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%Spawning Process Networks in a Virtual Channel Environment}
\title{Spawning Process Networks in a Virtual Channel Environment}


\author{D.B. Carpenter}
\address{Department of Electronics and Computer Science, \\
         University of Southampton}

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\begin{abstract}
The article discusses techniques for spawning networks of processes
in an environment providing unlimited CSP-style channel connectivity,
plus the ability for any process to spawn a child process on a remote processor.
A straightforward recursive procedure provides good efficiency for
spawning fully-connected networks.
{\em Channel pointers} and {\em channel copying} are isolated as important
elements in such algorithms, and
an extended {\em occam} notation for expressing the algorithms
is outlined.
Some features of an implementation of the spawning algorithm,
using the Southampton Virtual Channel Router, are described.

{\bf Keywords}: Virtual Channel, Occam, Transputer, Remote Procedure Call.

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