Asset description file for Pfortran and PC Translators


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BIDM.Asset.Abstract PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The Pfortran programming approach eases the task of writing parallel programs for massively parallel computers by providing constructs to coordinate non-local memory accesses. At Pfortran's center is an operator that specifies the location of off-processor variables and an operator for aggregate operations. Portability and ease of programming are achieved by unifying off-processor accesses with the guarded-memory model. Because the programmer writes low-level node code with Pfortran, the loss in performance compared to using the lowest-level primitives is typically negligible. A number of well-known computational chemistry programs parallelized with Pfortran are now in production use on massively parallel computers, with several research groups now contributing to the ongoing development. Recently, a prototype of PC++ has been developed, with further refinements to the P-language concept. META
BIDM.Asset.ContactIs.Organization http://www.nhse.org/rib/repositories/npaci_pte/objects/Organization/ridgway_scott.html LINK
BIDM.Asset.DateOfInformation Mon Jul 13 15:41:12 1998 META
BIDM.Asset.Domain Parallel Processing Tools!Parallel Programming Languages and Compilers META
BIDM.Asset.Name Pfortran and PC Translators META
BIDM.Asset.TargetEnvironment MPPs and networks of workstations with MPI or PVM, such as SGIs, PC clusters and so on, along with the Intel iPSC and Paragon, and the IBM SP2. META
BIDM.Asset.Version 2.0 META
BIDM.Asset.VersionDate 8/31/98 META