NPAC Technical Report SCCS-488
An Overview of High Performance Computing for the Physical Sciences
G Fox, P Coddington
Submitted May 01 1993
Abstract
We present an overview of the state of the art and future trends in high
performance computing, and in particular data parallel computing.
We describe recent progress in defining a standardized, portable,
high level parallel language called High Performance Fortran, an extension
of Fortran 90 designed for efficient implementation of data parallel
applications on parallel, vector and sequential high performance computers.
An outline of the language is presented, and we discuss its ability
to handle different applications in computational science,
concentrating on the difficulties of implementing irregular problems.