Advantages
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Very portable and scalable to SIMD and MIMD
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Should be able to eventually handle ~all synchronous and loosely synchronous problems including ones that only run well on MIMD
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Industry Standard has been adopted
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High Performance Fortran (HPF)
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With exception of Cray Research, all key MPP venors and ISV's have adopted
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Builds on CMFortran, FortranD Vienna Fortran and other commercial and research experience
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