The High Performance Fortran Handbook (Scientific and Engineering Computation)

ISBN 10: 0262610949 / ISBN 13: 9780262610940

Published by Mit Pr, 1993

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The High Performance Fortran Handbook (Scientific and Engineering Computation)
• Publisher: Mit Pr
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262610949
• ISBN 13: 9780262610940
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

High Performance Fortran (HPF) is a set of extensions to Fortran expressing parallel execution at a relatively high level. For the thousands of scientists, engineers, and others who wish to take advantage of the power of both vector and parallel supercomputers, five of the principal authors of HPF have teamed up here to write a tutorial for the language. There is an increasing need for a common parallel Fortran that can serve as a programming interface with the new parallel machines that are appearing on the market. While HPF does not solve all the problems of parallel programming, it does provide a portable, high-level expression for data- parallel algorithms that brings the convenience of sequential Fortran a step closer to today's complex parallel machines.

About the Author

Charles H. Koelbel is Program Director, Advanced Computational Research, National Science Foundation. David B. Loveman is Senior Program Manager of the High Performance Computing Group at Digital Equipment Corporation. Robert S. Schreiber is Senior Scientist at the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science. Guy L. Steele Jr. is Senior Scientist at Sun Microsystems. Mary E. Zosel is a member of the research staff at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories.