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Overview of Fortran 90 and HPF Fall 96

Given by Geoffrey C. Fox, Tom Haupt at Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science CPS615 on Fall Semester 96. Foils prepared 17 Sept 1996

A brief discussion of Fortran90 and Fortran77 and why Fortran90 has advantages and disadvantages
Overview of Key Features of Fortran90
See Metcalf and Reid, Fortran90 Explained, Oxford Scientific Publications
Overview of Key Features of HPF
  • Parallel Constructs
  • Data Mapping
  • Examples
The Future -- HPF2
See Chuck Koelbel from Rice University at
http://renoir.csc.ncsu.edu/MRA/HTML/Workshop2/Koelbel


Table of Contents for Overview of Fortran 90 and HPF Fall 96


001 CPS615 -- Base Course for the Simulation Track of Computational 
    Science
    Fall Semester 1996 --
    Introduction to High Performance Fortran and Fortran 90
002 Abstract of HPF and Fortran90 Technology Discussion
003 HPF is an extension of  Fortran 90
004 Why is Fortran90 Easier than Fortran77
005 Important Features of Fortran90
006 Introduction to Fortran90 Arrays - I
007 Introduction to Fortran90 Arrays - II
008 Fortran90 Arrays and  Memory Allocation
009 More on Fortran90 Arrays and Subroutines
010 Typical Use of Array and Intrinsic Operations
011 Derived Type in Fortran90
012 Examples of POINTER's in Fortran90
013 MODULEs in Fortran90
014 MODULEs INTERFACES and Overloaded Operators in Fortran90
015 Outline of HPF Discussion
016 Information on HPF and HPF Forum (HPFF)
017 Possible Programming Models
018 Data Parallel Programming Model
019 Parallelism in HPF
020 Fortran77 is part of Fortran90
021 HPF Features
022 What gives high performance in HPF
023 Compiler directives used in HPF
024 What does an HPF Compiler do?
025 Syntax of HPF Directives
026 Data Mapping in HPF
027 Staged Data Mapping in HPF
028 Template in HPF
029 Abstract Processors in HPF
030 Example of Template and Processors
031 Align Directive in HPF
032 Examples of Align Directive
033 Changing Rank in Align Directive
034 Replication in Align Directive
035 General Alignments in HPF
036 Formal Definition of Align Directive
037 More obscure Complicated Examples of Align Directive 
038 Distribution Directive in HPF
039 Basic Examples of Distribute Directive 
040 Two Dimensional Example of Distribute Directive
041 The Two Basic Distributions in HPF
042 The Example of Matrix Inversion
043 Example of Graphics Rendering
044 Example of Distribute Directive with Complex Alignment
045 Dynamic Data Mapping
046 Advanced Mapping Directives -- ReDistribution and ReAlign
047 Advanced Mapping Directives -- Allocatable arrays and pointers
048 Subprograms in HPF
049 Passing Distributed Arrays as Subprogram Arguments in HPF
050 Mapping Options for Dummy (Subroutine) Arguments
051 Inherit Distribution Directive in HPF
052 Summary of Mapping Directives in HPF
053 Fundamental Parallelism Assumption in HPF
054 Parallel statements and Constructs in HPF
055 Parallelism in Fortran 90 array assignments
056 WHERE (masked array assignment) in HPF
057 WHERE...ELSEWHERE / IF...ELSE constructs in HPF
058 Intrinsic functions in HPF
059 HPF library functions
060 SUM, SUM_PREFIX and SUM_SCATTER defined
061 HPF Intrinsic EXAMPLE: SUM
062 FORALL Statement in HPF
063 Examples of FORALL statements in HPF
064 Semantics of the FORALL statement in HPF
065 Vector Indices in FORALL's
066 Multiple Statement FORALL's
067 HPF FORALL construct Pictorially
068 PURE Functions in HPF
069 Example of PURE Function from Chuck Koelbel
070 The INDEPENDENT Assertion in HPF
071 !HPF$ INDEPENDENT FORALL Pictorially
072 !HPF$ INDEPENDENT DO Pictorially
073 !HPF$ INDEPENDENT, NEW  Variable
074 Extrinsics in HPF
075 High Performance Fortran HPF2 Changes
076 ON HOME for Computation Placement
077 Reductions in INDEPENDENT DO Loops
078 Spawning Tasks in HPF
079 New Data Mapping Features in HPF 2.0 - I
080 New Data Mapping Features in HPF 2.0 - II


© on Tue Oct 7 1997