An integrated approach to improving the parallel application development process

Gregory R. Watson, Craig E. Rasmussen, Beth R. Tibbitts

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

9 Scopus citations

Abstract

The development of parallel applications is becoming increasingly important to a broad range of industries. Traditionally, parallel programming was a niche area that was primarily exploited by scientists trying to model extremely complicated physical phenomenon. It is becoming increasingly clear, however, that continued hardware performance improvements through clock scaling and feature-size reduction are simply not going to be achievable for much longer. The hardware vendor's approach to addressing this issue is to employ parallelism through multi-processor and multi-core technologies. While there is little doubt that this approach produces scaling improvements, there are still many significant hurdles to be overcome before parallelism can be employed as a general replacement to more traditional programming techniques. The Parallel Tools Platform (PTP) Project was created in 2005 in an attempt to provide developers with new tools aimed at addressing some of the parallel development issues. Since then, the introduction of a new generation of peta-scale and multi-core systems has highlighted the need for such a platform. In this paper, we describe some of the challenges facing parallel application developers, present the current state of PTP, and provide a simple case study that demonstrates how PTP can be used to locate a potential deadlock situation in an MPI code.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIPDPS 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event23rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2009 - Rome, Italy
Duration: May 23 2009May 29 2009

Publication series

NameIPDPS 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium

Conference

Conference23rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2009
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityRome
Period05/23/0905/29/09

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'An integrated approach to improving the parallel application development process'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this