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Foil 23 What about other languages ?

From Programming Paradigms B CRPC/MCNC Workshop -- April 10-13 1995. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Parallelism is a feature of problems
It can be expressed in different languages with trade-offs in performance, flexibility and convenience
Fortran 77 Þ HPF
Fortran 90 Þ HPF
C++ Þ HPC++
  • Limitations (focus) of Fortran allow higher performance implementations
HPC++ more naturally handles complex data structures e.g. data parallel collections which are not the staple array data structure of Fortran
Must have common runtime support
  • Explored by PCRC - Parallel Compiler Runtime Consortium

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