Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!carroll From: carroll@ssc-vax (Jeff Carroll) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: "Force-90" from Pacific Sierra???? Message-ID: <3877@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: 19 Apr 91 20:32:38 GMT References: <24311@well.sf.ca.us> Sender: news@ssc-vax.UUCP Reply-To: carroll@ssc-vax.UUCP (Jeff Carroll) Distribution: comp Organization: Boeing Aerospace & Electronics Lines: 29 In article <24311@well.sf.ca.us> rchrd@well.sf.ca.us (Richard Friedman) writes: >mccalpin@perelandra.cms.udel.edu (John D. McCalpin) writes: > >>I am looking for some information on a Fortran parallelizer >>called (something like) "Force-90" from Pacific Sierra. >>Anybody out there have any info or experience? >>-- > >Sure do. Its called FORGE. Its a layered product, so >if you get the parallelizer option for hypercubes it becomes >MIMDIZER (dont blame me for that name! %-) If you're interested in a more detailed description of FORGE, check out "A Guide to FORTRAN on Supercomputers" by Levesque and Williamson; should be available at a good engineering library. It goes into a fair amount of detail about FORGE, since it is in large part a thinly disguised application note from PSR (disguised enough that they could charge money for it). disclaimer: I have not used FORGE, or "MIMDIZER"; from what I know about the latter, it might save you a lot of time if you're developing apps for an iPSC. -- Jeff Carroll carroll@ssc-vax.boeing.com "Do you think I care? ... I have an infinite amount of money." -Bill Gates