Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.parallel.pvm,comp.parallel.mpi
From: adamm@liverpool.ac.uk (Dr A.C. Marshall)
Subject: HPF Courseware (Free)
Keywords: knowledge, HPF
Organization: The University of Liverpool
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 10:25:40 GMT
Message-ID: <Du0Kys.G0t@liverpool.ac.uk>



New HPF Courses
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The Computing Services Department of the  University of Liverpool has 
just finished updating their HPF Courses.  These courses have been 
funded by JISC New Technologies Initiative and are available for 
downloading from URL:

        http://www.liv.ac.uk/HPC/HPFpage.html

The previous incarnation of these courses received good reports - any
feedback on the improved versions is strongly welcomed.


The following text is taken from the above web page:

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There are two main Courses lasting 3 and 5 days and a shorter Seminar. 
The courses comprise OHP Slides, Course Notes, Student Exercises and 
Lecturers Guide.  There is also a set of OHPs for a 40 minute Seminar 
explaining the conversion Fortran 77 codes into HPF. 



        The 5 Day Course is a complete guide to to Fortran 90 / HPF.  This
        course is for programmers who are familliar with a high level 
        language such as C or Pascal.

        The 3 Day Course is designed for the those with programming
        experience in Fortran 90 and who whish to learn the basics 
        of HPF. Each day is divided into two 3 hour sessions: 
        1 hour lecture, 2 hours practical. The course therefore is 
        divided into 6 x 1 hour sessions: Data Parallelism (Introduction), 
        Alignment and Distribution, Forall and Prallel Loops, Procedures, 
        Extrinsic Procedures and Vectorisation and The HPF Library and 
        HPF in the Future.

        The HPF Seminar will give a good introduction to HPF Programminmg.


        The Fortran 77 to HPF Conversion Seminar is designed for the those
        who whish to convert old Fortran 77 into a format suitable for 
        submission to an HPF system. The slides explain some simple 
        conversion productions and give simplistic examples as
        illustrations.

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These courses may be used for non-commercial gain. 



AC Marshall (adamm@liv.ac.uk)

