| [eclipse.org-membership-at-large] Project Declaration: Eclipse Parallel Development Tools Project |
As per the Eclipse Development Process, we are notifying the Eclipse Membership-at-Large of the intent of Greg Watson of Los Alamos National Laboratory to propose the Eclipse Parallel Development Tools Project as part of the Technology PMC.
A brief description of the project is below. A project proposal will be posted on www.eclipse.org within a few weeks.
Eclipse Parallel Development Tools Project
Best practice in parallel (i.e. multi-process) application development has not advanced to the same degree as more traditional programming methodologies. As a consequence, there is currently no open-source, industry-strength, platform that provides a highly integrated environment specifically designed for parallel program development. In order to address this deficiency, this project aims to extend the Eclipse platform to support a rich set of parallel programming languages and paradigms, and provide a core infrastructure for the integration of a wide variety of parallel tools. The result will be a portable, scalable, parallel tools infrastructure that will promote the development and deployment of high quality parallel computer programs.
There are five key components to this project:
1. Parallel Execution Environment - extend the execution environment to support the launching and control of programs on a wide range of parallel architectures.
2. Parallel Debugger - add the capability to debug parallel programs that are launched through the parallel execution environment.
3. Parallel Tool Integration - define and develop an infrastructure that will support the integration of a range of parallel development and performance analysis tools.
4. Parallel End-User Support - provide a rich environment to support the end-users of parallel applications.
5. Fortran Development Tools - tools to support the development of Fortran language programs.
Mike Milinkovich
Executive Director,
Eclipse Foundation, Inc.
Office:
613-224-9461 x228
Cell: 613-220-3223
mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx