WoTUG - The place for concurrent processes

Annual Conference: Communicating Process Architectures

Communicating Process Architectures 2018, the 40th. WoTUG conference on concurrent and parallel systems, takes place from Sunday August 19th. to Wednesday August 22nd. 2018 and is hosted by Professor Dr. Rainer Spallek, Chair of VLSI Design, Diagnostics and Architecture at the Faculty of Computer Science, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. The conference is organised by Dr. Spallek in collboration with Oliver Knodel and Uwe Mielke and in partnership with WoTUG.

About WoTUG

WoTUG provides a forum for the discussion and promotion of concurrency ideas, tools and products in computer science. It organises specialist workshops and annual conferences that address key concurrency issues at all levels of software and hardware granularity. WoTUG aims to progress the leading state of the art in:

  • theory (programming models, process algebra, semantics, ...);
  • practice (multicore processors and run-times, clusters, clouds, libraries, languages, verification, model checking, ...);
  • education (at school, undergraduate and postgraduate levels, ...);
  • applications (complex systems, modelling, supercomputing, embedded systems, robotics, games, e-commerce, ...);
and to stimulate discussion and ideas on the roles concurrency will play in the future:
  • for the next generation of scalable computer infrastructure (hard and soft) and application, where scaling means the ability to ramp up functionality (stay in control as complexity increases) as well as physical metrics (such as absolute performance and response times);
  • for system integrity (dependability, security, safety, liveness, ...);
  • for making things simple.
Of course, neither of the above sets of bullets are exclusive.

WoTUG publications

A database of papers and presentations from WoTUG conferences is here. The Abstract below has been randomly selected from this database.

Chaining Communications Algorithms with CSP

By Oliver Faust, Bernhard H.C. Sputh, David Endler

Software Defined Radio (SDR) requires a reliable, fast and flexible method to chain parameterisable algorithms. Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) is a design methodology, which offers exactly these properties. This paper explores the idea of using a Java implementation of CSP (JCSP) to model a flexible algorithm chain for Software Defined Radio. JCSP offers the opportunity to distribute algorithms on different processors in a multiprocessor environment, which gives a speed up and keeps the system flexible. If more processing power is required another processor can be added. In order to cope with the high data rate requirement of SDR, optimized data transfer schemes were developed. The goal was to increase the overall system efficiency by reducing the synchronisation overhead of a data transfer between two algorithms. To justify the use of CSP in SDR, a system incorporating CSP was compared with a conventional system, in single and multiprocessor environments.

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