The Portland Group and NEC to deliver High Performance Fortran (HPF) on NEC's SX

Since 1996, NEC has offered HPF/SX for the SX-4 supercomputer series.NEC has delivered SX Series Multi Node supercomputers, which have a combination of shared and distributed memories, since 1996. Because they are now becoming more common, ease of programming such systems without need to call libraries such as MPI, has become more important to the NEC user base. As a result of this new cooperation with The Portland Group, NEC will offer HPF/SX V2, a highly optimized compiler, that will be available in Q-2, 2000. This product will replace NEC's current HPF/SX.