[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested
Ken Fairfield
ken.fairfield at gmail.com
Mon Nov 16 13:53:01 EST 2009
On Nov 16, 10:35 am, John Wallace <johnwalla... at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
[...]
> Fortran 90 seemed to be quite popular in parts of the HPC world when I
> used to get vaguely involved. That was in the late 90s. No real idea
> what the current state of play is, although I suspect these days both
> HPC hardware and software may have taken different tactics than back
> then, at least for folks who don't have masses of legacy Fortran to
> support and who can take advantage of commodity hardware and cheap/
> cheerful software.
Apparently, from the discussions I've read, parallel processing
of various flavors is a big driver. In particular F2008 implements
something called "co-arrays" which is specifically targeted at
parallel processing.
-Ken
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