Start/Pat: A Parallel-Programming Toolkit

  • Authors:
  • Bill Appelbe;Kevin Smith;Charlie McDowell

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Software
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

The authors address the question of how to use existing sequential Fortran code on multiprocessors. Their answer is Start/Pat, an interactive toolkit that automates the parallelization of sequential Fortran as it teaches the programmer how to exploit and understand parallel structures and architectures. The Start/Pat prototype has been installed at several user sites. The authors discuss the choice of PCF Fortran, the toolkit components, and the features of Pat and Start.