NPAC Technical Report SCCS-444
Compiling Fortran 90D/HPF for Distributed Memory MIMD Computers
Z Bozkus, A Choudhary, G Fox, T Haupt, S Ranka, M.-Y. Wu
Submitted March 08 1993
Abstract
This paper describes the design of the Fortran90D/HPF compiler, a
source-to-source parallel compiler for distributed memory systems
being developed at Syracuse University. Fortran 90D/HPF is a data
parallel language with special directives to specify data alignment and
distributions. A systematic methodology to process distribution
directives of Fortran 90D/HPF is presented. Furthermore, techniques
for data and computation partitioning, communication detection and
generation, and the run-time support for the compiler are
discussed. Finally, initial performance results for the compiler are
presented. We believe that the methodology to process data
distribution, computation partitioning, communication system design
and the overall compiler design can be used by the implementators of
compiles for HPF.