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This paper presents HPF+, an optimized version of High Performance Fortran (HPF) for advanced industrial applications. HPF+ provides data distribution features applicable in the context of irregular, dynamically changing data structures and access patterns. Additional mechanisms are introduced to influence the mapping of computations to processors and to reduce the runtime preprocessing and communication overheads by specifying reusable communication schedules and non-local data accesses. Without sacrificing required functionality HPF+ adopts a data distribution model based on a one-level mapping of data to processors, reducing the complexity of the language, while alleviating the compiler's task of producing an efficient parallel program.
work described in this paper was partially supported by the ESPRIT IV Long Term Research Project 21033 “HPF+” of the European Commission.
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Benkner, S. (1998). HPF+ High Performance Fortran for advanced industrial applications. In: Sloot, P., Bubak, M., Hertzberger, B. (eds) High-Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1401. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0037207
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