Contents

• Introduction
  • Parallel Systems
  • Hybrid Dataflow
  • Specialized Processors
  • This Document
• The MagicEight Virtual Machine
  • Naming and Protection
    • Scoping
      • Accessing Data
      • Input Parameters
      • Internal Parameters
      • Private Parameters
      • Passing Parameters to other Tasks
    • Persistent Storage Management
  • Resource Management
    • Distributed Aspect
      • Logical Organization
      • Task/Stream Scheduling
    • User Primitives
      • POST-TASK
      • CLEAR-TASK-DEP
      • CREATE-OBJECT
      • CREATE-STREAM
      • EXPORT-OBJECT
      • DESTROY-OBJECT
      • SEND-MESSAGE
      • SEND-RELIABLE-MESSAGE
    • Intranode Messages
      • GET-OBJECT
      • GET-STREAM-OBJECT
      • BKOFF-STREAM-OBJECT
      • ACK
      • GET-STREAM-INFO
      • PUT-OBJECT
      • PUT-STREAM-OBJECT
      • PUT-STREAM-INFO
      • POST-TASK
      • CLEAR-TASK-DEP
    • Resource Request Routing
  • Streams
    • Pipelining
    • Synchronization
    • Stream Creation & Destruction
  • Instructions
  • Task Scheduling and Fault-Tolerance
    • Eduction
      • Priorities & Stream Synchronization
    • Fault-Tolerance
      • Error Detection
      • Error Recovery
• Data Structures
  • Capabilities
  • Streams and Stream Access Patterns
    • External Interface
    • Internal Interface
  • Parameter Passing
    • Predefined Parameter Types
    • Caller Software Interface
    • Passing of Parameters to Software Functions
    • Passing of Parameters to Hardware Functions
  • Tokens
• References