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From: cca04@keele.ac.uk (P.J. Mitchell)
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Subject: Re: (none)
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Date: 25 Sep 90 10:16:11 GMT
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From article <900924121517.00002C28131@prlvax1.prl.philips.co.uk>, by EDMONDS@prlvax1.prl.philips.co.uk (Mark from Philips):
> What would people think if, rather than using transputers, networks of
> workstations were used instead.  Thus, you would write your occam code as
> 
>             PLACED PAR
>               PROCESSOR 0 node_name
>               ... placed channels and SC PROC
> 
>               PROCESSOR 1 node_name
>               ... placed channels and SC PROC
> 
>               PROCESSOR 2 node_name
>               ... placed channels and SC PROC

You can already do this sort of thing with Meiko CSTools, but only in C
or Fortran, not Occam. The syntax of the "parfile" is similar to the above,
and you can indeed specify hostanmes. Meiko provide Sun versions of their
cs and csn libraries so that you can compile you programs for transputers
or Suns (or Vaxen ?) and do what I think you want.

Of course the byte order is different on MC680X0, Sparc and transputer chips
but that just adds to the fun (use XDR routines when using more than one
type of chip).
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