Tools and Environments for Parallel and Distributed Systems
[Book]
edited by Amr Zaky, Ted Lewis.
Boston, MA
Springer US
1996
(xi, 305 pages)
Springer International Series in Software Engineering, 2.
Overview --;I --;Development Tools and Environments --;1. A Visual Approach to Distributed Programming --;2. ANNAI: An Integrated Parallel Programming Environment for Multicomputers --;3. Bulk Synchronous Parallel Computing --;A Paradigm for Transportable Software --;4. Performance and Scalability Issus in the Design and Implementation of a Parallel Programming Environment --;II --;Performance Prediction and Analysis --;5. Performance Prediction of Dynamic Structures with N-MAP --;6. Performance Analysis of Large Scale Parallel Applications --;7. Efficiency Evaluation of PVM 2.X, PVM 3.X, P4, EXPRESS and LINDA on a Workstation Cluster Using the NAS Parallel Benchmarks --;III --;Debugging Tools --;8. Accomodating Heterogeneity in A Debugger --;A Client-Server Approach --;9. Efficient Detection of Unstable Global Conditions Based on Monotonic Channel Predicates --;IV --;Less Traditional Approaches --;10. A Formal Semantics and An Interactive Environment for SISAL --;11. Parallel High-Performance Matrix Computations in the MaTRiX++ System --;12. Transparent Object Distribution and Remote Inheritance.
Developing correct and efficient software is far more complex for parallel and distributed systems than it is for sequential processors.