High Performance Design Environments
ARPA Order 8225, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Brown Univ.

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New Ideas in the HPDE Project

• Abstraction visualization in the extended FIELD programming environment, 3-D graphics(VALLEY), parallel debugging(AARD), and an object store.
• 3-D graphics integrated into programming environments for time-parameterized modeling and new user interfaces.
• High performance constraint languages for operations research problems (NEWTON), and spatial databases (CQL's).
• New optimization techniques based on extensible architectures, state-of-the-art data-flow analysis, and abstract interpretation (EPOQ Optimizer).
• New indexing and prefetching algorithms, approximation techniques, parallel and incremental algorithms.

Potential Impact of the HPDE Project

• Significant increase in productivity of software system designers developing high performance applications.
• Efficient methods for integrating new paradigms into one programming environment, e.g., concurrent object-oriented and constraint-based languages.
• Development of concepts, tools, reports, and books to support high performance design environments, including: 3-D graphics, object-oriented databases, mobile workstation technology, and parallel debuggers.
• Dissemination of ideas through development and distribution of prototype implementations (e.g., the FIELD environment has been distributed to 635 sites).

Project Schedule