ZPL Factoids
Development Milestones
- ZPL design & implementation began in 3/93
- Portability & performance demonstrated 7/94
- Compiler and run-time system released 7/97
Claims
- Portable to any (MIMD) parallel computer
- Performance comparable to C with user specified communication
- Generally out performs High Performance Fortran
- Convenient and intuitive
ZPL is a proper subset of Advanced ZPL