C**

C** is a data-parallel programming language based on large-grain data parallelism. It supports data-parallel operations with independant threads of control and nearly-deterministic execution.

Aggregate objects which are the basis for parallelism collect elements into an entity that parallel functions can manipulate concurrently, and permit to obtain nested parallelism.

• Bibliography:
  • J.R. Larus, B. Richards, and G. Viswanathan. C**: a Large-Grain, Object-Oriented, Data-Parallel Programming Language. Technical Report 1126, Computer Science Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, November 1992. Postscript version

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