A Collaborative Effort in Parallel Tool Design
To Appear In:
Environments & Tools for Parallel Scientific Computing. Society
for Integrated and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), edited by Jack
Dongarra.
Abstract:
The Parallel Tools Consortium (Ptools) brings together representatives
from the federal, industrial, and academic sectors to address the
issues of what parallel users need in software tool support and how
user feedback can be incorporated effectively into the tool
development cycle. Ptools is a direct response to past criticisms
that parallel tool developers are working in isolation from the user
community. One of the main activities is to sponsor tool development
projects that respond to demonstrable user needs, result in tools
which behave consistently across multiple platforms, involve the
collaboration of vendors/researchers/users, and include development of
public-domain prototypes. This paper outlines how the Consortium
operates as a forum where developers and users work together to
identify tool needs and evolve tools responding to those needs.
Technical Report 94-80-14 (October, 1994)
Computer Science Department
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-3202
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