Experiences Using the ParaScope Editor: an Interactive Parallel Programming Tool

The ParaScope Editor is an interactive parallel programming tool that assists knowledgeable users in developing scienti c Fortran programs. It displays the results of sophisticated program analyses, provides a set of powerful interactive transformations, and supports program editing. This paper summarizes experiences of scienti c programmers and tool designers using the ParaScope Editor. We evaluate existing features and describe enhancements in three key areas: user interface, analysis, and transformation. Many existing features prove crucial to successful program parallelization. They include interprocedural array sidee ect analysis and program and dependence view ltering. Desirable functionality includes improvedprogram navigation based on performance estimation, incorporating user assertions in analysis and more guidance in selecting transformations. These results o er insights for the authors of a variety of programming tools and parallelizing compilers.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1993
• Where: PPOPP
• Authors: Mary W. Hall, Timothy J. Harvey, Ken Kennedy, Nathaniel McIntosh, Kathryn S. McKinley, Jeffrey D. Oldham, Michael H. Paleczny, Gerald Roth
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, ParaScope Editor, Powerful Interactive Transformations, PPOPP 1993, Programming Tools