Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 16 Sept 1995

Foil 5 Goals and Scope of HPF

From HPFtutorial CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 95. by Geoffrey C. Fox(Tomasz Haupt)
Data parallel programming
  • single threaded
  • global name space
  • loosely synchronous parallel computation
Top performance on MIMD and SIMD computers with non-uniform memory access costs
  • preserve efficiency for different machines with comparable number of processors
Code tuning for various architectures

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