Fortran: Still Compiling After All These Years

September 20, 2023

A recent article appearing in EDN (Electrical Design News) points out that on this day, September 20, 1954, the first Fortran program ran on a mainframe compute Read more…

15 Slides on Programming Aurora and Exascale Systems

May 7, 2020

Sometime in 2021, Aurora, the first planned U.S. exascale system, is scheduled to be fired up at Argonne National Laboratory. Cray (now HPE) and Intel are the k Read more…

SC16 Preview: Modernizing, Modularizing Fortran Codes

November 9, 2016

The programming language Fortran has been in existence since 1957, and a large percentage of software that runs on HPC systems worldwide is written, at least in part, in Fortran. Since it has been in existence for so long, and so many scientists and engineers learned it early in their careers and have utilized it extensively, much of this code is not up to modern standards of software development. Read more…

Building Parallel Code with Hybrid Fortran

July 31, 2014

Over at the Typhoon Computing blog, Michel Müller addresses a topic that is top of mind to many HPC programmers: porting code to accelerators. Fortran p Read more…

Intel Firms Up Fortran, Steps to Standards

September 4, 2013

Following Intel's low-key announcement today of updates to Cluster Studio and Parallel Studio, we spoke with its software and tools guru, James Reinders, about what these enhancements mean for Xeon Phi, Fortran development, and the advancement along standards lines, including OpenMP 4.0 and.... Read more…

NVIDIA Takes PGI Under Wing

July 29, 2013

Moments ago, NVIDIA announced its acquisition of the Portland Group (PGI) which has provided compiler and tools for the HPC-oriented C and Fortran markets. According to the company's Sumit Gupta, this will allow them to further build their software portfolio and to push the adoption of GPUs through OpenACC in particular. NVIDIA and PGI will... Read more…

Speaking Many Languages into the MIC

May 8, 2013

Traditional HPC languages, Fortran, C and C++, have little native control over hardware capabilities such as SIMD operations, multi-core availability and prefetch instructions. The burden of optimization is therefore... Read more…

Why Fortran Still Matters

September 20, 2011

Steve Lionel, aka, "Doctor Fortran" defends the venerable programming language and its modern relevance. Read more…

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