HPF extends Fortran 90 in several areas, including:
In addition to the features that became part of HPF, the HPFF committee
considered and rejected many proposals. Suggestions that the committee
considered particularly promising for future language efforts to pursue
have been collected in a companion document, the HPF Journal of
Development [15]. Section below gives an
overview of this document.
In addition, a subset of HPF suitable for earlier implementation is
defined. The following subsections give short overviews of these areas.