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This paper briefly introduces SaC: a data-parallel language with an imperative feel but side-effect free and declarative. The experiences of porting a simulation of unsteady shock waves in the Euler system from Fortran to SaC are reported. Both the SaC and Fortran code was run on a 16-core AMD machine. We demonstrate scalability and performance of our approach by comparison to Fortran.
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Rolls, D., Joslin, C., Kudryavtsev, A., Scholz, SB., Shafarenko, A. (2009). Numerical Simulations of Unsteady Shock Wave Interactions Using SaC and Fortran-90. In: Malyshkin, V. (eds) Parallel Computing Technologies. PaCT 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5698. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03275-2_44
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