Project Plan For Parallel Tools Platform (PTP), version 3.0

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Release Deliverables
• Release Milestones
• Target Environments
• Compatibility with Previous Releases
• Themes and Priorities

The Parallel Tools Platform project provides tools and frameworks to enable Eclipse to be to be used for the development of parallel programs. The main deliverables include: coding and static analysis tools; runtime launching and monitoring; a parallel debugger; an extensible tools framework; remote development tools; and support for the Fortran language.

• Launching & Monitoring
• Runtime Systems
• Open MPI
• MPICH2
• Parallel Environment (PE)
• Job Schedulers
• LoadLeveler
• PBS
• SLURM
• Parallel Language Development Tools
  • MPI
  • OpenMP
  • LAPI
  • UPC
• Parallel Debugger
• Remote Development Tools
• Photran

• Java 1.5
• MacOS X 10.5 and later
• Fedora Core 9 and later
• Open MPI 1.2 and later
• MPICH2 1.0.6 and later
• gdb 6.0 and later

Message bundles are used throughout, but they have not been translated.

PTP tries to preserve as much compatibility with previous releases as possible.

The following is a list of major priority areas for PTP development:

Major usability enhancements include:

• Introduction of common service configurations
• Simplified runtime perspective
• New remote project wizard

Enhanced support for remote development, including better integration with other aspects of PTP.

First release of Photran which adds support for the Fortran language to Eclipse

Now deferred to 3.1 release.