Parallel Fortran

Parallel Fortran

(language)
(Pfortran) Extensions to Fortran by Ridgway Scott <scott@uh.edu> of Houston University. Pfortran provides a shared memory SIMD model on message passing computers.

It was under development in 1994.

["Pfortran: A Parallel Dialect of Fortran", L.R. Scott, Fortran Forum 11(3):20-31, Sep 1992].
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