Fortran Information

The following general information is provided as a service of the Fortran Market. If you have information of this sort you would like to see here, or have information of this sort to share with the Fortran community, please contact Walt Brainerd.

• Newsgroups
• Standards Activities (J3, ISO/WG5, HPF, IFIP WG 2.5)
• Standards Documents
• Open Directory section on Fortran
• Original IBM Fortran manual. This is the original IBM manual for the 704 computer.
• Frequently Asked Questions
  • An auxiliary Fortran FAQ maintained by Michel Olagnon of IFREMER as part of the comp-fortran90 discussion group (see below).
• A list of useful information about Fortran 90 maintained by Mike Metcalf of CERN
• A discussion group for exchanging information about Fortran 90/95.
• A bibliography of Fortran books and articles provided by Jim Kerrigan based on the one in his out-of-print book contains lots of useful references. It is in PDF format.
• Co-array Fortran (formerly F--) a notation for data decomposition, such as used in message passing models.
• OpenMP a simple, flexible interface for developing parallel applications on shared memory systems.
• The Fortran Library contains information and pointers to lots of information about Fortran.
• The UK Meteorological Office presents some European standards for writing Fortran 90 programs.
• Brian Meek's perspective on the politics of developing Fortran 90.
• Information about object-oriented programming in Fortran.
• The Center for Research on Parallel Computation at Rice University
• There is a lot of information about Fortran available from The Numerical Algortihms Group Ltd and some free software, too.
• Salford Software maintains a nice resources page.
• A whole lot of useful information of interest to Fortran programmers is maintained by Tomasz Plewa. There are also many links to other interesting places.
• Tutorials
• Dan Fuka and John Prentice have run the famous Quetzal benchmarks on three PC compilers.
• The results of the Quetzal benchmarks run on Sparc and Cray systems.
• STREAMS benchmarks, originally developed by John McCalpin
• Information about High Performance Fortran can be obtained at the Maui High Performance Computing Center.
• The University of Missouri-Rolla Psi Compiler Project proposes extensions to Fortran 95, provides initial support for High Performance Fortran (HPF), and portable, scalable mapping to a network of workstations and the CM5.
• The Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre has reports on such things as MPI, HPF, the Supercomputing Conference, and the WWW Conference.
• Java programs, calling from Fortran, and vice versa
• Some sample pages from the first IBM Fortran manual: Fortran Programmer's Reference Manual.
• The article about the infamous COME FROM statement.