Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 14:03:11 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: chuckr@mat.net (Chuck Robey) Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, sthaug@nethelp.no, bright@hotjobs.com, bs_13943_34262@adimus.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fortran in the base system (was Re: sysinstall) Message-ID: <199812162203.OAA75899@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812161640310.348-100000@picnic.mat.net> from Chuck Robey at "Dec 16, 1998 4:47:27 pm"
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[Attributes might be screwed here] According to Chuck Robey: > On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Nate Williams wrote: > > > > Read what I said. It is only used by engineers that have already > > existing Fortran code. It doesn't mean new code isn't written, but the > > new code that is written tends to be written by folks who already have > > written lots of Fortran code. > > Actually, besides the mountain of legacy code, it vectorizes (where ANSI > C doesn't) onto supercomputers, so academics are often into Fortran. > These guys (from my own experience) want big workstations, and aren't > really terribly interested in PC-based OSs. A smallish program to them > is 200 megs in size. Dual PII 450 MHz with 1 GB memory. You're hits some serious computing power. The Portland Group sells HPF (high performance Fortran) for SMP systems and clusters for linux. I haven't tried HPF yet, but PGI's F90 compiler works under our linux emulation. -- Steve finger kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~clesceri/kargl.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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