Absoft considers version 11.1 a major release as it includes several new features that simplify development of extremely fast code for parallel systems, says President Wood Lotz. The new version ...

NASA wants YOU (to make its Fortran code run faster) Up to $55,000 in prizes for those who can juice up supercomputer software.

Nasa is looking for the code to run at least 10 times faster but would like it quickened by thousands of times, if possible. Any changes to FUN3D must not make it less accurate, said Nasa.

Fortran was adopted very quickly and became the programming language of choice for the engineering and scientific communities for many years and is still in use today.