CISE Postdoctoral Program: Parallel Programming Archetypes for Scientific Computation: The MetaTevt Project

9503966 Gannon这项工作的重点是将程序原型的概念应用于基于互联网的并行编程技术电子教科书的设计。原型是一个抽象，它捕获了一组算法的公共结构、计算和通信特性。当嵌入到交互式超文本环境中时，这个概念提供了一种新的并行编程教学方法，并为从现有应用程序派生新的并行程序提供了软件工程基础。原型工作将扩展到包括新的应用研究领域，包括自适应有限元问题中的稀疏矩阵计算以及计算宇宙学中的并行算法。该项目的第二个方面是帮助整合这些应用科学家和印第安纳MetaText研究团队的工作，该团队正在构建电子教科书软件。目标是为并行编程构建一个MetaText原型百科全书。＊＊＊

9503966 Gannon The focus of this work is to apply the concept of program archetypes to the design of an Internet based electronic textbook on parallel programming techniques. An archetype is an abstraction that captures the common structural, computation, and communication features of a set of algorithms. This concept, when embedded in an interactive hypertext environment, provides a new approach to teaching about parallel programming as well as a software engineering foundation for deriving new parallel programs from existing applications. The archetypes work will be expanded to include new areas of application study, including sparse matrix computation in adaptive finite element problems as well as parallel algorithms in computational cosmology. A second aspect of this project is to help integrate the work of these application scientists and of the Indiana MetaText research team that is building electronic textbook software. The goal is to build a MetaText archetype encyclopedia for parallel programming. ***