EDPEPPS: An Environment for the Design and Performance Evaluation

An Environment for the Design and Performance Evaluation of Portable Parallel Software Speciications of Edpepps Toolset Prototype (draft)

Prototype - Oriented Development of High - performance Systems 1

In this paper, we discuss the problem of developing performance-oriented software and the need for methodologies. We then present the EDPEPPS (Environment for Design and Performance Evaluation of Portable Parallel Software) approach to the problem of designing and evaluating high-performance (parallel) applications. The EDPEPPS toolset is based on a rapid prototyping philosophy, where the desig...

EPSRC Portable Software Tools for Parallel Applications Initiative (Grant GR/K40468) Environment for the Design and Performance Evaluation of Portable Parallel Software (EDPEPPS) Report No: EDPEPPS/5 Deliverables: 2.3.3 PVMGraph: A Graphical Editor For the Design of PVM Programs

This report describes PVMGraph, a graphical programming environment to support the design and implementation of parallel applications. PVMGraph offers a simple but yet expressive graphical representation for the components of a parallel application and assists the user in manipulating these components. PVMGraph also allows the evaluation of the application design and implementation. Although, P...

EDPEPPS: An environment for the design and performance evaluation of portable parallel software

This paper describes an environment for performance-oriented design of portable parallel software. The environment consists of a graph-ical design tool based on the PVM communication library for building parallel algorithms, a state-of-the-art simulation engine, a CPU charac-teriser and a visualisation tool for animation of program execution and visualisation of platform and network performance...

Simulation Modelling of Parallel Systems in the Edpepps Project

In this paper, a simulation model for incorporation within a performance-oriented parallel software development environment is presented. This development environment is composed of a graphical design tool, a simulation facility, and a visualisation tool. Simulation allows parallel program performance to be predicted and design alternatives to be compared. The target parallel system models a vi...