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Figure 8-7 IBM Platform Symphony family high-level overview
8.7 IBM Parallel Environment for x86
IBM Parallel Environment is a high-function development and run environment for
parallel applications (distributed-memory and message-passing applications that
are running across multiple nodes). It is designed to help organizations develop,
test, debug, tune, and run high-performance parallel applications that are written
in C, C++, and Fortran on IBM clusters.
IBM Parallel Environment comprises the following products:
IBM Parallel Environment Runtime Edition
An environment that is designed for developing and running parallel Fortran,
C, or C++ programs. IBM PE Runtime Edition consists of components and
command-line tools for developing, running, debugging, profiling, and tuning
parallel programs.
IBM PE Runtime Edition is required in all the compute nodes that are required
to run parallel applications.