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Technical development for HPF 1.0 was carried out by subgroups, and was reviewed by the full committee. Many people served in positions of responsibility:
Geoffrey Fox convened the first HPFF meeting with Ken Kennedy and later led a group to develop benchmarks for HPF. Clemens-August Thole organized a group in Europe and was instrumental in making this an international effort. Charles Koelbel produced detailed meeting minutes that were invaluable to subgroup heads in preparing successive revisions to the draft proposal. Guy Steele developed LaTeX macros for a variety of tasks, including formatting BNF grammar, Fortran code and pseudocode, and commentary material; the document would have been much less aesthetically pleasing without his efforts.
Many companies, universities, and other entities supported their employees' attendance at the HPFF meetings, both directly and indirectly. The following organizations were represented at two or more meetings by the following individuals (not including those present at the first HPFF meeting in January of 1992, for which there is no accurate attendee list):
| Alliant Computer Systems Corporation | David Reese |
| Amoco Production Company | Jerrold Wagener, Rex Page |
| Applied Parallel Research | John Levesque, Rony Sawdayi, Gene Wagenbreth |
| Archipel | Jean-Laurent Philippe |
| CONVEX Computer Corporation | Joel Williamson |
| Cornell Theory Center | David Presberg |
| Cray Research, Inc. | Tom MacDonald, Andy Meltzer |
| Digital Equipment Corporation | David Loveman |
| Fujitsu America | Siamak Hassanzadeh, Ken Muira |
| Fujitsu Laboratories | Hidetoshi Iwashita |
| GMD-I1.T, Sankt Augustin | Clemens-August Thole |
| Hewlett Packard | Maureen Hoffert, Tin-Fook Ngai, Richard Schooler |
| IBM | Alan Adamson, Randy Scarborough, Marc Snir, Kate Stewart |
| Institute for Computer Applications in Science & Engineering | Piyush Mehrotra |
| Intel Supercomputer Systems Division | Bob Knighten |
| Lahey Computer | Lev Dyadkin, Richard Fuhler, Thomas Lahey, Matt Snyder |
| Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Mary Zosel |
| Los Alamos National Laboratory | Ralph Brickner, Margaret Simmons |
| Louisiana State University | J. Ramanujam |
| MasPar Computer Corporation | Richard Swift |
| Meiko, Inc. | James Cownie |
| nCUBE, Inc. | Barry Keane, Venkata Konda |
| Ohio State University | P. Sadayappan |
| Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology | Robert Babb II |
| The Portland Group, Inc. | Vince Schuster |
| Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science | Robert Schreiber |
| Rice University | Ken Kennedy, Charles Koelbel |
| Schlumberger | Peter Highnam |
| Shell | Don Heller |
| State University of New York at Buffalo | Min-You Wu |
| SunPro and Sun Microsystems | Prakash Narayan, Douglas Walls |
| Syracuse University | Alok Choudhary, Tom Haupt |
| TNO-TU Delft | Edwin Paalvast, Henk Sips |
| Thinking Machines Corporation | Jim Bailey, Richard Shapiro, Guy Steele |
| United Technologies Corporation | Richard Shapiro |
| University of Stuttgart | Uwe Geuder, Bernhard Woerner, Roland Zink |
| University of Southampton | John Merlin |
| University of Vienna | Barbara Chapman, Hans Zima |
| Yale University | Marina Chen, Aloke Majumdar |
Many people contributed sections to the final language specification and HPF Journal of Development, including Alok Choudhary, Geoffrey Fox, Tom Haupt, Maureen Hoffert, Ken Kennedy, Robert Knighten, Charles Koelbel, David Loveman, Piyush Mehrotra, John Merlin, Tin-Fook Ngai, Rex Page, Sanjay Ranka, Robert Schreiber, Richard Shapiro, Marc Snir, Matt Snyder, Guy Steele, Richard Swift, Min-You Wu, and Mary Zosel. Many others contributed shorter passages and examples and corrected errors.
Because public input was encouraged on electronic mailing lists, it is impossible to identify all who contributed to discussions; the entire mailing list was over 500 names long. Following are some of the active participants in the HPFF process not mentioned above:
| N. Arunasalam | Werner Assmann | Marc Baber |
| Babak Bagheri | Basanth Bala | Jason Behm |
| Peter Belmont | Mike Bernhardt | Keith Bierman |
| Christian Bishof | John Bolstad | William Camp |
| Duane Carbon | Richard Carpenter | Brice Cassenti |
| Doreen Cheng | Mark Christon | Fabien Coelho |
| Robert Corbett | Bill Crutchfield | J. C. Diaz |
| James Demmel | Alan Egolf | Bo Einarsson |
| Pablo Elustondo | Robert Ferrell | Rhys Francis |
| Hans-Hermann Frese | Steve Goldhaber | Brent Gorda |
| Rick Gorton | Robert Halstead | Reinhard von Hanxleden |
| Hiroki Honda | Carol Hoover | Steven Huss-Lederman |
| Ken Jscobsen | Elaine Jacobson | Behm Jason |
| Alan Karp | Ronan Knobe | David Kotz |
| Ross Knippe | Bruce Knobe | David Kotz |
| Ed Krall | Tom Lake | Peter Lawrence |
| Bryan Lawver | Bruce Leasure | Stewart Levin |
| David Levine | Theodore Lewis | Woody Lichtenstein |
| Ruth Lovely | Doug MacDonald | Raymond Man |
| Stephen Mark | Philippe Marquet | Jeanne Martin |
| Oliver McBryan | Charlie McDowell | Michael Metcalf |
| Charles Mosher | Len Moss | Lenore Mullin |
| Yoichi Muraoka | Bernie Murray | Vicki Newton |
| Dale Nielsen | Kayutov Nikolay | Steve O'Neale |
| Jeff Painter | Cherri Pancake | Harvey Richardson |
| Bob Riley | Kevin Robert | Ron Schmucker |
| J. L. Schonfelder | Doug Scofield | David Serafini |
| G. M. Sigut | Anthony Skjellum | Niraj Srivastava |
| Paul St. Pierre | Nick Stanford | Mia Stephens |
| Jaspal Subhlok | Xiaobai Sun | Hanna Szoke |
| Bernard Touranchean | Anna Tsao | Alex Vasilevsky |
| Stephen Vavasis | Arthur Veen | Brian Wake |
| Ji Wang | Karen Warren | D. C. B. Watson |
| Matthijis van Waverem | Robert Weaver | Fred Webb |
| Stephen Whitley | Michael Wolfe | Fujio Yamamoto |
| Marco Zagha |
The following organizations made the language draft available by anonymous FTP access and/or mail servers: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Cornell Theory Center, GMD-I1.T (Sankt Augustin), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Rice University, Syracuse University, and Thinking Machines Corporation. These outlets were instrumental in distributing the document.
The High Performance Fortran Forum also received a great deal of volunteer effort in nontechnical areas. Theresa Chatman and Ann Redelfs were responsible for most of the meeting planning and organization, including the first HPFF meeting, which drew over 125 people. Shaun Bonton, Rachele Harless, Rhonda Perales, Seryu Patel, and Daniel Swint helped with many logistical details. Danny Powell spent a great deal of time handling the financial details of the project. Without these people, it is unlikely that HPF would have been completed.
HPFF operated on a very tight budget (in reality, it had no budget when the first meeting was announced). The first meeting in Houston was entirely financed from the conferences budget of the Center for Research on Parallel Computation, an NSF Science and Technology Center. DARPA and NSF have supported research at various institutions that have made a significant contribution towards the development of High Performance Fortran. Their sponsored projects at Rice, Syracuse, and Yale Universities were particularly influential in the HPFF process. Support for several European participants was provided by ESPRIT through projects P6643 (PPPE) and P6516 (PREPARE).
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