Cell: A Distributed Computing Modularization Concept

  • Authors:
  • Abraham Silberschatz

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712.

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 1984

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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.