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Towards a lightweight HPF compiler. (English) Zbl 1047.68764

Zima, Hans P. (ed.) et al., High performance computing. 4th international symposium, ISHPC 2002, Kansai Science City, Japan, May 15–17, 2002. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 3-540-43674-X). Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 2327, 526-538 (2002).
Summary: The UXP/V HPF compiler, that has been developed for the VPP series vector-parallel supercomputers, extracts the highest performance from the hardware. However, it is getting difficult for developers to concentrate on a specific hardware. This paper describes a method of developing an HPF compiler for multiple platforms without losing performance. Advantage is taken of existing technology. The code generator and runtime system of VPP Fortran are reused for high-end computers; MPI is employed for general distributed environments, such as a PC cluster. Following a performance estimation on different systems, we discuss effectiveness of the method and open issues.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 0992.68516].

MSC:

68U99 Computing methodologies and applications
68N20 Theory of compilers and interpreters