Practical Considerations
The purpose of learning ZPL is to illustrate the fundamental point from the first lecture that a parallel machine model enables one to write programs independent of target machine, yet still have sufficient understanding of their performance to estimate how they will run
Find documentation on the ZPL home page:
www.cs.washington.edu/research/zpl/docs/descriptions/guide.html
ZPL has been installed on orcas/sanjuan