A concurrent programming language Cable and its visualization facility

The authors have designed a concurrent programming language, Cable (Concurrent C and ABCL/1 based language). They implemented this language and its run-time system on a network of workstations connected by Ethernet. The Cable run-time system has a visualization facility which can display the parallel execution of Cable programs. The language specification of Cable has been designed mainly based on C and Concurrent C. Its interprocess communication model follows ABCL/1. A Cable program consists of one or more processes called Cable processes. The Cable processes communicate with or synchronize each other through message passing, instead of shared memories. The visualization facility of the Cable run-time system graphically displays such activities as process creation, process termination, and interprocess communication on a screen using the X Window System.<
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