OPTIMIZING HPF FOR ADVANCED APPLICATIONS

The Esprit HPF+ project aims to improve the current version of High Pe rformance Fortran and related compiler technology by extending the fun ctionality of the language and developing optimizing compilation strat egies, depending on the requirements of a set of advanced industrial c odes from diverse application areas like crash-worthiness simulation, computational fluid dynamics and weather forecasting. All these applic ations can be characterized by the need to distribute data in an irreg ular manner and dynamically balance the computational load of the proc essors. This paper focuses on the HPF+ language extensions and the rel ated compiler and runtime technology which is implemented in the Vienn a Fortran Compilation System, a source-to-source parallelization syste m for HPF and its predecessor Vienna Fortran.