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Foil 47 What Issues should High Performance Fortran (HPF) Address!

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


Should not solve ALL Problems
Goal: Express in a high level portable scalable fashion those aspects of problems one would like to use Fortran for
  • Need not solve all issues Roughly express all data parallelism and needed task parallelism
  • Integrate other programming paradigms to address remaining issues (see PCRC - Parallel Compiler Runtime Consortium)
Lessons from study of
  • CMFORTRAN experience
  • Some initial HPF experience
  • Fortran + Message Passing Experience
Particle Dynamics and Parallel Differential Equation Solving have been studied in detail (for HPF). Other fields less completely understood.



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