Synchronous/Reactive Programming of Concurrent System Software

Montague, Bruce R.; McDowell, Charlie

doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-024x(199703)27:3<207::aid-spe82>3.3.co;2-4

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Dividing the application definition from the execution

Steinmacher-Burow

2000

Comput. Sci. Eng.

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Current computing practice requires great effort to produce an application with a reliable, distributed, heterogeneous, adaptive, dynamic, real-time, parallel, secure or other execution. An exception is a bag-of-tasks application. Examples of such a type of application include the simulation of independent trials, the processing of independent media frames and the evaluation of independent candidate solutions. In many real-world projects, an external system provides such an application with a transparent execution. This division of the application definition from the application execution greatly reduces the effort to produce the application. This presentation has several aims. Most specifically, this presentation helps produce a bag-of-tasks application with less effort. Most generally, this presentation points out that many other applications can be treated like a bag-of-tasks application and thus can be produced with less effort. The Division of Labour Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations of 1776 describes some of the tremendous benefits resulting from the division of labour. Also in the production of a computing application, much of good practice may be described as a division of labour. Dividing the production reduces the effort required to produce an application. Alternatively, dividing the production allows a better application to be produced with the same effort. In addition to the initial creation of the application, the production includes debugging, maintenance, improvements and other efforts.

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Dividing the application definition from the execution

Steinmacher-Burow

2000

Comput. Sci. Eng.

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A reactive implementation of the Tau protocol composition mechanism

Clayton

Calvert²

1998 IEEE Open Architectures and Network Programming

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Tau is a framework for end-to-end communication services. Tau supports the nonlayered composition of protocol functions. A key part of the Tau framework is a generic protocol interface, which hides from protocol functions the details of the other protocol functions with which they are composed. How to structure this generic protocol interface is an interesting and challenging design question. This paper presents an overview of the design goals andpieces of the Tau framework, and argues that a reactive programming model offers advantages for both reasoning about and implementing the generic protocol interface. We also describe our experience composing protocol functions using a reactive model to implement the NETBLT bulk-data transfer protocol.

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Synchronous/Reactive Programming of Concurrent System Software

Cited by 2 publications

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Dividing the application definition from the execution

Dividing the application definition from the execution

A reactive implementation of the Tau protocol composition mechanism

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