(j3.2006) Integration of co-arrays with the intrinsic shift functions

[Craig Rasmussen]

I've been talking to code developers and examining codes at Los  
Alamos and I've come across an area that we forgot to integrate with  
co-arrays.  I've written a paper describing the issue but I'm unsure  
of how to submit it since this is a WG5 meeting.

I have identified at least one code at Los Alamos that implements  
global shift functions (nearly identical to the co_cshift and  
co_eoshift intrinsics proposed in the paper) in MPI.  This issue is  
very important to LANL as we are investing heavily in heterogeneous  
processor architectures and the data parallel programming model has  
been identified as one way to manage the complexity of the hardware.

In summary, after thinking about how co-arrays can be used with  
Fortran's array notation, it seems to me that Fortran with the co- 
array additions can provide an ideal platform for a data-parallel  
style of programming.

Regards,
Craig


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