Cantor: an actor programming system for scientific computing

W. Athas; N. J. Boden

DOI:10.1145/67386.67402

Corpus ID: 8266439

Cantor: an actor programming system for scientific computing

@inproceedings{Athas1988CantorAA,
  title={Cantor: an actor programming system for scientific computing},
  author={W. Athas and N. J. Boden},
  booktitle={OOPSLA/ECOOP '88},
  year={1988}
}

W. Athas, N. J. Boden

Published in OOPSLA/ECOOP '88 1988

Computer Science

The programming notation Cantor is a research tool used at Caltech for ongoing experiments with fine-grain message-passing concurrent computers called multicomputers. Cantor is an actor-based language, and its semantics conform to the actor model of computation, as described by Agha [1]. A computation is expressed as a collection of objects that execute concurrently, and that synchronize and share data exclusively by message passing. The delivery of a message to an object causes the object to… CONTINUE READING

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