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Connection Machine Fortran is a data-parallel version of Fortran developed around 1987 for Connection Machine supercomputers manufactured by Thinking Machines Corporation. It consists essentially of Fortran 77 augmented by array-processing features that had been proposed for Fortran 8x (and were eventually adopted as part of the Fortran 90 and Fortran 95 standards), additional data-parallel intrinsic functions (such as for parallel prefix operations), and data distribution directives. It was one of the parallel Fortran projects that contributed several noteworthy features to the design of High Performance Fortran.
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Connection Machine Fortran (also called CM Fortran) was developed and implemented for the CM-2 and CM-5 models of Connection Machine supercomputer. The language was specified by Thinking Machines Corporation but was initially implemented under contract by Compass, Inc. [1]. (That well-known compiler company, also known as...
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Steele, G.L. (2011). Connection Machine Fortran. In: Padua, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09766-4_522
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