Parametric Fortran is an extension of Fortran that supports defining Fortran program templates by allowing the parameterization of arbitrary Fortran constructs. A Fortran program template can be translated into a regular Fortran program guided by values for the parameters. This paper describes the design, implementation, and applications of Parametric Fortran. Parametric Fortran is particularly...

Abstract. The Fortran language has evolved substantially from the Fortran 77 bindings defined in the MPI-1 (Message Passing Interface) standard. Fortran 90 introduced interface blocks; subsequently, the MPI-2 standard defined Fortran 90 bindings with explicit Fortran interfaces to MPI routines. In this paper, we describe the Open MPI implementation of these two sets of Fortran bindings and poin...

The continued usage of Fortran as a dominant programming language isolates the computational science & engineering (CSE) community and hinders the learning and adoption of modern software engineering methods. The issue is not primarily that Fortran is not suitable for developing many different types of software. Indeed, the are many examples of quality CSE software written in Fortran that can l...

We are developing a Fortran 90D compiler, which converts Fortran 90D code into Fortran 77 plus message passing node programs for distributed memory machines. This paper presents the implementation and performance results of Fortran 90D intrinsic functions on the Intel iPSC/860 hypercube. Our implementation is portable and scalable.

The open source RFortran library is introduced as a convenient tool for accessing the functionality and packages of the R programming language from Fortran programs. It significantly enhances Fortran programming by providing a set of easy-to-use functions that enable access to R's very rapidly growing statistical, numerical and visualization capabilities, and support a richer and more interacti...

Vol. 9 No. 1 1997 13 DIGITAL Visual Fortran is an integrated development environment for Fortran applications. It is supported on the Windows NT version 4.0 operating system on both Alpha and Intel hardware and on the Windows 95 system. DIGITAL Visual Fortran is a combination of technologies from DIGITAL and Microsoft Corporation. The DIGITAL-supplied compiler and run-time libraries support the...