High Performance Fortran

• Introduction to Parallel Processing
  • Parallel Processing
  • Processor Configurations
  • Parallel Programs
• Introduction to High Performance Fortran
  • History of High Performance Fortran (HPF)
  • The Concept of HPF
  • SPMD Model
  • Processor Communications
• Data Distribution
  • HPF and Data Parallelism
  • Fortran 90 features in High Performance Fortran
  • Language Covered
  • HPF Directives
  • PROCESSORS Declaration
  • DISTRIBUTE Directive
  • Block Distribution
  • Cyclic Distribution
  • 2D Distribution Example
  • Visualisation of * Distribution
  • Commentary
  • Distribution of Allocatables
  • The Owner-Computes Rule
  • Scalar Variables
  • Examples of Good Distributions
  • Successive Over Relaxation Example
  • Other Mappings
  • HPF Programming Issues
  • HPF Programming Issues II
  • HPFacts
• Alignment and Distribution
  • More Distributions
  • 2D Example
  • Alignment
  • Alignment Syntax
  • Example and Visualisation
  • Simple 2D Alignment Example
  • Visualisation of Simple Alignment Example
  • Transposed Alignment Example
  • Visualisation of Transposed Alignment Example
  • Strided Alignment Example
  • Reverse Strided Alignment Example
  • Practical Example of Alignment
  • Aligning Allocatable Arrays
  • Example
  • Other Pitfalls
  • Collapsing Dimensions
  • Replicating Dimensions
  • Gaussian Elimination - 2D Grid
  • Visualisation of 2D Gaussian Elimination
  • New HPF Intrinsics
  • Template Syntax
  • Simple Template Example
  • Alternative Template Syntax
  • Another Template Example
  • Visualisation
  • Alignment and Distribution of Templates
  • Aligning to a Template Section
  • Aligning Scalars
  • Explicit Replication Using Templates
• Data Parallel Execution
  • Data Parallel Execution
  • Forall Statement
  • Forall Examples
  • Execution Process
  • Do-loops and Forall Statements
  • Forall Construct
  • Pure Procedures
  • Pure Procedures
  • Pure Function Example
  • Pure Subroutine Example
  • MIMD Example
  • The INDEPENDENT Directive
  • Independent Loops - Conditions
  • Independent Example 1
  • Visualisation of Independent Loop
  • Independent Example 2
  • INDEPENDENT NEW Loops
  • New Variables - Conditions
  • New Variables Example 1
  • Visualisation of New Variables Example 1
  • New Variables Example 2
• Input and Output
  • Input and Output
• Procedures
  • HPF Procedure Interfaces
  • Mapping and Procedures
  • Prescriptive Distribution
  • Descriptive Distribution
  • Examples of Dummy Distributions
  • Consequences
  • Templates and Modules
  • Problems with Modules
  • Interfaces
  • Aligning to Dummy Arguments
  • Mapping Function Results
  • Argument Remapping
  • Explicit Intent
  • Passing Array Sections
  • Array Arguments Example 1
  • Array Arguments Example 2
  • Collapsing Dimensions
  • Scalar Arguments
  • Processors Problem
  • A Possible Solution
  • The Next Problem
• Extrinsics
  • Extrinsic Procedures
  • Extrinsic Procedure Example
  • Extrinsic Example Continued
  • Extrinsic Example Continued
  • Extrinsic Example Continued
  • Rules for Extrinsic Procedures
  • Uses of Extrinsics
  • Extrinsic instead of INDEPENDENT
  • Calls to the NAG Library
• HPF Intrinsics and Library
  • New Intrinsics in HPF
  • HPF Library Module
  • Mapping Inquiry Subroutines
  • Example of Mapping Inquiry Procedures
  • New HPF Reduction Functions
  • Example of New Reduction Functions
  • Bit Manipulation Functions
  • Array Combining Scatter Functions
  • Array Combining Scatter Functions II
  • Prefix and Suffix Functions
  • Prefix and Suffix Functions II
  • Prefix and Suffix Functions III
  • SEGMENT and EXCLUSIVE
  • Array Sorting Functions
  • Example of Array Sorting Functions
  • Further Example of Array Sorting Functions
• Miscellaneous
  • Storage and Sequence Association
  • Dual Fortran 90 and HPF Codes
  • Full HPF
• Does HPF Work?
  • Performance of HPF Systems
• High Performance Fortran in the Future
  • HPF 2
  • HPF Kernel
• ASCII Collating Sequence
  • The End