{"title":"A status report on VisPar: a visual tool for designing parallel programs","authors":"S. Gorlatch, H. Kehbel","doi":"10.1109/IDAACS.2001.941984","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We describe VisPar - a visual tool intended to support the programmer in the process of designing complex parallel applications. The novel features of the tool are: support for both task and data parallelism and a mixture of the two; extensive use of analytical cost models for performance prediction; systematic program design by applying optimizing transformations; and visualization of the design process. We demonstrate the use of VisPar on a relevant case study - the practically important Jpeg compression algorithm $and report on the current status of the tool implementation.","PeriodicalId":419022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the International Workshop on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications. IDAACS'2001 (Cat. No.01EX510)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2001-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the International Workshop on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications. IDAACS'2001 (Cat. No.01EX510)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IDAACS.2001.941984","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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We describe VisPar - a visual tool intended to support the programmer in the process of designing complex parallel applications. The novel features of the tool are: support for both task and data parallelism and a mixture of the two; extensive use of analytical cost models for performance prediction; systematic program design by applying optimizing transformations; and visualization of the design process. We demonstrate the use of VisPar on a relevant case study - the practically important Jpeg compression algorithm $and report on the current status of the tool implementation.