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Foil 7 Global Array Toolkit Background

From Overview of NPAC Research in Computational Chemistry Visit by CEWES Team -- Mar 25 1997. by David Bernholdt *
Wanted a standard, portable, vendor-supported parallel programming model
HPF-1 standard had not yet been finalized, existing compilers incomplete and offered inadequate performance
Chemistry applications require capabilities not in HPF-1 (task parallelism)
Solution: Develop GA Toolkit internally, with intention to transition to a later version of HPF

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