A parallel virtual machine for bulk synchronous parallel ML

We have designed a functional data-parallel language called BSML for programming bulk-synchronous parallel (BSP) algorithms. The execution time can be estimated and dead-locks and indeterminism are avoided. The BSMLlib library has been implemented for the Objective Caml language. But there is currently no full implementation of such a language and an abstract machine is needed to validate such an implementation. Our approach is based on a bytecode compilation to a parallel abstract machine performing exchange of data and synchronous requests derived from the ZAM, the efficient abstract machine of the Objective Caml language.