Architecture of the Parallel Programming Support Environment

Author

Lewis, T.G. ; Rudd, W.G.

Author_Institution

Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR, USA

fYear

1990

fDate

Feb. 26 1990-March 2 1990

Firstpage

589

Lastpage

594

Abstract

A top-level view of the architecture of the Parallel Programming Support Environment (PPSE), which is an experimental set of tools for use in the design and implementation of software systems for parallel computing systems, is proposed. The tools include a graphical design editor, a graphical target machine description system, a task mapper/scheduler tool, parallel code generator, and graphical aids for performance analysis. The objective is, to the extent possible, to design and develop parallel software with little regard for the details of the architecture of the target machine, programming language, or parallel computing paradigm that the program is to use. A prototype of the environment running on the Macintosh was developed. It was used to parallelize a small image-processing application and several simple programs.<>

Keywords

parallel programming; programming environments; Macintosh; PPSE; Parallel Programming Support Environment; graphical design editor; graphical target machine description system; parallel code generator; parallel computing; parallel software; performance analysis; scheduler tool; task mapper; tools; Application software; Computer architecture; Computer languages; Parallel processing; Parallel programming; Performance analysis; Processor scheduling; Prototypes; Software prototyping; Software systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Compcon Spring '90. Intellectual Leverage. Digest of Papers. Thirty-Fifth IEEE Computer Society International Conference.

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2028-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPCON.1990.63744

Filename

63744