Automatic migration from PARMACS to MPI in parallel Fortran applications[1]This work was supported by the Commission of the European Community through Esprit project P6643 (PPPE).

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Hempel, Rolf^; | Zimmermann, Falk

Affiliations: C&C Research Laboratories NEC Europe Ltd., Rathausallee 10, D‐53757 Sankt Augustin, Germany E‐mail: hempel@ccrl‐nece.technopark.gmd.de | Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing, GMD – German National Research Centre for Information Technology, D‐53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany E‐mail: zimmermann@ccrl‐nece.technopark.gmd.de

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Abstract: The PARMACS message passing interface has been in widespread use by application projects, especially in Europe. With the new MPI standard for message passing, many projects face the problem of replacing PARMACS with MPI. An automatic translation tool has been developed which replaces all PARMACS 6.0 calls in an application program with their corresponding MPI calls. In this paper we describe the mapping of the PARMACS programming model onto MPI. We then present some implementation details of the converter tool.

Journal: Scientific Programming, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 39-46, 1999