Software Catalog

Part of the National HPCC Software Exchange (NHSE)

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• Distributed Processing Tools
• Parallel Processing Tools
  • Communication Libraries
  • Execution and Performance Analyzers (including debuggers)
  • Operating System and Kernel Support
  • Parallel I/O Systems
  • Parallel Programming Environments
  • Parallel Programming Languages and Compilers
  • Parallel Programming Libraries
  • Parallel Runtime Systems
  • Utilities

Distributed Processing Tools

ACE - The Adaptive Communication Environment object-oriented network programming toolkit

Autopilot is a flexible infrastructure for real-time adaptive control of parallel and distributed computing resources

CODINE - COmputing in DIstributed Network job queueing system for heterogeneous networked environments

Computing Center Software (CCS) CCS is a Metacomputer Management Software. It provides a homogeneous interface to a network of MPP systems.

Condor for executing batch type jobs on workstations which would otherwise be idle

CUMULVS a software infrastructure for the development of collaborative environments

Distributed Job Manager (DJM) job scheduling system for MPPs

Distributed Queueing System (DQS) management tool to aid in computational resource distribution across a network

far for exploitation of spare capacity in networks of Unix

Generic NQS Supports queueing and routing of processes on single compute servers and workstation clusters

Hector (HEterogeneous Computing Task allocatOR) Hector is designed to run MPI parallel programs on multiple workstations.

Infosphere Infrastructure (II) distributed system framework in Java that provides a generic object model and a variety of messaging models

Load Balancer automatic queueing and distribution of jobs across heterogeneous UNIX networks

LoadLeveler job scheduler for cluster of workstations and/or mutli-processor machines

MagPIe a library of collective communication operations optimized for wide area systems

NetSolve is a network enabled computing paradigm that is based upon a combination of client-server strategies, machine-independent entities, lightweight and flexible problem mapping, and load balancing schemes.

Network Queueing Environment (NQE) job management environment for heterogeneous UNIX workstation networks

PCS - Production Control System The Resource Allocation and Control (RAC) subsystem supports resource allocation to organizations and controls access to resources.

Portable Batch System (PBS) batch processing system for heterogeneous computing networks

Prospero Resource Manager (PRM) supports allocation of processing resources in large distributed systems

QBATCH queued batch processing system for UNIX

Task Broker for HP 9000 Servers and Workstations distributes computational tasks among heterogeneous UNIX-based computer systems

WebSumit for running supercomputer applications via the Web

WebTerm VT100 Terminal Emulator and Telnet Client workstations

Parallel Processing Tools

Communication Libraries

Active Messages substrate for building libraries that provide higher-level communication abstractions

BSPlib Implementations of BSPlib,with parallel performance profiling and debugging tools.

C Region Library (CRL) an all-software distributed shared memory system for message-passing multicomputers and distributed systems

CDS1-Cooperative Data Sharing System a portable parallel communications library

Interprocessor Collective Communications Library (iCC) high performance implementations of collective communication calls

LAM - Local Area Multicomputer MPI implementation for workstation clusters

Legion will enable fault-tolerance, wide area parallel processing, inter-operability, heterogeneity, a single file name space, protection, security, efficient scheduling, and comprehensive resource management.

Midway software-based distributed shared memory system

MPICH A Portable Implementation of MPI

MPICL a subroutine library for collecting information on communication and user-defined events in message-passing parallel programs written in C or FORTRAN

Object Oriented MPI (OOMPI) a class library specification that encapsulates the functionality of MPI into a functional class hierarchy to provide a simple, flexible, and intuitive interface.

PARDI optimised message passing and network resource tool for parallel applications running on Windows and UNIX

PICL is a subroutine library that implements a generic message-passing interface on a variety of multiprocessors

PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) software system that enables a collection of heterogeneous computers to be used as a coherent and flexible concurrent computational resource.

TreadMarks distributed shared memory system for networks of workstations

Unify subset of MPI built on top of PVM

Execution and Performance Analyzers (including debuggers)

AIMS - An Automated Instrumentation and Monitoring System a software toolkit that facilitates performance evaluation of parallel applications on multiprocessors

Carnival for measurement and prediction of parallel program performance

Chiron for visualization of performance behavior of shared memory multiprocessors

DIMEMAS performance prediction tool for message-passing programs

DiskSim an efficient, accurate, highly-configurable disk system simulator

Distributed Array Query and Visualization (DAQV) for HPF The tool offers user-level access to and visualization of distributed arrays in a parallel program by leveraging the parallel compiler and runtime systems, and implementing key tool components at the parallel language level.

DPV, the Data-Parallel Visualizer a model for data-parallel program visualization and debugging

Falcon Monitoring and Steering System set of tools that collectively support on-line program monitoring and steering of parallel and distributed applications.

Griffith University Relative Debugger (GUARD) allows a user to test a program by comparing data structures between the debugged code and a reference version.

Lightweight Corefile Browser offers a global, high-level view of the program's state when it is terminated.

Mantis Parallel Debugger for the Splict-C language

Message Queue Manager parallel debugging interface for examining the state of an application's message passing

MPP-Apprentice performance analysis tool for programs employing the data parallel or message-passing programming tools available on the Cray T3D.

NTV - The NAS Trace Visualizer a trace visualization tool

Nupshot performance visualization tool for MPI

P2D2 - A Portable Parallel/Distributed Debugger P2D2 is a debugger for parallel and distributed computations

Pablo performance analysis environment for performance data capture, analysis, and presentation

Pangaea debugging tool for heterogeneous distributed PVM applications

Panorama retargetable, extensible graphical parallel debugger

Paradyn Parallel Performance Tool The Paradyn Parallel Program Performance Tools project is exploring new approaches to building scalable tools for parallel program performance.

ParaGraph graphical display system for visualizing the performance of message-passing parallel programs

PDT Parallel Debugging Tool part of the Annai tool environment for HPF and MPI programming

PGPVM2 an enhancement package for PVM 3.3 that produces trace files for use with standard ParaGraph.

PMA Performance Monitor and Analyzer part of the Annai tool environment for HPF and MPI programming

PVaniM an enhancement package for PVM 3.3 that produces animations of the execution of PVM applications

S-Check NIST's tool for assaying and improving performances of parallel programs.

TAU (Tuning and Analysis Utilities) visual programming and performance analysis environment for pC++

TotalView Debugger The TotalView debugger is a source-level, window-oriented, multiprocess debugger

TraceInvader for debugging distributed applications

Upshot visualization tool for post-mortem analysis of parallel program log files

UTE Unified Trace Environment for IBM SP Systems a unified trace environment designed to generate, analyze, and visualize trace events for applications running on IBM Scalable Parallel systems.

VAMPIR Visualization and Analysis of MPI Resources

VIPP performance visualization tool for visualizing data partitioning tradeoffs in 2-d particle methods

Visualization Tool (VT) Execution Analysis on the IBM SP2

WARTS: Wisconsin Architectural Research Tool Set for profiling and tracing programs and analyzing program traces

Xmdb parallel debugger for PVM 3.3 with automatic race detection and execution replay capabilties.

XMPI A Run/Debug GUI for MPI

XPDB - X Windows Parallel DeBugger Graphic debugger.

XPVM A Graphical Console and Monitor for PVM

Operating System and Kernel Support

AMOEBA a powerful microkernel-based system that turns a collection of workstations or single-board computers into a transparent distributed system.

MILLIPEDE a small yet powerful interface for Virtual Parallel Machines (VPMs) on top of distributed computing environments.

MOSIX (MO6) kernel enhancements of Linux for cluster computing

Parallel I/O Systems

Galley parallel file system for networks of workstations and parallel supercomputers

Panda Array I/O Library an array I/O library that supports high performance array I/O operations and provides efficient array storage

Parallel Sequential File IO Library (PSF) high performance I/O library for sequential files on the SGI/Cray Origin 2000

PASSION - Parallel And Scalable Software for Input-Output targeted for I/O intensive out-of -core loosely synchronous problems.

PIOUS parallel I/O system for PVM 3

PMPIO a portable implementation of the MPI-IO interface

PPFS - Portable Parallel File System a parallel I/O library, to explore the design space for scalable I/O systems.

ROMIO a high-performance, portable implementation of MPI-IO

TPIE (Transparent Parallel I/O Environment) is designed to bridge thegap between the theory and practice of parallel I/O systems

Parallel Programming Environments

CODE visual parallel programming system

Concert portable, concurrent object-oriented parallel programming system

Enterprise template-based parallel programming environment

GLU (Granular Lucid) high-level graph-based hybrid parallel programming toolkit

Linda Program Builder a higher-level programming environment that supports the design and development of parallel software.

mpC Tool for high-performance computing on heterogeneous networks of computers

NIST Parallel Applications Development Environment (PADE) to facilitate development of parallel applications for heterogeneous networked computers

Synergy an effective parallel programming platform using distributed computers.

The D System a set of tools for development, debugging, and performance tuning of data-parallel Fortran programs

Virtue a collaborative virtual environment for data visualization

VPE (Visual Parallel Programming Environment) an integrated parallel computing environment with a message-passing orientation.

Parallel Programming Languages and Compilers

ADAPTOR (Automatic DAta Parallelism TranslaTOR transforms data parallel programs into Fortran 77 or Fortran 90

CHARM a machine independent parallel programming system.

Computer Aided Parallelisation Tools (CAPTools) CAPTools has been developed primarily for the parallelisation of Computational Mechanics codes for DMS.

HPFPlus The HPFPlus compiler provides a true production-quality compilation system for parallel applications.

Jade Parallel Programming Language shared memory model for distributed memory machines

Mentat object-oriented parallel programming language and runtime system

mpC Tool for high-performance computing on heterogeneous networks of computers

NESL to make parallel programming easy and portable.

Opus coordination language for multidisciplinary applications

Paradigm parallelizing compiler for distributed memory multicomputers

Parafrase-2 vectorizing/parallelizing compiler for shared memory multiprocessors

Parallaxis data parallel programming language for machine-independent SIMD programming, based on Modula-2

pC++ portable data-parallel C++

Polaris automatic parallelization of Fortran programs

Proteus an executable high-level architecture-independent parallel programming notation

PSI Compiler performs algebraic reductions on array expressions

Sisal functional parallel programming lanuage

The CC++ Parallel Programming Language a parallel programming language based on the C++ programming language.

The SUIF Compiler System an infrastructure for research on parallelizing and optimizing compilers

ZPL a machine-independent data parallel array based language

Parallel Programming Libraries

AWESIME: A Widely Extensible SIMulations Environment for parallel process-oriented simulation

CHAOS runtime library for parallelizing Fortran and C programs with irregular data access patterns

DDLIB - Data Distribution Library automatic data distribution and redistribution of 2D arrays for MIMD architectures.

DOME for programming heterogeneous networks of computers as a single computing resource

Global Arrays provides an efficient and portable shared-memory programming interface for distributed-memory computers

KeLP (Kernel Lattice Parallelism) C++ class library for managing distributed data structures in adaptive mesh and uniform mesh applications

Multiblock PARTI runtime library for parallelizing multiple structured grid (multiblock and multigrid) applications written in Fortran and C

Parallel Object-Oriented Methods and Applications (POOMA)Framework a C++ class library for data-parallel programming of scientific applications

PGLIB A Library of Partial Global Operations in Parallel Architecture

Parallel Runtime Systems

Chant A Talking Threads Package

Converse runtime system for interoperable languages

Nexus Nexus services provide direct support for light-weight threading, address space management, communication, and synchronization

SAM Distributed Shared Memory System a run-time system that supports a shared name space in software on distributed-memory multiprocessors.

Utilities

Parallel Print Function merges and identifies the output from multiple nodes in a parallel program.

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