Title :
The parallel Fortran family and a new perspective
Author :
Darlington, John ; Guo, Yi-ke ; Yang, Jin
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput., Imperial Coll. of Sci., Technol. & Med., London, UK
Abstract :
Various parallel Fortran languages have been developed over the years. The research work in creating this Parallel Fortran Family has made significant contributions to parallel programming language design and implementation. In this paper, various parallel Fortran languages are studied based on a uniform co-ordination approach towards parallel programming. That is, new language constructs in parallel Fortran systems are regarded as providing a co-ordination mechanism organising a set of single-threaded computations, coded in standard Fortran, into a parallel ensemble. Features of different parallel Fortran languages are studied by investigating their corresponding co-ordination models. A new perspective on designing a structured parallel Fortran system is proposed by using a generic structured co-ordination language, SCL, as the uniform means to organise parallel Fortran computation
Keywords :
FORTRAN; parallel languages; parallel programming; SCL; co-ordination mechanism; generic structured co-ordination language; language constructs; parallel Fortran computation; parallel Fortran family; parallel programming language design; single-threaded computations; structured parallel Fortran; Abstracts; Code standards; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Data flow computing; Educational institutions; High performance computing; Libraries; Parallel programming; Program processors;
Conference_Titel :
Programming Models for Massively Parallel Computers, 1995
Conference_Location :
Berlin
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7177-7
DOI :
10.1109/PMMPC.1995.504350