Overview Foils September95 Some Remarks on the Status of HPF -- Application and Compiler Input Icase HPF Workshop August 23,1995 Geoffrey Fox NPAC Syracuse University 111 College Place Syracuse NY 13244-4100 Abstract of HPF Status Remarks This presentation included remarks on future of HPF in World Wide Web context separately discussed We describe some lessons on practical evaluation of HPF in two Grand Challenges -- Black Hole Collisions and NASA Data assimilation as well as many smaller projects We find that use of Fortran90 is helpful in both its data-parallel and object oriented aspects. Support for user defined and generated irregular distributions is an essential enhancement in HPF The PCRC -- Parallel Compiler Runtime Consortium -- is building common C++ and HPF interoperable runtime support