(3) A Pattern-Oriented Visual Parallel Programming Environment

[Software Functions]

KLIEG is a visual parallel programming environment, in which a
parallel program is developed by editing visuals (e.g., icons
representing processes and lines representing streams) on the screen
and will be executed after being translated into KL1 codes. The
execution process is animated by the KLIEG tracer.

The most significant feature of the KLIEG environment is a support for
pattern-oriented parallel programming. Syntactically, a pattern is a
process diagram with some unspecified potions. Semantically, a pattern
keeps design information, which is useful not only for software
engineering purposes but also for visualization of parallel program
execution and run-time resource allocations.  Basically a pattern is
defined by an expert designer and used later by (possibly novice)
programmers. The KLIEG provides a neat graphical user interface both
for designers and programmers.

[Necessary Environments]

We checked that our software can run on SparcStation 10/20s with
Solaris 2.5J, KLIC-2.002, Amulet-2.0, gcc-2.7.2, and libg++-2.7.1
(optionally Rie-1.0.6, flex-2.5.3).  We expect that our software can
run on other unix boxes possibly with minor modifications.

[Quantity of the software and file configuration]

Quantity of source code: 950KB

README-J
README-E

Directories for Source File

Makefile
editor/
tracer/
modules/

Directory for Documents

docs-E/         documents in English
manual-J/       manuals in Japanese

Patch file for Amulet 2.0

Patch-for-Amulet.patch

[FTP]

• README
• Program and Documents in Japanese [755K]