SPI: an instrumentation development environment for parallel/distributed systems

Author

Bhatt, Devesh ; Jha, Rakesh ; Steeves, Todd ; Bhatt, Rashmi ; Wills, David

Author_Institution

Technol. Center, Honeywell Inc., Minneapolis, MN, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

25-28 Apr 1995

Firstpage

494

Lastpage

501

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of the Scalable Parallel Instrumentation (SPI) tool being developed at Honeywell. SPI provides a complete development and execution environment for developing real-time instrumentation functions for heterogeneous parallel/distributed systems. This includes: C-extensions and development tools for the event-action programming model, run-time support for transparent event-action execution on a heterogeneous distributed platform, and a library of primitives (actions) ranging from real-lime data collection, analysis to graphic display. Concurrent instrumentation functions can be flexibly parallelized/distributed over the heterogeneous platform to selectively analyze and display desired activity at the hardware, OS, IPC, and application levels. SPI is currently operational on a heterogeneous platform of SUN workstations and Intel Paragon

Keywords

computer aided software engineering; development systems; parallel processing; peripheral interfaces; programming environments; software tools; Intel Paragon; SPI; SUN workstations; concurrent instrumentation functions; distributed systems; graphic display; heterogeneous platform; instrumentation development environment; parallel systems; Displays; Drives; Graphics; Instruments; Paper technology; Parallel machines; Real time systems; Runtime library; Sun; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Processing Symposium, 1995. Proceedings., 9th International

Conference_Location

Santa Barbara, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7074-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPPS.1995.395976

Filename

395976