Paper Details

@InProceedings{WoodWelch96,
  title = "{T}he {K}ent {R}etargettable occam {C}ompiler",
  author= "Wood, David C. and Welch, Peter H.",
  editor= "O'Neill, Brian C.",
  pages = "143--166",
  booktitle= "{P}roceedings of {W}o{TUG}-19: {P}arallel {P}rocessing {D}evelopments",
  isbn= "90 5199 261 0",
  year= "1996",
  month= "feb",
  abstract= "A generic approach to targeting occam to non-transputer
     architectures is described. The principle is to build a
     register-level emulation of the major design elements of the
     transputer, using native registers of the target hardware,
     and reuse the standard occam toolset compiler with as little
     alteration as possible. The porting effort thus reduces to
     an architectural mapping rather than involvement in the
     compiler and code-generator. An immediate payoff comes from
     reuse of a well-developed and sophisticated compiler. An
     important scientific question, with relevance to efficient
     and portable parallel computing, is whether the crucial
     benefits of transputer architecture (such as the very low
     overheads for the management of processes and events) can be
     transferred through such emulation. We report some initial
     results for SPARC-based targets."
}

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