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Several distributed-memory-type massively parallel computers have been developed and have proved to be efficient for numerical simulation of Partial Differential Equation (PDE) problems [1, 2, 3]. Although performance is high, it is very time-consuming to develop programs by using languages that have a special facility to control parallelism [4]. (In this chapter, “massively parallel computer ” means the distributed memory type.) On the other hand, in the automatic parallelization of general languages like FORTRAN and C, it is technically very difficult to achieve sufficient parallelizing efficiency for programs that are developed without special care for parallelization. The PDEQSOL (Partial Differential Equation Solver Language) system for massively parallel computers is being developed to overcome these limitations. PDEQSOL is a high-level programming language specially designed to describe PDE problems in a natural way for numerical analysis. The parallelizing translator generates a highly parallelized program for massively parallel computers by using the implicit parallelism in the PDEQSOL program.
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Okochi, T. (1995). PDEQSOL (Partial Differential Equation Solver Language) for Parallel Computers. In: Bic, L.F., Nicolau, A., Sato, M. (eds) Parallel Language and Compiler Research in Japan. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2269-0_19
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