The Soma: A Programming Construct for Distributed Processing

1 September 1981

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Vol. 7 (5) , 502-509
https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.1981.231112

Abstract

A construct is proposed for parallel programming, called soma (software machine). A soma is a sequential process that can communicate with other somas by exchanging messages via mailboxes. The soma construct is well suited for implementation on conventional as well as on distributed computer architectures, the main characteristic of the latter being the absence of a common store.

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