(PCN) A specification language for parallelism between
C and
Fortran modules. PCN provides a simple language for specifying
concurrent algorithms, interfaces to
Fortran and
C, a portable toolkit that allows applications to be developed on a
workstation or small parallel computer and run unchanged on
supercomputers and integrated debugging and performance analysis tools. PCN was developed at
Argonne National Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology. It has been used to develop a wide variety of applications, in areas such as climate modelling, fluid dynamics, computational biology, chemistry, and circuit simulation.
Version 2.0 runs on networks of workstations: Sun-4,
NeXT,
RS/6000,
SGI; multicomputers: iPSC/860, Touchstone DELTA; and
shared memory multiprocessors:
Symmetry/
Dynix.
(ftp://info.mcs.anl.gov/pub/pcn).
E-mail: Ian Foster
, Steve Tuecke tuecke@mcs.anl.gov.
["Productive Parallel Programming: The PCN Approach", I. Foster et al, Sci Prog 1(1):51-66 (1992)].
(1993-02-12)