Fortran - Re: Will Co-Array Fortran be considered a valuable tool for next-generation

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Re: Will Co-Array Fortran be considered a valuable tool for next-generation

glen herrmannsfeldt

2008-02-22, 4:30 am

Tim Stitt wrote:

> I was just wondering if anyone had any thoughts on the impact
> Partitioned Global Array Space languages (PGAS) such as Co-Array
> Fortran will have for programming productivity on next-generation
> petascale architectures.

Have you looked at ZPL?

Unlike Co-Array Fortran (as I understand it), ZPL does the
partitioning for you. The most common target for ZPL
compiled code is likely MPI, but the language doesn't
assume that.

-- glen

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