Reading List on Parallel Programming Languages

Guy E. Blelloch

This reading list gives pointers to papers on various parallel programming languages. It is meant to be representative and is certainly not complete. We have tried to place each language in a category where we think it fits best. Others are welcome to disagree with our choices. For each class we give an annotated list of readings. Four papers that give somewhat of an overview of parallel languages are [Sch93, Per92, BST89, Bal92]. A postscript version of the reading list is also available.

• Data parallelism
• Explicit communication models
• Functional languages
• Non-determinism
• Automatic parallelization
• The real world
• References
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Here are some pages that contain pointers to various parallel languages and to other research on parallel computing:

• Our list of research groups in parallel computation.
• Hensa archive of parallel computing (special interest in transputers and Occam).
• Programming language research (CMU).