A compilation system that integrates high performance Fortran and Fortran M

Conference · Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1994

OSTI ID:10158455

Foster, I; Xu, Ming ^[1]; Avalani, B; Choudhary, A ^[2]

---

1. Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)
2. Syracuse Univ., NY (United States)

Task parallelism and data parallelism are often seen as mutually exclusive approaches to parallel programming. Yet there are important classes of application, for example in multidisciplinary simulation and command and control, that would benefit from an integration of the two approaches. In this paper, we describe a programming system that we are developing to explore this sort of integration. This system builds on previous work on task-parallel and data-parallel Fortran compilers to provide an environment in which the task-parallel language Fortran M can be used to coordinate data-parallel High Performance Fortran tasks. We use an image-processing problem to illustrate the issues that arise when building an integrated compilation system of this sort.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States); National Science Foundation, Washington, DC (United States); Department of Defense, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 10158455
• Report Number(s): ANL/MCS/CP-82973; CONF-9405100-5; ON: DE94013308; CNN: CCR-8809615; DABT63-91-C-0028
• Resource Relation: Conference: Scalable high performance computing conference,Knoxville, TN (United States),23 May 1994; Other Information: PBD: [1994]
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
PARALLEL PROCESSING
FORTRAN
IMAGE PROCESSING
TRANSLATORS
PROGRAMMING
TASK SCHEDULING
PERFORMANCE
990200
MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS