Tools

Our work in algorithm design has been supported by tool development projects throughout the country. Of particular note are the projects at Rice University and the University of Illinois. Other projects help in terms of what we might call logic or performance debugging of the algorithms—trying to understand what the algorithms are doing when they run on parallel machines. The objective here is to give the implementor a better feeling for where to focus attention and to show precisely what the algorithm is doing while it is executing on parallel machines (Dongarra, Brewer, et al. 1990).