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Charon is a library, callable from C and Fortran, that aids the conversion of structured-grid legacy codes—such as those used in the numerical computation of fluid flows-into parallel, high-performance codes. Keyare functions that define distributed arrays, that map between distributed and non-distributed arrays, and that allow easy specification of common communications on structured grids. The libraryis based on the widelyaccepted MPI message passing standard. We present an overview of the functionalityof Charon, and some representative results.
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Van der Wijngaart, R.F. (2000). Charon Message-Passing Toolkit for Scientific Computations. In: Valero, M., Prasanna, V.K., Vajapeyam, S. (eds) High Performance Computing — HiPC 2000. HiPC 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1970. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44467-X_1
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