Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: ukeller@pallas-gmbh.de (Udo Keller)
Subject: PALLAS, PGI cooperate on HPF
Organization: PALLAS GmbH
Date: 29 Apr 94 08:46:36 GMT

Portland Group and PALLAS cooperate on High Performance 
Fortran 

Joint booth at HPCN Europe 1994

The Portland Group, Incorporated (PGI) and PALLAS GmbH have 
announced an agreement to allow PALLAS to distribute and 
provide support and training for PGI's High Performance 
Fortran (HPF) compiler products in Europe. PGI has added to 
its HPF compiler the option to target PARMACS message 
passing library. This feature will give the code developer 
all the power of a data parallel language with the 
potential for low-level tuning. The new products will be 
demonstrated at a joint PGI/PALLAS booth at the High-
Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN) Europe 1994 
conference and exhibition, April 18-20 in Munich.

HPF is a standardized set of extensions to Fortran 90, 
aimed at enabling programmers to improve a program's 
performance on a parallel computer in a machine-
independent, portable manner. HPF is the focus of the High 
Performance Fortran Forum (HPFF), an international 
coalition of industrial and academic groups led by Dr. Ken 
Kennedy (Director) of Rice University and Dr. Geoffrey Fox 
of Syracuse University. This forum has established a goal 
for HPF to provide a single parallel programming model for 
a user to develop his application for a wide variety of 
parallel computing platforms.

PARMACS is the European industry standard message passing 
library which is supplied by PALLAS for nearly all parallel 
computers (distributed memory and shared memory systems) 
and workstation clusters. PARMACS is used by major European 
industrial porting activities, including the RAPS 
consortium and the majority of the recently launched 
Europort projects. On top of PARMACS, tools for performance 
analysis (TraceGen and ParaGraph+) are available for 
analyzing and tuning PARMACS codes.

"PGI is very excited about combining the message passing 
expertise of PALLAS with the parallel compiler technology 
of PGI. I expect this HPF distribution agreement to be the 
first step in a very productive, close relationship with 
PALLAS," commented Vincent Schuster, president of PGI.

PALLAS is Europe's leading independent software company 
specializing in High Performance Computing. PALLAS has 
successfully assisted many organizations in migrating from 
sequential to parallel computing. Customers of PALLAS come 
from all fields; hardware manufacturers, software vendors, 
end users. Each of these has benefited from PALLAS's unique 
experience in the development and tuning of parallel 
applications.

The Portland Group, Inc. was founded in 1989 by a team of 
software developers with extensive experience in developing 
high performance compilers and development tools for the 
supercomputing marketplace. PGI has subsequently become a 
recognized leader in developing compilers and application 
development tools for the high performance computing. PGI 
is the leading supplier of high performance vectorizing and 
parallelizing C and FORTRAN compilers and development tools 
for Intel i860, SuperScalar SPARC and Fujitsu micro vector 
processor (5VP) based scalar and parallel systems. PGI is 
headquartered in Wilsonville, Oregon, USA.

PALLAS - Competence in High Performance Computing
Bruehl, April 18, 1994	

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