Title :
High performance Fortran: an overview
Author_Institution :
Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab., CA, USA
Abstract :
The author gives an overview of the work of the High Performance Fortran Forum (HPFF). This group of industry, academic, and user representatives has been meeting to define a set of extensions for Fortran dedicated to the special problems posed by very high performance computers, especially the new generation of parallel computers. The author describes the HPFF effort and its goals and gives a brief description of the functionality of high performance Fortran.<>
Keywords :
FORTRAN; High Performance Fortran Forum; functionality; high performance Fortran; parallel computers; Computer industry; Concurrent computing; Design optimization; High performance computing; Job shop scheduling; Laboratories; Message passing; Operating systems; Optimizing compilers; Processor scheduling;
Conference_Titel :
Compcon Spring '93, Digest of Papers.
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-3400-6
DOI :
10.1109/CMPCON.1993.289652
