High Performance Fortran Forum II
Charles Koelbel
HIGH PERFORMANCE FORTRAN FORUM II
KICKOFF MEETING
January 13-14, 1994
Wyndham Greenspoint Hotel
Houston, Texas
In 1992, the High Performance Fortran Forum (HPFF) conducted a series
of meetings that led to the definition of High Performance Fortran
(HPF). The HPF language has elicited wide comment, both positive and
negative, and several vendors are now implementing compilers. In
order to reach consensus on the language features, several important
capabilities were explicitly not considered; these include parallel
input and output, task parallelism, and support for complex data
structures. Due to these limitations, we are tentatively planning a
new series of HPFF meetings to take place in 1994.
The purpose of the HPFF II kickoff meeting is to decide whether a new
series of meetings is needed and, if so, what the scope of the new HPF
should be. To this end, presentations by vendors, users, and
researchers will consider experience with current HPF prototypes and
needs for the future. The following speakers have been
confirmed:
Geoffrey Fox, Syracuse University
John Levesque, Applied Parallel Research
David Loveman, DEC
Rob Schreiber, RIACS
Guy Steele, Thinking Machines
Joel Saltz, University of Maryland
Henk Sips, Technical University Delft
Speakers TBA, IBM & Portland Group Inc.
Several other speakers are tentatively planned.
The tentative schedule is:
January 12 7:00pm-9:00pm Opening reception
January 13 8:30am-5:00pm Vendor & user talks; discussion
January 14 8:30am-noon User & research talks; planning for future
The meeting will be held at:
Wyndham Greenspoint Hotel
12400 Greenspoint Drive
Houston, TX 77060
Phone: 1-800-822-4200
Fax: 713-875-4596
There will be a courtesy van from the airport to the hotel. A block
of rooms has been reserved for the nights of January 12-14 at the rate
of $70.00 per night. Please make your reservations directly with the
hotel before December 29; mention ``HPFF II'' to get the special rate.
The registration cost for the meeting is $75.00. This includes the
reception on January 12, lunch on January 13, coffee breaks, and
copies of the speakers' slides. If you plan to attend, please fill
out and return the form below.
Organizing Committee
Ken Kennedy, HPFF Chair
Charles Koelbel, HPFF I Executive Director
Mary Zosel, HPFF II Executive Director
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High Performance Fortran Forum II
Kickoff Meeting
Registration Form
January 13--14, 1994
Wyndham Greenspoint Hotel
12400 Greenspoint Drive
Houston, Texas 77060
Phone: 1-800-822-4200
Fax: 713-875-4596
Please return this form to
Theresa Chatman
t...@cs.rice.edu
Or send a hardcopy to:
Theresa Chatman
CITI/CRPC, Box 1892
Rice University
Houston, TX 77251-1892
Fax: 713-285-5136
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