The Eclipse parallel tools platform: toward an integrated development environment for XSEDE resources

  • Authors:

  • Jay Alameda;Wyatt Spear;Jeffrey L. Overbey;Kevin Huck;Gregory R. Watson;Beth Tibbitts

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL;University of Oregon, Eugene, OR;University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL;Paratools, Inc, Eugene, OR;IBM, Armonk, NY;IBM, Armonk, NY

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment: Bridging from the eXtreme to the campus and beyond
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Eclipse [1] is a widely used, open source integrated development environment that includes support for C, C++, Fortran, and Python. The Parallel Tools Platform (PTP) [2] extends Eclipse to support development on high performance computers. PTP allows the user to run Eclipse on her laptop, while the code is compiled, run, debugged, and profiled on a remote HPC system. PTP provides development assistance for MPI, OpenMP, and UPC; it allows users to submit jobs to the remote batch system and monitor the job queue. It also provides a visual parallel debugger. The XSEDE community comprises a large part of PTP's user base, and we are actively working to make PTP a productive, easy-to-use development environment for the full breadth of XSEDE resources. In this paper, we will describe capabilities we have recently added to PTP to better support XSEDE resources. These capabilities include submission and monitoring of jobs on systems running Sun/Oracle Grid Engine, support for GSI authentication and MyProxy logon, support for environment modules, and integration with compilers from Cray and PGI. We will describe ongoing work and directions for future collaboration, including OpenACC support and parallel debugger integration.