tool: PCN

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Language:	PCN
Version:	2.0
Parts:	compiler?, runtime, linker, libraries, tools, debugger, profiler, tracer
Author:	Ian Foster <foster@mcs.anl.gov>, Steve Tuecke <tuecke@mcs.anl.gov>, and others
Location:	ftp://info.mcs.anl.gov/pub/pcn/pcn_v2.0.tar.Z
Description:	PCN is a parallel programming system designed to improve the productivity of scientists and engineers using parallel computers. It provides a simple language for specifying concurrent algorithms, interfaces to Fortran and C, a portable toolkit that allows applications to be developed on a workstation or small parallel computer and run unchanged on supercomputers, and integrated debugging and performance analysis tools. PCN was developed at Argonne National Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology. It has been used to develop a wide variety of applications, in areas such as climate modeling, fluid dynamics, computational biology, chemistry, and circuit simulation.
Ports:	(workstation nets): Sun4, NeXT, RS/6000, SGI (multicomputers): iPSC/860, Touchstone DELTA (shared memory multiprocessors): Symmetry/Dynix
Contact:	<pcn@mcs.anl.gov>
Updated:	Febuary 12th, 1993

category: concurrent, parellel, and simulation languages summary, or expanded.

category: mathematical tools and languages summary, or expanded.