Experimentation with large-grained parallelism using local area networks

Author

Wilkerson, Ralph W. ; Meyer, Douglas E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Missouri Univ., Rolla, MO, USA

fYear

1990

fDate

12-14 Aug 1990

Firstpage

816

Abstract

HIGHLAND, a distributed-memory parallel processing environment for heterogeneous local area networks, has been developed. Designed as both a teaching and a research tool, its purpose is to provide an effective mechanism by which a number of networked UNIX workstations, dissimilar in both vendor and performance, can be directly manipulated as a single, unified, multiprocessing system. Utilizing the MIT X-windows environment, HIGHLAND supports a highly interactive graphical interface through which a programmer can create, modify, and control complex systems of communicating processes

Keywords

computer science education; educational aids; graphical user interfaces; local area networks; parallel processing; HIGHLAND; MIT X-windows environment; UNIX workstations; distributed-memory parallel processing environment; heterogeneous local area networks; heterogeneous workstation environment; interactive graphical interface; large-grained parallelism; local area networks; multiprocessing system; research tool; teaching tool; Computational modeling; Computer science; Computer simulation; Education; Local area networks; Parallel processing; Parallel programming; Programming profession; Trademarks; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 1990., Proceedings of the 33rd Midwest Symposium on

Conference_Location

Calgary, Alta.

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0081-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSCAS.1990.140845

Filename

140845