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Foil 41 High Performance Fortran (HPF)

From Designing and Building Parallel Programs I: Introduction DoD Modernization Tutorial -- 1995-1998. by Ian Foster, Gina Goff, Ehtesham Hayder, Chuck Koelbel
A standard data-parallel language
  • CM Fortran, C*, HPC++ are related
Programmer specifies
  • Concurrency (concurrent operations on arrays)
  • Locality (data distribution)
Compiler infers
  • Mapping of computation ("owner-computes" rule)
  • Communication

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