DocumentCode
506154
Title
FUTURES: a mechanism for concurrency among objects
Author
Chatterjee, Arunodaya
Author_Institution
Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC)
fYear
1989
fDate
12-17 Nov. 1989
Firstpage
562
Lastpage
567
Abstract
A future provides the basic primitive through which a user in an object-oriented distributed system can achieve concurrency. It is based on the notion of being able to translate what appears to be a remote procedure call into a request for computation to be scheduled by the system. The mechanism required to make this translation is discussed. Refinements to the future mechanism allow futures to be passed as arguments to other procedure calls. This provides the user with the added flexibility of implementing synchronization schemes suited to specific needs. Further, it simplifies the process of migrating an object which has outstanding futures at the time of migration.
Keywords
Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Kernel; Microelectronics; Object oriented programming; Processor scheduling; Programming profession; Yarn;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Supercomputing, 1989. Supercomputing '89. Proceedings of the 1989 ACM/IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location
Reno, NV, United States
Print_ISBN
0-89791-341-8
Type
conf
DOI
10.1145/76263.76326
Filename
5348989
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