Communicating process architectures 2007; proceedings.9781586037673 Communicating process architectures 2007; proceedings. WoTUG Technical Meeting (30th: 2007: Guildford, UK) Ed. by Alistair A. McEwan et al. IOS (1) (Internetwork Operating System) An operating system from Cisco that is the primary control program used in its routers. IOS is widely used and robust system software that supports the common functions of all products under Cisco's CiscoFusion architecture. Press 2007 513 pages $176.00 Paperback Concurrent systems engineering series; v.65 QA76.58 The 29 papers delivered at the July 2007 meeting present new developments in computer science, models of concurrency Operations that are performed simultaneously within the computer. For example, dual-core CPUs provide complete overlapping of two independent processes. See dual core, hyperthreading, multiprocessing, multitasking, multithreading, SMP and MPP. concurrency - multitasking , and hardware/software co-design. The researchers propose a Java implementation of Rendezvous See Bonjour and TIB/Rendezvous. 1. rendezvous - In Ada, the method of synchronising the activity of different tasks. 2. rendezvous - Query language, close to natural English. ["Seven Steps to Rendezvous with the Casual User", E. , mobile channel and process models, a process-oriented architecture for complex system modeling, and domain specific transformations for hardware ray tracing A rendering method that simulates light reflections, refractions and shadows. It follows a light path from a specific source and computes each pixel in the image to simulate the effect of the light. It is a very process-intensive operation. See reflection mapping and radiosity. . Other topics include testing and sampling parallel systems, integrating and extending JCSP JCSP Java Communicating Sequential Processes JCSP joint contracting support plan (US DoD) , translating B control annotations to Handel-C, and multi-core devices using hierarchical abstraction. No subject index is provided. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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