NPAC Technical Report SCCS-638

High Performance Fortran for Computational Fluid Dynamics Applications

Kenneth Hawick, Edward Bogucz, Ammar Degani, Geoffrey Fox, Guy Robinson

Submitted September 14 1994


Abstract

We evaluate the High-Performance Fortran (HPF) language for expressing and implementing algorithms for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) applications on high performance computing systems. In particular we discuss: implicit methods such as the ADI algorithm, full-matrix methods such as the panel method, and sparse matrix methods such as conjugate gradient. We focus on regular meshes, since these can be efficiently represented by the existing HPF definition. The codes discussed are available on the World Wide Web at {\bf http://www.npac.syr.edu/hpfa/} alongwith other educational and discussion material related to applications in HPF. \footnotetext[0]{Copyright \copyright 1995 by A. T. Degani. Published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc. with permission.


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