About this Document

This document describes the HeNCE graphical parallel programming environment as well as its installation and use. It is organized as follows.

• Section 2 provides a brief overview of HeNCE, how is is used, and who may be interested in using it.

• Section 3 lists the hardware requirements for running HeNCE.

• Section 4 describes how the latest version of HeNCE may be obtained and how its authors can be contacted for support.

• Section 5 describes the default HeNCE installation proceedure.

• Section 6 discusses how to create HeNCE programs and describes the syxtax of all node attributes.

• Section 7 defines cost matrices and describes how to create and use them.

• Section 8 describes how to build and run a HeNCE program once it has been entered.

• Section 9 discusses the HeNCE program execution trace facility.

• Section 10 provides a detailed tutorial example of using HeNCE.

• Section 11 describes how htool's appearance and operation can be customized.

• Section 12 provides some hints on how to use HeNCE in non-standard PVM environments.

• Section 13 describes how to compile the components of HeNCE from source distributions.

• Section 14 contains some trouble shooting hints.

• Section 15 lists known bugs and limitations.