An Introduction to High Performance Fortran

Article type: Research Article

Authors: MERLIN, JOHN | HEY, ANTHONY

Affiliations: Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, S017 IBJ, UK

Note: [] Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract: High Performance Fortran (HPF) is an informal standard for extensions to Fortran 90 to assist its implementation on parallel architectures, particularly for data-parallel computation. Among other things, it includes directives for specifying data distribution across multiple memories, and concurrent execution features. This article provides a tutorial introduction to the main features of HPF.

Journal: Scientific Programming, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 87-113, 1995