- Title
- Towards a portable occam
- Creator
- Hill, David Timothy
- Subject
- occam (Computer program language)
- Subject
- Transputers
- Subject
- Parallel programming (Computer science)
- Date Issued
- 1988
- Date
- 1988
- Date
- 2013-03-07
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MSc
- Identifier
- vital:4587
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004749
- Identifier
- occam (Computer program language)
- Identifier
- Transputers
- Identifier
- Parallel programming (Computer science)
- Description
- Occam is designed for concurrent programming on a network of transputers. AIlocation and partitioning of the program is specified within the source code, binding the program to a specific network. An altemative approach is proposed which completely separates the source code from hardware considerations. Static allocation is performed as a separate phase and should, ideally, be automatic but at present is manual. Complete hardware abstraction requires that non-local, shared communication be provided for, introducing an efficiency overhead which can be minimised by the allocation. The proposal was implemented on a network of IBM PCs, modelled on a transputer network, and implementation issues are discussed
- Format
- 42 p.
- Format
- Publisher
- Rhodes University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Science, Computer Science
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Hill, David Timothy
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