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The Nestor library: A tool for implementing fortran source to source transfromations

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High-Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN-Europe 1999)

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We describe Nestor, a library to easily manipulate Fortran programs through a high level internal representation based on C++ classes. Nestor is a research tool that can be used to quickly implement source to source transformations. The input of the library is Fortran 77, Fortran 90 and HPF 2.0. Its current output supports the same languages plus some dialects such as Petit, OpenMP, CrayMP. Compared to SUIF 2.0 that is still announced, Nestor is less ambitious, but is light, ready to use (http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~gsilber/nestor), fully documented and is better suited for Fortran to Fortran transformations.

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    Georges-André Silber & Alain Darte

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Silber, GA., Darte, A. (1999). The Nestor library: A tool for implementing fortran source to source transfromations. In: Sloot, P., Bubak, M., Hoekstra, A., Hertzberger, B. (eds) High-Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1593. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0100626

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