Program Composition Notation
(PCN) A specification language for parallelism between C and Fortran modules.
PCN provides a simple language for specifying concurrent algorithms, interfaces
to Fortran and C, a portable toolkit that allows applications to be developed on
a workstation or small parallel computer and run unchanged on supercomputers and
integrated debugging and performance analysis tools. PCN was developed at
Argonne National Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology. It has
been used to develop a wide variety of applications, in areas such as climate
modelling, fluid dynamics, computational biology, chemistry, and circuit
simulation.
Version 2.0 runs on networks of workstations: Sun-4, NeXT, RS/6000, SGI;
multicomputers: iPSC/860, Touchstone DELTA; and shared memory multiprocessors:
Symmetry/Dynix.
ftp://info.mcs.anl.gov/pub/pcn.
E-mail: Ian Foster <pcn@mcs.anl.gov>, Steve Tuecke
<tuecke@mcs.anl.gov>.
["Productive Parallel Programming: The PCN Approach", I. Foster et al, Sci Prog
1(1):51-66 (1992)].
(1993-02-12)
Nearby terms:
PROGENY « proglet « program « Program Composition
Notation » program counter » Program Design
Language » Program Evaluation and Review Technique
|
