NPAC Technical Report SCCS-360

Which Applications Can Use High Performance Fortran and FortranD - Industry Standard Data Parallel Languages?

A Choudhary, G Fox, T Haupt, S Ranka

Submitted December 01 1992


Abstract

In this paper, we present the first, preliminary results of HPF/Fortran-D language analysis based on compiling and running benchmark applications using a prototype implementation of HPF/Fortran-D compiler. The analysis indicate that the HPF is a very convenient tool for programming many applications on massively parallel and/or distributed systems. In addition, we cumulate experience on how to parallelise irregular problems to extend the scope of Fortran-D beyond HPF and suggest future extensions to the Fortran standard.


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