A formal specification-based approach to distributed parallel programming

Low-level language constructs used for expressing explicit communication, concurrency, synchronization, and parallelism in systems make the systems difficult to maintain. For example, many programming languages allow programmers to create parallel processes by using the fork/join statement and provi...

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Published in:Eighth IEEE International Symposium on High Assurance Systems Engineering, 2004. Proceedings pp. 197 - 205
Main Author: Chia-Chu Chiang
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2004
Subjects:
Application software
Communication system software
Computer languages
Concurrent computing
Isolation technology
Middleware
Parallel processing
Parallel programming
Programming profession
Software maintenance
ISBN:0769520944, 9780769520940
ISSN:1530-2059
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Summary:Low-level language constructs used for expressing explicit communication, concurrency, synchronization, and parallelism in systems make the systems difficult to maintain. For example, many programming languages allow programmers to create parallel processes by using the fork/join statement and provide locking mechanisms to synchronize the resulting parallel computation. However, since fork/join may appear anywhere in a program, program making unstructured use of the language constructs may be difficult to understand and debug. We are presenting a middleware-based approach to distributed coordinated parallel programming. A familiar programming model will be provided to support implicit communication, concurrency, synchronization, and parallelism in systems through an implicit coordination-oriented approach. In other words, programmers do not have to explicitly express communication, concurrency, synchronization, and parallelism when they are developing distributed systems for parallel processing. In addition, a 4-layered interconnection architecture is implemented to support the programming model in an integrated manner. The implicit coordination-oriented approach to supporting parallel programming provides a number of benefits. Without inserting the low-level language constructs in an unstructured manner in programs makes the programs modular. Modularity improves the maintainability of the programs. Our approach supports the portability of programs by allowing the programs in different programming languages to be executed in any general programming environment without modifications.
ISBN:0769520944
9780769520940
ISSN:1530-2059
DOI:10.1109/HASE.2004.1281744