Fortran 90D/HPF compiler for distributed memory MIMD computers: Design, implementation, and performance results

Author

Bozkus, Zeki ; Choudhary, Alok ; Fox, Geoffrey ; Haupt, Tomasz ; Ranka, Sanjay

Author_Institution

Northeast Parallel Archit. Center, Syracuse Univ., NY, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

15-19 Nov. 1993

Firstpage

351

Lastpage

360

Abstract

Fortran 90D/HPF is a data parallel language with special directives to enable users to specify data alignment and distributions. The authors describe the design and implementation of a Fortran 90D/HPF compiler. Techniques for data and computation partitioning, communication detection and generation, and the run-time support for the compiler are discussed. Initial performance results for the compiler are presented. It is believed that the methodology to process data distribution, computation partitioning, communication system design and the overall compiler design can be used by the implementors of HPF compilers.

Keywords

FORTRAN; distributed memory systems; parallelising compilers; program compilers; Fortran 90D/HPF compiler; communication detection; computation partitioning; data alignment; data parallel language; distributed memory MIMD computers; process data distribution; run-time support; Concurrent computing; Contracts; Distributed computing; Government; Libraries; Parallel architectures; Parallel languages; Parallel processing; Program processors; Runtime;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Supercomputing '93. Proceedings

ISSN

1063-9535

Print_ISBN

0-8186-4340-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SUPERC.1993.1263479

Filename

1263479