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pony - The occam-pi Network Environment

Mario Schweigler and Adam Sampson

In Peter Welch, Jon Kerridge, and Fred Barnes, editors, Communicating Process Architectures 2006, volume 64 of Concurrent Systems Engineering Series, pages 182-196, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2006. IOS Press.

Abstract

Although concurrency is generally perceived to be a `hard' subject, it can in fact be very simple --- provided that the underlying model is simple. The occam-pi parallel processing language provides such a simple yet powerful concurrency model that is based on CSP and the pi-calculus. This paper presents pony, the occam-pi Network Environment. occam-pi and pony provide a new, unified, concurrency model that bridges inter- and intra-processor concurrency. This enables the development of distributed applications in a transparent, dynamic and highly scalable way. The first part of this paper discusses the philosophy behind pony, explains how it is used, and gives a brief overview of its implementation. The second part evaluates pony's performance by presenting a number of benchmarks.

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Bibtex Record

@inproceedings{2426,
author = {Mario Schweigler and Adam Sampson},
title = {{pony - The occam-pi Network Environment}},
month = {September},
year = {2006},
pages = {182-196},
keywords = {determinacy analysis, Craig interpolants},
note = {},
doi = {},
url = {http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2006/2426},
    publication_type = {inproceedings},
    submission_id = {6017_1159143824},
    ISBN = {1-58603-671-8},
    booktitle = {Communicating Process Architectures 2006},
    editor = {Peter Welch and Jon Kerridge and Fred Barnes},
    volume = {64},
    series = {Concurrent Systems Engineering Series},
    address = {Amsterdam, The Netherlands},
    publisher = {IOS Press},
    ISSN = {1383-7575},
    refereed = {yes},
}

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