Portability has become an important consideration in parallel application design. The word portable, or portability, has been widely and often used in the parallel processing community. However, there is no adequate, commonly accepted definition of portability evaluation available. Portability evaluation of parallel application is difficult to quantify, evaluate, and compare. This work is an attempt to establish a framework called Scalable Portability Evaluation Methodology (SPEM) for analyzing the parallel portability. The novelty of SPEM methodology is in its ability to compare, evaluate,...