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Foil 47 PCF

From Designing and Building Parallel Programs I: Introduction DoD Modernization Tutorial -- 1995-1998. by Ian Foster, Gina Goff, Ehtesham Hayder, Chuck Koelbel
Standardization (circa 1993) of shared memory parallelism in Fortran
A PCF program is multithreaded, with explicit synchronization between the threads and shared variables
A PCF program is divided into regions
  • Serial regions: Only the master thread executes
  • Parallel regions: Work shared by all threads

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