-31

Year of Publication: 2008

ISBN:978-1-60558-117-0

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Martin Sulzmann	IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Edmund S. L. Lam	National University of Singapore, Singapore

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SIGPLAN: ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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Multi-set constraint rewriting allows for a highly parallel computational model and has been used in a multitude of application domains such as constraint solving, agent specification etc. Rewriting steps can be applied simultaneously as long as they do not interfere with each other.We wish that the underlying constraint rewrite implementation executes rewrite steps in parallel on increasingly popular becoming multi-core architectures. We design and implement efficient algorithms which allow for the parallel execution of multi-set constraint rewrite rules. Our experiments show that we obtain some significant speed-ups on multi-core architectures

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