From Events to Reactions: A Progress Report

Syndicate is a new coordinated, concurrent programming language. It occupies a novel point on the spectrum between the shared-everything paradigm of threads and the shared-nothing approach of actors. Syndicate actors exchange messages and share common knowledge via a carefully controlled database that clearly scopes conversations. This approach clearly simplifies coordination of concurrent activities. Experience in programming with Syndicate, however, suggests a need to raise the level of linguistic abstraction. In addition to writing event handlers and managing event subscriptions directly, the language will have to support a reactive style of programming. This paper presents event-oriented Syndicate programming and then describes a preliminary design for augmenting it with new reactive programming constructs.Comment: In Proceedings PLACES 2016, arXiv:1606.0540

Performance Analysis of Single Board Computer Clusters

This dataset contains the outputs from HPL runs used to measure performance of 16 nodes clusters built using Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+, and Odroid C2. These clusters were constructed using the Pi Stack PCB which is available from https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/D0379.</span