Partial Evaluation for Scientic Computing The Supercomputer Toolkit Experience

rajzurichaimitedu Abstract We describe the key role played by partial evaluation in the Supercomputer Toolkit a parallel comput ing system for scientic applications that eectively exploits the vast amount of parallelism exposed by partial evaluation The Supercomputer Toolkit parallel processor and its associ ated partial evaluationbased compiler have been used exten sively by scientists at MIT and have made possible recent results in astrophysics showing that the motion of the planets in our solar system is chaotically unstable In researchers at MIT and HewlettPackard began a joint eort to create the Supercomputer Toolkit a set of hardware and software building blocks to be used for the construction of specialpurpose computational instr