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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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



From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  SISAL
       Streams and Iteration in a Single-Assignment Language
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  SISAL
       
          Streams and Iteration in a Single Assignment Language.
       
          A general-purpose {single assignment} {functional programming
          language} with {strict} semantics, automatic parallelisation
          and efficient {array}s.  Outputs a dataflow graph in {IF1}
          (Intermediary Form 1).  Derived from {VAL}, adds {recursion}
          and finite {stream}s.  {Pascal}-like syntax.  Designed to be a
          common high-level language for numerical programs on a variety
          of {multiprocessor}s.
       
          Implementations exist for {Cray X-MP}, {Cray Y-MP}, {Cray-2},
          {Sequent}, {Encore Alliant}, {dataflow} architectures,
          {transputer}s and {systolic array}s.
       
          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 , Rod Oldehoeft
          .
       
          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)
       
       

















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