The language was designed specially for programming high-performance parallel computations on heterogeneous networks of computers.
The company, Popular Power, is one of several Internet companies that are trying to build worldwide networks of computers to work on complex computations.
Recently his research interests focused on grid computing, an advanced form of parallel computing that distributes problems over networks of computers that are sometimes separated by great distances and connected by optical fiber links.
This is the latest example of a technology company seeking to harness the popularity of cloud computing, which uses remote networks of computers to provide a host of services.
The availability of high-speed networks and increasingly powerful commodity microprocessors is making the usage of clusters, or networks, of computers an appealing platform for cost effective parallel computing.
The broadest project, and perhaps I.B.M.'s highest priority, is work on autonomous computing, a field encompassing the challenge of creating networks of computers and other devices that can organize and fix themselves without human intervention.
These parallel versions can run on available networks of computers (clusters), allowing the solution of this and larger problems in modest computation times.
"Greenspan believed that networks of computers, like networks of nature, could stabilise themselves," Curtis says.
Now cars are crammed full of networks of computers with smart software controlling and monitoring things.
The Internet is essentially an aggregation of 25,000 or so separately operated networks of computers.
