14 Oct
2005
14 Oct
'05
1:02 p.m.
John Allain declared on Friday 14 October 2005 02:16 pm:
Fortran is still VERY heavily used in supercomputing/HPC[1] environments,
like where I work. It's such a big deal, that most people don't want to
use a machine/OS unless is has a good working Fortran 90 compiler on it.
1. High Performance Computing: covers everything from big iron
supercomputers from the likes of Cray and IBM to things like clusters of
cheap-ass Linux boxes, which people use to get as many FLOPS as they can
from.
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Are there any
schools teaching FORTRAN and more? Does it
have an active community? If not, ...
Amazingly*, Yes.
I go visit my old college bookstore every few years for fresh titles
in Computer Science (this year: I bought O/S internals by Stallings).
It's a top 25 undergraduate engineering ranked place with a big
budget for new equipment so I was quite surprised to see this year
the book "Classical Fortran" by Kupferschmid. In my head I'm thinking
Fortran is Only for classiccmps and classiccmps are Retired equipment.
Apparently this course is for maintenence programmers.