(j3.2006) (SC22WG5.5142) From WG9 minutes

[Bill Long]

On 12/10/13 5:24 PM, David Muxworthy wrote:
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> On 10 Dec 2013, at 09:35, Nick wrote:
>
>> As I have said before, I don't think that it is a feasible objective,
>> as there are several fundamentally different models involved, but I do
>> agree that studying the issue is a good idea.
>
> WG21 (C++) are doing that too.  They have a New Work Item Proposal to
> SC22 (SC22 N4857, voting deadline January 27) entitled ?C++ Extensions
> for Parallelism?.  The scope is to extend the 2011 standard with
> "types and features related to parallelism?, but they are making haste
> slowly.
>
> The purpose and justification is:
>
>      The purpose of this Technical Specification is to provide a
>      reference for existing practice to gain experience with the
>      design and pave the way for eventual standardization of this
>      functionality in a future revision of the C++ standard
>      itself. Specific design questions that are still being explored,
>      thus making this not yet suitable for an IS, include (but are not
>      limited to): how to express parallel and vector operations in an
>      extended Standard Template Library style of composable
>      containers, iterators, and algorithms.

If they are interested, Cray can supply information about  coarrays for 
C++ implemented in just this way.  Or they can see the proceedings from 
the 2013 PGAS conference.   For those in Scotland, you can visit David 
Henty at EPCC who gave the talk on this subject at PGAS.

Cheers,
Bill

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