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Influence of Fortran 90 features on performance on Cray vector computer systems

  • Compilers and Data Parallel Structures
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High-Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN-Europe 1994)

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Abstract

To formulate data structures suited to numerical problems like selfadapting multilevel algorithms several data constructs, conditions and attributes are necessary. These constructs are offered by languages like C++ or Fortran 90.

A selection of features which seem to be useful in programming certain algorithms are pointer, derived types, dynamic memory management, some array constructs etc. In the first point we were interested in the newly developed programming language Fortran 90. Cray was the first company in developing a real Fortran 90 compiler which has been released in December 1993. This paper gives an impression of how using some single Fortran 90 features does influence the speed of the scalar part of a program.

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    Uwe Küster & Manuela Zürn

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Küster, U., Zürn, M. (1994). Influence of Fortran 90 features on performance on Cray vector computer systems. 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_163

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