Vienna Fortran 90

Author

Benkner, Siegfried ; Chapman, Barbara M. ; Zima, Hans P.

Author_Institution

Dept. for Stat. & Comput. Sci., Vienna Univ., Austria

fYear

1992

fDate

26-29 Apr 1992

Firstpage

51

Lastpage

59

Abstract

Vienna Fortran 90 is a language extension of Fortran 90 which enables the user to write programs for distributed memory multiprocessors using global data references only. Performance of software on such systems is profoundly influenced by the manner in which data is distributed to the processors. Hence, Vienna Fortran 90 provides the user with a wide range of facilities for the mapping of data to processors. It combines the advantages of the shared memory programming paradigm with mechanisms for explicit user control of those aspects of the program which have the greatest impact on efficiency. The paper presents the major features of Vienna Fortran 90 and gives examples of their use

Keywords

FORTRAN; distributed memory systems; parallel languages; parallel programming; shared memory systems; Vienna Fortran 90; distributed memory multiprocessors; global data references; language extension; shared memory programming; user control; Computer architecture; Computer science; Hypercubes; Memory management; Multiprocessing systems; Parallel processing; Project management; Proposals; Software performance; Statistical distributions;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Scalable High Performance Computing Conference, 1992. SHPCC-92, Proceedings.

Conference_Location

Williamsburg, VA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2775-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SHPCC.1992.232688

Filename

232688