HPF Overview

CS498 LVK

March 2006

Isaac Dooley

Some Slides Borrowed from John Merlin’s hpf-and-f90.ps

HPF - High Performance Fortran

• Extension to Fortran

• Standardized in 1994-1997

• No Explicit Message-Passing

• Parallel Constructs(Loops)

• Data Distribution

Data Parallel View

• Fortran Already Has Data Parallelism: Array Sections

Sample Jacobi Program Using Fortran Array Sections:

HPF for 16 processors

The End