Parallel and Distributed Programming Using C++

Chapter 13. Blackboard Architectures Using PVM, Threads, and C++ Components

	“The human brain is far more complicated than any computer, and in any event the benchmark to be attained by some super microchip of the future is to match the performance, not of an isolated human brain, but of a brain reared in a society comprising many humans...”
	--Timothy Ferris, The Universe and Eye

In this Chapter

• The Blackboard Model

• Approaches to Structuring the Blackboard

• The Anatomy of a Knowledge Source

• The Control Strategies for Blackboards

• Implementing the Blackboard Using CORBA Objects

• Implementing the Blackboard Using Global Objects

• Activating Knowledge Sources Using Pthreads

• Summary

One of the primary goals in parallel programming is to divide the work a program ...