Automatic graph drawing and readability of diagrams
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
Debugging concurrent processes: a case study
PLDI '88 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1988 conference on Programming Language design and Implementation
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
A high level software environment for transputer based systems
OUG-12 Proceedings of the 12th Occam User Group technical meeting on Tools and techniques for transputer applications
Experiences using the ParaScope Editor: an interactive parallel programming tool
PPOPP '93 Proceedings of the fourth ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles and practice of parallel programming
Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system
Communications of the ACM
Visual parallel programming with Visper
HPC-ASIA '97 Proceedings of the High-Performance Computing on the Information Superhighway, HPC-Asia '97
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
One of the difficulties of parallel programming is the gap between the desire of programmers to describe computations with manageable abstractions and the detailed description of parallelism, communication and synchronization required by most parallel programming languages. Since in a parallel program, activities are distributed across both space and time, pictures are much more meaningful than text in program construction. This paper describes a new framework for visual parallel programming based on the concurrency map. Four levels of abstraction are provided in order to reduce the complexity of the construction and to allow fast exploration of different design alternatives. Moreover, the same diagrams that are constructed during the development of a program may also be used to display feedback from its execution. The flexibility of the framework is demonstrated by the implementation of a visual constructor for the occam programming language.