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Writing a multigrid solver using co-array fortran

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Co-Array Fortran, known previously as F−-, is an extension to Fortran 95 that combines elegance of expression with simplicity of implementation to give an efficient parallel programming language. We illustrate its power and efficiency with a multigrid solver for Poisson’s equation in three dimensions. We examine the effect of latency and bandwidth for the co-array version compared with an equivalent MPI version on two machines, the SGI/CRAY ORIGIN 2000 and the CRAY-T3E.

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  1. Silicon Graphics, Inc., 55121, Eagan, MN, USA

    Robert W. Numrich

  2. Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK

    John Reid

  3. Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, USA

    Kieun Kim

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Bo Kågström Jack Dongarra Erik Elmroth Jerzy Waśniewski

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Numrich, R.W., Reid, J., Kim, K. (1998). Writing a multigrid solver using co-array fortran. In: Kågström, B., Dongarra, J., Elmroth, E., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Applied Parallel Computing Large Scale Scientific and Industrial Problems. PARA 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1541. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0095362

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