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From: micha@ecrc.de (Micha Meier)
Subject: Re: Parallelism (Was Re: Is Visual Prolog "rea
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Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 08:43:41 GMT
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Thomas says that there has not been much success with automated parallelization
of Prolog programs. I have to say that OR-parallelism exploited in CLP/FD has shown
very successful, without having to write parallel algorithms. The point here
is that CLP/FD programs end up searching a quite large search space and OR-parallelism
makes it possible to search it in parallel without any extra cost.
See also the APPLAUSE project http://www.ecrc.de/research/collaborations/applause/applause.html

--Micha
