Research Center for Multiprocessor Systems
PSI RAS
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The staff of the Center includes 22 researchers in the fields of
computer science and mathematics, among them 6 people with Ph.D.
Here is the list of people.
The Center is subdivided into four sections:
Several researchers of the Center form the
Telecommunication Laboratory
BOTIK.
The main topic of the research conducted in the Center is the
software for multiprocessors. The aim of this research is to design
and implement a multiprocessor operating system with the
following features:
- Automatic dynamic parallelizing of programs.
The source language of the system does not include explicit
constructions for paralellizing control.
The operating system supports a non-traditional evaluation model.
The evaluation is represented as a process of auto-transformation
of a network. At run-time the processes appear and disappear, the
interconnections between them change.
This model allows the operating system to detect the processes
suitable for parallel processing and to run them on the other
processors, if it results in an increased productivity of the
whole system.
- Adaptability to a specific configuration of a multiprocessor,
fault-tolerance.
The software, both operating system and applications, are
designed to work on a multiprocessor with any configuration.
The multiprocessor may consist of an arbitrary number of processors
with arbitrary connections between them. This characteristic
results in the fault-tolerance of the system, which is most
important in control systems for dangerous
technologies (traffic, nuclear energy, etc.).
By now we have accomplished the preliminary research and we are
implementing the operating system for multiprocessors based on the
Intel 80x86 and Inmos T800/T9000 microprocessors.
The software under development is characterized with high
portability and we are ready to transfer the system onto the
multiprocessors based on chips different from Intel 80x86
and Inmos T800.
- Functional programming languages.
- Computer algebra: design and programming of systems, languages
and applications for computer algebra, investigations in Groebner
bases and symbolic solution of differential equations.
- Pure mathematics: differential geometry, singularity theory,
knot invariants, graph theory,
FLAC Programming Language
FLAC is a functional programming language for computer
algebra. We have implemented a version of FLAC
for IBM PC XT/AT. We have ported
the software onto a workstation based on Motorola 86020 and then adapted
it for Intel 80386 running in protected mode.
The software is used by the programmers of applications for
computer algebra.
Program Systems Institute
August 16, 1996, webmaster@botik.ru