Algorithm 821 swMATH ID: 4471 Software Authors: Hanson, Richard J.; Breshears, Clay P.; Gabb, Henry A. Description: Algorithm 821: A Fortran interface to POSIX threads 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. Homepage: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=569152 Related Software: pthreads Cited in: 1 Publication Standard Articles 1 Publication describing the Software, including 1 Publication in zbMATH Year Algorithm 821: A Fortran interface to POSIX threads. Zbl 1070.65513Hanson, Richard J.; Breshears, Clay P.; Gabb, Henry A. 2002 Cited by 3 Authors 1 Breshears, Clay P. 1 Gabb, Henry A. 1 Hanson, Richard J. Cited in 1 Serial 1 ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software Cited in 1 Field 1 Numerical analysis (65-XX) Citations by Year