From: chk@rice.edu (Charles Koelbel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: How to get the HPF Language Specification
Date: 28 Sep 92 21:56:39 GMT
Reply-To: chk@rice.edu (Charles Koelbel)
Organization: Rice University
Originator: chk@erato.cs.rice.edu


The most recent draft of the High Performance Fortran Language 
Specification is version 0.2, dated September 9, 1992.  See "Version 
History" below for a description of the changes.

How to Get the High Performance Fortran Language Specification
==============================================================

There are three ways to get a copy of the draft:

	1. Anonymous FTP: The most recent draft is available on 
	   titan.cs.rice.edu in the directory public/HPFF/draft.  Several files 
	   are kept there, including compressed Postscript files of previous 
	   versions of the draft.  The most current version of this draft is 
	   0.2, which can be retrieved as a tar file containing LaTeX source 
	   (draft-v02.tar) or in Postscript format (draft-v02.ps); both of these 
	   are also available as compressed files.

	2. Electronic mail: The most recent draft is available from the Softlib
	   server at Rice University.  This can be accessed in two ways:
	     A. Send electronic mail to softlib@cs.rice.edu with "send 
		    draft-v02.ps" in the message body. The report is sent as a 
			Postscript file.
	     B. Send electronic mail to softlib@cs.rice.edu with "send 
		    draft-v02.tar.Z" in the message body. The report is sent as a 
			uuencodeded compressed tar file containing LaTeX source.
	   (In both cases, the reply is sent as several messages to avoid mailer 
	   restrictions; edit the message bodies together to obtain the whole 
	   file.)  The same files can be obtained from David Loveman 
	   (loveman@mpsg.enet.dec.com) and Chuck Koelbel (chk@cs.rice.edu), but 
	   replies will take longer because real people have to answer the mail.

	3. Hardcopy: The most recent draft is available as technical report 
	   CRPC-TR 92225 from the Center for Research on Parallel Computation at 
	   Rice University.  Send requests to
	       Theresa Chapman
		   CITI/CRPC, Box 1892
		   Rice University
		   Houston, TX 77251
	   There is a charge of $4.00 for this report to cover copying and 
	   mailing costs.

Disclaimers
===========

A few caveats about the HPF draft:

	A. The current version contains much material that has not been 
	   formally approved, and in some places contains mutually exclusive 
	   alternatives that are under consideration.  It should not be 
	   considered "official" in any real sense.

	B. Changes will be fairly frequent until at least December 1992.  New 
	   versions will be announced on the HPFF mailing list and in the 
	   newsgroups comp.parallel, comp.lang.misc, and comp.lang.fortran.

	C. Please address any questions, comments, or possible inconsistencies 
	   in the draft to the person(s) in charge of the chapter concerned, 
	   with a copy to David Loveman (loveman@mpsg.enet.dec.com).  

	D. General comments can be sent to David Loveman 
	   (loveman@mpsg.enet.dec.com) with a copy to the HPFF working group 
	   (hpff-core@cs.rice.edu).  

Version History
===============

Version 0.1:
August 14, 1992
EXTREMELY preliminary version.  

First collection of the proposals active in the High Performance Fortran 
Forum.  Established much of the outline for later documents, and 
represented most decisions made through the July HPFF meeting.


Version 0.2:
September 9, 1992
Version discussed at the September 10-11 HPFF meeting

Changes:
General cleaning up of version 0.1.
Inclusion of most new proposals at that time.
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran