PELLPACK: A Problem-Solving Environment for PDE-Based Applications on Multicomputer Platforms

ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 30-73

  Houstis, E N ^a   Rice, J R ^a   Weerawarana, S ^a   Catlin, A C ^a   Papachiou, P ^d   Wang, K Y ^b   Gaitatzes, M ^c  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Lotus Development Corporation   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

C.3 Computer Systems Organization : Special Purpose and Application Based Systems; D.2.6 Software Engineering : Programming Environments graphical environments; Integrated environments; Interactive environments

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

MULTICOMPUTER PLATFORMS; PROBLEM SOLVING ENVIRONMENT; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 0032010496     PISSN: 00983500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/285861.285864     Document Type: Article

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