Software environment for implementing engineering applications on MIMD computers

Engineering with Computers - 1990
L. A. Lopez1, K. A. Valimohamed1, S. Schiff2
1Department of Civil Engineering, University of Illinoisat Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA
2Department of Civil Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, USA.

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In this paper the concept for a software environment for developing engineering application systems for multiprocessor hardware (MIMD) is presented. The philosophy employed is to solve the largest problems possible in a reasonable amount of time, rather than solve existing problems faster. In the proposed environment most of the problems concerning parallel computation and handling of large distributed data spaces are hidden from the application program developer, thereby facilitating the development of large-scale software applications. Applications developed under the environment can be executed on a variety of MIMD hardware; it protects the application software from the effects of a rapidly changing MIMD hardware technology.

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