Software engineering methods for designing parallel and distributed applications from sequential programs in scientific computing

Although quite a few large scale applications have been ported to multiprocessors in recent years, no framework has yet been set up for the process of designing parallel and distributed applications from sequential programs that takes into account the specific needs of large scale scientific applications where programs have complex, irregular control flow and data structures. The paper proposes such a framework and reports on its application in the portable parallelization of the industrial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software package TfC (TASCflow for CAD) within the scope of an interdisciplinary research project