The author surveys languages for programming distributed systems and introduces a new model (the shared data-object model) and programming language (ORCA).
The text includes:
- An in-depth survey of language constructions for distributed programming;Contents
- Reference to nearly 100 languages;
- A detailed case study of the design and implementation of a new programming language called Orca based on a shared data-object model;
- Six example programs and an evaluation of their performance on three different platforms.
1. Introduction
2. Distributed Programming Without Language Support
3. Language Support for Programming Distributed Systems
4. Languages for Programming Distributed Systems
5. The Shared Data-object Model
6. Implementation
7. Example Programs and Their Performance
8. Conclusions
Appendices
A. Matrix Multiplication
B. The All-Pairs Shortest Paths
C. The Travelling Salesman Problem
D. The Alpha-Beta Search
E. Successive Overrelaxation
F. Performance of the Orca Programs
G. Performance of the C Programs
References
Index
