CARPET: A Programming Language for Parallel Cellular Processing

In this paper we describe CARPET, a parallel programming language based on the cellular automata model. CARPET is the language used for programming cellular algorithms in the CAMEL environment. CAMEL is an environment designed to support the development of high performance applications in science and engineering. It offers the computing power of a highly parallel computer, hiding the architecture issues from a user. The system can be used both as a tool to model dynamic complex phenomena and as a computational model for parallel processing. By CARPET a user might write programs to describe the actions of thousands of simple active agents interacting locally, then the CAMEL system allows a user to observe the global complex evolution that arises from all the local interactions.