The National Labs are using a new tool to integrate the 1950s-era Fortran computer language into their supercomputing infrastructure. The Fortran language, a relic of the punchcard era of programming, ...

The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and its three national labs this week announced they have reached an agreement for an open-source Fortran front-end for ...

The Portland Group, or PGI, a maker of high-performance compilers and tools, has announced the availability of PGI Visual Fortran, which integrates PGIs technology with Microsofts Visual Studio 2005 ...

Absoft Corp. has released Pro Fortran Compiler Suite 9.0, an upgrade to the company’s Fortran tool kit that’s optimized for use with the Power Mac G5 and features Fortran 95 and C/C++ compilers, Fx2 ...

In our look at scientific computing and the continued longevity of Fortran in science and engineering circles, one of the recurring themes in the discussion that followed was performance. One of the ...

June 21, 2007 The programming language Fortran celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, having touched the lives of millions of programmers and billions of people in the half century since. A ...

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, ...

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All main-campus and VIMS clusters have Intel and GNU compiler toolchains installed. As of our recent refresh to Rocky Linux 9, here are the available compilers: icx,icpx,ifx ** ifort is available but ...

Performance gains of up to approximately 30% over gcc 3.2. Optional Fortran compiler vs. g77, which translates into C and compiles with GCC. GCC compatibility mode. 64-bit support (Intel Itanium only) ...