[scott_s]

Look for the term "streaming". My project is distributed, asynchronous streaming (research name "System S", product name "InfoSphere Streams") which uses a dataflow language called SPL (Streams Processing Language). However, it allows imperative code at the vertices in the dataflow graph. It's appropriate for large scale streaming across whole clusters. The StreamIt project at MIT is not distributed and is synchronous, which maps to single chips much better. In fact, it grew out of making DSPs (digital signal processors) more programmable.

[Serow225]

Working with a couple IBM consultants, I had just gotten an MVP of InfoSphere Streams running at a supermajor oil company before I left the job last year :)