An Overview of the Fortran D Programming System (1991)
| Venue: | IN PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOURTH WORKSHOP ON LANGUAGES AND COMPILERS FOR PARALLEL COMPUTING |
| Citations: | 66 - 16 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Hiranandani91anoverview,
author = {Seema Hiranandani and Ken Kennedy and Charles Koelbel and Ulrich Kremer and Chau-Wen Tseng},
title = {An Overview of the Fortran D Programming System},
booktitle = {IN PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOURTH WORKSHOP ON LANGUAGES AND COMPILERS FOR PARALLEL COMPUTING},
year = {1991},
publisher = {Springer-Verlag}
}
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Abstract
The success of large-scale parallel architectures is limited by the difficulty of developing machine-independent parallel programs. We have developed Fortran D, a version of Fortran extended with data decomposition specifications, to provide a portable data-parallel programming model. This paper presents the design of two key components of the Fortran D programming system: a prototype compiler and an environment to assist automatic data decomposition. The Fortran D compiler addresses program partitioning, communication generation and optimization, data decomposition analysis, run-time support for unstructured computations, and storage management. The Fortran D programming environment provides a static performance estimator and an automatic data partitioner. We believe that the Fortran D programming system will significantly ease the task of writing machine-independent data-parallel programs.
