Victor S. Borisov

6 Tools for developing parallel programs

Abstract: In this chapter, we present the Eclipse IDE with tools for parallel application development, i.e. Parallel Tools Platform (PTP). PTP provides facilities for working with remote computing systems: remote launch, debugging, and performance analysis of parallel programs.

6.1 Installation of PTP

PTP can be installed as a separate program from an installation package which includes all prerequisite components. Alternatively, PTP can be added to pre-installed Eclipse as an additional plug-in.

6.1.1 Prerequisites

Eclipse is a cross-platform framework; it requires Java Virtual Machine on Linux, MacOSX (10.5 Leopard and later), and Windows (XP and later) operating systems. PTP needs ...

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