Parallel program design in visual environment

Author

Trichina, E. ; Oinonen, J.

Author_Institution

Adv. Comput. Res. Centre, Univ. of South Australia, Three levels, SA, Australia

fYear

1997

fDate

18-21 Dec 1997

Firstpage

198

Lastpage

203

Abstract

The great challenge in parallel computing is to make the task of programming parallel machines easy, while not sacrificing the efficiency of target code. One of the successful methodologies is to start from a high level specification of the functional behaviour of a program by applying a sequence of optimising transformations tuned for a particular architecture to generate a specification of the operational behaviour of a parallel program. We believe that visualisation is an excellent way to bring this methodology to a wider programming community. We describe an interactive visual system which integrates 3D graphics, animation, and direct manipulation techniques into a parallel programming environment

Keywords

computer animation; formal specification; interactive systems; parallel machines; parallel programming; visual programming; 3D graphics; animation; direct manipulation techniques; functional behaviour; high level specification; interactive visual system; operational behaviour; optimising transformations; parallel computing; parallel machine programming; parallel program design; parallel programming environment; visual environment; visualisation; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Data analysis; Graphics; Optimization methods; Parallel machines; Parallel processing; Parallel programming; Visual system; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High-Performance Computing, 1997. Proceedings. Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangalore

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8067-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HIPC.1997.634493

Filename

634493