Schenk, Eric2008-05-202008-05-201992-04-01http://hdl.handle.net/1880/46540This thesis proposes a new model of parallel computation, the Parallel Asynchronous Recursion (PAR) model. The model is asynchronous, and provides a high level process based abstraction, eliminating the need to explicitly schedule tasks on processors. It is shown that the PAR model can be efficiently simulated on both a RAM (Random Access Machine) and a PRAM (Parallel Random Access Machine). Therefore, the extra level of abstraction provided by the PAR Model can be obtained at a reasonable cost.EngComputer Scienceunknown1992-473-1110.11575/PRISM/31374