Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 26 September 1996

Foil 119 High Performance Fortran HPF2 Changes

From HPCC Software Technologies Fall 96 -- Overview and HPF Delivered Lectures of CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- 26 September 96. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 The original HPF 1.0 omitted some key capabilities which were known to be important but syntax and functionality was unclear in 1993
  • Further experience has shown that HPF compilers have proven to be difficult to write!
2 The HPF Forum met in 1995-96 and has approved a set of Extensions and Simplifications of HPF
3 The concept of a base HPF 2.0 and Approved Extensions has been agreed
4 Note approved extensions (which presumably vendors need not implement) include critical capability for dynamic irregular problems
5 DYNAMIC REALIGN and REDISTRIBUTE are no longer in base language and are just "appproved extensions"
6 Suprisingly no parallel I/O capabilities were approved!

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