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High performance Fortran Languages: Advanced applications and their implementation

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High-Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN-Europe 1994)

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High Performance Fortran Languages such as Vienna Fortran and High Performance Fortran (HPF) allow the programming of massively parallel machines at a relatively high level of abstraction, based on a user-specified distribution of data across the processors of the machine. In this paper we examine the parallelization of two advanced applications — which require irregular data and work distributions — in Vienna Fortran and identify the reasons why the current version of HPF does not provide adequate functionality for formulating efficient parallel versions of these codes.

The work described in this paper was partially supported by the Austrian Research Foundation (FWF Grant P8989-PHY) and by the Austrian Ministry for Science and Research (BMWF Grant GZ 308.9281- IV/3/93). This research was also supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under NASA Contract No. NAS1-18605, while the authors were in residence at ICASE, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23681.

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  1. Institute for Software Technology and Parallel Systems, University of Vienna, Brünner Strasse 72, A-1210, Vienna, Austria

    Barbara Chapman & Hans Zima

  2. ICASE, MS 132C, NASA Langley Research Center, 23681, Hampton VA, USA

    Piyush Mehrotra

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Chapman, B., Mehrotra, P., Zima, H. (1994). High performance Fortran Languages: Advanced applications and their implementation. In: Gentzsch, W., Harms, U. (eds) High-Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 797. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57981-8_152

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