(14)Improving Usability of the Parallel Visual Programming Environment KLIEG

[Features of the Software]

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.

[Required Environment]

We checked that our software can run on Intel x86 box running
Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 and SparcStation 10/20s running Solaris
2.5J with KLIC-2.002, Amulet-2.0, g++-2.7.2.3, libg++-2.7.2, and
flex-2.5.3 (optionally Rie-1.0.6).  We expect that our software
can run on other unix boxes possibly with minor modifications.

[File Configuration]

Files for Installation:
README-E
README-J
INSTALL-E
INSTALL-J
use-of-software-E
use-of-software-J

Directories and Configuration Files for Compilation:

Makefile
Config.linux			configuration file for Linux system
Config.solaris			configuration file for Solaris system
editor/
tracer/
modules/			example module files

Directories and Files of Documents:

docs-E/				documents in English
manual/UsersGuide-E.tex		manual in English
manual/UsersGuide-J.tex		manual in Japanese

Patch file for Amulet 2.0:

Patch-for-Amulet.patch

[FTP]

• README
• Program and Documents [989K]