Which Applications Can Use High Performance Fortran and Fortran-D: Industry Standard Data Parallel Languages?

In this paper, we present the first, preliminary results of HPF/Fortran-D language analysis based on compiling and running benchmark applications using a prototype implementation of HPF/Fortran-D compiler. The analysis indicate that the HPF is a very convenient tool for programming many applications on massively parallel and/or distributed systems. In addition, we cumulate experience on how to parallelise irregular problems to extend the scope of Fortran-D beyond HPF and suggest future extensions to the Fortran standard. 1. Introduction Since its introduction over three decades ago, Fortran has been the language of choice for scientific and engineering programming. The advent of parallel computers made, however, ordinary Fortran77 of Fortran 90 obsolete, in a sense that codes written in these languages do not provide sufficient information to exploit the full capability of modern architectures. Moreover, programming distributed-memory parallel computers is difficult and the resulting..