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
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:rhodes/vital:4587 |
| Date | 07 March 2013 |
| Creators | Hill, David Timothy |
| Publisher | Rhodes University, Faculty of Science, Computer Science |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, Masters, MSc |
| Format | 42 p., pdf |
| Rights | Hill, David Timothy |
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