Karl Solchenbach
Pallas GmbH, Hermülheimer Str. 10, D-50321 Brühl, Germany
karls@pallas.de
This talk will give an overview of the PHAROS project (ESPRIT project 20162), whose aim was to assess High Performance Fortran (HPF) as a paradigm for porting large Fortran 77 applications to distributed memory architecures, in comparison to message-passing programming.
The PHAROS project has also assessed the various tools and compilers that were used for the HPF code development, compilation, debugging and performance analysis. User feedback comprised porting effort, application performance, and reports on the portability and maintainability that were experienced on different platforms.