Designing highly parallel applications using database programming concepts

The paper presents the specification language Vista, which incorporates a new parallel programming model strongly influenced by concepts originating in the field of object oriented database programming. Before introducing Vista, it first gives a brief overview of the problems related to existing parallel programming models, and shows that support for a higher level of abstraction is necessary. Following the presentation of Vista, the paper presents a comparison to related research, including a discussion on the Linda parallel programming model that has also successfully incorporated concepts from the field of database programming. Some indications of future research conclude the paper. >