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With the increased complexity of applications, parallel computing on networks has proved to be an alternative to supercomputing in solving large problems. Visual technologies and cross-platform tools can be employed to aid the tasks of parallel and distributed programming. This paper presents an integrated environment for visual programming and program execution, and the employed techniques for hierarchical construction of parallel applications. To support the approach, we have developed a Java based environment that follows the MPI standard in communications, and augments the standard Java API by constructs that allow spawning and controlling of Java threads on remote computers.
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Stankovic, N., Zhang, K. (1999). A parallel programming environment for networks. In: Polychronopoulos, C., Fukuda, K.J.A., Tomita, S. (eds) High Performance Computing. ISHPC 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1615. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0094940
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