Title :
High performance Fortran on workstation farms
Author :
Annaratone, Marco ; Offner, Carl D. ; Loveman, David B.
Author_Institution :
High Performance Comput. Group, Maynard, MA, USA
Abstract :
Workstation farms are primarily used in single-threaded batch jobs, but there is a growing community of users interested in using farms as “degenerate” MPP systems. The lack of stable system software has stalled the growth of the MPP market, and “parallel” farms may potentially follow the same fate. We believe that high performance Fortran is the right answer to the needs of the parallel programming community. The paper discusses workstation farms and focuses on the HPF language and compiler
Keywords :
FORTRAN; parallel programming; program compilers; workstations; HPF language; MPP market; MPP systems; compiler; high performance Fortran; parallel programming; single-threaded batch job; stable system software; workstation farms; Bandwidth; Communication standards; Delay; LAN interconnection; Libraries; Local area networks; Parallel programming; Protocols; System software; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel Processing Symposium, 1994. Proceedings., Eighth International
Conference_Location :
Cancun
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-5602-6
DOI :
10.1109/IPPS.1994.288233
