NPAC Technical Report SCCS-700

Development and Performance of the Acoustic Equations in High Performance Fortran

Kevin Roe, Thong Dang, Tomasz Haupt

Submitted March 20 1995


Abstract

The physical problem of wave propagation is examined as well as the numerical methods used in its solution. The wave propagation problem was implemented in sequential FORTRAN 77, sequential Fortran 90, and High Performance Fortran (HPF). Performance of each implementation was examined and compared. THe results of four HPF compilers (Digital, Applied Parallel Research, IBM, and the Portland Group Inc.) are compared to show how each compiler handles this type of code.


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