: We describe the design and implementation of pD, a parallel variant of a small functional language that serves as a programming interface for the parallel computer algebra package PACLIB. pD provides several facilities to express parallel algorithms in a flexible way on different levels of abstraction. The compiler translates a pD module into statically typed parallel C code with explicit task creation and synchronization constructs. This target code can be linked with the PACLIB kernel, the multi-processor runtime system of the computer algebra library SACLIB. The parallelization of several computer algebra algorithms on a shared memory multi-processor demonstrates the elegance and efficiency of this approach. Keywords: Para-Functional Programming, Computer Algebra, Compilation. 1 Introduction We present in this paper a small functional language D and its para-functional variant pD that is used as a parallel programming interface for the computer algebra package PACLIB. Parallelism...

We give an introduction to programming methods, software systems, and algorithms, suitable for parallelizing Computer Algebra on modern multiprocessor workstations. As concrete examples we present multi-threaded programming and its use in the PARSAC-2 system for parallel symbolic computation, and we present some examples of parallel algorithms useful for solving systems of polynomial equations.

We describe how a para-functional programming language is applied to implementing parallel computer algebra algorithms on a shared memory multiprocessor. The language we use is pD, a small functional language that we have developed as a high-level programming interface for the parallel computer algebra package PACLIB. pD provides several facilities to express parallel algorithms in a flexible way on different levels of abstraction. The compiler translates a pD program into parallel C code with explicit task creation and synchronization constructs. The implemented para-functional programs perform as efficient as manually coded parallel C programs. 1 Introduction While most computer algebra algorithms [3] are based on the concept of pure functions, real-world computer algebra programs are for performance reasons usually written in a low-level imperative style (typically in C). Consequently, there is little resemblance between the notation in which the mathematical theory is formulated a...

of some characteristics of softwares for parallel computer algebra. SBSH means Sugarbush. PCLBSTM means PACLIB/STURM and PCGVR PAC/GIVARO. Conclusions. Major problems that appears in the design and implementation of parallel computer algebra systems (on-line scheduling of tasks, distributed garbage collection) are studied in the more general context of modern parallel programming languages. Also, parallel computer algebra focus nowdays on two directions. First, a development effort has to be done to integrate a modern parallel language in a general purpose computer algebra system with its huge libraries of complex algorithms. Second, active research should be done in the design of efficient and portable parallel algorithms for more complex problems. Thierry Gautier (INRIA, LMC-IMAG), Hoon Hong (NCSU), Jean-Louis Roch (LMC-IMAG), Gilles Villard (CNRS, LMC-IMAG), Wolfgang Schreiner (RISCLinz) References ...