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 9.0 release information

The following links are available for the current release of PTP 9.0 - based on Eclipse Mars (4.5)

• PTP 9.0 Release Notes
• New and Noteworthy features in PTP 9.0
• Parallel Tools Platform User Guide . To see this within Eclipse, install PTP and select Help > Help Contents.
• PTP Developer's Guide
• Photran User Guide

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