High Performance Fortran Language Specification

processors as a user-declared Cartesian mesh Physical processors ALIGN (static) or REALIGN (dynamic) DISTRIBUTE (static) or REDISTRIBUTE (dynamic) Optional implementationdependent directive The underlying assumptions are that an operation on two or more data objects is likely to be carried out much faster if they all reside in the same processor, and that it may be possible to carry out many such operations concurrently if they can be performed on different processors. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 22 SECTION 3. DATA ALIGNMENT AND DISTRIBUTION DIRECTIVES Fortran 90 provides a number of features, notably array syntax, that make it easy for a compiler to determine that many operations may be carried out concurrently. The HPF directives provide a way to inform the compiler of the recommendation that certain data objects should reside in the same processor: if two data objects a..