Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: lga@sma.ch (Laurent Gasser)
Subject: [ANN] Fortran 90 interface to PVM 3.3.11
Organization: Swiss Meteorological Institute
Date: 2 Jun 1997 13:54:18 GMT
Message-ID: <5mujaa$s5t$1@dbs1.sma.ch>

     Fortran 90 interface to PVM 3.3.11

This interface brings the advantage of Fortran 90 to PVM users.  Overloading
suppresses all arguments specifying the type, intrinsics on arrays determines
the array dimensions, and intent on arguements insure avoid unexpected data
corruptions.  In all cases, the stronger type checking means a safer program.

The interface is composed of four modules, which are wrappers above the regular
Fortran 77 calls.  It has been successfully used on Sun Solaris 2.4 and SGI-CRAY 
J90.  A sample code does a basic Ping-Pong performance measure on the five
types (with default kind) of Fortran 90: integer, real, complex, logical, character.

This results from the CLUMET project at the Swiss Meteorological Institute, where
the numerical weather forecasting model is adapted to MPP architectures with PVM.
The interface is freely downloadable from the Oak Ridge PVM site.

  http://www.epm.ornl.gov/pvm/pvm_home.html

-- 
Laurent Gasser (lga@sma.ch)
Computers do not solve problems, they execute solutions.