I was reading a press release about the new Eclipse project focused on building a parallel tools platform. The project is headed by the Los Alamos National Laboratory. From the project home page, the goal is to "produce an open-source industry-strength platform that provides a highly integrated environment specifically designed for parallel application development.". You can read more about the Eclipse Parallel Tools Project at http://www.eclipse.org/ptp/.
There are many parallel languages being used in commercial and research projects. I found a good list (but not quite complete) of parallel languages at http://ceu.fi.udc.es/SAL/C/1/index.shtml. There is also a parallel programming language list on Google and Yahoo. Missing from that list are parallel languages including Alloy and Occam (if you have other languages post a comment to this blog and I’ll research them). Readers of this blog know that I love programming languages. Let’s hope that we get a wide range of languages integrated into the Eclipse Parallel Tools Project.
You can read the press release announcing the project at http://eclipse.org/org/press-release/20050412paralleltools.htm
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