What Should we Expect from Parallel Language Standards?

guage plays a major role in determining the efficiency and reliability of parallel scientific applications (Pancake and Bergmark, 1990). Efforts by computer scientists to introduce new programming languages with integrated support for parallelism have been met with resistance by the user community. Currently, a large majority of parallel applications are written using extended dialects of Fortran or highlevel language interfaces to parallel run-time libraries. The codes typically