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Experimentally Assessing the Usability of Parallel Programming Systems

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Programming Environments for Massively Parallel Distributed Systems

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This paper discusses an experiment to compare the usability of two parallel programming systems (PPS). In this experiment, half of the students in a graduate parallel and distributed computing course solved a problem using the Enterprise PPS while the other half solved the same problem using a PVM-like library of message-passing routines. The feedback from such experiments is necessary to help narrow the gap between what parallel programmers want, and what current PPSs provide.

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  1. Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2H1

    Duane Szafron & Visiting professor Jonathan Schaeffer

  2. University of Limburg, Netherlands

    Visiting professor Jonathan Schaeffer

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  1. Duane Szafron
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  1. Swiss Scientific Computing Center, CSCS ETH-Zürich, Via Cantonale, CH-6928, Manno

    Karsten M. Decker (Director of Research and Development) & René M. Rehmann (Research Scientist) (Director of Research and Development) &  (Research Scientist)

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Szafron, D., Schaeffer, J. (1994). Experimentally Assessing the Usability of Parallel Programming Systems. In: Decker, K.M., Rehmann, R.M. (eds) Programming Environments for Massively Parallel Distributed Systems. Monte Verità. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8534-8_19

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