NDLI: Parallel user interfaces for parallel applications

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Vandevoorde, M.T. Kapur, D.
Copyright Year	1996
Description	Author affiliation: Lab. for Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA (Vandevoorde, M.T.)
Abstract	Many parallel applications are designed to conceal parallelism from the user. We investigate a different approach where the user controls many tasks running in parallel. The idea is to let a user accomplish his goal more quickly by trying competing alternatives in parallel (or-parallelism) and by working on subgoals in parallel (and-parallelism). To help the user manage a large number of parallel tasks, the application must provide features to generate many tasks easily, to summarize the state of all tasks, to broadcast commands to related tasks, and to abort tasks that are no longer needed. A parallel interface to an application thus becomes crucial to enhance the user's productivity. We demonstrate this approach using DLP, a parallel, distributed version of the Larch Prover, an interactive theorem prover. DLP supports explicit parallelism and runs on a network of workstations. Users control DLP through a multi-window interface on a bit-map color-display. Many theorem proving problems that would otherwise take considerable user effort to solve have been done with relative ease using DLP.
Starting Page	161
Ending Page	170
File Size	1051775
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0818675829
ISSN	10828907
DOI	10.1109/HPDC.1996.546185
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1996-08-06
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	User interfaces Parallel processing Productivity Application software Computer science Laboratories Broadcasting Workstations Displays Contracts
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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