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@warning Caffeine is early-stage developmental software with evolving interfaces and functionality.

Documentation

Welcome to the Caffeine documentation. FORD generates this documentation from inline comments, static analysis, and Markdown files. The target audience for Caffeine is Fortran compiler developers. With a fully Caffeinated compiler, Fortran programmers can produce parallel executable files from standard Fortran with no need to directly reference Caffeine or any lower-level communication software.

Philosophy and Motivations

  • Write as much of Caffeine as possible in Fortran:
    • Writing the runtime library in the language of the users increases the likelihood of community contributions.
    • Writing the runtime library in Fortran obviates the need to directly manipulate compiler descriptors throughout much of Caffeine and allows Caffeine's underlying C layer to receive the Fortran-standard CFI_cdesc_t descriptor, which will make it easier to support multiple compilers.
    • Writing most of Caffeine in Fortran offers the potential exploiting Fortran's rich array syntax, concurrent loop iterations (do concurrent), pure procedures and related features. Currently, these play a role only in one place: C callbacks to user-provided, pure functions that can be invoked inside a do concurrent block during the execution of co_reduce.
  • Define an interface that remains agnostic about the back-end communication library:
    • Once multiple back ends are supported, Fortran developers would not have to rewrite or even recompile their programs in order to change back ends. Switching from GASNet-EX to MPI, for example, could become a link-time decision.

Organization

The tree below depicts a skeletal overview of Caffeine's directory structure.

build/ - build directory created by running ./install.sh
  |-- run-fpm.sh - shell script for rebuilding Caffeine or running examples or tests
  |-- * - temporary build files
example/
  |-- hello.f90 - a Caffeinated "Hello, world!" program
  |-- support-test/ - programs invoked by the test suite
src/
  |-- prif.f90 - Module that defines all interfaces in PRIF
  |-- caffeine/
        |-- *_s.f90 - submodules containing procedure definitions
        |-- *.c - thin C functions wrapping networking middleware
        |-- *.h - corresponding C header files
        |-- *_h_m.f90 - a Fortran translation of a C header file
        |-- collective_subroutines/
              |-- co_*_s.f90 - submodules containing procedure definitions
test/
  |-- main.f90 - test suite driver created by make_vegetable_driver
  |-- *_test.f90 - unit tests