If you are interested in flight simulation, flying, Fortran, or Unity3D, you’ll want to settle in and read all four posts. That will take some time. One limitation. The book’s simulator was all about ...

Advances in science and engineering still rely on Fortran more than any other language by many important measures. Surprised? You shouldn’t be, although many people who call themselves programmers ...

Most people I talk to seem to acclaim FORTRAN as the speed king for numerical computation. I don't know FORTRAN so I am kind of ignorant about it, but why is it so fast? Is it something to do with the ...

Back in the dawn of time, which is four decades ago in computer science and which was before technical computing went mainstream with the advent of Unix workstations and their beefy server cousins, ...

In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope team gave the world the first glimpse of what a black hole actually looks like. But the image of a glowing, ring-shaped object that the group unveiled wasn’t a ...

There are a few unignorable trends in high performance computing, especially in the exascale age. First, heterogenous and differing architectures at the major HPC sites are diverging with some using ...