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- From: chk@rice.edu (Charles Koelbel)
- Newsgroups: comp.compilers
- Subject: High Performance Fortran - Request for Comments
- Keywords: performance,Fortran
- Message-ID: <92-11-028@comp.compilers>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 20:11:15 GMT
- Article-I.D.: comp.92-11-028
- Sender: compilers-sender@iecc.cambridge.ma.us
- Reply-To: chk@rice.edu (Charles Koelbel)
- Organization: Rice University
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- Approved: compilers@iecc.cambridge.ma.us
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- REQUEST FOR PUBLIC COMMENT ON HIGH PERFORMANCE FORTRAN
-
-
- Invitation:
-
- The High Performance Fortran Forum (HPFF), with participation from over 40
- organizations, has been meeting for the last ten months to discuss and
- define a set of extensions to Fortran called High Performance Fortran
- (HPF). Our goal is to address the problems of writing data parallel
- programs for architectures where the distribution of data impacts
- performance. While we hope that the HPF extensions become widely
- available, HPFF is not sanctioned or supported by any official standards
- organization. At this time, HPFF invites general public review comments on
- the initial version of the language draft.
-
- The HPF language specification, version 0.4, is now available. This
- document contains all the technical features proposed for the language. We
- plan that version 1.0 of the HPF document will be available after mid
- December. This version will be primarily an editorial improvement of
- version 0.4, based on suggestions from public comment.
-
- HPFF invites comments on the technical content of HPF, as well as on the
- editorial presentation in the document. We ask that editorial comments on
- version 0.4 be submitted before December 5 to allow incorporation into
- version 1.0. After that, please base comments on form on version 1.0 if
- possible. Comments on technical content may pertain to either version.
-
-
- How to Get the Documents:
-
- Electronic copies of the HPF language specification are available from
- numerous sources.
-
- Anonymous FTP sources: Directory:
- titan.cs.rice.edu public/HPFF/draft
- think.com public/HPFF
- ftp.gmd.de hpf-europe
- theory.tc.cornell.edu pub
- minerva.npac.syr.edu public
-
- Email sources: First line of message:
- netlib@research.att.com send hpf-vxx.ps from hpff
- netlib@ornl.gov send hpf-vxx.ps from hpf
- softlib@cs.rice.edu send hpf-vxx.ps
-
- The following formats are available (xx will be 04 or 10, depending on
- version). Note that not all formats are available from all sources.
- hpf-vxx.dvi DVI file
- hpf-vxx.ps Postscript
- hpf-vxx.ps.Z Compressed Postscript
- hpf-vxx.tar Tar file of LaTeX version
- hpf-vxx.tar.Z Compressed tar file
-
- For more detailed instructions, send email to hpff-info@cs.rice.edu. This
- will return a message with expanded detail about accessing the above
- document sources, as well as other information about HPFF.
-
- We strongly encourage reviewers to obtain an electronic copy of the
- document. However, if electronic access is impossible the draft is also
- available in hard copy form as CRPC Technical Report #92225. This report is
- available for $50 (copying/handling fee) from:
-
- Theresa Chatman
- CITI/CRPC, Box 1892
- Rice University
- Houston, TX 77251
-
- Make checks payable to Rice University. This document will be sent surface
- mail unless additional airmail postage is included in the payment.
-
-
- How to Submit Comments:
-
- HPFF encourages reviewers to submit comments as soon as possible, with a
- deadline of February 15 for consideration. Please do not submit comments
- for any version of the draft earlier than the 0.4 version.
-
- Please send comments by email to hpff-comments@cs.rice.edu. To facilitate
- the processing of comments we request that separate comment messages be
- submitted for each chapter of the document and that the chapter be clearly
- identified in the "Subject:" line of the message. Comments about general
- overall impressions of the HPF document should be labeled as Chapter 1. All
- comments on the language specification become the property of Rice
- University.
-
- If email access is impossible for comment responses, hard copy may be sent
- to
-
- HPF Comments
- c/o Theresa Chatman
- CITI/CRPC, Box 1892
- Rice University
- Houston, TX 77251
-
- HPFF plans to process the feedback received at a meeting in March. Best
- efforts will be made to reply to comments submitted.
-
-
- Sincerely,
-
-
- Charles Koelbel
- Rice University
- HPFF Executive Director
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