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In this tutorial we will be using the GNU Fortran Compiler and OpenMPI to create multiprocess programs in Fortran. Readers are recommended to have MPI programming experience on at least one ...
This is a tutorial which I wrote for Fortran 90 (and beyond). It was written to accompany a presentation which I did for younger students at my university. It is directed at an audience which already ...
"This tutorial will present several features that the draft Fortran 2015 standard introduces to meet challenges that are expected to dominate massively parallel programming in the coming exascale era.
Invented in 1954, the world's first widely used high- level language is ' Fortran '. Despite the existence of a wide variety of programming languages, Martin D. Maas of the California ...
An oft-mentioned advantage of ALGOL over FORTRAN is the recursion capability of the former. FORTRAN adherents often belittle this advantage by claiming that all recursive relations can be reduced to ...
Fortran is the oldest commercial programming language, designed at IBM in the 1950s. And even though, for years, programmers have been predicting its demise, 64 years later it's still kicking ...
John Backus, the man who led development of the first mainstream programming language, Fortran, has died at the age of 82. His lifelong mission after joining IBM Corp. in 1950 as a programmer was ...
John Backus, the man who led development of the first mainstream programming language, Fortran, has died at the age of 82.