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Foil 116 HPF Language

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part I:Concepts and Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
HPF adds the following features to those in Fortran 90.
Support for controlling the alignment and distribution of data on a parallel machine.
New data parallel constructs.
An extended set of intrinsic functions and standard library providing much useful functionality at a high level of abstraction.
EXTRINSIC procedures which standardise the interface with the other languages or styles
Directives to address some sequence and storage association issues.

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