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Algorithm 821: A Fortran interface to POSIX threads

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Richard J. Hanson,

Clay P. Breshears,

Henry A. GabbAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS), Volume 28, Issue 3

Pages 354 - 371

https://doi.org/10.1145/569147.569152

Published: 01 September 2002 Publication History

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Pthreads is the library of POSIX standard functions for concurrent, multithreaded programming. The POSIX standard only defines an application programming interface (API) to the C programming language, not to Fortran. Many scientific and engineering applications are written in Fortran. Also, many of these applications exhibit functional, or task-level, concurrency. They would benefit from multithreading, especially on symmetric multiprocessors (SMP). We present here an interface to that part of the Pthreads library that is compatible with standard Fortran. The contribution consists of two primary source files: a Fortran module and a collection of C wrappers to Pthreads functions. The Fortran module defines the data structures, interface and initialization routines used to manage threads. The stability and portability of the Fortran API to Pthreads has been demonstrated using common mathematical computations on several SMP systems.

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ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software Volume 28, Issue 3

September 2002

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ISSN:0098-3500

EISSN:1557-7295

DOI:10.1145/569147

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Awile OSbalzarini I(2014)A Pthreads Wrapper for Fortran 2003ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software10.1145/255888940:3(1-15)Online publication date: 1-Apr-2014
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Wagner JJahanpanah ATräff J(2008)User-Land Work Stealing SchedulersProceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems10.1109/CISIS.2008.8(811-816)Online publication date: 4-Mar-2008
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