Parallel Processing: The Transputer and Its Applications

by M.E.C. Hull, D. Crookes, Patrick J. Sweeney II (Editor)

The Inmos transputer - the computer on a chip - has proved to be a powerful building-block in the new generation of parallel computer systems. This book gives a tutorial guide to the transputer and its applications. The first two parts describe the architecture and programming in detail, covering languages like Fortran, Pascal and C, as well as the transputer's native language, Occam. The final part gives case studies of a wide range of transputer applications, in areas like image processing, modelling, pollution dispersion, visual inspection, databases and robotics.

344 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1994