A visual development environment for parallel applications

Abstract

We report on the development of a visual programming environment for building applications for execution on a range of parallel computing platforms. This work exploits the dataflow and list processing parallelism naturally exposed in the Prograph language, by providing annotations to indicate that operations can be remotely executed, supported by a task pooling model for parallel execution that preserves the sequential semantics of the language. The goal is a practical system that builds on the comprehensive tools in the Prograph CPX environment in a consistent manner. This will be achieved via high level editors for hardware configurations, annotations and program analysis, and an underlying kernel that implements the pooling model.