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.
Table of Contents:
Contents
Introductio
Occam: An introductory course
Transputer software
Hardware for parallelism
Transputer hardware
Manufacturers hardware equipment
Transputer applications
Image processing with transputers
Porting a Fortran application to a transputer network
The transputer and its application to physiological modelling of the human vocal and auditory systems
Modelling the dispersion of gaseous pollutants in air
Transputer database systems
Experience of using transputers in a robot programming and control system: a case study
Ray traced graphics
