Requirements engineering for parallel system development

摘要

Parallel computing technology has been available in some form since the mid-1970s and since then an array of powerful commercial architectures have emerged. Yet, many are still reluctant to transition applications into the parallel arena. Such reluctance may be partly due to the lack of Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools for developing applications targeted to parallel machines. Prototyping is one promising approach for parallel computing since it allows various alternative solutions for the problem to be soved prior to extensive design and coding effort. Although there are a variety of CASE tools for prototyping, little work has been done with regard to their extension for parallel applications.