High Performance Fortran: History, status and future

Parallel Computing

Volumn 24, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 325-354

  Mehrotra, Piyush ^a   Van Rosendale, John ^a   Zima, Hans ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Data distribution; Data parallelism; Distributed memory architectures; High Performance Fortran; Irregular problems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROGRAM COMPILERS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER); USER INTERFACES;

DISTRIBUTED MEMORY ARCHITECTURES; HIGH PERFORMANCE FORTRAN (HPF) PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

EID: 0032068187     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8191(98)00016-7     Document Type: Article

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