Southampton HPF system in beta release
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     The Southampton High Performance Fortran system was released
for beta testing on the 9th of June.

     The system has been developed in a collaboration between
Dr John Merlin of ECS and Dr Bryan Carpenter of SUCS, with
EPSERC and JISC funding.  The final release will be made freely
available to UK higher education institutes.

     The system translates a program written in Subset High Performance
Fortran to standard Fortran 90, with calls to a communication library
implemented on top of the new message-passing interface standard, MPI.
The HPF system should be portable to most systems with a Fortran 90
compiler and an MPI installation available (public domain MPI releases
are now available for many platforms, including workstation clusters
and conventional parallel computers).

     For further information, see our Web server at

  http://hpcc.soton.ac.uk/RandD/hpf/beta_0.1/translator.html

Sites interesting in obtaining the beta release should contact

  info-hpf@par.soton.ac.uk