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Overview | Downloads | Compatibility | Prerequisites | Installation | Getting Started | Contributing | Status Support | Acknowledgments | Donate
</div>Overview
OpenCoarrays supports the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) Fortran compiler
(gfortran
) by providing a parallel application binary interface (ABI) that
abstracts away the underlying communication library. OpenCoarrays thus enables
gfortran
to support Fortran's parallel programming features, often called
"Coarray Fortran," without making direct reference to the back-end communication
library: the Message Passing Interface (MPI). This ensures that Fortran
programs and Fortran compilers may take advantage of other communication
libraries without costly refactoring. Work is underway on the Caffeine
project to support alternative communication libraries and alternative compilers
by defining a compiler-independent parallel ABI atop the GASNet-EX exascale
networking middleware.
OpenCoarrays provides a compiler wrapper (caf
), a parallel runtime library
(libcaf_mpi
), and a program launcher (cafrun
). The wrapper and launcher
provide a uniform abstraction for compiling and executing Coarray Fortran
without direct reference to the underlying MPI layer.
Downloads
Please see our Releases page.
Compatibility
The OpenCoarrays ABI was adopted by gfortran
in release the GCC 5.1.0 release
and gfortran
continues to work with OpenCoarrays as of this writing.
Prerequisites
Building OpenCoarrays requires
- An MPI implementation,
- CMake, and
- The GCC C and Fortran compilers:
gcc
andgfortran
.
If you use a package manager or the OpenCoarrays installer, any missing prerequisites will be built for you.
Installation
Please see the INSTALL.md file.
Or try OpenCoarrays online as a Jupyter notebook kernel using Binder with no downloads, configuration or installation required. The default index.ipynb notebook is read only, but you can execute it, copy it to make changes, or create an entirely new CAF kernel notebook.
Packaged Version
If you would like to be able to install OpenCoarrays through your favorite package manager, please ask them to add it, or contribute it yourself. If you see your favorite package manager has an outdated version, please ask them to update it, or contribute an update yourself.
Getting Started
To start using OpenCoarrays, please see the GETTING_STARTED.md file.
Contributing
Please see the CONTRIBUTING.md file.
Status
A list of open issues can be viewed on the issues page.
Support
Please submit bug reports and feature requests via our Issues page.
Acknowledgments
We gratefully acknowledge support from the following institutions:
- The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for funding the work that led to support for
- the Windows operating system,
- the
random_init
subroutine, and co_broadcast
of derived-type objects withallocatable
components.
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA for funding the work that led to
support for the
co_broadcast
of derived-type objects. - Arm for approving compiler engineer contributions of code.
- National Center for Atmospheric Research for access to the Yellowstone/Caldera supercomputers and for logistics support during the initial development of OpenCoarrays.
- CINECA for access to Eurora/PLX for the project HyPS- BLAS under the ISCRA grant program for 2014.
- Google for support of a related Google Summer of Code 2014 project.
- The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), which is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231, for access to the Hopper and Edison supercomputers under the OpenCoarrays project start allocation.
- Archaeologic Inc. for financial support for the domain registration, web hosting, advanced development, and conference travel.
Donate
If you find this software useful, please consider donating your time or your money to aid in development efforts.
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