Software reuse and portability of parallel programs

The state-of-the-art of programming parallel computers is far from being successful. The main challenge today is therefore the development of techniques and tools that improve the programmer´s situation. Software reuse and software portability are two research areas where further progress is essential. We present an approach that is applicable for compute-intensive programs with regular process topologies and execution patterns. After a short introduction, we summarize the Basel Algorithm Classification Scheme, which is the base of all our implementation parts, and present three sample algorithms. We refine these concepts towards a formal description language and introduce the prototype skeleton generator, which produces C source code for different parallel virtual machines. We conclude with a description of the state of the project and related work