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Fortran founder John Backus dies
News John Backus, the developer of the programming language Fortran, has died aged 82. Backus, who developed Fortran at around the same time as Hopper's breakthrough, died at his home in Oregon on Saturday.
[March 21, 2007, 14:38]
Sun's Fortran replacement goes open source
News Fortress is designed to be a modern replacement for Fortran, a programming language born 50 years ago at IBM but still very popular for high-performance computing tasks such as forecasting the weather.
[January 15, 2007, 14:33]
Floating Point Calculations and the ANSI C, C++, and Fortran Standard
White Papers A number of optimizations involve transformations including: evaluation of constant expressions at compile time, hoisting invariant expressions out of loops, and changes in the order of evaluation of expressions that are not consistent with a...
[May 31, 2008, 1:01]
Pro Fortran Compiler Suite
Downloads The Absoft Pro Fortran Compiler Suite for Macintosh OS X is the worlds #1 Fortran tool kit because it is the only environment specifically designed for Fortran development on Macintosh. Included with the tool kit are both Fortran 95 and C/C++...
[August 11, 2004, 8:00]
Intel Fortran Compiler Professional
Downloads Intel Visual Fortran Compiler Professional Edition delivers rapid development and winning performance for the full range of Intel processor-based platforms. It provides the most comprehensive multicore and standards support with more parallelism...
[June 23, 2009, 23:45]
IBM XL Fortran
Downloads Beta preview of the next addition to our family of Fortran Compilers! XL Fortran for Mac OS X is based on the proven performance of XL Fortran for AIX.
[August 28, 2003, 8:00]
Intel(R) Visual Fortran Compiler Standard
Downloads The Standard Edition compiler has the same performance and features as the Professional Edition compiler, but does not include Intel MKL or IMSL.
[November 6, 2008, 8:49]
Force
Downloads Force is a full-featured programming environment for FORTRAN 77 (the engineering programming language). It uses the FORTRAN G77 compiler to create programs in Win32 platform. Some characteristics include syntax colors, print preview, and...
[May 7, 2009, 7:25]
Silverfrost FTN77
Downloads FTN77, the Salford Fortran 77 compiler for 32-bit Intel microprocessor systems represents a significant advance for Fortran programmers. It provides fast compilation speed and a range of diagnostic, development and optimization facilities which...
[June 5, 2006, 9:05]
conv_for_bas
Downloads We propose a very good tool for FORTRAN to Visual BASIC source code conversion. It manages to translate more than 90 % (in some cases 100 %) of FORTRAN commands into VB. This tool is itself written in VB.
[December 16, 2001, 7:00]
Computation Tools
Downloads For example: GCC, Fortran (g77 and g95), Adaptor High Performance Fortran HPF, Message Passing Interface MPI, Shared Memory Multiprocessing OpenMP, Octave (with MPI, AltiVec), Cactus (Scientific Computing Toolkit), Globus (Grid Computing), RNPL...
[July 18, 2004, 8:00]
Intel offers programming tools for Linux
News The chipmaker plans to announce compilers that translate Linux programs written in C++ or Fortran languages into commands an Intel Pentium 4 or Itanium chip can understand, the company said in a statement.
[August 23, 2001, 8:58]
PathScale boosts 64-bit Linux clustering
News PathScale EKOPath Compiler Suite 2.0 allows you to build C, C++ and Fortran applications for Linux clusters running on 32-bit or 64-bit chips. The compiler suite also includes support for OpenMP 2.0 for Fortran, an Application Programming Interface...
[January 13, 2005, 15:20]
NINJA: Java for High Performance Numerical Computing
White Papers In the particularly performance-sensitive field of numerical computing, initial measurements indicated a hundred-fold performance disadvantage between Java and more established languages such as Fortran and C.
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
Virtualisation - is there an alternative?
Blog Comment I was writing Fortran programs and the batch mode was painful to endure. So I went and bought a Fortran compiler and ran everything on my desktop. I'll have to beg ignorance on the question of mainframes.
[August 19, 2009, 17:18]
Intel releases new programming tools
News The compilers are used for writing programs in the C++ and Fortran languages, running on Windows or Linux operating systems, and using Pentium, Xeon or Itanium 2 processors, Intel said. The Fortran compilers, which appeal largely to scientific and...
[December 5, 2002, 11:37]
ROTM in the Real World.
Blog I was a fairly decent Fortran programmer until I went to a college where they insisted you had to learn Algol. The problem is that VB 6 is a heck of lot more different compared to VB dotNet than Algol was compared to Fortran.
[August 18, 2008, 9:22]
'IT industry is ageist' says Intel chairman
News As an aging population of technology workers retire, there could be a severe lack of expertise in programming languages such as COBOL and Fortran. I think the real issue will be a movement away from older infrastructures, but if you need Fortran...
[March 9, 2006, 16:35]
IBM XL C/C++
Downloads IBM is preparing its industry-leading C, C++ and Fortran compilers to exploit the Apple PowerMac G5. Preview Beta compilers for Mac OS X.
[August 28, 2003, 8:00]
'IT industry is ageist' says Intel chairman
Talkback Craig Barrett is right to point out that some companies may need to re-evaluate their existing IT systems, as COBOL and Fortran programmers reach retirement age. However, with 80 per cent of all companies still reliant on their "legacy" systems and...
[March 15, 2006, 17:12]
