Task Parallelism and High-Performance Languages

  • Authors:
  • Ian Foster

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Parallel & Distributed Technology: Systems & Technology
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

High Performance Fortran currently lacks support for explicit task parallelism.This article explains why task parallelism is important, and describes one candidate task-parallel model: the Fortran M extensions to Fortran 77.