Assessing the Usability of Parallel Programming Systems: The Cowichan Problems
Greg Wilson · Birkhäuser Basel eBooks · 1994
The only control-parallel programming model to win wide acceptance to date has been procedural message passing. One reason that higher-level systems have not been widely accepted is that there is no consensus on what they should offer; one reason for this is that there has been no systematic comparison of the usability of alternatives models and systems. This paper describes a problem suite with which the usability, rather than performance, of parallel programming systems may be assessed.