Digital
Digital Equipment Corporation
(COMPAQ) has announced DEC Fortran 90/High Performance Fortran,
which is a native Fortran 90/HPF compiler that includes support for
parallel execution. DEC Fortran 90 supports all standard FORTRAN 77
and Fortran 90 programs for standard serial execution, as well as
HPF programs for parallel execution. Message passing for parallel
programs is provided by Digital's PSE (Parallel Software Environment),
a transparent run-time environment which provides optimized message
passing for HPF. Digital claims HPF performance comparable to hand-tuned PVM (Parallel Virtual
Machine) code in a wide range of cases.
This is their present Fortran
Website.
For parallel execution, a package including DEC Fortran 90 together
with Digital's PSE is available for Alpha systems running Digital
UNIX (OSF/1). For serial execution, DEC Fortran 90 is available
for Alpha systems running either Digital UNIX (OSF/1) or OpenVMS.
Since I have access to a Digital UNIX system from February 1996,
I have now written a special document on Digital
UNIX.
DIGITAL Fortran V5.1 includes full support for Fortran 95.
The following electronic document is available:
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