Parallel prolog

From: Laurence Darby (Nld100eO_at_S.docP.icA.ac.Muk)
Date: 03/22/04 

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 15:01:40 -0000

Hello,

My final year project is to distribute a prolog program across a
cluster of 7 dual cpu P4 machines. The original proposal was to split
the program up into different sized chunks, and use openmosix (cluster
load balancer) to distribute these chunks.

This allows distribution of arbitrary loads, making the cluster
usefull for other projects. However, the efficiency is terrible for
this particular workload (lots of redundancy, large data sets copied
to each instance of prolog). I've been looking at parallel prolog
implementations such as Aurora and Muse, for Sicstus prolog, however
these are only for shared memory SMP machines.

Is there a standard, classical way to distribute prolog across a
cluster?

Thank you,
Laurence

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