High Performance Fortran 2.0

High Performance Fortran (HPF) is an informal standard for extensions to Fortran to assist its implementation on parallel architectures, particularly for data-parallel computation. Among other things, it includes directives for expressing data distribution across multiple memories, extra facilities for expressing data parallel and concurrent execution, and a mechanism for interfacing HPF to other languages and programming models. This paper provides a comprehensive tutorial introduction to HPF 2.0, the latest version of the HPF standard which was published in early 1997. It also outlines the history of the HPF language development and lists some World Wide Web sites where information about HPF compilers and tools, tutorials, codes and projects can be found.