High Performance Fortran Seminar


Development of this course has been carried out by the Computing Services Department and is funded by JISC New Technologies Initiative


A Seminar has been developed as an easy introduction to this new de-facto Fortran standard. This course is suitable for those with programming experience in Fortran 90 and gives an introduction to (Subset) High Performance Fortran.

The course covers the following topics: parallel processing; data parallelism; language subset; attributed declarations of HPF objects; array distribution (BLOCK, CYCLIC and *); alignment; collapsed and replicated dimensions; FORALL statements; PURE procedures; INDEPENDENT loops; HPF and Procedures; Extrinsics; HPF Library Module; HPF 2; HPF Kernel; and HPF Resources;


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Currently the only component of the course is the OHP Slides and Lecturers Guide. The Student Notes, Student Exercises and handouts will be available in due course.



The slides and associated matter can be obtained in either of two formats: gzipped postscript (.ps.gz) and (pk)zipped postscript (.ps.zip). Simply click below on the required items:


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This information was last reviewed on 12 May 1997 by hpccourses@liv.ac.uk