A Primer for Program Composition Notation

This primer describes a notation for program composition. Program composition is putting programs together to get larger ones. PCN (Program Composition Notation) is a programming language that allows programmers to compose programs so that composed programs execute efficiently on uniprocessors, distributed-memory multicomputers or shared-memory multiprocessors. (Revised December 12, 1990

The Composition of Concurrent Programs

This paper describes a notation for concurrent programs called PCN for Program Composition Notation. The notation is being implemented at Caltech on multicomputers (a network of computers that communicate by sending and receiving messages). A fragment of this notation has been implemented on a data-parallel computer - the Connection Machine - by Rajive Bagrodia at UCLA. PCN is an outgrowth of research on UNITY (1) and Strand (2). The central ideas underlying PCN axe discussed next

The Composition of Concurrent Programs

This paper describes a notation for concurrent programs called PCN for Program Composition Notation. The notation is being implemented at Caltech on multicomputers (a network of computers that communicate by sending and receiving messages). A fragment of this notation has been implemented on a data-parallel computer - the Connection Machine - by Rajive Bagrodia at UCLA. PCN is an outgrowth of research on UNITY (1) and Strand (2). The central ideas underlying PCN axe discussed next