The Enterprise Model for Developing Distributed Applications

Although a network of workstations represents a large amount of aggregate computing power, there is a need for software that can harness this power for single, distributed applications. Enterprise is an interactive graphical programming environment for designing, coding, debugging, testing, monitoring, profiling and executing programs in a distributed hardware environment. Enterprise code looks like familiar sequential code because the parallelism is expressed graphically and independently of the code. The system automatically inserts the code necessary to correctly handle communication and synchronization, allowing the rapid construction of distributed programs. The system supports load balancing and dynamic distribution of work in environments with changing resource utilization. This paper focuses on the Enterprise programming model and some experiences using it. Keywords: Distributed computing, parallel programming, programming environments, message passing, programming model 1. Int..