In the field of parallel programming we notice a consider- able lack of efficient on-line tools for debugging, performance analysis etc. This is due to the fact that the construction of those tools must be based on a complicated software infrastructure. In the case of such software being available tools from different vendors are almost always incompatible as they use proprietary implementations for it. We will demonstrate in this paper that only a common infrastructure will ease the construction of on-line tools and that it is a necessary precondition for eventually having interoperable tools. Interoperable tools form the basis for synergetic tool environments and yield an added value over just integrated environments

@inproceedings{STELTW99,
	author	 = {Thomas Ludwig and Jörg Trinitis and Roland Wismüller},
	title	 = {{Synergetic Tool Environments}},
	year	 = {1999},
	booktitle	 = {{Parallel Computing Technologies}},
	editor	 = {Victor Malyshkin},
	publisher	 = {Springer},
	address	 = {Berlin / Heidelberg, Germany},
	series	 = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
	number	 = {1662},
	pages	 = {754--754},
	conference	 = {PaCT-99},
	organization	 = {Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk) and the Electrotechnical University of St.Petersburg},
	location	 = {St. Petersburg, Russia},
	doi	 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48387-X_27},
	abstract	 = {In the field of parallel programming we notice a consider- able lack of efficient on-line tools for debugging, performance analysis etc. This is due to the fact that the construction of those tools must be based on a complicated software infrastructure. In the case of such software being available tools from different vendors are almost always incompatible as they use proprietary implementations for it. We will demonstrate in this paper that only a common infrastructure will ease the construction of on-line tools and that it is a necessary precondition for eventually having interoperable tools. Interoperable tools form the basis for synergetic tool environments and yield an added value over just integrated environments},
	url	 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/05vnfvnlv4k6mg60/fulltext.pdf},
}