NASA NTRS · 19890012166
A language comparison for scientific computing on MIMD architectures
Abstract
Choleski's method for solving banded symmetric, positive definite systems is implemented on a multiprocessor computer using three FORTRAN based parallel programming languages, the Force, PISCES and Concurrent FORTRAN. The capabilities of the language for expressing parallelism and their user friendliness are discussed, including readability of the code, debugging assistance offered, and expressiveness of the languages. The performance of the different implementations is compared. It is argued that PISCES, using the Force for medium-grained parallelism, is the appropriate choice for programming Choleski's method on the multiprocessor computer, Flex/32.
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Jones, Mark T., Patrick, Merrell L., Voigt, Robert G.. 1989-01-01. A language comparison for scientific computing on MIMD architectures. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19890012166
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