Abstract: Parallel component technology is an important way to raise the productivity of parallel computing software and it is an important research area of parallel software engineering. Parallel component model, parallel component architecture and parallel component framework arc three aspects of parallel component technology. Definitions and realizalions of components,interfaces and component frameworks are the most important differences between different archilectures. Much research has focused on improving the performance of parallel applications while realizing the reusing of components. Single program multiple data and multiple programs multiple data programming models, language interoperability, parallel remote method invocation, solutions to MxN problem, component model interoperability emerged in that research. The trends on parallel component technology include research on language interoperability,predictive performance, component adaptation, component model interoperability and parallel component technologies on multi-core.

Key words: Parallel component model, Parallel component architecture, Parallel software engineering, High productivity model