The High Performance Fortran Forum

• By early 90s, value of portable, standardized languages universally acknowledged.

• Goal of HPF Forum—a single language for High Performance programming. Effective across architectures—vector, SIMD, MIMD, though SPMD a focus.

• Supported by most major vendors then:

  • Cray, DEC, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Intel, MasPar, Meiko, nCube, Sun, Thinking Machines

• HPF 1.0 standard published 1993.

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