Compiling High Performance Fortran for distributed-memory architectures

High Performance Fortran (HPF) is a data-parallel language that provides a high-level interface for programming scientific applications, while delegating to the compiler the task of generating explicitly parallel message-passing programs. This paper provides an overview of HPF compilation and runtim...

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Published inParallel computing Vol. 25; no. 13; pp. 1785 - 1825
Main Authors Benkner, Siegfried, Zima, Hans
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier B.V 01.12.1999
Subjects
Code generation
Distributed-memory Architectures
High Performance Fortran (HPF)
Irregular problems
Parallel programming
Parallelization
Code generation
Irregular problems
Parallel programming
Distributed-memory Architectures
High Performance Fortran (HPF)
Parallelization
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Summary:High Performance Fortran (HPF) is a data-parallel language that provides a high-level interface for programming scientific applications, while delegating to the compiler the task of generating explicitly parallel message-passing programs. This paper provides an overview of HPF compilation and runtime technology for distributed-memory architectures, and deals with a number of topics in some detail. In particular, we discuss distribution and alignment processing, the basic compilation scheme and methods for the optimization of regular computations. A separate section is devoted to the transformation and optimization of independent loops with irregular data accesses. The paper concludes with a discussion of research issues and outlines potential future development paths of the language.
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ISSN:0167-8191
1872-7336
DOI:10.1016/S0167-8191(99)00074-5