Implementing tuple space on transputer meshes

• Main Author: Faasen, Graig Richard
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Transputers; Microcomputers
• Online Access: Faasen, Graig Richard (1991) Implementing tuple space on transputer meshes, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, http://hdl.handle.net/10539/22861; http://hdl.handle.net/10539/22861

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 === 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. === MT2017