A graphical programming environment for message passing programs

Author

Kacsuk, P. ; Dózsa, G. ; Fadgyas, T.

Author_Institution

Res. Inst. for Meas. & Comput. Technol., Hungarian Acad. of Sci., Budapest, Hungary

fYear

1997

fDate

17-18 May 1997

Firstpage

210

Lastpage

219

Abstract

A number of MP interfaces are available today but one of the most popular is the PVM software package. PVM permits the user to configure his own virtual computer by hooking together a heterogeneous collection of UNIX based machines on which the user has a valid login and which are accessible over some network. To provide high-level graphical support for PVM based program development, an integrated programming environment (GRADE) is being developed. GRADE currently provides tools to construct, execute, debug, monitor and visualise message-passing based parallel programs. GRADE offers the programmer the same graphical user interface during the whole development process and high-level graphical programming abstraction mechanisms to construct parallel applications

Keywords

Unix; computer aided software engineering; data visualisation; graphical user interfaces; message passing; parallel programming; program debugging; programming environments; software packages; system monitoring; virtual machines; visual programming; GRADE; MP interfaces; PVM; Parallel Virtual Machine; UNIX based machines; computer network; graphical programming environment; graphical user interface; high-level graphical programming abstraction; high-level graphical support; message passing programs; program debugging; program visualisation; software package; software tools; system monitoring; valid login; virtual computer; Application software; Computer networks; Computerized monitoring; Debugging; Distributed computing; Message passing; Programming environments; Programming profession; Software measurement; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering for Parallel and Distributed Systems, 1997. Proceedings., Second International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8043-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PDSE.1997.596840

Filename

596840