@conference {Dikaiakos:2008:TST:1429623.1429625,
	title = {Topic 1: Support Tools and Environments},
	booktitle = {Euro-Par 2008 Parallel Processing},
	series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
	volume = {5168},
	year = {2008},
	note = {n/a},
	pages = {1{\textendash}2},
	publisher = {Springer-Verlag},
	organization = {Springer-Verlag},
	address = {Berlin, Heidelberg},
	abstract = {<p>The spread of systems that provide parallelism either {\guillemotleft}in-the-large{\guillemotright} (grid infrastructures, clusters) or {\guillemotleft}in-the-small{\guillemotright} (multi-core chips), creates new opportunities for exploiting parallelism in a wider spectrum of application domains. However, the increasing complexity of parallel and distributed platforms renders the programming, the use, and the management of these systems a costly endeavor that requires advanced expertise and skills. Therefore, there is an increasing need for powerful support tools and environments that will help end-users, application programmers, software engineers and system administrators to manage the increasing complexity of parallel and distributed platforms.</p>
},
	isbn = {978-3-540-85450-0},
	issn = {0302-9743},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-85451-7_1},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85451-7_1},
	author = {Dikaiakos, Marios and Rana, Omer and Ur, Shmuel and Jo{\~a}o M. Louren{\c c}o}
}
