NPAC Technical Report SCCS-709
Fortran 90 and High Performance Fortran for Dense Matrix-Formulated Applications
Guy Robinson, Kenneth Hawick, Geoffrey Fox
Submitted May 4 1995
Abstract
We discuss the use of the Fortran 90 (F90) and High Performance
Fortran (HPF) computer programming languages for use in
effectively-dense matrix-formulated applications. We provide a brief
introduction to the main features of the languages and present a
computational fluid dynamics application which uses the panel method
as an example which can expressed in both F90 and HPF to evaluate the
languages.
We consider issues such as computational performance and efficiency on
High Performance Computing and Communications systems as well as other
important matters such as ease of expression and code maintainance and
code extension.
Further details regarding HPF standards, tutorials and example programs can
be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.npac.syr.edu/hpfa.