Workshop Proposal: Software Tools for High-Performace Computing Systems, Chatham, Massachusetts, October 1996

健壮、灵活和高效的软件工具的关键重要性早已被认识到，并且在一些国家会议（包括PI组织的会议）上一直是主要的讨论话题。这些会议集中讨论了与构建好的工具相关的困难，以及工具开发和测试的基础设施的缺乏。这个建议是为一个研讨会讨论设计和实现解决方案，以解决缺乏这些软件工具的高性能计算系统。讨论将主要关注与这些需求相关的调试、性能度量、分析和表示问题。通过包括学术研究人员、供应商和政府机构代表，各种各样的意见、观点和需求可以被呈现和探索，以实现所有群体的共同利益。

The critical importance of robust, flexible, and efficient software tools has long been recognized, and has been a major discussion topic at several national meetings, including those organized by the PI. These meetings focused on the difficulties associated with building good tools, and the lack of infrastructure for tool development and test. This proposal is for a workshop to discuss design and implementation solutions to the lack of these software tools for high performance computing systems. The discussions will focus will focus primarily on issues of debugging, performance measurement, analysis, and presentation as they relate to these needs. By including academic researchers, vendors, and government agency representatives, a wide variety of opinions, viewpoints, and needs can be presented and explored to the mutual benefit of all the groups.