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 multithreading for models of computation that are not already multthreaded. 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.
Title
ThreadedComposite: A Mechanism for Building Concurrent and Parallel Ptolemy II Models
Published
2008-12-07
Full Collection Name
Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences Technical Reports
Other Identifiers
EECS-2008-151
Type
Text
Extent
19 p
Archive
The Engineering Library
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