Description

This course covers the modern features of the Fortran programming language. Topics include object-oriented features, language interoperability and several other enhancements included in Fortran 2008 standard. In addition, a way to express distributed memory parallelism via Fortran coarrays will be discussed in detail.

The course provides an overview on all relevant features of Fortran beyond the 95 standard. You will also be able to write parallel programs using the Fortran coarrays concept.

Learning outcome

The course provides an overview on all the relevant features of Fortran beyond the 95 standard. You also will be able to write parallel programs using the Fortran coarrays concept.

Prerequisites

Solid knowledge of Fortran 95/2003. The concepts discussed in the PATC introduction course Fortran Programming for Scientific Computing is the minimum. Knowledge on C will also be needed for understanding the topics on the language interoperability. Familiarity with parallel programming with message-passing interface (MPI) standard will be assumed when discussing the Fortran coarrays. In addition, some familiarity with object-oriented programming concepts will be assumed.

Agenda

Day 1: Tuesday, March 26

09.00-09.15  Course introduction
09.15-10.00  Useful new features beyond F95
10.00-10.15  Coffee break
10.15-11.00  Advanced topics in Fortran I/O
11.00-11.45  Exercises
11.45-12:00  Working with Fortran compilers
12.00-13.00  Lunch break
13.00-14.00  Interoperability with C
14.00-14.45  Exercises
14.45-15.00  Coffee break
15.00-16.00  Exercises

Day 2: Wednesday, March 27

09.00-09.45  Introduction to Fortran coarrays
09.45-10.00  Coffee break
10.00-11.15  Exercises
11.15-12.00  More coarray features
12.00-13.00  Lunch break
13.00-14.00  Exercises
14.00-14.45  Advanced topics in coarrays
14.45-15.00  Coffee break
15.00-16.00  Exercises

Day 3: Thursday, March 28

09.00-10.00  Additional capabilities of Fortran types, procedure pointers
10.00-10.15  Coffee break
10.15-11.00  Exercises
11.00-12.00  Type extensions, type-bound procedures
12.00-13.00  Lunch break
13.00-14.00  Exercises
14.00-14.45  More complex data structures with Fortran
14.45-15.00  Coffee break
15.00-16.00  Exercises

Lecturers: 

Sami Ilvonen (CSC), Peter Råback (CSC)

Language:   English
Price:          Free of charge
https://events.prace-ri.eu/event/852/