This paper presents an implementation of some essential side-effects
of Prolog: cut and findall, on a distributed memory system.
Although the techniques proposed herein are valid for any distributed
memory
implementation, they are advantageous in those based on recomputation,
such as PDP (Prolog Distributed Processor), a model for Independent_AND/OR
parallel execution of Prolog. The key idea to implement the cut
predicate is to exploit as much parallelism as possible, but in such
a way
that the computation of a branch of the search tree which cannot be
pruned
by a cut is never delayed to control computations depending
on a
cut, (i.e. to analyze the pruning of the branch of these computations
and to kill them). The model proposed for the findall predicate
reduces the communication as much as possible.