Early experience with object-oriented message driven computing

Author

Christopher, Thomas W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Illinois Inst. of Technol., Chicago, IL, USA

fYear

1990

fDate

8-10 Oct 1990

Firstpage

503

Lastpage

506

Abstract

A model of parallel computation, message-driven computing (MDC), is presented, along with a language OOMDC/C that implements it. OOMDC/C is an object-oriented version of MDC that has been implemented in a sequential version and in two parallel versions on the Encore multiprocessor, one holding the messages in shared memory and the other copying the messages between processes. It is shown that the model facilitates the use of a variety of parallel data and control structures, including Actors, distributed arrays, communicating processes, remote procedure calls, broadcast and accumulation, data flow graphs, l-structures, streams, active messages, and demand-driven dynamic programming

Keywords

object-oriented programming; parallel programming; programming theory; Actors; Encore multiprocessor; MDC; OOMDC/C; accumulation; active messages; broadcast; communicating processes; data flow graphs; demand-driven dynamic programming; distributed arrays; l-structures; message driven computing; object-oriented; parallel computation; parallel data; remote procedure calls; shared memory; streams; Broadcasting; Computational modeling; Computer science; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; Dynamic programming; Functional programming; Message passing; Object oriented modeling; Pattern matching;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation, 1990. Proceedings., 3rd Symposium on the

Conference_Location

College Park, MD

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2053-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FMPC.1990.89503

Filename

89503