NPAC Technical Report SCCS-488
An Overview of High Performance Computing for the Physical Sciences
Geoffrey C. Fox and Paul D. Coddington
May 1993
Published in
Proc. of the Mardi Gras Conference on High Performance Computing and Its Applications in the Physical Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA (February 1993).
© Copyright World Scientific Publishing.
Abstract
We present an overview of the state of the art and future trends in high
performance computing, and in particular data parallel computing.
We describe recent progress in defining a standardized, portable,
high level parallel language called High Performance Fortran, an extension
of Fortran 90 designed for efficient implementation of data parallel
applications on parallel, vector and sequential high performance computers.
An outline of the language is presented, and we discuss its ability
to handle different applications in computational science,
concentrating on the difficulties of implementing irregular problems.
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