High Performance Fortran Forum Research Articles

High Performance Fortran Implementations: A Survey

The Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona (UPC) and The Queen's University of Belfast (QUB) have been engaged in language design and implementation projects for many years with particular emphasis on languages for scientific and engineering applications. Currently in this language area, the data parallel approach is receiving great attention from users, language designers and computer vendors. One of the major innovations in data parallelism has been the advent of High Performance Fortran (HPF). HPF has been the result of the deliberations of a group of academic, commercial and industrial organizations with interests in high performance computersthe HPF Forum. HPF is intended to provide a 'standard' for parallel programming on a wide range of machines. In the spring of 1993 the HPF Forum produced a report of the HPF language which is described in Scientific Programming [1]. HPF contains directives which are structured comments that suggest implementation strategies or assert facts about a program to the compiler. A program should generate the same results whether the directives are processed or not. In addition, there are a few new features of the language which are direct extensions of Fortran 90. For example, the FORALL construct enables the expression of general array assignments to sections of arrays. To ease the compiler problems and speed up the implementation of HPF, the Forum defined an official subset of HPF as well as the full language. The official subset includes all HPF directives and language extensions but excludes features such as

High performance Fortran language specification (part III)

The High Performance Fortran Forum (HPFF), a coalition of over 40 industrial, academic, and government organizations, met from March 1992 to March 1993 to discuss and define High Performance Fortran (HPF), a set of extensions to Fortran 90. The goal was to address the problems of writing data parallel programs for architectures where the distribution of data impacts performance. While it is intended that the HPF extensions will become widely available, HPFF is not sanctioned or supported by any official standards organization. More information is available from Chuck Koelbel: chk@cs.rice.edu

Intrinsic and library procedures

article Intrinsic and library procedures Share on Author: CORPORATE High Performance Fortran Forum Houston Texas Houston TexasView Profile Authors Info & Claims ACM SIGPLAN Fortran ForumVolume 13Issue 2June 1994 pp 87–138https://doi.org/10.1145/190783.190780Online:01 June 1994Publication History 0citation136DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations0Total Downloads136Last 12 Months0Last 6 weeks0 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteGet Access

Storage and sequence association

article Free Access Share on Storage and sequence association Author: CORPORATE High Performance Fortran Forum Houston Texas Houston TexasView Profile Authors Info & Claims ACM SIGPLAN Fortran ForumVolume 13Issue 2June 1994 pp 143–150https://doi.org/10.1145/190783.190785Online:01 June 1994Publication History 0citation170DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations0Total Downloads170Last 12 Months2Last 6 weeks0 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteeReaderPDF

High Performance Fortran: A Practical Analysis

The recently released high performance Fortran forum (HPFF) proposal has stirred much interest in the high performance computing industry. HPFF's most important design goal is to create a language that has source code portability and that achieves high performance on single instruction multiple data (SIMD), distributed-memory multiple instruction multiple data (MIMD), and shared-memory MIMD architectures. The HPFF proposal brings to the forefront many questions about design of portable and efficient languages for parallel machines. In this article, we discuss issues that need to be addressed before an efficient production quality compiler will be available for any such language. We examine some specific issues that are related to HPF's model of computation and analyze several implementation issues. We also provide some results from another data parallel compiler to help gain insight on some of the implementation issues that are relevant to HPF. Finally, we provide a summary of options currently available for application developers in industry.

High performance Fortran

Fortran-90, its basis in Fortran-77, its implications for parallel machines, and the extensions developed for it by the High Performance Fortran Forum (HPFF), a coalition of computer vendors, government laboratories, and academic groups founded in 1992 to improve the performance and usability of Fortran-90 for computationally intensive applications on a wide variety of machines, including massively parallel single-instruction multiple-data (SIMD) and multiple-instruction multiple-data (MIMD) systems and vector processors, are discussed. SIMD and MIMD systems, previous attempts to develop languages for them, the genesis of the HPFF, how the group actually worked, and the HPF programming model are described.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>