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

[Van Snyder]

On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 14:15 -0600, Craig Rasmussen wrote:
> 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.

It's a joint meeting, both WG5 and J3, so submit the paper as an
ordinary J3 paper -- unless you want it to be a WG5 paper, in which case
you ought to send it to John Reid.

> 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.

Most of the "Description" paragraph in your proposed function
definitions ought to be in a "Result Value" paragraph, and you need an
"Example" or "Examples" paragraph.

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