SCD's Sally Haerer helped coordinate the Ptools booth at Supercomputing '95.

Ptools Consortium shares tools for high-performance computing

The mission of the Parallel Tools Consortium, of which NCAR is a member, is to take a leadership role in defining, developing, and promoting parallel tools that meet the needs of users developing scalable applications on a variety of platforms.

The Ptools booth at Supercomputing '95 shared prototypes of a number of parallel tools:

• Distributed-array query and visualization tools
  
• A lightweight core-file browser
  
• Parallel UNIX commands
  
• Portable timing routines

The Ptools Consortium is a collaboration of researchers, developers, and users working to make parallel tools responsive to user requirements. The Consortium Steering Committee includes national laboratories, universities, and computer vendors.