Software Tools for Scalable Multi-level Application Engineering

nd templates, an interactive user guidance mechanism, and automatic program synthesis techniques. On-going work aims at the integration and further development of sofar demonstrated results with additional advanced technologies, into comprehensive application engineering and problem-solving environments for productive parallel computing with distributed resources. APPLICATION ENGINEERING TOOLS 2 1 Introduction Despite enormous efforts, practical applicability of parallel computer systems still lacks far behind expectations and their productive usage has basically only been realized in highcompetence places like national laboratories. Based on its mission to ease the application of high-performance computing and networking, and on the observation that the availability of parallel programming tools have been critical to make parallel machines useful (Pancake et al. 1995), CSCS/SCSC has been continuously involved for the past few years in the de