Parallel programming with VPE: a case study of an integrated visual programming environment

Author

Turner, Stephen J. ; Cai, Wentong ; Tan, Hung-Khoon

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Exeter Univ., UK

fYear

1997

fDate

28 Apr-2 May 1997

Firstpage

319

Lastpage

324

Abstract

With the increased complexity of applications, parallel computing has proved to be an alternative to supercomputing in solving large problems. However developing parallel applications is more difficult compared to sequential programming. Visual technologies can be employed to aid the multi-dimensional tasks of parallel programming. This paper presents a case study of the use of an integrated visual programming environment in creating parallel applications. Techniques for the hierarchical construction of parallel programs are presented, together with an evaluation of the performance of the generated code for a matrix multiplication application

Keywords

mathematics computing; matrix multiplication; parallel programming; programming environments; software performance evaluation; visual programming; VPE; case study; integrated visual programming environment; matrix multiplication application; multidimensional tasks; parallel applications; parallel computing; parallel programming; sequential programming; software performance evaluation; supercomputing; Application software; Computer aided software engineering; Computer science; Libraries; Navigation; Parallel processing; Parallel programming; Program processors; Programming environments; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Computing on the Information Superhighway, 1997. HPC Asia '97

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7901-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPC.1997.592167

Filename

592167