PTP Documentation
Getting Started
- For installation help, see the Release notes
- Read the PTP Help
- See the PTP Tutorials
- Read and ask questions on the ptp-users mailing list
- See more information on the PTP Wiki and at the links below.
PTP 6.0 release information
The following links are available for the current release of PTP 6.0.
- PTP 6.0 Release Notes
- New and Noteworthy features in PTP 6.0
- Parallel Tools Platform User Guide . To see this within Eclipse, install PTP and select Help > Help Contents.
- PTP Developer's Guide
- Photran User Guide
- Remote Development Tools User Guide
PTP 5.0 release information
The following links are available for the current release of PTP 5.0.
- PTP 5.0 Release Notes
- New and Noteworthy features in PTP 5.0
- Parallel Tools Platform User Guide (including PLDT and ETFw). To see this within Eclipse, install PTP and select Help > Help Contents.
- PTP Developer's Guide
- Photran User Guide
- Remote Development Tools User Guide
PTP 4.0 release information
The following links are available for the current release of PTP 4.0. To see this within Eclipse, install PTP and select Help > Help Contents.
- PTP 4.0 Release Notes
- New and Noteworthy features in PTP 4.0
- Parallel Tools Platform User Guide (including PLDT and ETFw)
- Photran User Guide and Photran Installation help
- Remote Development Tools User Guide
PTP 3.0 release information
The following links are available for the previous release of PTP 3.0. To see this within Eclipse, install PTP and select Help > Help Contents.
- PTP Help and New in 3.0 and New and Noteworthy features in PTP 3.0
- PLDT Help and New in 3.0
- IBM Parallel Environment (PE) Resource Manager
- IBM Loadleveler (LL) Resource Manager
- RDT: Remote Development Tools
- External Tools Framework (ETFw) / Performance Tools Framework (PTFw)
- External Tools Framework (ETFw) Feedback view
PTP 2.1 release information
The following links are available for the previous release of PTP 2.1. To see this within Eclipse, install PTP and select Help > Help Contents.
- PTP Help and New in 2.1
- PLDT Help and New in 2.1
- IBM Parallel Environment (PE) Resource Manager
- IBM Loadleveler (LL) Resource Manager
- RDT: Remote Development Tools
- External Tools Framework (ETFw) / Performance Tools Framework (PTFw)
Additional information for PTP 2.1:
- PTP 2.1 release notes including installation directions
Tutorials, Presentations, and other papers
Tutorials
- For tutorial materials see the Tutorial Materials page on the PTP wiki
Presentations
- For more recent materials see the Articles page on the PTP wiki
- Static Analysis in PTP with CDT, Beth Tibbitts, EclipseCon 2008, March 2008
- IDEs and Eclipse - Myths and Facts About the Worlds Greatest IDE, Greg Watson, Power.org Power Architecture Summit, April 2007
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An Integrated Tools Platform for Multi-Core Enablement, Beth Tibbitts & Evelyn Duesterwald, STMCS: Second Workshop on Software Tools for Multi-Core Systems , March 2007
(See also here.)
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Parallel Tools Platform - Now and the Future, Greg Watson, EclipseCon 2007, March 2007
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C and C++ Code Introspection Using the CDT (includes analysis in PTP's PLDT), Beth Tibbitts and Chris Recoskie, EclipseCon 2007, March 2007
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Developing Parallel Applications: The PTP's PLDT, Beth Tibbitts, EclipseCon 2007, March 2007
- Programming Environments and Debugging, Greg Watson, Workshop on Programming Languages for High Performance Computing, December 2006
- Parallel Tools Platform - Parallel Debugger, Greg Watson, CDT Fall Summit, September 2006
- A Model Based Framework for the Integration of Parallel Tools, Greg Watson, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, September 2006
- The Eclipse Parallel Tools Platform: A Framework and Community for Integrating Parallel Tools, Greg Watson & Craig Rasmussen, Invited Presentation, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2006
- Achieving the P in HPCS, Greg Watson, HPCS Languages Workshop, July 2006
- Parallel Application Development with Eclipse, Greg Watson, EclipseCon 2006, March 2006
- Extending CDT to Debug Parallel Programs, Greg Watson, CDT Fall Summit, September 2005
- The Eclipse Parallel Tools Platform Project, Greg Watson, Invited Seminars at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratory, April 2005
- The Eclipse Parallel Tools Platform Project, Greg Watson, EclipseCon 2005, February 2005
Articles and White Papers
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Developing Scientific Applications Using Eclipse
by Greg Watson and Nathan Debardeleben of PTP fame, is in the July/August 2006
issue of
Computing in Science & Engineering magazine.
- A Strategy for Addressing the Needs of Advanced Scientific Computing Using Eclipse as a Parallel Tools Platform, Whitepaper written by Greg Watson and Craig Rasmussen
Previous Release (1.1)
The previous release (1.1) of the PTP User Guide (also available from the help plug-ins in the PTP installation) is available here.
New and Noteworthy: What's new in PTP Release 1.1.
How to install Eclipse and CDT for PTP
Click on the screen shots below for full-size images of the PTP Runtime and Debug Perspectives. Click on the Help links to read the help on-line.
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PTP 1.1 Help
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PTP PLDT (Parallel Language Development Tools)
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