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The idea of network-based parallel computing, using commodity components, is not new. However, until recently, the communication performance of such systems was inadequate for the efficient parallelisation of most algorithms. With the advent of fast ethernet and affordable switching technology, this is no longer the case and there is much work in progress to exploit the potential for cut-price supercomputing.
Now that the hardware issues are being resolved there is still a clear requirement for suitable programming models and software development tools to make it easy to use this emerging generation of parallel computers effectively. We believe that the BSP programming paradigm is ideally suited for network parallel computing due its elegance, simplicity and performance prediction feature. We are developing a visual tool to facilitate the development of BSP programs in a distributed environment.
In this paper we describe the operation of this tool in a tutorial style, and we discuss additional features that are planned for the future.
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Martin, J., Wilson, A. (2000). A Visual BSP Programming Environment for Distributed Computing. In: Falsafi, B., Lauria, M. (eds) Network-Based Parallel Computing. Communication, Architecture, and Applications. CANPC 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1797. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10720115_2
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