Managing processes with network objects and their translation

The mpC language and its supportive portable programming environment are aimed at efficiently-portable modular parallel programming heterogeneous networks of computers (HNCs). Unlike traditional tools used for portable programming HNCs, mpC provides more advanced facilities for process management to support efficient portability. The paper presents the abstraction of network object introduced in the mpC language to manage processes constituting a message-passing program in order to ensure efficient execution of mpC applications on any particular HNC. The main attention is paid to the translation of this high-level mechanism into low-level notions of target message-passing programs.