ThreadedComposite: A Mechanism for Building Concurrent and Parallel Ptolemy II Models

Abstract

This paper describes the usage patterns of the ThreadedComposite actor in Ptolemy II. This actor enables the execution of opaque actors (atomic actors or composite actors with directors) in a separate thread, thus providing multi-threading for models of computation that are not already multi-threaded. It can be used to execute an actor in the background, to execute multiple actors in parallel (e.g. on a multicore machine), and to execute actors that block on I/O operations without blocking other actors.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 07, 2008
Accession Number
ADA518665

Entities

People

  • Edward A. Lee

Organizations

  • University of California, Berkeley

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Force
  • California
  • Computations
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Hard Copy
  • Information Operations
  • Iterations
  • Military Research
  • Multithreading
  • Operating Systems
  • Scientific Research
  • Semantics

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Systems Analysis and Design