Open-CoArrays for gfortran?

[Alastair McKinstry]

Hi,

has anyone considered building gfortran for Debian with OpenCoarrays?

Fortran as of 2013  is now a PGAS language [2], allowing parallel
programming.  It does this by adding co-arrays, allowing running images
to access images on other nodes/cores directly rather than requiring
MPI, etc. This allows for performance benefits under the hood as the
compiler overlaps computation and communication .

gfortran as built allows this syntatically using libcaf_single, allowing
coarrays to 'work' but not actually in parallel. It can be built using
OpenCoArrays, apparently (I haven't tried this yet), which in turn uses
mpich or openmpi.

Before I submit an ITP, has anyone in Debian investigated this?

best regards
Alastair McKinstry

[1] http://www.opencoarrays.org/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partitioned_global_address_space

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