Title :
Object oriented Fortran for development of portable parallel programs
Author :
Reese, Donna S. ; Luke, Ed
Author_Institution :
Mississippi State Univ., MS, USA
Abstract :
Parallel programming has to date remained inaccessible to the average scientific programmer. Parallel programming languages are generally foreign to most scientific applications programmers who only speak Fortran. Automatic parallelization techniques have so far proved unsuccessful in extracting large amounts of parallelism from sequential codes and do not encourage development of new, inherently parallel algorithms. In addition, there is a lack of consistency of programmer interface across architectures which requires programmers to invest a lot of effort in porting code from one parallel machine to another. This paper discusses the object oriented Fortran language and support routines developed at Mississippi State in support of parallelizing complex field simulations. This interface is based on Fortran to ease its acceptance by scientific programmers and is implemented on top of the Unix operating system for portability
Keywords :
FORTRAN; object-oriented languages; object-oriented programming; parallel programming; software portability; Unix operating system; object oriented FORTRAN; parallelizing complex field simulations; portability; portable parallel programs; Application specific integrated circuits; Computational modeling; Concurrent computing; Memory architecture; Natural languages; Object oriented modeling; Parallel processing; Parallel programming; Portable computers; Programming profession;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel and Distributed Processing, 1991. Proceedings of the Third IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Dallas, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2310-1
DOI :
10.1109/SPDP.1991.218244