Abstract
Writing and managing programs for parallel systems is a difficult task. It is a great challenge for designers of visual programming languages to provide tools that will help in the process. This paper describes a new graph based tool called Visper that provides a multi-dimensional environment for program composition. Our approach combines different levels of abstraction at which parallel programs are expressed into a single Process Communication Graph (PCG). PCG visualizes program construction, debugging and performance tuning throughout the development cycle and thus maintains a single mental image for the developer. The paper addresses the issues of visual construction for parallel message-passing programs using a working tool Visper.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 144-151 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages, Proceedings |
| Publication status | Published - 1997 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages, VL97 - Isle of Capri, Italy Duration: 23 Sept 1997 → 26 Sept 1997 |