Program Composition Notation
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Program Composition Notation
(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
.
["Productive Parallel Programming: The PCN Approach",
I. Foster et al, Sci Prog 1(1):51-66 (1992)].
(1993-02-12)