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Systems libraries

 

The EC++ definition will contain a further library definition which will define and standardise the systems library facilities required for parallel processing models. These libraries will define the API to the librarys which applications programmers can reasonably expect to be supplied with a particular implementation of the EC++ system.

Some of these library functions may be common to all platforms, while some could be specific to individual platforms. The behaviour of the libraries will exhibit the same behaviour in any model independent of the architecture upon which the model is being implemented. Systems libraries will include the standard ANSI/ISO libraries.

Systems libraries will provide tools which encapsulate details and knowledge of the architecture of a resource; and which can make this information available to the proxy system.



Alistair McEwan
Tue Feb 20 15:55:53 GMT 1996