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Fortran 90 is the most recent Fortran standard
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Fortran 95 is in the works
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Data-parallel operations are the major new executable construct
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Some were adopted in Fortran 95
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The heart of HPF is the data mapping features describing how data is partitioned among parallel processors
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Assume that computation will be partitioned along with the data
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The 1995 and 1996 meetings have (and will) address the omissions in HPF
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Most were intentional, due to the difficulty of reaching consensus
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All of Fortran 90
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FORALL and INDEPENDENT
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Data Alignment and Distribution
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Miscellaneous Support Operations
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But:
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No parallel I/O
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No explicit message-passing
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Little support for irregular computations
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Little support for non-data parallelism
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