Paper Details

@InProceedings{JonesMurta88,
  title = "{S}upport for occam channels via dynamic switching in multi-transputer machines",
  author= "Jones, Peter and Murta, Alan",
  editor= "Askew, Charlie",
  pages = "101--112",
  booktitle= "{OUG}-9: {O}ccam and the {T}ransputer -- {R}esearch and {A}pplications",
  isbn= "90 5199 010 3",
  year= "1988",
  month= "sep",
  abstract= "The authors are motivated by the disparity between the
     arbitrarily large degree of inter-process connectivity
     allowed in the occam model of computation (by means of occam
     channels) and the implementation of that model on the Inmos
     transputer (under the familiar four links per processor
     constraint). A communication technique has been developed
     and implemented on the ParSiFal machine which addresses this
     problem. The method involves a novel use of switching
     hardware. In normal use, links between transputers in a
     variable topology array such as the ParSiFal machine are
     arranged using switching hardware to form a static network
     before the application is loaded. This study explores the
     run-time reconfiguration of the switch network under the
     direction of transputers executing user code, by means of a
     request-resource / relinquish-resource protocol."
}

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