HPF Workshop
                              
                 organized by GMD and PALLAS

         Location: GMD, C3-T36, D-53757 St. Augustin
                              
                 Date: December 8 - 9, 1994



                         Background

High  Performance Fortran (HPF) is the new standard for  data
parallel  programming.  After the release  of  the  standard,
several  HPF  compilers  have  been  announced  from  various
hardware  vendors  and independent software companies,  among
them the Portland Group, Inc. (PGI). Currently, however,  HPF
is  not  much  used  for  software  developments  in  Europe.
Software  developers are not sure to which extent codes  with
complex  and  irregular data structures  can  be  implemented
using   the  data  parallel  paradigm.  Moreover,  many   HPF
compilers suffer from being incomplete and immature.



                          Contents

The  workshop  will  inform  about  the  background  of  HPF,
describe  its  scope  and  clarify  its  limits.  Application
examples coded in HPF will be discussed and compared to their
message-passing counterparts. The participants will have  the
opportunity to use the HPF compiler from PGI on a workstation
cluster.  In  addition  to  the  examples  prepared  by   the
speakers,  the  participants  are  encouraged  to  bring  own
(small) HPF codes.



                  Registration and Contact

No registration fee is charged. For more information and
reservation please contact

PALLAS GmbH                                   +49-2232-1896-10
Hermuelheimer Strasse                         +49-2232-1896-29
D-50321 Bruehl                             info@pallas-gmbh.de

                              
                           Agenda



December 8:

11.00      Opening and welcome           Prof. Dr. Ulrich Trottenberg (GMD)

11.15      Rationale and history of HPF  Clemens-August Thole (GMD)

11.45      The HPF standard              Dr. Thomas Brandes (GMD)


12.45      L U N C H


14.00      The PGHPF compiler            Vince Schuster (Portland Group)
           with demonstration

16.00      Experience with HPF           Dr. Hans Plum (PALLAS)
           Applications

16.45      Hands-on-session Part I

19.30      D I N N E R



December 9:

09.00      Experience report from GMD    Dr. Thomas Brandes (GMD)

09.30      Hands-on-session Part II

11.00      A look beyond HPF             Dr. Barbara Chapman
                                         (University of Vienna)

11.45      Discussion

12.30      End of the Workshop / L U N C H