- Distributed implementation of bu ers
- Handling interrupts It used to be that programmers met concurrently executing processes only
- 1 An introduction to occam 1 Characters 7
- Hu man minimum redundancy coding
- Published in Systolic Array Processors, J. McCanny, J. McWhirter and E. Swartzlander Jr. (eds.), Prentice Hall International, 1989, pp. 589--598.
- Simple Hu man coder --This chapter contains routines to transmit and receive character
- Conway's game of Life PROC calculate.next.state(CHAN link[],
- 6 Parallel matrix multiplication In systems which manipulate and display geometrical data, one of the
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- alternative 5 of processes 10
- Assignment and communication
- communication Sorting is a candidate problem for parallel solution because many algorithms
- Programming structures The simplest thing that you can usefully want a process to be doing, at the
- 1 An introduction to occam As far as will concern us here, an occam program is simply a process,
- The occam 2 notation This chapter contains a summary of the programming language, based on
- 9 Hu man minimum redundancy coding It has become usual to store data and transmit messages using xed
- abbreviation, 9, 18, 25, 31, 37{47, 49, 58, 60, 195, 213{214, 228,
- Adaptive Hu man coder --This chapter contains routines to transmit and receive character
- Input and output routines PROC write.string(CHAN output, VALUE string[])
- One of the principal applications of occam is to be programming what are commonly called embedded applications, that is programs to be executed
- Packing and unpacking --This chapter contains routines for packing and unpacking bits
- 2 Programming structures In the next few pages, the various pipes and joints of occam are
- Formatted input and --This chapter defines routines to be used in other programs for
- 10 The occam notation This section contains a summary of the programming language, based
- 8 Conway's game of Life Lest you be misled by the name, Life is neither a competitive game
- This is a book about certain sorts of parallel program. It is certainly not about parallel computers, nor is it really about the occam parallel
- 3 Local time There are many applications of programmed devices where it is nec-
- Adaptive Hu man coder PROC construct.tree
- Expressions in occam have values which represent, in the usual way for programming languages, integers, oating-point numbers, Boolean (truth)
- communication --This chapter contains the code of a simple sorting program
- Simple Hu man coder PROC insert.new.node( VAR new.node, VALUE weight.of.new.node,
- Parallel matrix multiplier PROC produce.xj(VALUE j, CHAN south)
- Handling interrupts --This chapter contains routines for implementing a stand-alone
- Abbreviation and abstraction
- 4 Formatted input and output One of the things that you will probably miss in occam if you are used
- Parallel matrix multiplier --This program applies an affine transformation
- 1 An introduction to occam 1 Processes that do nothing 1
- An introduction to occam The occam notation was designed to simplify the programming of parallel
- Conway's game of Life --The program in this chapter plays Life on a terminal screen.
- This is a book about designing and writing certain sorts of parallel program. As parallel computers become more common, and as common computers be-
- Process farming --This chapter uses about number.of.workers processes to compute
- 5 In place of interrupts It used to be that programmers only met concurrently executing pro-
- Terminal interrupt management PROC keyboard.handler(CHAN request, sink, error)
- Bibliography This short list of books and papers is not intended to be exhaustive, but to
- Parallel matrix multiplication
- Formatted input and One of the things you will probably miss in occam if you are used to writing
- Codes of the programs In the following pages are the programs referred to in the earlier chapters
- Each process may be a primitive process indicating a single action; or it may be a composite process consisting of a number of de nitions and simpler
- Conway's game of Life Lest you be misled by the name, Life is neither a competitive game between
