This paper presents a comparative study to evaluate and compare Fortran with the two most popular programming languages Java and C++. Fortran has gone through major and minor extensions in the years 2003 and 2008. (1) How much have these extensions made Fortran comparable to Java and C++? (2) What are the differences and similarities, in supporting features like: Templates, object constructors ...

This report shows a strategy for program translation from Fortran to Fortress, and points out some issues about the translation, through an example translation of a practical Fortran program into a Fortress program, which implements the BiCGSTAB method.

This is the design report for the Transform components of the Digital Fortran compiler, later inherited by the Compaq and HP Fortran compilers for Tru64 Unix running on Alpha. Transform is that part of the compiler which deals with High Performance Fortran (HPF) data mapping directives and parallel constructs. This report describes the data structures and internal transformations needed to turn...

A_ In this paper I discuss the issues surrounding the comparison and selection of a programming language to be used in high energy physics software applications. The evaluation method used was specifically devised to address the issues of particular importance to HEP applications, not just the technical features of the languages considered. The method assumes a knowledge of the requirements of ...

This report provides a survey of some of the software tools currently available to assist in the development of Fortran programs using the new 1990 and 1995 standards. A few tools also address the development of High Performance Fortran (HPF). This report is particularly concerned with tools which will enhance the quality of software developed. We have not looked at tools which focus on the hig...

Co-Array Fortran is a parallel programming language for scientific applications that provides a very intuitive mechanism for communication, and especially, one-sided communication. Despite the benefits of this integration of communication primitives with the language, analyzing the performance of CAF applications is not straightforward, which is due, in part, to a lack of tools for analysis of ...

FINGER iS a Lisp-based system to derive formulas needed in finite element analysis, and to generate FORTRAN code from these formulas. The generated programs can be used with existing, FORTRAN-based finite element analysis packages. This approach aims to replace tedious hand computations that are time consuming and error prone. The design and implementation of FINGER are presented. Techniques fo...

| The Connection Machine CM-5 supports both SIMD and MIMD programming modes. The SIMD mode is simulated over the MIMD mode. This simulation is likely to lead to a loss of performance in SIMD programs. This paper describes a comparison of the two programming modes with CM Fortran and message-passing Fortran. Two kinds of benchmarks are discussed. The rst kind consists of synthetic benchmarks in ...

IRPF90 is a Fortran programming environment which helps the development of large Fortran codes. In Fortran programs, the programmer has to focus on the order of the instructions: before using a variable, the programmer has to be sure that it has already been computed in all possible situations. For large codes, it is common source of error. In IRPF90 most of the order of instructions is handled...

The numerical methods employed in the solution of many scientiic computing problems require the computation of derivatives of a function f : R n ! R m. ADIFOR (Automatic Diierentiation In FORtran) is a source transformation tool that accepts Fortran 77 code for the computation of a function and writes portable Fortran 77 code for the computation of the derivatives. In contrast to previous appro...