Software engineering methods for designing parallel and distributed applications from sequential programs in scientific computing

Author

Luksch, Peter

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Inf., Tech. Univ. Munchen, Germany

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

7-10 Jan 1997

Firstpage

491

Abstract

Although quite a few large scale applications have been ported to multiprocessors in recent years, no framework has yet been set up for the process of designing parallel and distributed applications from sequential programs that takes into account the specific needs of large scale scientific applications where programs have complex, irregular control flow and data structures. The paper proposes such a framework and reports on its application in the portable parallelization of the industrial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software package TfC (TASCflow for CAD) within the scope of an interdisciplinary research project

Keywords

CAD; data structures; fluid dynamics; parallel programming; physics computing; software portability; TASCflow for CAD; TfC; data structures; distributed applications; industrial computational fluid dynamics software package; interdisciplinary research project; irregular control flow; large scale applications; large scale scientific applications; multiprocessors; portable parallelization; scientific computing; sequential programs; software engineering methods; Application software; Computational fluid dynamics; Computer industry; Data structures; Design methodology; Fluid flow control; Large-scale systems; Process design; Software engineering; Software packages;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1997, Proceedings of the Thirtieth Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wailea, HI

ISSN

1060-3425

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7743-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1997.667305

Filename

667305