Designing parallel programs by the graphical language GRAPNEL

Kacsuk, Péter; Dózsa, Gábor; Fadgyas, Tibor

doi:10.1016/0165-6074(96)00005-1

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“…A considerable amount of research in the area of visual environments have been carried out aimed at the development of software able to reduce the difficulties found in the development of parallel systems. This effort resulted in user-friendly tools such as TEV [8], PVMGraph [9], Millipede [10], TRAPPER [11] and GRADE [12,13]. Even though there are several differences between these environments, they all focus on making the program development easier, providing graphical representations to map paradigms or libraries designed for the development of parallel systems.…”

Section: Programming Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Development of embedded multicore systems

Moron

Malony

2011

Etfa2011

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The concepts involved in the programming process of multicore systems have been quite well known for decades. The problem is to produce it in a form as easy as sequential programming. This new trend will change the way we think about the whole development process. We will show that it is possible to develop a multicore embedded system application using existing tools and the model-driven development process proposed. To do this, two tools will be used: VisualRTXC (available at www.quadrosbrasil.com.br) for generating the multithread communication/synchronization structures and a performance tool called TAU (available at

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Section: Programming Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Development of embedded multicore systems

Moron

Malony

2011

Etfa2011

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“…The key difference to EDPEPPS is its graphical language, GRAPNEL [3,4], which is based on its own message-passing interface implemented on top of PVM [6] and therefore does not model exactly the semantics of C/PVM (unlike EDPEPPS). In addition, GRAPNEL is a 'pure' graphical language in the sense that even the sequential part of each process must be described graphically, a potentially time consuming process.…”

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“…The GRADE (GRAphical Development Environment) [3,4], part of the SEPP (Software Engineering for Parallel Processing) toolset [5] supports the main activities in the parallel software development cycle in a similar way to EDPEPPS. The key difference to EDPEPPS is its graphical language, GRAPNEL [3,4], which is based on its own message-passing interface implemented on top of PVM [6] and therefore does not model exactly the semantics of C/PVM (unlike EDPEPPS).…”

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Accurate performance prediction using visual prototypes

Ribeiro-Justo¹,

Delaitre²,

Zemerly³

et al. 1999

Concurrency: Pract. Exper.

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“…This is ideal but still the programmer needs to make codes in text-based approach. GRAPNEL [7] is a visual programming language designed for distributed parallel programs based on messagepassing programming paradigm. It is claimed to be a hybrid language that uses both graphical and textual representation to describe the whole distributed application.…”

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A visual approach to specifying message-passing operations

Roxas

Mirenkov

2003 International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops, 2003. Proceedings.

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Visual programming is a very promising approach for parallel programming because of the complexity in making parallel programs. There were several attempts to provide a visual environment for making parallel programs but only achieved a limited success. The commonly used technique is to draw some graphs whose nodes represent modules and arcs represent some communication paths. The graphs are then annotated by attaching some conventional programming codes. In practice, this approach can be useful but in a limited number of cases. To improve the situation, a new visual programming environment is being developed that allows the creation of programs from algorithmic "film" specifications with a minimal use of text in making programs. In this environment, there are six different groups of frames for the programmer to watch, edit, and specify operations. One of them is for specifiying I/O operations and communication between software components in a complex program. Specifying communications among processes in a parallel program is just a partial case in this subsystem. This paper presents a visual environment for specifying communication among processes in a parallel program using a language of micro-icons. As an example, the scatter and gather types of collective communication are presented based on the master/slave scheme of computation. These examples show how to define message-passing communication without using text-based programming style.

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Designing parallel programs by the graphical language GRAPNEL

Cited by 30 publications

References 13 publications

Development of embedded multicore systems

Development of embedded multicore systems

Accurate performance prediction using visual prototypes

A visual approach to specifying message-passing operations

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