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Vienna Fortran and the Path Towards a Standard Parallel Language
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Highly parallel scalable multiprocessing systems (HMPs) are powerful tools for solving large-scale scientific and engineering problems. However, these machines are difficult to program since algorithms must exploit locality in order to achieve high performance. Vienna Fortran was the first fully specified data-parallel language for HMPs that provided features for the specification of data distribution and alignment at a high level of abstraction. In this paper we outline the major elements of Vienna Fortran and compare it to High Performance Fortran (HPF), a de-facto standard in this area. A significant weakness of HPF is its lack of support for many advanced applications, which require irregular data distributions and dynamic load balancing. We introduce HPF +, an extension of HPF based on Vienna Fortran, that provides the required functionality.
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- IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E80-D No.4 pp.409-416
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Barbara M. CHAPMAN, Piyush MEHROTRA, Hans P. ZIMA, "Vienna Fortran and the Path Towards a Standard Parallel Language" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information,
vol. E80-D, no. 4, pp. 409-416, April 1997, doi: .
Abstract: Highly parallel scalable multiprocessing systems (HMPs) are powerful tools for solving large-scale scientific and engineering problems. However, these machines are difficult to program since algorithms must exploit locality in order to achieve high performance. Vienna Fortran was the first fully specified data-parallel language for HMPs that provided features for the specification of data distribution and alignment at a high level of abstraction. In this paper we outline the major elements of Vienna Fortran and compare it to High Performance Fortran (HPF), a de-facto standard in this area. A significant weakness of HPF is its lack of support for many advanced applications, which require irregular data distributions and dynamic load balancing. We introduce HPF +, an extension of HPF based on Vienna Fortran, that provides the required functionality.
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