NPAC Technical Report SCCS-507
Compiling HPF for Distributed Memory MIMD Computers
Z Bozkus, A Choudhary, G Fox, T Haupt, S Ranka
Submitted July 01 1993
Abstract
This paper describes the design of
a High Performance Fortran (HPF/Fortran 90D) compiler,
a source-to-source translator for distributed memory systems.
HPF is a data parallel language with compiler directives
to enable users to specify data alignment and distributions.
A systematic methodology to process distribution directives of
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 which
show that the code produced by the compiler is portable, yet efficient.
We believe that the methodology to process data distribution, computation
partitioning, communication system design and the overall compiler design
can be used by the other HPF compiler implementors.