Simulating Cellular Computations with ALT. A Tutorial
by Yuri Pogudin, Olga Bandman
Abstract:
ALT (Animating Language Tools) is a computer tool for designing and simulating computational processes in cellular arrays. It combines interfaces for visual and textual representation of fine-grained parallel algorithms. A special high-level language is developed whose statements are graphically given arrays and subarrays. The simulating process allows to observe computation dynamics at different levels of detall length: at program blocks, at statements to be executed in parallel over the given array, in quasiparallel mode at cell-state changes. The tutorial contains a brief review of the theoretical background, the restricted ALT-language and simple examples. ALT is running on PC under MS DOS and may be used in teaching Parallel Computing.
Keywords: tutorials
Source:
Y. Pogudin, O. Bandman, Simulating Cellular Computations with ALT. A Tutorial. In V. Malyshkin (ed.),
Parallel Computing Technologies: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference,
Lect. Notes in Comp. Sci., Vol. 1277, Springer, 1997, pp. 424-435
