Following my blog posts about the BCS Fortran event ‘Fortran in Physics – Its Legacy and its Future?’, I thought you might be interested to know that the slides have now been uploaded. You can download all the slides here. For a commentary on the talks, see my previous blog posts: Ten top tips for converting [...]
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At yesterday’s BCS Fortran event in London, which included an overview of Fortran standards and an introduction to coarrays for parallel programming, Stephen Blair-Chappell of Intel outlined some techniques for converting serial programs to run on parallel architectures. His presentation was based around a workshop taking a serial program and converting it to run in [...]
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At today’s BCS event on Fortran in physics, John Reid, convenor of the ISO working group for Fortran, outlined some of the new features coming to Fortran 2008. Fortran 2008 is now in the final ballot stage, which means changes are limited to typographical and layout errors and the standard is otherwise pretty much complete. [...]
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