Programming in JoCaml – Extended version

Abstract: JoCaml is a language for concurrent and distributed programming. We here present a non-trivial distributed application written in JoCaml: a ray tracer. Thereby, we show how to program the coordination of multiple cooperating agents in a concise manner, in the spirit of functional programming. We also address the issue of agent failure.

• Introduction
• The new JoCaml
• An introduction to join-definitions
• Organizing concurrent computations
  • Concurrent iteration
  • Collecting the results of concurrent iteration
  • Distributed computations
• Ray tracing and its parallelization
• The Render modules
  • Master side
  • Slave side
• Failures
  • Detected failures
  • Undetected failures
• Results
• Related works and conclusion
• References
• Scenes used during experiments
  • Urchin
  • Decaying Sierpinski cube

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