Constructing distributed systems in Conic

Magee, Jeff; Kramer, Jeff; Sloman, Morris

doi:10.1109/32.24720

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“…The configuration management tool and its supporting environment is described in [22]. In addition to instance creation and linking (interconnection), the configuration description can include component location (omitted here) and parameters.…”

Section: Constructing Systems In Conic: -Component Instantiation and mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The configuration language and components both conform to the basic principles described earlier in the paper. The interested reader can find a detailed description of the Conic Configuration language in [4] and the Conic environment in [22].…”

Section: Summary and Experiencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Conic environment [12,22], developed by the Distributed Computing Group at Imperial College, provides support for configuration programming for distributed and concurrent programs based on the above principles. The environment provides support for two languages, one for programming individual components (processes) with explicitly defined interfaces, and one for the configuration of programs from groups of components.…”

Section: An Exemplar Of Configuration Programming: Conic Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A configurable framework for method and tool integration

Kramer

Finkelsteiin

1991

Software Development Environments and CASE Technology

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There is an urgent need to provide a sound generic framework for method and tool integration, where many differing notations are used, software development is distributed and management support for the software development process is provided. This paper argues that there is much to be learnt from proven practical techniques for software construction, particularly those that support distributed software integration, heterogeneity and software management. Configuration Programming is one such approach which advocates the use of a separate, declarative configuration language for the description of system structure. It has been used in the Conic Environment for the development of distributable software, and is being extended for the configuration of heterogeneous components programmed in different programming languages. A number of software tools exist for the development, construction and management of Conic systems. This paper shows how an analogous set of the principles, practice and tools from configuration programming can be combined with recent work on ViewPoints 1 to provide a configurable framework for method and tool integration.

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Section: Constructing Systems In Conic: -Component Instantiation and mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Summary and Experiencementioning

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Section: An Exemplar Of Configuration Programming: Conic Environmentmentioning

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A configurable framework for method and tool integration

Kramer

Finkelsteiin

1991

Software Development Environments and CASE Technology

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“…Many of them, i.e. OCCAM (Burns et al, 1988), CONIC (Magee et al, 1989) etc. are meant to be for Transputer based machines.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

EC : A Language for Distributed Computing

Naik

Barua

1995

Computer Networks, Architecture and Applications

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Computation intensive programs can utilise idle workstations in a cluster by exploiting the parallelism inherent in the problem being solved. A programming language for distributed computing offers advantages like early detection of type mismatch in communication and offers structured mechanisms to specify possible overlap in communication and computation, and exception handling for catching run time errors. Success of a language depends on its ease of use, expressibility and efficient implementation of its constructs.EC is a super set of C supporting process creation, a message passing mechanism, and exception handling. The pipelined communication constructs and multiple process instances help in expressing concurrency between computation and communication. Data driven activation of EC processes is used for scheduling.EC has been implemented in a Sun-3 workstation cluster. An inter-node message passing mechanism has been built on top of the socket interface using the TCP protocol, and intra-node message passing is done by passing pointers to improve efficiency. However, message_type variables hide the implementation details, improve type safety and location transparency of a program.

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“…For the first point a largely used approach to designing systems is to distinguish between in-the-large design [6], [11] and in-the-small design. An in-the-large design has the purpose of describing, by using a proper language, called design description language, the overall structure of a system without unnecessary details of the individual modules.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%