Code generation for multiprocessor distributed computing systems

Distributed computing systems is a well-known instrument to rise system performance and avoid bottlenecks of shared memory architectures. In some cases, distributed architectures are used in embedded systems: to simplify every single embedded processor, decrease power consumption, increase system tolerance and predictability, etc. However, when working with such systems, software developers face all kinds of complications related to distributed systems programming: workload distribution, communications implementation, computations synchronization etc. For embedded distributed systems it's impossibility to use distributed programming approaches like MPI: they are too “heavy” for embedded systems. We propose the extended application of VIPE visual programming technology that covers a software development for distributed multi-processor systems. VPL program structure and extensible code generation backend allows to automate most aspects of distributed programming and apply a single VPL programs both to shared memory and distributed systems without additional programming effort.