Thomas Brandes
Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI)
Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (FhG)
Schloß Birlinghoven, D-53754 St. Augustin, Germany
e-mail: brandes@scai.fhg.de
ADAPTOR (Automatic DAta Parallelism TranslatOR) is a public domain High Performance Fortran (HPF) compilation system developed at the SCAI institute of FhG, Germany. It translates data parallel HPF programs into parallel programs using process parallelism with message passing for distributed memory architectures or thread parallelism with synchronization for shared memory architectures. Process and thread parallelism can be utilized together on clusters of shared memory systems. ADAPTOR supports the base language of the lastest language definition HPF 2.0 as well as most of the approved extensions. Additionally, some ADAPTOR specific directives can be used for tuning HPF programs for the different architectures, including vector architectures.
This manual describes the language features which are supported by ADAPTOR and where there are still some restrictions.