What users need in parallel tool support: survey results and analysis

Author

Pancake, Cherri M. ; Cook, Curtis

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

23-25 May 1994

Firstpage

40

Lastpage

47

Abstract

Considerable effort and expense have been devoted to developing tools that support parallel programming. Recent evidence has show that users do not find the current generation of tools useful far their program development needs, but offers no guidance on how that problem might be addressed. This paper reports the results of a survey applied to a significant cross-section of the parallel user community (448 participants). The responses establish a number of general patterns in program development and tool use among scientists, engineers, and computer scientists. Our analysis suggests several likely directions for future tool development efforts

Keywords

parallel programming; software tools; computer scientists; engineers; parallel programming; parallel tool support; parallel user community; program development needs; scientists; software tool use; survey; Computer industry; Computer science; Concurrent computing; Humans; Libraries; Parallel processing; Parallel programming; Programming profession; Runtime environment; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Scalable High-Performance Computing Conference, 1994., Proceedings of the

Conference_Location

Knoxville, TN

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5680-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SHPCC.1994.296625

Filename

296625