From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROM_WORDY, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fd3a5ba6349a6060 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Nick Roberts" Subject: Re: should I be interested in ada? Date: 1999/02/18 Message-ID: <7aganv$qsc$2@plug.news.pipex.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 445600643 References: <7a72e6$g55$1@probity.mcc.ac.uk> <36C93BB4.1429@ecs.soton.ac.uk> <7afc1o$3mi$2@plug.news.pipex.net> <7aftp7$7u5$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Organization: UUNET WorldCom server (post doesn't reflect views of UUNET WorldCom) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com wrote in message <7aftp7$7u5$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>... |In article <7afc1o$3mi$2@plug.news.pipex.net>, | "Nick Roberts" wrote: |> Phil, |> |> (You may be aware) there is a Fortran project (Austrian I |> think) at the moment which can automatically parallelise |> Fortran programs. I don't have the URL, but I'm sure |> someone in comp.lang.fortran will oblige you. Most |> Fortran 90 syntax is supported, I think. | |What a bizarre pointer. There are dozens of such |"projects", and indeed modern Fortran compilers are |expected to do this kind of parallelization, i.e. this |has gone far beyond the research project level, and is |considered standard state of the art in commercial Fortran |compilers. Surely this is a wee bit of an exaggeration? The majority of targets for Fortran compilers are single-processor. I would be amazed if the majority of Fortran compilers available today, commercially or not, were parallelising. I am aware that there are a number of Fortran compilers which parallelise, and have been for many years, but all but one, I believe, only do it for a specific, fairly esoteric target (Crays etc.), thus not being likely, I assume, to be useful to astrologers in general. If my memory serves me, the compiler I am referring to parallelises to a set of Fortran programs which communicate with one another using a standard RPC mechanism, thus making it potentially suitable for use on a cluster or network of VAXen or workstations. This project is an international collaboration, so it may appear that there are dozens of compilers which are all, in fact, the same one (or variants thereof). I was not trying to make a statement on the current state-of-the-art in Fortran compilers, I was trying to give some information that might be useful to the original poster (an astrologer). I did mention in my post that my knowledge of this particular project was limited, and I reiterate it. Indeed, I do not claim to be an expert on this subject, in general. In any event, I will try to find the URL. I hope my comments on comp.lang.ada are not considered unwelcome; it is not my intention to mislead anyone. ------------------------------------- Nick Roberts -------------------------------------