| Description: | Returns
the shape of an implementation-dependent hardware processor array.
DIGITAL's Alpha farms are one-dimensional processor arrays whose shape is the number of Parallel Software Environment (PSE) peers. | ||
| Class: | Inquiry function | ||
| Arguments: | None. | ||
| Results: | If a program is compiled for a DIGITAL Alpha farm, the result is the number of processors (peers) available to the program. Otherwise, the result is always a rank-one array of size zero. | ||