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A Parallel Numerical Library for Co-array Fortran

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Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM 2005)

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This paper describes a parallel numerical library based on Co-array Fortran syntax in combination with the object-oriented features of Fortran 95. It defines distributed data structures based on an abstract object called a vector map. It uses co-array syntax, embedded in methods associated with distributed objects, for communication between those objects based on information in the vector map. It applies a finite difference operator to the shallow water equations to illustrate how to use the library to calculate solutions for partial differential equations.

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  1. Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

    Robert W. Numrich

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  1. Institute of Computational and Information Sciences, Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland

    Roman Wyrzykowski

  2. Computer Science Department,, University of Tennessee, 37996-3450, Knoxville, TN, USA

    Jack Dongarra

  3. Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland

    Norbert Meyer

  4. Informatics & Mathematical Modeling, Technical University of Denmark, 2800, Lyngby, DK, Denmark

    Jerzy Waśniewski

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Numrich, R.W. (2006). A Parallel Numerical Library for Co-array Fortran. In: Wyrzykowski, R., Dongarra, J., Meyer, N., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics. PPAM 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3911. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11752578_116

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