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ZPL is a parallel programming language that was developed at the University of Washington between 1992 and 2005. ZPL was a contemporary of High Performance Fortran (HPF), targeting a similar class of applications by supporting data parallel computations via operations on global-view arrays distributed between a set of distinct processor memories. ZPL distinguished itself from HPF by providing a less ambiguous execution model, support for first-class index sets, and a syntactic performance model that supported the ability to trivially identify and reason about communication.
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ZPL was initially developed by Lawrence Snyder and Calvin Lin at the University of Washington who strove to design a parallel programming language from first principles. To this end, the ZPL effort began by identifying abstract machine and programming models that would serve as the parallel equivalents of the von Neumann machine model and the...
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Chamberlain, B. (2011). ZPL. In: Padua, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09766-4_510
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