Tools and Environments for Parallel and Distributed Systems / Edition 1

by Amr Zaky, Ted Lewis

Overview

Developing correct and efficient software is far more complex for parallel and distributed systems than it is for sequential processors. Some of the reasons for this added complexity are: the lack of a universally acceptable parallel and distributed programming paradigm, the criticality of achieving high performance, and the difficulty of writing correct parallel and distributed programs. These factors collectively influence the current status of parallel and distributed software development tools efforts.
Tools and Environments for Parallel and Distributed Systems addresses the above issues by describing working tools and environments, and gives a solid overview of some of the fundamental research being done worldwide. Topics covered in this collection are: mainstream program development tools, performance prediction tools and studies; debugging tools and research; and nontraditional tools.
Audience: Suitable as a secondary text for graduate level courses in software engineering and parallel and distributed systems, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792396758
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	02/29/1996
Series:	International Series in Software Engineering , #2
Edition description:	1996
Pages:	305
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

Overview.- I — Development Tools and Environments.- 1. A Visual Approach to Distributed Programming.- 2. ANNAI: An Integrated Parallel Programming Environment for Multicomputers.- 3. Bulk Synchronous Parallel Computing — A Paradigm for Transportable Software.- 4. Performance and Scalability Issus in the Design and Implementation of a Parallel Programming Environment.- II — Performance Prediction and Analysis.- 5. Performance Prediction of Dynamic Structures with N-MAP.- 6. Performance Analysis of Large Scale Parallel Applications.- 7. Efficiency Evaluation of PVM 2.X, PVM 3.X, P4, EXPRESS and LINDA on a Workstation Cluster Using the NAS Parallel Benchmarks.- III — Debugging Tools.- 8. Accomodating Heterogeneity in A Debugger — A Client-Server Approach.- 9. Efficient Detection of Unstable Global Conditions Based on Monotonic Channel Predicates.- IV — Less Traditional Approaches.- 10. A Formal Semantics and An Interactive Environment for SISAL.- 11. Parallel High-Performance Matrix Computations in the MaTRiX++ System.- 12. Transparent Object Distribution and Remote Inheritance.

Editorial Reviews

A dozen papers developed from presentations at the 28th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences provide samples of ideas, studies, and designs relating the parallel and distributed systems. They reflect a maturity in the field by emphasizing issues of portability and scalability, and providing practical proofs for even the most theoretical study. In sections covering mainstream program development tools, performance prediction tools and studies, debugging tools and research, and nontraditional tools, they discuss such specifics as a visual approach to distributed programming, analyzing the performance of large scale parallel applications, the efficient detection of unstable global conditions based on monotonic channel predicates, and transparent object distribution and remote inheritance. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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