ANALYSIS AND DEVELOPMENT OF A PARALLEL PHIGS PRIMITIVE CAPABILITY

ANALYSIS AND DEVELOPMENT OF A PARALLEL PHIGS PRIMITIVE CAPABILITY IS POSSIBLE USING AVAILABLE PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES AND SOFTWARE TOOLS. EVALUATION OF THE PHIGS PRIMITIVES, IDENTIFICATION OF POSSIBLE METHODS OF IMPLEMENTATION USING PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES, SELECTION OF A PHASE I APPROACH, THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF THE SELECTED APPROACH, EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE SELECTED APPROACH, APPROACH VALIDATION, APPROACH DOCUMENTATION, AND THE PERFORMANCE OF PRELIMINARY GROUNDWORK LEADING TO INFLUENCE OF FUTURE PHIGS EXTENSIONS IS PROPOSED. SPECIAL FOCUS IS GIVEN TO THE AREAS OF PROBLEM DECOMPOSITION AND TASK SYNCHRONIZATION. PARALLELISM WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF PHIGS PRIMITIVES AND SUB-PRIMITIVES WILL BE INVESTIGATED; THIS WILL LEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF OPTIMUM METHODS OF IMPLEMENTATION. DOCUMENTATION OF THESE METHODS WILL PROVIDE A BASIS FOR INPUT TO THE PHIGS EXTENSION WORK JUST NOW STARTING WITHIN ANSI AND ISO.