An extension to the INDEPENDENT directive which states that the following DO loop contains a reduction operation. This will allow efficient generation of communications patterns as it maps well to the reduction routines that are found in all message passing subsystems.
The method of declaring an extrinsic has been extended and extrinsic PROGRAM s, MODULE s and BLOCK DATA subprograms can now be specified. HPF, C and FORTRAN are defined as extrinsic keywords.