Fortran is an old programming language, but it specializes in advanced calculations and may still be used in physics departments, supercomputer research institutes, government agencies, etc. as of ...

FORTRAN (short for Formula Translation) is the world’s first high-level procedural programming language, created at IBM in the 1950s. It revolutionized coding by making it accessible to scientists and ...

In some large systems, Fortran code can be responsible for 80-100% of the computation. It’s also incredibly easy to learn, as you’ll see with this short introduction to Fortran programming.

The team behind the Hybrid Fortran concept has been developing GPU accelerated Fortran applications for weather prediction for some time. For instance, the term first came up at the GPU Technology ...

Absoft considers version 11.1 a major release as it includes several new features that simplify development of extremely fast code for parallel systems, says President Wood Lotz. The new version ...

Mathcad Offers Solution for Legacy Fortran Code At a Halloween party we threw for MIT students this weekend, the subject of Fortran came up (yeah, I know, nerdy stuff) which pretty much drew blank ...

Biz & IT NASA wants YOU (to make its Fortran code run faster) Up to $55,000 in prizes for those who can juice up supercomputer software.