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Foil 46 Extrinsics in HPF

From HPFtutorial CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 95. by Geoffrey C. Fox(Tomasz Haupt)
1 An extrinsic function is a function written in a language other than HPF including
  • a single-thead-of-control language
  • a multi-thread-of-control language
  • any programming language targeted to a single processor SPMD) with message passing such as MPI
    • Fortran 77, Fortran 90, C, C++, Ada, HPF
2 HPF defines interface and invocation sequence
3 Allows one to get efficient parallel code where HPF language or compiler inadequate
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