• DocumentCode
    969992
  • Title

    Cell: A Distributed Computing Modularization Concept

  • Author

    Silberschatz, Abraham

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712.
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    1984
  • fDate
    3/1/1984 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    178
  • Lastpage
    185
  • Abstract
    This paper presents a new language construct for distributed computing. This construct, called cell, allows one to simulate a variety of language constructs, Its salient features provide the programmer with: 1) an effective communication and synchronization scheme, 2) a mechanism to control the order in which various activities within a cell should be executed. We demonstrate the usefulness of our concepts by providing solutions to a variety of programming exercises.
  • Keywords
    Communication effectiveness; Communication system control; Computational modeling; Control systems; Distributed computing; Functional programming; Memory architecture; Microprocessors; Processor scheduling; Programming profession; Communication; distributed systems; programming languages; scheduling; synchronization;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0098-5589
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TSE.1984.5010220
  • Filename
    5010220