Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: clark@bruce.nist.gov (Charles Clark)
Subject: NIST PADE release
Organization: NIST
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 1995 11:34:34 +0000 (GMT)
Message-ID: <3m95ju$klh@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>

Version 1.0 of the Parallel Applications Development Environment 
(PADE) produced at the National Institute of Standards and Technology 
has been released for public use.

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.  It provides a virtual console, in the
form of a graphical interface program running on a single work-
station (the development host), which utilizes a parallel "make" 
utility to support all phases of parallel application development: 
editing, compilation, execution, debugging, and performance moni-
toring.  All source files reside on the development host, and are 
supplied to the nodes of the virtual machine as required.  A tree
view graphical display of the virtual machine depicts all nodes 
and their associated files, and allows file structure modification
by standard click-and-drag procedures.

PADE is constructed from standard, freely-available software
components.  It uses PVM for all communications, and Tcl/Tk for
the graphical interface.  It has been extensively tested and
should run on any machine that supports these programs.

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

      http://physics.nist.gov/./ResOpp/hpcc/pade.html

The current release of PADE may be obtained by anonymous ftp to:

      ftp://gams.nist.gov/pub/pade/

The current distribution consists of a 442k gzipped tar file,
5.8M when decompressed.  The bulk of this distribution (5.3M)
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

--
Charles W. Clark
Electron and Optical Physics Division
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899 USA

