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unusual facts about Parallel language


Parallel language

This is different from sequential languages, which attach constraints to all of their keywords and other syntactic constructs, such that only one bit of work is free to be performed at any point as the computation moves forward.



see also

The Portland Group

In the early 1990s PGI was deeply involved in the development of High Performance Fortran, or HPF, a data parallel language extension to Fortran 90 which provides a portable programming interface for a wide variety of architectures.