An evaluation identifying features of unified distributed programming

The paper presents the results from the evaluation of six chosen systems. T he evaluation is based on international and our own experience. These syste ms are evaluated qualitatively in terms of ease of use and empirically in t erms of performance with respect to three algorithmic paradigms: master and slaves, iterative stages, and process network. The motivation of the evalu ation is to identify features of unified distributed programming for the pr ocedural paradigm. From the identified features, we anticipate the composit ion of an unified programming framework that provides ease of use.