From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 16 13:56:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA18515 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:56:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.95.76.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA18510 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:56:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from sgk@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id OAA75899; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 14:03:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk) From: Steve Kargl Message-Id: <199812162203.OAA75899@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: Fortran in the base system (was Re: sysinstall) In-Reply-To: from Chuck Robey at "Dec 16, 1998 4:47:27 pm" To: chuckr@mat.net (Chuck Robey) Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 14:03:11 -0800 (PST) Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, sthaug@nethelp.no, bright@hotjobs.com, bs_13943_34262@adimus.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [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