A development tool environment for configuration, build, and launch of complex applications

Abstract

The increasing size and complexity of high-performance applications have motivated a new round of innovation related to configuration, build, and launch of applications for large computing platforms, especially heterogeneous multicomputers. This paper describes the software technology of the TalariSTM Environment, created by Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. to enable a new generation of tools that construct and initiate applications for large distributed and parallel computer systems.

The Talaris Environment provides an extensible framework for cooperating tools that share application configuration information. Tools developed by Mercury for the Environment focus on high-performance embedded DSP applications that run on Mercury's RACE® series multicomputer systems. Additional tools under development by Mercury and other organizations support other target systems and programming interfaces that include UNIX workstation networks, the IBM SP/2, real-time DSP platforms, the Message Passing Interface(MPI), and POSIX.

Development of the Talaris Environment has been funded in part by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under the “Bridging the Gap” and “Three Steps” programs. The Talaris Environment is currently available in connection with these DARPA programs.