CAPTools Project: Evaluation and Application of the Computer Aided Parallelisation Tools

The number of Fortran legacy codes maintained by the DoD research community is unknown, but it is generally accepted to be a significant one. Availability of a programming tool capable of accurately analyzing dependencies and generating portable parallel source codes would prompt the development teams maintaining legacy codes to test it on their own applications. Given sufficient time, the effect on utilization of HPC resources could be dramatic, as improvements in job turnaround would permit larger simulations to be considered. The CAPTools utility developed by the University of Greenwich (UG) has proved itself capable of demonstrating the aforementioned qualities for a given set of examples (see http://captools.gre.ac.uk/). An evaluation of its ability to produce the same effect on a small set of research codes was initiated in October, 1998. UG and the Aeronautical Systems Center (ASC) Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC) would collaborate on the effort. Following a brief project o..