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The GRED graphical editor for the GRADE parallel program development environment

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High-Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN-Europe 1998)

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe a graphical editor GRED as part of the integrated programming environment GRADE that is intended to support designing, debugging and performance tuning of message-passing programs running on a heterogeneous network of computers. The GRED editor hides the cumbersome details of the underlying low-level message-passing system (which is currently the PVM system) by providing visual abstractions but allows the programmer to define local computations of the individual processes in C (or in Fortran in the future) independently from the visually supported process management and inter-process communication activities.

Visual representation of the critical (i.e. message-passing related) parts of the code can help the user in grasping the complex structure and run-time behavior of the whole parallel application, even if he or she is not an expert in the field of concurrent programming.

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  1. MTA-SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, P.O.Box 63, H-1518, Budapest, Hungary

    Péter Kacsuk, Gábor Dózsa, Tibor Fadgyas & Róbert Lovas

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Kacsuk, P., Dózsa, G., Fadgyas, T., Lovas, R. (1998). The GRED graphical editor for the GRADE parallel program development environment. In: Sloot, P., Bubak, M., Hertzberger, B. (eds) High-Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1401. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0037200

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