A user-friendly environment for parallel programming

Author

Bruschi, D. ; Lenzi, P. ; Pozzetti, E. ; Gobbo, S. ; Serazzi, G.

Author_Institution

Dipartimento di Sci. dell´´Inf., Milan Univ., Italy

fYear

1993

fDate

27-29 Jan 1993

Firstpage

451

Lastpage

456

Abstract

A software environment called Parade (PArallel And Distributed Environment) for parallel programming is proposed. Its main objective is to make the programming as easy as possible. The development, debugging, execution, monitoring and optimization of parallel programs have been addressed. Several aspects of parallel program execution, such as task assignment to the processors, task synchronization and communication, are addressed by the system automatically. Two types of parallel system architectures have been considered: tightly coupled (i.e. multiprocessor systems) and loosely coupled with distributed memory (i.e. multicomputer systems). A user-friendly visual interface, realized with OSF/Motif, is provided for all phases of parallel program development. A prototype of our environment is running on a Meiko Transputer-based system and on a network of Unix-based workstations

Keywords

graphical user interfaces; optimisation; parallel architectures; parallel programming; program debugging; programming environments; synchronisation; transputer systems; Meiko Transputer-based system; OSF/Motif; Parade; Unix-based workstation network; distributed environment; distributed memory; interprocessor communication; loosely coupled architecture; multicomputer systems; multiprocessor systems; parallel environment; parallel programming environment; parallel system architectures; processor task assignment; program debugging; program development; program execution; program monitoring; program optimization; task synchronization; tightly coupled architecture; user-friendly visual interface; Computer architecture; Computer languages; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; Memory architecture; Monitoring; Multiprocessing systems; Parallel programming; Prototypes; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Processing, 1993. Proceedings. Euromicro Workshop on

Conference_Location

Gran Canaria

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3610-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMPDP.1993.336367

Filename

336367