The document discusses an Eclipse-based development environment called the Parallel Tools Platform (PTP) and Photran for high performance and parallel computing. PTP aims to improve parallel programming productivity by hiding complexity and providing tools for launching, monitoring and debugging parallel applications. Photran provides Fortran language support including refactoring and debugging capabilities. The project has 15 committers and over 500 reported bugs, with downloads of Photran around 3000. Future work focuses on improving scalability, debugging techniques and adding new features like a resource manager.