History of High Performance Fortran (HPF)

The High Performance Fortran Forum (HPFF)

• is an informal group formed at Supercomputing '91,
• produced a draft standard was circulated in Nov '92.
• communicated mainly by Email.

Their objectives were to design a language which:

1. supports data parallel programming,
2. obtains top performance on MIMD and SIMD,
3. supports code tuning.

The project was considered to be a success.

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