Overview. - I Development Tools and Environments. - 1. A Visual Approach to Distributed Programming. - 2. ANNAI: An Integrated Parallel Programming Environment for Multicomputers. - 3. Bulk Synchronous Parallel Computing A Paradigm for Transportable Software. - 4. Performance and Scalability Issus in the Design and Implementation of a Parallel Programming Environment. - II Performance Prediction and Analysis. - 5. Performance Prediction of Dynamic Structures with N-MAP. - 6. Performance Analysis of Large Scale Parallel Applications. - 7. Efficiency Evaluation of PVM 2. X PVM 3. X P4 EXPRESS and LINDA on a Workstation Cluster Using the NAS Parallel Benchmarks. - III Debugging Tools. - 8. Accomodating Heterogeneity in A Debugger A Client-Server Approach. - 9. Efficient Detection of Unstable Global Conditions Based on Monotonic Channel Predicates. - IV Less Traditional Approaches. - 10. A Formal Semantics and An Interactive Environment for SISAL. - 11. Parallel High-Performance Matrix Computations in the MaTRiX++ System. - 12. Transparent Object Distribution and Remote Inheritance. Language: English