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High Performance Fortran: Status and prospects

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Applied Parallel Computing Large Scale Scientific and Industrial Problems (PARA 1998)

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High Performance Fortran (HPF) is a data-parallel language that was designed to provide the user with a high-level interface for programming scientific applications, while delegating to the compiler the task of generating an explicitly parallel message-passing program. In this paper, we give an outline of developments that led to HPF, shortly explain its major features, and illustrate its use for irregular applications. The final part of the paper points out some classes of problems that are difficult to deal with efficiently within the HPF paradigm.

The work described in this paper was partially supported by the ESPRIT IV Long Term Research Project 21033 “HPF+” of the European Commission, by the Austrian Ministry for Science and Transportation under contract GZ 613.580/2-IV/9/95, and by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under NASA Contract No. NAS1-19480, while the authors were in residence at ICASE, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23681.

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  1. ICASE, MS 132C, NASA Langley Research Center, 23681, Hampton, VA, USA

    Piyush Mehrotra & John Van Rosendale

  2. Institute for Software Technology and Parallel Systems, University of Vienna, Liechtensteinstr. 22, A-1090, Vienna, Austria

    Hans Zima

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Mehrotra, P., Van Rosendale, J., Zima, H. (1998). High Performance Fortran: Status and prospects. In: Kågström, B., Dongarra, J., Elmroth, E., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Applied Parallel Computing Large Scale Scientific and Industrial Problems. PARA 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1541. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0095356

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