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Foil 31 Fortran( C ) Plus Message Passing

From GCF Talk U - Lewis/NASA 3/9/92 Mardi Gras Conference on Concurrent Computing in Physical Sciences -- February 18, 1993. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Advantages
  • Portable to MIMD distributed and shared memory machines - should scale to future machines with some difficulties (overlapping communication with itself and calculation)
  • Available now
  • Will be industry standards Express, PICL, Linda now
  • "All Problems" can be written in it
Disadvantages
  • Can be "hard-work" for user inserting communication calls
  • Optimizations not portable
  • Only MIMD

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