Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News Editorials & Other Articles General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

sir pball

(5,043 posts)
9. I saw fortrash a good bit at Brookhaven NatLab ~2004
Mon Apr 8, 2013, 12:47 PM
Apr 2013

It's still the go-to language for serious science:

Since Fortran has been in use for more than fifty years, there is a vast body of Fortran in daily use throughout the scientific and engineering communities. It is the primary language for some of the most intensive supercomputing tasks, such as astronomy, weather and climate modeling, numerical linear algebra LAPACK, numerical libraries IMSL, structural engineering, hydrological modeling, optimization, satellite simulators, computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, computational economics, animal breeding, plant breeding and computational physics. Even today, half a century later, many of the floating-point benchmarks to gauge the performance of new computer processors are still written in Fortran (e.g., CFP2006, the floating-point component of the SPEC CPU2006 benchmarks).


Call up the DoE, I'd bet the real big supers are running FORTAN code...probably a sweet gig if you can get it.

Recommendations

0 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):

Latest Discussions»Retired Forums»Website, DB, & Software Developers»I'm actually getting a ch...»Reply #9