Towards Improving Skeletons in Eden.

Abstract

The functional language Eden facilitates a skeleton-based methodology for parallel programming. A key point in the efficiency of parallel programs is the distribution of computation among processes. In Eden, this is closely related to its order of evaluation. We describe here an ongoing project whose purpose is to use a prototype implementation of Eden’s operational semantics to investigate how alternative evaluation models may either improve or make worse the behavior of the skeletons implemented in Eden