PTP Documentation

Getting Started

For installation help, see the Release notes
Read the PTP Help
See the PTP Tutorials
Read and ask questions on the ptp-users mailing list
See more information on the PTP Wiki and at the links below.

PTP 5.0 release information

The following links are available for the current release of PTP 5.0. To see this within Eclipse, install PTP and select Help > Help Contents.

PTP 4.0 release information

The following links are available for the current release of PTP 4.0. To see this within Eclipse, install PTP and select Help > Help Contents.

PTP 3.0 release information

The following links are available for the previous release of PTP 3.0. To see this within Eclipse, install PTP and select Help > Help Contents.

PTP 2.1 release information

The following links are available for the previous release of PTP 2.1. To see this within Eclipse, install PTP and select Help > Help Contents.

Additional information for PTP 2.1:

PTP 2.1 release notes including installation directions

Tutorials, Presentations, and other papers

Tutorials

For tutorial materials see the Tutorial Materials page on the PTP wiki

Presentations

For more recent materials see the Articles page on the PTP wiki
Static Analysis in PTP with CDT, Beth Tibbitts, EclipseCon 2008, March 2008
IDEs and Eclipse - Myths and Facts About the Worlds Greatest IDE, Greg Watson, Power.org Power Architecture Summit, April 2007
An Integrated Tools Platform for Multi-Core Enablement, Beth Tibbitts & Evelyn Duesterwald, STMCS: Second Workshop on Software Tools for Multi-Core Systems , March 2007 (See also here.)
Parallel Tools Platform - Now and the Future, Greg Watson, EclipseCon 2007, March 2007
C and C++ Code Introspection Using the CDT (includes analysis in PTP's PLDT), Beth Tibbitts and Chris Recoskie, EclipseCon 2007, March 2007
Developing Parallel Applications: The PTP's PLDT, Beth Tibbitts, EclipseCon 2007, March 2007
Programming Environments and Debugging, Greg Watson, Workshop on Programming Languages for High Performance Computing, December 2006
Parallel Tools Platform - Parallel Debugger, Greg Watson, CDT Fall Summit, September 2006
A Model Based Framework for the Integration of Parallel Tools, Greg Watson, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, September 2006
The Eclipse Parallel Tools Platform: A Framework and Community for Integrating Parallel Tools, Greg Watson & Craig Rasmussen, Invited Presentation, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2006
Achieving the P in HPCS, Greg Watson, HPCS Languages Workshop, July 2006
Parallel Application Development with Eclipse, Greg Watson, EclipseCon 2006, March 2006
Extending CDT to Debug Parallel Programs, Greg Watson, CDT Fall Summit, September 2005
The Eclipse Parallel Tools Platform Project, Greg Watson, Invited Seminars at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratory, April 2005
The Eclipse Parallel Tools Platform Project, Greg Watson, EclipseCon 2005, February 2005

Articles and White Papers

Developing Scientific Applications Using Eclipse by Greg Watson and Nathan Debardeleben of PTP fame, is in the July/August 2006 issue of Computing in Science & Engineering magazine.
A Strategy for Addressing the Needs of Advanced Scientific Computing Using Eclipse as a Parallel Tools Platform, Whitepaper written by Greg Watson and Craig Rasmussen

Previous Release (1.1)

The previous release (1.1) of the PTP User Guide (also available from the help plug-ins in the PTP installation) is available here.

New and Noteworthy: What's new in PTP Release 1.1.

How to install Eclipse and CDT for PTP

Click on the screen shots below for full-size images of the PTP Runtime and Debug Perspectives. Click on the Help links to read the help on-line.

PTP 1.1 Help
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PTP Runtime Perspective

PTP Debug Perspective

PLDT 1.1 help
PTP PLDT (Parallel Language Development Tools)

MPI and OpenMP Development Tools
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