sisal

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sisal - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  sisal
      n 1: a plant fiber used for making rope [syn: sisal, sisal hemp
           ]
      2: Mexican or West Indian plant with large fleshy leaves
         yielding a stiff fiber used in e.g. rope [syn: sisal,
         Agave sisalana]

sisal - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  SISAL
  
     <language> (Streams and Iteration in a Single Assignment
     Language) A general-purpose single assignment functional programming language
      with strict semantics, automatic
     parallelisation and efficient arrays.  Outputs a dataflow
     graph in IF1 (Intermediary Form 1).  Derived from VAL,
     adds recursion and finite streams.  Pascal-like syntax.
     Designed to be a common high-level language for numerical
     programs on a variety of multiprocessors.
  
     Implementations exist for Cray X-MP, Cray Y-MP, Cray-2,
     Sequent, Encore Alliant, dataflow architectures,
     transputers and systolic arrays.
  
     Defined in 1983 by James McGraw et al, Manchester University
     , Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
     Colorado State University and DEC.  Revised in 1985.
     First compiled implementation in 1986.  Performance superior
     to C and competitive with Fortran, combined with efficient
     and automatic parallelisation.
  
     Not to be confused with SASL.
  
     E-mail: John Feo <feo@llnl.gov>, Rod Oldehoeft
     <rro@cs.colostate.edu>.
  
     David C. Cann has written an Optimising SISAL Compiler (ftp://sisal.llnl.gov/pub/sisal)
      (OSC) which attempts to make
     efficient use of parallel processors such as Crays.
  
     Latest version: 12.0, SISAL 1.2.
  
     ["A Report on the SISAL Language Project", J.T. Feo et al, J
     Parallel and Distrib Computing 10(4):349-366 (Dec 1990)].
  
     (2000-07-07)
  

sisal - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  SISAL
         Streams and Iteration in a Single-Assignment Language