A new parallel programming language fortress: Features and applications

Author

Üney, Erdem ; Dalfes, H. Nüzhet

Author_Institution

Inf. Inst., Istanbul Tech. Univ., Istanbul, Turkey

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

An overview of a newly designed parallel programming language is presented in this paper. Fortress, an outcome of the high productivity computing systems program at DARPA, is examined through its features like mathematical notation, implicitly parallel nature and ease of library coding, its potential to grow easily and its interchangeable program parts. Code writing is discussed through examples. The tests for its scalability are done with several array types and also a comparison of an application written both in C and Fortress is presented. The usability and the future of the language in HPC environments are also discussed.

Keywords

parallel languages; parallel programming; DARPA; Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; Fortress; code writing; high productivity computing systems program; library coding; parallel programming language; Computer languages; Concurrent computing; Informatics; Java; Parallel programming; Petascale computing; Productivity; Robustness; Sun; Virtual manufacturing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Soft Computing, Computing with Words and Perceptions in System Analysis, Decision and Control, 2009. ICSCCW 2009. Fifth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Famagusta

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3429-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3428-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSCCW.2009.5379487

Filename

5379487