NHSE Software Catalog

NIST Parallel Applications Development Environment (PADE)

url

http://www.nist.gov/itl/div887/pade/

title_line

to facilitate development of parallel applications for heterogeneous networked computers

abstract

Strategy: Provides a single graphical user interface that incorporates all
essential tools for development of parallel applications. The model is an
extension of that of standard Unix-based development for a single
processor.

Implementation: PADE can employ any standard message-passing library
for interprocessor communications. Its main purpose is to facilitate
development on a heterogeneous network, so the current version utilizes
the PVM message passing library, a public domain application available for
most Unix systems. It provides a graphical user interface that runs on the
user's development host, which provides all utilities for development and
maintenance of programs that run on nodes of the user's virtual machine.

environment

System requirements: To run PADE 1.4, the development host must
support:

PVM version 3.0 or higher
X windows
The Tcl/Tk (7.4/4.0) windowing environment. PADE 1.2 runs under
Tcl/Tk (7.3/3.6) and is incompatible with Tcl/Tk (7.4/4.0).

The nodes of the virtual machine need only support PVM version 3.0 or
higher.

contact

robert.lipman@nist.gov

keywords

parallel programming environment; workstation cluster