Contents

• Contents
• Introduction
• Threads in SML
• CML
• GAML
• $<\nu,G\gt$ machine
• GRIP
  • Thread Creation and Scheduling
• GUM
  • Summary
  • Thread management
    • Limitation of current implementation
    • Spark
    • Synchronisation
    • Load distribution
  • Memory management
  • Packaging and unpackaging graph
  • PVM environment and GUM
  • Results
• Conclusion
• References