The Parallel Fortran Family and a New Perspective
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چکیده
Various parallel Fortran languages have been developed over the years. The research work in creating this Parallel Fortran Family has made signiicant contributions to parallel programming language design and implementation. In this paper, various parallel Fortran languages are studied based on a uniform coordination approach towards parallel programming. That is, new language constructs in parallel Fortran systems are regarded as providing a coordination mechanism organ-ising a set of single-threaded computations, coded in standard Fortran, into a parallel ensemble. Features of diierent parallel Fortran languages are studied by investigating their corresponding coordination models. A new perspective on designing a structured parallel For-tran system is proposed by using a generic structured coordination language, SCL, as the uniform means to organise parallel Fortran computation.
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