A graphical development and debugging environment for parallel programs

Parallel Computing

Volumn 22, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 1747-1770

  Kacsuk, Péter ^a   Cunha, José C ^b   Dózsa, Gábor ^a   Lourenço, João ^b   Fadgyas, Tibor ^a   Antão, Tiago ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Debugging; Graphical programming language; Parallel processing; Software tools

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

DISTRIBUTED DEBUGGING ENGINE; PARALLEL PROGRAMS; PARALLEL VIRTUAL MACHINE; SOFTWARE PACKAGE GRADE; SOFTWARE PACKAGE GRAPNEL;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0031074540     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8191(96)00075-0     Document Type: Article

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