Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: lipman@cam.nist.gov (Robert R Lipman)
Subject: ANNOUNCE: Parallel Applications Development Environment
Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Date: 1 Dec 1995 15:00:13 GMT
Message-ID: <49n59t$p82@dove.nist.gov>

Version 1.4 of the Parallel Applications Development Environment (PADE) 
developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
has been released for public use. This is a new version of PADE.

                *** Tcl 7.4 and Tk 4.0 are now supported ***

PADE was developed by a team of physical scientists and applied mathematicians 
as a response to their experiences in developing parallel message-passing 
applications running on heterogeneous workstation networks.  

PADE provides a virtual console, in the form of a graphical interface running 
on a single workstation (the development host), which utilizes a 
parallel "make" utility to support all phases of parallel application 
development: file transfer, compilation, execution, debugging, and editing.

All source files reside on the development host, and are supplied to the 
nodes of the virtual machine as required.  A graphical display of the virtual 
machine depicts all nodes and their associated files, and allows file structure
modification by standard point-and-click interface.

PADE is constructed from standard, freely-available software components.  
PVM is used for all virtual machine communications.  Tcl/Tk (7.4/4.0) is used 
for the graphical interface.  

Current information on PADE is maintained on the World Wide Web at:

      http://math.nist.gov/pade/pade.html  (*** new server ***)
      
The current release of PADE 1.4 may be obtained by anonymous ftp to:

      ftp://gams.nist.gov/pub/pade/nist_pade.1.4.0.tar.gz

The current distribution consists of a 356Kb gzipped tar file, approximately 
4Mb when decompressed.  The bulk of this distribution consists of an illustrated
reference manual in PostScript, HTML, and ASCII formats.

Inquiries and suggestions are welcome by e-mail to: pade@cam.nist.gov or 
                                                    robert.lipman@nist.gov
      

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  email: robert.lipman@nist.gov  or  lipman@cam.nist.gov
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