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From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part I:Concepts and Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
1 HPFF goals were to define a language that offers:
2 Data parallel programming (Single threaded, global name space, loosely synchronous parallel computation).
3 Top performance with SIMD and MIMD machines with non-uniform memory access costs.
4 Code tuning for various architectures.
5 These goals were addressed in the form of new intrinsics and first class language constructs.
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