Implementing tuple space on transputer meshes
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1991
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Faasen, Graig Richard
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Abstract
This report describes and evaluates an implementation of the Linda tuple space abstraction
on Transputer networks. There is evidence that suggests a need for a new
programming methodology to support Transputer-based applications, and Linda, as
an attractive and elegant alternative to existing methodologies, has great potential
for this role. The research focuses on the implementation of a particular tuple space
model, intermediate uniform distribution, on Transputer meshes. The objective of
the research is to ascertain the extent of the communication overheads inherent in
the implementation and hence evaluate the feasibility of the approach. The overheads
are measured relative to message passing performance on native Transputer
networks, and are shown to be significant. It is concluded that although the specific
tuple space model is not ideally suited to Transputer-based systems and the implementation,
as it stands, is too inefficient to be of practical use, the approach requires
further exploration in order to exhaust its full research potential.
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Research Report submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, towards a partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree
of Master of Science
Johannesburg 1991
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Faasen, Graig Richard (1991) Implementing tuple space on transputer meshes, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, http://hdl.handle.net/10539/22861