Citation
Girault Alain. "A Type System for the Automatic Distribution of Higher-order Synchronous Dataflow Programs". Talk or presentation, 10, June, 2008.

Abstract
We address the design of distributed systems with synchronous dataflow programming languages. As modular design entails handling both architectural and functional modularity, our first contribution is to extend an existing synchronous dataflow programming language with primitives allowing the description of a distributed architecture and the localization of some expressions onto some processors. We also present a distributed semantics to formalize the distributed execution of synchronous programs. Our second contribution is to provide a type system, in order to infer the localization of non-annotated values by means of type inference and to ensure, at compilation time, the consistency of the distribution. Our third contribution is to provide a type-directed projection operation to obtain automatically, from a centralized typed program, the local program to be executed by each computing resource. The type system as well as the automatic distribution mechanism has been fully implemented in the compiler of an existing synchronous dataflow programming language (namely Lucid Synchrone).

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  Girault Alain. <a
  href="http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/432.html"
  ><i>A Type System for the Automatic Distribution of
  Higher-order Synchronous Dataflow
  Programs</i></a>, Talk or presentation,  10,
  June, 2008.

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  Girault Alain. "A Type System for the Automatic
  Distribution of Higher-order Synchronous Dataflow
  Programs". Talk or presentation,  10, June, 2008.

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  @presentation{Alain08_TypeSystemForAutomaticDistributionOfHigherorderSynchronous,
      author = {Girault Alain},
      title = {A Type System for the Automatic Distribution of
                Higher-order Synchronous Dataflow Programs},
      day = {10},
      month = {June},
      year = {2008},
      abstract = {We address the design of distributed systems with
                synchronous dataflow programming languages. As
                modular design entails handling both architectural
                and functional modularity, our first contribution
                is to extend an existing synchronous dataflow
                programming language with primitives allowing the
                description of a distributed architecture and the
                localization of some expressions onto some
                processors. We also present a distributed
                semantics to formalize the distributed execution
                of synchronous programs. Our second contribution
                is to provide a type system, in order to infer the
                localization of non-annotated values by means of
                type inference and to ensure, at compilation time,
                the consistency of the distribution. Our third
                contribution is to provide a type-directed
                projection operation to obtain automatically, from
                a centralized typed program, the local program to
                be executed by each computing resource. The type
                system as well as the automatic distribution
                mechanism has been fully implemented in the
                compiler of an existing synchronous dataflow
                programming language (namely Lucid Synchrone). },
      URL = {http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/432.html}
  }
  

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