The Programmers´ Playground: I/O abstraction for heterogeneous distributed systems

Author

Goldman, Kenneth ; Anderson, Michael ; Swaminathan, Bala

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1994

fDate

4-7 Jan. 1994

Firstpage

363

Lastpage

372

Abstract

I/O abstraction is offered as a new high-level approach to interprocess communication. Functional components of a concurrent system are written as encapsulated modules that act upon local data structures, some of which may be published for external use. Relationships among modules are specified by logical connections among their published data structures. Whenever a module updates published data, I/O takes place implicitly according to the configuration of logical connections. The Programmers´ Playground, a software library and run-time system supporting I/O abstraction, is described.<>

Keywords

concurrency control; data encapsulation; data structures; input-output programs; parallel programming; I/O abstraction; Programmers Playground; concurrent system; encapsulated modules; functional components; heterogeneous distributed systems; high-level approach; interprocess communication; local data structures; logical connections; parallel programming; published data structures; run-time system; software library;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1994. Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wailea, HI, USA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5090-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1994.323247

Filename

323247