Virtual Channel Router

Version 2.0k of the Virtual Channel Routing (VCR) software.

VCR is a software package developed at the University of Southampton within the ESPRIT P2701 PU MA project to provide unrestricted channel communication across networks of T4- and T8-series transputers. It allows distributed transputer programs to be written, compiled and configured in a topology-independent format and then bound to a topology-dependent routing kernel at run-time.

REQUIRES: INMOS occam toolset compiler (Dx205).

Authors: Mark Debbage and Mark Hill. University of Southampton, UK.

Documentation

• Release documentation for 2.0k. (postscript) (plain text). READ THIS FIRST!
• All the PostScript documents in a compressed tar file.
• History of VCR to version 2.0k (postscript) (plain text)
• Installation document for VCR (postscript) (plain text).
• ParaPET - PARAllel Programming Environment Toolkit documentation.
• Restriction and problems with VCR.
• RPC support and run-time library documentation.
• Virtual channel router user guide.

Source distribution

• License and warranty information.
• Source for 'reactive kernel' implementation.
• Software feedback report form for VCR.
• UNIX source files.

Solaris (sun4) distribution

• License and warranty information.
• SPARC executable of voc compiler.