What is a .HPF file?
The .HPF file extension is used for files that are written in High Performance Fortran (HPF). HPF is a special kind of programming language. It is built on top of another language called Fortran 90. What makes HPF special is that it includes extra features or "extensions" that are not found in the standard Fortran 90. These extensions are designed to help programmers take full advantage of modern computer systems that are very powerful and can do a lot of calculations very quickly. These kinds of computer systems are often called high-performance architectures.
To work with .HPF files, you can use a version of Fortran 90 that has been equipped with the pghpf extension. This extension allows the Fortran 90 program to understand and use the special HPF features. If you just want to look at or make small changes to the content of an .HPF file, you can also use a basic text editor. A text editor is a simple program that lets you see and edit the text inside a file.
The rules and features of the HPF language were created by a group called The High Performance Fortran Forum (HPFF). This group decided what extensions to add to Fortran 90 to make HPF useful for high-performance computing tasks.
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