Transputers and switches as objects in OCCAM

DOI10.1016/0167-8191(88)90106-8MaRDI QIDQ1110303zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Chris Jesshope

Publication date 1988

Published in Parallel Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-8191(88)90106-8

zbMATH Keywords

object-orientatedOCCAM engineparallel computersreconfigurableschedulingsupercomputerswitchestransputer

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Performance evaluation, queueing, and scheduling in the context of computer systems (68M20) Theory of operating systems (68N25) Theory of software (68N99)

Review text

This paper introduces a transputer multi-processor architecture that has been developed at Southampton University in collaboration with other partners under an Esprit research contract. It first introduces and characterizes the T800 transputer, which is the component used in the construction of this supercomputer. The machine was designed as an OCCAM engine, although other language support will be developed within this collaboration. The strategy for embedding hardware features such as the switches and busses used in the design, into an OCCAM model, is explored and further development to provide an insight into how a such a system may be efficiently programmed using a variety of parallel decomposition techniques. In particular we look at an object-orientated approach to scheduling resources, executing processes and performing operations or methods on whole data structures.

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