Separate HTML for Basic Foil 5 HPF Features

Basic HTML version of Foils prepared August 7 98

Foil 5 HPF Features

From DoD HPF Training -- 1. Introduction to HPF DoD Training and Others -- 1995-98. by Chuck Koelbel -- Rice University

Fortran 90 is the most recent Fortran standard
- Fortran 95 is in the works
Data-parallel operations are the major new executable construct
- Some were adopted in Fortran 95
The heart of HPF is the data mapping features describing how data is partitioned among parallel processors
- Assume that computation will be partitioned along with the data
The 1995 and 1996 meetings have (and will) address the omissions in HPF
- Most were intentional, due to the difficulty of reaching consensus

All of Fortran 90

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