Concurrency and Message Passing in Erlang

Author

Vinoski, Steve

Author_Institution

Basho Technologies

Volume

14

Issue

6

fYear

2012

Firstpage

24

Lastpage

34

Abstract

Developers use the open source Erlang programming language in domains such as telecommunications, database systems, and the Web due to its superior support for concurrency and reliability. Erlang applications comprise numerous processes-lightweight user-space threads-that communicate via message passing. This article focuses on Erlang´s concurrency support and details an example 1D Poisson solver program.

Keywords

concurrency control; functional languages; message passing; multiprocessing systems; public domain software; software reliability; 1D Poisson solver program; Erlang application; Erlang concurrency support; Word Wide Web; database systems; distributed functional programming languages; lightweight user-space threads; message passing; multicore system; open source Erlang programming language; reliability; telecommunications; Computer languages; Concurrent computing; Database systems; Pattern matching; Programming; Syntactics; Telecommunications; applicative (functional) programming; concurrent languages; concurrent programming; distributed languages; parallel languages; programming paradigms; scientific computing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computing in Science & Engineering

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1521-9615

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCSE.2012.67

Filename

6216341